12 September 2012
The Portuguese largest trade union federations, CGTP and UGT, are meeting Wednesday to debate calling a general strike and other protest actions against the austerity measures announced by the government last week. João Proença, the leader of the UGT , said the protests will culminate in a nationwide strike with the CGTP. CGTP union leader, […]
11 September 2012
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and Department of Portuguese, announced a bilingual poetry reading by distinguished Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão, accompanied by the translator Alexis Levitin. The event will take place on Monday, September 17, 2012 at 10:00am in LARTS 397D, parking lot 7. There will be opportunity for […]
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10 September 2012
Portuguese neuroscientist, Tiago Reis Marques, M.D., is one of the recipients the 2012 NARSAD Young Investigator Grants, by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council. He is the first Portuguese scientist to be awarded the grant. Dr. Marques is a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry at the King’s College, London, UK. He has […]
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08 September 2012
A new Portuguese legislation willl come into force on October 8 regarding the entrance, stay, departures and expulsion of foreigners, including the criminalization of hiring illegal immigrants and the expulsion of those sentenced to more than a year behind bars. According to the new legislation, any immigrants living in Portugal, who have been given prison […]
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07 September 2012
Whether playing guitar with his band Ocean Transfer on a crowded Friday evening in New York City, teaching his 2:00 Introduction to Creative Writing course at Boston College, or up late writing a story about an exchange student in Lisbon, Portuguese-American writer Brian Sousa is moving forward.
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01 September 2012
By Richard Simas, Contributor (*) Contemporary Portuguese writer Jacinto Lucas Pires is a keen observer of the quotidian. Like a gifted photographer, he seizes fragments in the people, places, and objects surrounding us, asking how can this be? He follows the wandering thought and unlikely possibility, tracks curious trajectories, and probes them until they bloom […]
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