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Terceira | Scientists monitor ongoing seismic volcanic crises FLAD | Portuguese language has become an economic advantage study shows Maria João Pires: Acclaimed piano virtuoso announces the end of her career  Award | Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida wins the Fernando Namora Literary Prize  Citizenship
 

Terceira | Scientists monitor ongoing seismic volcanic crises – Azores

Terceira Island remains under heightened scientific monitoring as the seismo-volcanic crisis that began in June 2022 continues, centered around the Santa Bárbara volcanic complex on the island’s western flank.  The Azores Seismo-Volcanic Information and Monitoring Center (CIVISA) currently maintains Alert Level V3 (reactivated volcanic system) for Santa Bárbara, reflecting persistent microseismic activity consistent with magma […]

FLAD | Portuguese language has become an economic advantage study shows – Portugal

A new study released by the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) finds that speaking Portuguese corresponds to an average 20% salary bonus for Portuguese-American workers in the United States. The report, developed for FLAD by a research group led by Alda Botelho Azevedo of the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), Universidade de Lisboa, underscores the growing […]

Maria João Pires: Acclaimed piano virtuoso announces the end of her career – Portugal

Maria João Pires, one of the world’s most acclaimed pianists and a central figure in Portuguese and European classical music, has formally announced that she has ended her career as a performer. The declaration was made during the award acceptance ceremony for the Helena Vaz da Silva European Award, held on November 1 at the […]

Award | Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida wins the Fernando Namora Literary Prize  – Portugal 

Lusophone writer Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, 43, has been distinguished with the Prémio Literário Fernando Namora, one of Portugal’s most prestigious awards for fiction, for her novel Livro da Doença. The prize recognizes outstanding works of narrative prose published in Portuguese during the previous year. Almeida’s win marks a significant moment in contemporary Lusophone literature, […]

Citizenship – Portuguese Parliament approves new nationality law – Portugal

Portugal’s Parliament [Assembleia da República] approved yesterday a sweeping reform of Portugal’s Lei da Nacionalidade [Citizenship Law], marking one of the most significant shifts in the country’s citizenship framework in more than a decade. As an organic law, the reform now moves to the desk of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. […]

Sailing: The VII International Azorean Whaleboat Regatta is underway– New Bedford, MA

07 September 2013

The Azorean Maritime Heritage Society is sponsoring the VII International Azorean Whaleboat Regatta in partnership with the New Bedford Whaling Museum.  The goal of the event is to connect the common whaling heritage of the Azores and New Bedford. First held in New Bedford in 2004, the competition alternates each year between the New Bedford and […]

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Appointed: Francisco Semião president of the Alumni Advisory Board – Marymount University, VA

06 September 2013

Francisco Semião was appointed the president of the Marymount University Alumni Advisory Board, his alma mater, for the 2013-2014 academic year. The Marymount University Alumni Advisory Board is a volunteer board who assists in advancing the mission of Marymount University by serving as the voice of all alumni to the greater University community. Semiao’05, who […]

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Book: Land as Far as The Eye can See: Portuguese in the Old West – Editor’s Note

05 September 2013

Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, in partnership with the University Press of New England (UPNE), has launched the publication of Land, As Far As the Eye Can See: Portuguese in the Old West by Donald Warrin and Geoffrey L. Gomes, an entertaining account of pioneering Portuguese men and women who settled the vast frontier of […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, World

Opinion: Syrian chemical weapons pose moral dilemmas – By Len Port

04 September 2013

By Len Port, Contributor (*) The Portuguese government would like to see a military punitive response to the recent use of chemical weapons in Syria, but only if it is backed “as far as possible” by an international organization such as the Security Council of the United Nations. This cautious view is in contrast to […]

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Travel: Lisbon named “Europe’s Leading City Break Destination” – Portugal

02 September 2013

For the third time in the last five years, Lisbon was voted Europe’s Leading City Break Destination by the prestigious World Travel Awards (WTA). Considered to be the world ‘Oscars’ of tourism destinations, the honor tops Madrid, London, Istanbul, Dublin, Paris, Rome and Venice. Lisbon had earned the same recognition in 2009 and 2010 over […]

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Posted in Awards, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, Portugal, Travel, World

Book: An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet – By Thomas J. Cousineau – Review

29 August 2013

By Michael Colson, Contributor (*) Thomas J. Cousineau’s scholarly expertise on twentieth-century literary modernism informs his new critical study An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet (Dalkey Archive 2013).  Cousineau offers us an informed introduction to a leading document of modernism that serves scholarly interests and undergraduate teaching needs. After earning a doctoral […]

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