Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture

Portuguese Renaissance and the Brazilian Baroque: A Symposium on Three New Books

Antonio Vieira.The Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish and Other Texts

The Traveling Eye: Retrospection, Vision, and Prophecy in the Portuguese Renaissance

Activities

Conferences

As part of its activities, the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture organizes a number of conferences that address topics relevant to the Portuguese-speaking world.

Seventh Conference on Portuguese Language Education
Dates: September 18-19, 2009
Location: Claire T. Carney Library (Browsing Area)

For Program & Registration Form, click here

Call for Papers / Colloquium
António Vieira & Futures of Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory
Dates: May 2-3, 2008
Location: UMass Dartmouth, Woodland Commons

Coloquium : “Citizenship and Representation: Conversations with Portuguese-American Elected Officials”
Dates: April 11, 2008, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Claire T. Carney Library (Parking Lot 13)

Conference papers:

5th Annual Conference on Portuguese Language Education
Dates: Friday & Saturday, September 28 & 29, 2007 - 9:30am – 3:30pm
Location: Woodland Commons (parking lots 7 & 8)

Colloquium & Launching of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 13/14
"The Author as Plagiarist: The Case of Machado de Assis"
May 19, 2006
Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
To view the Table of Contents of the journal, click here.

Colloquium: Portuguese-Americans in the US Census
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Please click here to download the program.
The two studies presented at the conference were:
"Portuguese-Americans in the Massachusetts Power Structure" and "Ethnicity and Education in southeastern Massachusetts."

Conference: 3rd Annual Conference on Portuguese Language Education: Old Challenges, New Strategies
September 18 & September 25, 2004

Contemporary Lusophone African Literatures and Cultures: Cape Verde and Mozambique
February 6, 2004

Facts and Fictions of António Lobo Antunes
October 31 – November 1, 2003

2nd Annual Conference on Portuguese Language Education
Portuguese in K-16: Towards a Common Agenda
May 3, 2003

Portuguese-Americans and Contemporary Civic Culture in Massachusetts
March 8, 2003

The Later Eça Revisited
An International Colloquium on the Centennial of the Death of Eça de Queiroz
November 3 – 4, 2002

Post-Imperial Camões
October 11 – 12, 2002

1st Annual Conference on Portuguese Language Education
Heritage Language Education: Challenges and Opportunities
May 4, 2002

Garrett’s Travels & Its Descendants
October 22 – 23, 1999