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ACTIVITIES
Announcements, Lectures, Events, Photographs
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Spring 2008
Saudade and Its Aftermath: The Portuguese of New Bedford Twenty Years Later. By Dr. Bela Feldman-Bianco. May 13, 2008.
International Colloquium Antônio Vieira and Controversies in and About Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory
May 2-3, 2008
Engineering Urban Space and Culture in Twentieth-Century São Paulo, Brazil. By Dr. Renato Anelli. April 1, 2008.
Fall 2007
"How to Fight a Great Poet (Fernando Pessoa), Lose the Battle & Make It Interesting"
("Como combater um grande poeta [Fernando Pessoa], perder a batalha & tornar a coisa interessante")
By: Prof. Victor K. Mendes
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 5-6 PM
Location: UMass Dartmouth, Group I, Room 212 (Center for Portuguese Studies)
MA in Portuguese Thesis Defense
"Poundharoldian Hubris: Translighting the Art of Poetry"
By: José Luis Molina Robles
Advisor: Professor Anna M. Klobucka
Date: Friday, November 30, 3:30-5 pm
Location: Board of Trustees room (Foster Administration building, 3rd floor)
Reading "Across the Current": In and Beyond South Asian Literatures
Date: Friday, November 16th, 2007, from 12-1PM
Location: UMD Library Browsing Area
"This presentation [by Prof. Christopher Larkosh] attempts a comparative examination of contemporary works from South Asian cultures and beyond to re-evaluate the potential for greater South-South communication in the 21st century. In reading two novels on Goa by the Italian Antonio Tabucchi and the Angolan José Eduardo Agualusa alongside of the works of South Asian authors such as the Nepalese Samrat Upadhyay and the Pakistani Maniza Naqvi, such an act of "translating South-South" may still offer an unexpected set of "lessons from the future": not least among them, a series of reflections on the "relative security," not only of our unavoidable global interconnectivity, but of the critical understanding of this connectedness, one that may in fact be necessary in order for the future to happen." Photos from the event are available here.
5th Annual Portuguese Language Conference
Dates: September 28-29, 2007
Location: UMD Woodland Commons
Those interested in presenting a paper at the conference should contact Gláucia Silva at gsilva@umassd.edu.
Escrita da Vida ~ Vida da Escrita
Conversation with Four Portuguese American Writers
Katherine Vaz, Julian Silva, Erika de Vasconcelos, Frank X. Gaspar
Moderators: Francisco C. Fagundes, UMass Amherst, George Monteiro, Brown University
John F. Kennedy Library, Boston. Saturday, September 22, 2007
Organized by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
September 20, 2007. "What Europe do we have in mind when we speak of Europe? A literary approach." Professor Manuel Frias Martins, University of Lisbon.
September 18, 2007. "Cidadania e Comunicação nas Sociedades Contemporâneas [Citizenship and Communication in Contemporary Societies]." Dr. Mário Mesquita, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Lisbon School of Media and Communication & Administrator of the Luso-American Foundation. Click here to view the event flyer. Photos of the event are also available here.
Summer 2007
June 22, 2007. Visit of the President of the Portuguese Republic, Professor Cavaco Silva, for the launching of the PhD in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory.
14th Summer Program Talks
July 10, 2007. "Lusophone Africa on Screen: After Colonialism and War, Under the Shadow of Globalization." Fernando Arenas, University of Minnesotta.
July 17, 2007. "Representing and Misrepresenting Brazil: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Commitment of Social Criticism in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema." Luciano Tosta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
July 24, 2007. "Seeing and Reading Violence in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Contexts." Victor K. Mendes, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
14th Summer Program Concerts
July 18, 2007. Anita Coelho and Brazilian Ensemble. Group VI, Room 153, 8:00 PM.
August 1, 2007. Candida Rose with KabuJazz Ensemble. Group VI, Room 153, 8:00 PM.
Spring 2007
Writing Lusophone Africa at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Annual Spring Lecture Series
Writing Lusophone Africa
Organizer: Anna M. Klobucka, Department of Portuguese
Associate Organizer: Gina M. Reis, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
February 8, 2007, 5 p.m.
"Inscrições de �?frica no romance pós-revolucionário e no cinema português actual: Os anos 90 e a nova geração"
Isabel Ferreira Gould, University of Notre Dame
Library Browsing Area
February 15, 2007, 5 p.m.
"Where Is the Empire? The Daily Life of Madeiran Settlers in Nineteenth-Century Angola"
Cristiana Bastos, Universidade de Lisboa/Brown University
Library Browsing Area
March 26, 2007, 5:00 p.m.
"On the Global and the Postcolonial: The Multiple Locations and Directions of Lusophone Africa"
Fernando Arenas, University of Minnesota
Library Browsing Area
April 12, 2007, 5:00 p.m.
"Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women's Writing of Mozambique"
Hilary Owen, University of Manchester
Foster Administration Building, Board of Trustees Room
May 10, 2007, 5:00 p.m.
