Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
Promoting Portuguese and Lusophone Studies in the United States
A multidisciplinary international studies and outreach unit dedicated to the study of the language, literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. Working in close partnership with the Department of Portuguese and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives.
The center sponsors and coordinates research, educational and cultural activities appropriate to its mission.
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Groundbreaking translations and journals address both Portuguese life abroad and in the United States.
Events
More eventsInês Beleza Barreiros (Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Brown University) is an art historian, cultural critic, and curator. Her research delves into how art an images become knowledge producing objects and she has published on the visual cultural, public memory, and afterlives of colonialism in the Portuguese-speaking worlds. She is presently prepering the monograph Thinking Virtually: The Afterlives of Portuguese Imperialism. Wednesday, December 4th, 5:30pm Marketplace
Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture/Tagus Press, Department of Portuguese and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives present Richard Zenith, “The Lyric Camões, Sensual and Diverse” Wednesday, October 9, 5:30 pm Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives (Library)
Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture/Tagus Press, Department of Portuguese and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives present Simon Park (University of Oxford), “When Does the Empire Begin? Camões’s Os Lusíadas (1572)” Wednesday, October 9, 5:30 pm Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives (Library)
News
More newsTagus Press announces the publication of Migration, Mill Work, and Portuguese Communities in New England, edited by Cristiana Bastos, Bela Feldman-Bianco, and Miguel Moniz.
The publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announces the publication of Leaving Pico by Frank X. Gaspar.
The publishing arm of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces the publication of The Undiscovered Island by Darrell Kastin.