02 April 2014
The Department of Cultural Studies and the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture & Research have announced the launching of the Portuguese studies program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The newly created program, directed by Professor Frank F. Sousa, will offer Portuguese language and culture courses in Academic Year 2014-15, with the aim of eventually […]
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02 April 2014
By Millicent Borges Accardi At the age of twenty, Irene Marques migrated from mainland Portugal to Canada and now lives in Toronto where she teaches in the English Department at Ryerson University and in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University. A bilingual writer, educator and researcher, she has led an interesting […]
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02 April 2014
The Arte Institute is presenting the screening of the French-Portuguese production “The Gilded Cage,” at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, on April 12, at 4pm. With director Ruben Alves and actors Joaquim de Almeida and Rita Blanco attending, the event is sold out. Based on the lives of a Portuguese immigrant […]
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28 March 2014
By Len Port, Contributor(*) News of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann seems to be going round in circles. ‘Revelations’ turn out to be old stories recycled. ‘Key suspects’ come and go and are then brought back again. ‘New leads’ seem to be leading nowhere. The British newspaper Mirror on March 25 declared: […]
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27 March 2014
Portuguese-Canadian author Anthony De Sa will be in Providence, RI, to present his book Kicking the Sky, on April 1, at 6pm, at the Providence Athenaeum, located at 251 Benefit Street. Sponsored by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, at Brown University, the session will be conducted by professor Leonor Simas-Almeida, Senior Lecturer and […]
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26 March 2014
The maker of such widely beloved poems as “After Apple-Picking,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Winter Evening,” and “Home Burial,” to name only a few out of dozens, Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. He is also remembered for his wonderfully dramatic reading of his poem, […]
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