"Uncanny Spaces in Germano Almeida's Eva"
Phillip Rothwell, Rutgers University
Group I, 212
Roundtable discussion: "Studying the New Brazilian Immigration"
On Friday, April 13, 2007
The day's events will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Woodland Commons, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
For program information click here.
ARCHIVES
Fall 2004
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 3:30 PM.
"O Futuro das Humanidades"
Prof. João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Organized by The Graduate Program in Portuguese
Group II, Conference Room 108
Prof. João Cezar de Castro Rocha, of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro is the author, among other works, of Literatura e Cordialidade, O Público e O Privado na Cultura Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro: EdUERJ, 1998), O Exílio do Homem Cordial, and Ensaios e Revisões (Rio de Janeiro: Editora do Museu da República, 2004). Among his prolific work as an editor, Prof. Rocha edited Teoria da Ficção, Indagações à Obra de Wolfgang Iser (Rio de Janeiro: EdUERJ, 1999), and was the guest-editor of Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 4-5, Brazil 2001: A Revisionary History of Brazilian Literature and Culture (2001).
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
"Visual Culture Analysis for the Humanities"
Prof. Memory Holloway
Organized by the Graduate Program in Portuguese
Group II, Conference Room 108
Prof. Memory Holloway is an Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She received her BA from the University of Redlands and her MA and PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University. Among her work related to the Portuguese-speaking world, Prof. Holloway was curator of the exhibition and editor of the catalogue Open Secrets (1999), on the painting of Paula Rego.
Spring 2005
Friday, February 18, 2005; 1:00
"Building and Maintaining the Portuguese Empire Using Convicts (Degredados), 1500-1800."
By Professor Timothy Coates, College of Charleston
Organized by the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
Group I, Room 121
Tuesday, March 8, 2005; 3:30
"The Representation of the Common People of the Azores in Stormy Isles: An Azorean Tale by Vitorino Nemésio."
By Professor Francisco Cota Fagundes, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Organized by the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
Group I, Room 101
Friday, March 25, 2005; 1:00
"The Image of Asia in Early Modern Portugal and Europe."
By Professor Jorge Flores, Universidade de Aveiro
Organized by the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
Group I, Room 121
Thursday, April 5, 2005; 4:00 PM
"Together at Last: Reading the Love Letters of Ofélia Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa [in English]"
Professor Anna Klobucka
Organized by the Graduate Program in Portuguese
Group I, Room 398G
Anna Klobucka holds an M.A. in Iberian Studies from the University of Warsaw (Poland) and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (1993). She has taught at the Ohio State University and the University of Georgia, and she is currently Associate Professor of Portuguese and Chairperson of the Department of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she teaches Portuguese and Lusophone African literatures and Portuguese language pedagogy. She is the co-editor of After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature 1974-1994 (Bucknell University Press, 1997) and the author of The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (Bucknell, 2000; Portuguese translation forthcoming from Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda). She has also published on twentieth-century Portuguese and Brazilian women writers, the theory and practice of feminist criticism in the context of Luso-Brazilian literature and culture, and the construction of collective identities in national cultures of the European periphery. She currently serves as President of the American Portuguese Studies Association (2005-2006).
Tuesday, April 19, 2005; 5:00 PM
"O Desafio Ético na Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea"
By Prof. Karl Erik Schollhammer
Organized by the Graduate Program in Portuguese
Group I, Room 212
Prof. Karl Erik Schollhammer holds an M.A. in Nordic Literature and a Ph.D. in Semiotics and Latin American Literature from the Aarhus University (Denmark). He has taught at the Aarhus University, at the Federal University of Brasília and since 1991 he is associate professor at the Pontifície Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro in the Department of Language and Literature, where he teaches comparative literature, Brazilian literature and literary theory. He is researcher at the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa since 1992, and has published extensively on contemporary Brazilian literature and culture. He is co-editor and co-author of Linguagens da Violência (2000), Novas Epistemologias (2000), Literatura e Mídia (2002), Literatura e Cultura (2003), Literatura e Imagem (2005) and author of a forthcoming volume on readings in literature and image entitled O Olhar da Prosa.
Thursday, April 28, 2005; 3:30
"The Portuguese in California"
By Prof. Antonio Goulart
Organized by the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
Group 1, Room 101
Monday, May 9, 2005; 1:00
"The Auto-da-fé in the Portuguese Inquisition: A Ritual of Power"
By Prof. José Pedro Paiva, Universidade de Coimbra
Group I, Room 121
Fall 2005
Monday, October 24, 2005; 4:00-5:30pm
Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies
Seminar Leaders: Prof. Andrea Klimt and Prof. Isabel Rodrigues (Anthropology)
Seminar Reading: Margaret Sarkissian's "D'Albuquerque's Children: Performing Tradition in Malaysia's Portuguese Settlement (Chicago UP, 2000).
Sponsored by Provost's Office and The Dept. of Portuguese
Group I, Room 397D (Arts and Sciences Conference Room)
View the Flyer here.
Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 5:00pm
Wine and Cheese Reception of the Graduate Program in Portuguese. The goals of the reception are: i, welcome the MA class of 2007; ii, announcement of the 2005 Best Portuguese Student Essay Prize winners ($1,000, $500, and $250) and invitation to submit entries for the 2006 Best Portuguese Student Essay Prize ($1,000, $500, $250); iii, announcement of the design of our proposed PhD program. All are welcome! To be held in the Arts & Sciences Dean's Conference Room
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 3:30pm
"Foreign Language in the Information Age"
By Dr. Jan Macián, The Ohio State University
Sponsored by The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, The Portuguese Department, and The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
Organized by Professor Gláucia Silva
Library Browsing Area
View the flyer here.
Monday, November 14, 2005, 4:00-5:30pm
Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies
Seminar Leaders: Prof. Timothy Walker and Prof. Cristina Mehrtens (History)
Seminar Reading: Selections from Kenneth Maxwell's Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues (Routledge, 2003). Sponsored by the Provost's Office and the Dept. of Portuguese
View the flyer here .
Thursday, December 1, 2005, 5:00pm
"The Future of Portuguese in the United States"
By Professor Carmen Tesser of the University of Georgia & Director of the Portuguese Language School at Middlebury College Generously sponsored by the UMD Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, the Department of Portuguese, and the Graduate Program in Portuguese
Group I, Room 212 View the flyer here .
Wednesday, December 14, 2005, 11:00am-12:00pm
Press Conference: Alfred Lewis's Literary Papers Donated to UMD. More.
Friday, December 16, 2005, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies
"Making Waves: Cape Verdeans and the Whaling City."
With a focus on Art History and to be led by Professor Memory Holloway
Sponsored by the Provost's Office and the Dept. of Portuguese
View the flyer here .
Spring 2006
The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture presents the
2006 Spring Lecture Serieson "Economies of Relationship,"
Organized by Professor Victor J. Mendes:
Tuesday, February 7th at 5pm
"O que tem de judaico Menina e Moça (1554) de Bernadim Ribeiro?"
Herman Prins Salomon
State University of New York, Albany
Group I, Room 212
Tuesday, February 14th at 5pm
"Bernadim Ribeiro's Menina e Moça & Cervantes"
Karina Galperín
Universidad Torcuato de Tella, Buenos Aires / Harvard University
Group I, Room 212
View the flyer here .
Tuesday, March 28th at 5pm
"What Remains of the Dead, Or, the Variable Principles of Cannibal Exchange"
Luís Madureira
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Group I, Room 212
View the flyer here .
Tuesday, April 4th at 5pm
"Dinheiro vivo: the everyday life of money in Salvador da Bahia"
Roger Sansi-Roca
King's College, London
Group I, Room 212
View the flyer here .
Tuesday, April 18th at 5pm
"Europe and America, 2006"
Jorge de Oliveira e Sousa
European Commission / Harvard University
Group I, Room 397D, Dean's Conference Room
View the flyer here .
2006 Lecture Series: Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies
Organized by Prof. Anna Klobucka. Sponsored by Provost's Office
Monday, March 6th from 4:00-5:30pm
Seminar reading:
Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris, Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change around the World (Cambridge UP, 2003)
March 2006 seminar leader: Michael Baum (Political Science)
Group I, 397D (Arts & Sciences Conference Room)
Sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the Department of Portuguese
View the flyer here.
Monday, April 10th from 4:00-5:30pm
Seminar reading: Marcos Bagno, “Língua, história e sociedade: Breve retrospecto da norma-padrão brasileira" and Cheris Kramarae, Muriel Schulz and William M. O’Barr, “Toward an Understanding of Language and Power" (copies available in I-398G)
April 2006 seminar leader: Gláucia Silva (Portuguese / Linguistics)
Group I, Room 110
Sponsored by the Provost's Office and the Dept. of Portuguese
View the flyer here .
Monday, May 15th at 4:00pm Seminar reading: "Identidade, Imagem e Império Africano no Imaginário Político-Literário dos Séculos XIX-XX."
**To be followed by a wine and food reception at 5:00pm**
Group I, Room 379-D (Dean's Conference Room)
Sponsored by the Provost's Office and the Department of Portuguese
View the flyer here.
Fall 2006
Tuesday, October 3, 2006, at 5 PM
"The Task of the Manuscript Editor"
Mark Streeter
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Group I, Room 212
Thursday, October 19, 2006, at 5 PM
"O Duplo em Papéis Avulsos"
João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Group 1, Room 212
Monday, November 13, 2006 at Noon
"Transfer of theRoyal Court fromLisbontoRio de Janeiro"
José Machado, University ofÉvora
Library Browsing Area
Tuesday, November 28, 2006, at 5 PM
"Jaime Bunda and the Post-colonial Other"
Professor Phillip Rothwell
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Group I, Room 212
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, at 5 PM
"Plato and Aristotle on Persuasion"
Professor Maureen Eckert
Universityof Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Group I, Room 212
Tuesday, December12, 2006 at 5PM
2006 Best Student Essay
Contest Prizes will be awarded at the Wine and Cheese Reception
Library Browsing Area
Click here for photos (forthcoming)
American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA) Conference in Minneapolis, October 5-7, 2006.
Some photos here. (forthcoming)
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