29 October 2011
UNESCO’s committee of experts has recommended “Fado,” Portugal’s soulful traditional music, to be enshrined as a World Cultural Heritage genre, the UN organization announced Thursday. Fado is considered Lisbon’s song, which makes Lisbon one of the few cities in the world with its own musical style, one that has come to symbolize the soul of […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Featured, Heritage, Music
28 October 2011
The Portuguese Circle is organizing the 1st Portuguese & Brazilian Festival to celebrate more than five centuries of a common language and shared culture between the two countries. The festival will be held from 3pm, November 5, to 5:30am through November 6, on a 14,000 sqft loft, at 623 Broadway (2nd floor) in New York. […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Brazil, Community, Entertainment, Heritage, Music, Photography
27 October 2011
Portuguese author José Luís Peixoto will be visiting colleges and universities in the East Coast, November 2-9, on a lecture tour sponsored by Lisbon-based Instituto Camões. On November 3, Peixoto will lecture at Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; on November 4, he will be at Brown University (Providence, RI); on November 7, […]
Posted in Angola, Arts&Culture, Brazil, Cape Verde, Conferences, East Timor, Education, Guiné-Bissau, Mozambique, People, São Tomé and Prince
26 October 2011
By Carolina Matos, Editor — A team of educators from the United States visited private and public schools on São Miguel island to set up a pilot project to apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to the development of pedagogy and materials to teach Portuguese as a second language anywhere in the world. The […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Conferences, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, São Miguel
26 October 2011
Lisbon-based Banco Espírito Santo (BES) has agreed to pay $6.9 million to settle U.S. civil charges that it sold thousands of investments that weren’t registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Associated Press reported Monday. According to the source, most of the customers who bought mutual funds and other investments from BES were […]
25 October 2011
By John Howard Wolf — Not a hard-and-fast rule, but worth repeating in this particular case study of Portugal. There is another proverb that reads thus: those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. As I said in Part I of this study, it is absolutely necessary to become familiar with the past in […]
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