10 January 2011
The 42nd convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) will be held in New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 7-10, 2011. The host institution this year is Rutgers University, and the convention will be held at the Hyatt New Brunswick. The 42nd Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and […]
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09 January 2011
The private library of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) became the first Portuguese library to be fully digitalized and made available online, announced Inês Pedrosa, director of the Casa Fernando Pessoa. Researchers and scholars will be now able to view 1,317 volumes (of which 1,140 belong to the Casa Fernando Pessoa and the remaining belonging to his […]
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07 January 2011
In collaboration with the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), Dzanc Books announced the 1st Annual Disquiet International Literary Program (ILP), in Lisbon, Portugal, to take place June 19 – July 1, 2011. The program includes workshops and discussion groups with Portuguese-American writers and Portuguese writers in Lisbon. There are full scholarships available for writers of Luso descent. Winners […]
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07 January 2011
The VII International Conference on Language Teacher Education will take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 19–21, 2011. The mission of the conference is to address the education of teachers of all languages, at all instructional and institutional levels, and in all the many national and international contexts in which this takes place, including: English […]
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03 January 2011
The UA’s Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy has earned a $1.3 million federal grant to continue its mission of helping improve the instruction and learning of languages least commonly taught (LCTLS). The languages targeted in this project are Chinese, Portuguese and Russian. At $1.3 million, the grant will support 12 projects […]
Posted in Education
02 January 2011
Ten years after the publication of The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (1999), neurologist António Damásio launched a new book on consciousness Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (2010) on relations between mind, brain and consciousness. António Damásio is a researcher at University of Southern California. His […]
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