05 April 2011
The Associação Portuguesa de Estudos-Anglo-Americanos (APEAA) — Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies — is organizing its international Annual APEAA Conference 2011 dedicated to the theme “Current Debates in English and American Studies.” The conference will be held on May 12-14 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, at the University of Coimbra. The general aim […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Conferences, Education, Featured
05 April 2011
A job fair for Portuguese and Spanish speakers in the United States, organized by LatPro and The National Society for Hispanic Professionals will take place April 14th, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Metropolitan Pavilion, New York City. The event will match bilingual or bicultural professionals with top companies that value their multicultural […]
Posted in Community
05 April 2011
British luxury liner Queen Victoria — with nearly 3,000 passengers and crew on board (1,912 passengers and 970 crew members) — is under way en route from Nassau to Ponta Delgada in the Azores. The cruise liner left Fort Lauderdale, FL (Port Everglades) on March 29, on her 16 days cruise, stopping at the Bahamas […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Life Style, Travel
04 April 2011
The Lisbon based Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering: Research and Development (INESC-ID) is organizing the 1st Lisbon Machine Learning conference to be held in Lisbon — July 20 -25, 2011 — at Instituto Superior Superior Técnico (IST) – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. The event is organized jointly by the Instituto de Telecomunicações and INESC-ID’s Spoken […]
Posted in Conferences, Education, Featured
04 April 2011
According to a statement by ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, the airports in Lisbon and the Azores are seeing an increase in traffic at a rate of 3.1 percent for the first two months of the year, but that is down 5.2 percent when compared to the first two month of 2010. Air traffic for passengers also […]
04 April 2011
According to British based — The Holiday Ferret — vacation rentals are increasing in Portugal, particularly in the Azores, with a special interest for properties in Pico island. On a press release today, the holiday and vacation rental company says that, besides Europe, the Azores are beginning to see a larger US based tourist market emerge. […]
