29 March 2024
The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture (CPSC), in coordination with the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, announced that it is hosting an international conference on the 4th, 5th, and 6th of April 2024. The year 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, a seminal event in Portuguese history. The theme is “The Carnation Revolution: […]
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23 March 2024
The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies in the University of Massachusetts Lowell College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences announce the FLAD/Saab Visiting Professorship in Portuguese Studies for Spring Semester 2025. This program is a three-year collaboration that sponsors a one-semester a year, open-rank, Visiting Professor […]
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21 March 2024
The more than 1.5 million Portuguese registered voters living abroad had the final say in the outcome of March 10 Portugal’s parliamentary early election. The overall tally, concluded this week, showed 28.84% for the center-right Democratic Alliance (PSD/AD) and 28% for the center-left Socialist Party (PS). The turnout was 59.8%. With the counting finished, President […]
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20 March 2024
Fox is a memory editor – one of the best – gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Center for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got there, the therapists tell him he was a victim in a terrorist bombing by […]
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20 March 2024
The National Union of Civil Aviation Workers (SINTAC), representing TAP Air Portugal ground workers, has issued a three-month strike notice regarding overtime work between March 28th and July 30th. The union claims an agreement for salary increases, of between 6% and 10%, retroactive to July 2023, was not honored by the carrier and that TAP […]
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18 March 2024
Nuno Júdice, one of the most significant figures in contemporary Portuguese literature, known for his contributions as a poet, essayist and literary critic, died at age 74. Born on April 29, 1949, in Algarve, Portugal, he wrote his first poems when he was eight years old. Influenced by structuralism, he made his literary début in […]
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