Author José Luís Peixoto visiting East Coast
Portuguese author José Luís Peixoto will be visiting colleges and universities in the East Coast, November 2-9, on a lecture tour sponsored by Lisbon-based Instituto Camões. On November 3, Peixoto will...
View ArticleBook: The Dabneys: A Bostonian Family in the Azores – Launching
The launching of the anthology “The Dabneys: A Bostonian Family in the Azores 1806-1871,” will take place in a series of events to be held, February 16-21, in four Massachusetts and Rhode Island...
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Essay: An Anatomy of Saudade – By George Monteiro
An art gallery in Toronto in 2009 entitles its exhibit “Saudades for Tomorrow,” and a politician in New Bedford, Massachusetts, defines saudade as “nostalgic longing… the spirit of Portugal.” While a...
View ArticleKSFS: Kale Soup for the Soul to present poetry readings – East Coast
Award-winning, Portuguese-American writers will travel to Providence (RI) and Dartmouth (MA) to deliver two writing workshops and present four public readings at Rhode Island College, Brown University...
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Essay: The Whiskey is Strong, but the Cow is Dead – By George Monteiro
By George Monteiro, Contributor (*) This talk was given 48 years ago, on March 23, 1966, at a Brown University Freshman Convocation. A relic or vestige, an artifact, if you will. It is published now,...
View ArticleBook: Author Anthony De Sa to launch “Kicking the Sky” – Providence, RI
Portuguese-Canadian author Anthony De Sa will be in Providence, RI, to present his book Kicking the Sky, on April 1, at 6pm, at the Providence Athenaeum, located at 251 Benefit Street. Sponsored by the...
View ArticleArts & Letters: Talk over lunch with valter hugo mãe – Brown University, RI
The Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, at Brown University, Providence, RI, is hosting a conversation and lunch event with Portuguese writer and artist, valter hugo mãe, to be held on...
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George Monteiro: A distinguished career in excellence – Interview
By Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) George Monteiro, a Rhode Island native with roots in mainland Portugal, is an esteemed professor emeritus at Brown University and a distinguished scholar...
View ArticleCommunity: Ernest Moniz to lecture at Brown University – Providence, RI
United States Secretary of Energy, Portuguese American nuclear physicist Dr. Ernest Moniz, will deliver the 92nd Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs on Monday, April 18,...
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