10 April 2014
By Len Port, Contributor(*) Portugal faces a controversial set of demands to make amends for the centuries-old transatlantic slave trade. The 15 member states of the Caribbean Community common market organization, CARICOM, have unanimously approved an action plan seeking reparations from Portugal and several other European countries. Portugal pioneered the trade in African slaves in […]
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10 April 2014
In 2012, the CA legislature unanimously approved the construction of the California Portuguese American Veteran Memorial. Since then the Portuguese community has been trying to get the memorial built, but has run into bureaucratic red tape. In response, Assemblywoman Kristen Olsen has introduced AB 146, which aims to expedite the memorial’s construction. At this week’s hearing […]
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03 April 2014
The InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies (IJPDS) – editors, Irene Maria F. Blayer, from Brock University (Canada), and Dulce Maria Scott, from Anderson University (USA) – welcomes original contributions for its third issue to be published in the fall 2014. Special issues are also open to submissions. Researchers in the humanities and social sciences […]
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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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