25 February 2015
On its 5th edition, the ‘Madeira Literary Festival’ is taking place in the Baltazar Dias Municipal Theatre, Funchal, Madeira Island, from March 16 to March 22. One of the most significant cultural events on the island, the festival attracts local and international writers, poets and literary critics generating a wealth of ideas and cultural exchange. […]
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24 February 2015
Vasco Rato, executive president of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), will deliver a lecture titled ‘Austerity Policies and Politics: The EU and the US Rumble’ on February 27, at 5:30 pm, in Grand Reading Room of the Claire T. Carney Library at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The event, free and open to the public, […]
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23 February 2015
By Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) A native of Pawtucket, RI, Professor Alice Clemente is a Portuguese-American with roots in mainland Portugal. After completing her undergraduate and graduate work in Spanish Literature at Brown University, her love for the Portuguese language and heritage kept her working in a degree in Language Arts. For over ten […]
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23 February 2015
The New York based Arte Institute participates in the international arts festival “Iberian Suite: Global Arts Remix” taking place March 3 through March 24, organized by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC. The festival, highlighting the “many cultures that comprise the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking peoples,” includes […]
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23 February 2015
Noted literary critic and translator of Portuguese literature Richard Zenith presents a lecture titled “Fernando Pessoa: An Englishly Portuguese, Endlessly Multiple Poet” at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4, in the Library’s Whittall Pavilion. The pavilion is located on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. The event is […]
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20 February 2015
Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism. The contributors engage systematically with postcolonial and gender theory as they examine the diverse universe of cultural production that has directed itself to Lusophone colonial and postcolonial experience and legacy, including literature, cinema, and other visual […]
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