07 March 2011
Renato Seabra, the 21-year-old Portuguese model from Cantanhede, Portugal, is considering a psychiatric defense against the charges that he castrated, tortured, and killed his gay companion, Carlos Castro, in a New York hotel room, January 7. His attorney, David Touger, believes that records from the psychiatric hospital will support a psychiatric defense. New York law […]
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07 March 2011
Portuguese conductor Joana Carneiro, a 34 year old Lisboan, is on her second season (2010-2011) at the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra where she is conductor and music director. This season’s schedule includes a re-engagement with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with Dawn Upshaw as soloist, a debut with Indianapolis Symphony, and a return to Sao Paulo where […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Entertainment, Music, People
07 March 2011
The George Monteiro Prize is a scholarship in partnership with the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD)and the Kellogg Institute, created to be awarded each year to undergraduate students who submit the best essay in Portuguese on a subject related to the Lusophone world. George Monteiro is Professor Emeritus of English and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University, and […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Education, People, Scholarships
07 March 2011
The 10th Annual Summer Study Abroad will take place on July 12-10, 2011, in Lisbon, Portugal. The program offers two courses (6 credits) in political science, taught exclusively in English, that focus on the European Union’s impact on Portugal’s economy, society, and politics. The courses also examine comparative lessons for other small, open and relatively peripheral economies both […]
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07 March 2011
The Language Resource Center of Columbia University together with the Columbia Global Centers and the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning is organizing a one day conference, Saturday, April 30, 2011, on the theme of “What Future for the Less Commonly Taught Languages?” This conference is the first in a planned series of conferences exploring […]
Posted in Conferences, Education
07 March 2011
The Summer Program in Portuguese at UMass Dartmouth will offer three intensive undergraduate and graduate-level courses that highlight Brazil’s growing cultural, political and economic importance to the region’s cultural landscape. Brazilian literature Prof. Aileen El-Kadi from the University of Texas El Paso will teach this year’s advanced seminar on Special Topics in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and […]
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