University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture

Presents a Lecture

SAUDADE AND ITS AFTERMATH:

THE PORTUGUESE OF NEW BEDFORD

TWENTY YEARS LATER

By Dr. Bela Feldman-Bianco

UNICAMP (State University of Campinas)

Campinas, Brazil

Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 5 p.m.

Board of Trustees Room

Foster Administration Building, 3rd Floor (Lot 6)

Free and open to the public!

Bela Feldman-Bianco is a noted Brazilian anthropologist from UNICAMP and is currently the Helio and Amelia Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation Endowed Chair of Portuguese Studies at UMass Dartmouth. She is the director of the critically acclaimed documentary "Saudade" (1991), documenting the experience of seven Portuguese-Americans in New Bedford and is the author and editor of several books on Brazil and Portugal. Presently, she is completing research for a book-length manuscript on the Portuguese in southeastern Massachusetts.

This book is part of the 2007-2008 "Futures of Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies" lecture series organized by Prof. Victor K. Mendes, Department of Portuguese.

 Last Updated On: 5/8/08