The Saab Center for Portuguese Studies is proud to host a number of prestigious conferences. For more information please contact us.
2017
Ambassador João Vale De Almeida In Conversation With Jarrod Hayes
"Prospects for the EU and Portugal in the New Global Context”
When: Friday, December 1, 2017 at Noon
Where:O’Leary Library Mezzanine, UMass Lowell South Campus
This event is free and open to the public but seating is limited.
João Vale de Almeida is a senior European Union diplomat who was appointed as EU Ambassador to the United Nations in October 2015. Ambassador Vale de Almeida previously served as the first EU Ambassador to the United States from 2010 to 2014. In Washington, he actively engaged in strengthening EU/U.S. relations and was critical to the launch of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations.
Jarrod Hayes is Associate Professor of International security at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His scholarship focuses on the role of social orders in shaping international security and environmental practice. He has published on U.S. relations with India and China and European security practices.
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The Portuguese Immigrant Experience
The Portuguese Immigrant Experience in Lowell Since the 1960s: A Facilitated Panel Discussion
- When: Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 3 p.m.
- Where: Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, MA
- Contact: Prof. Frank F. Sousa, director, UMass Lowell Saab Center for Portuguese Studies, call: 978-934-5199 or email: frank_sousa@uml.edu.
The UMass Lowell Saab Center for Portuguese Studies, the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, and the Lowell National Historical Park announce “The Portuguese Immigrant Experience in Lowell Since the 1960s: A Facilitated Panel Discussion,” with five Portuguese-Americans (Maria Pombeiro, Dimas Espinola, Luis Gomes, Phil Maia, and Nomesia Iria) who immigrated to Lowell since the 1960s. The event—free and open to the public—is on Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 3 p.m. at the Boott Event Center, second floor of the Boott Cotton Mills Museum, Lowell National Historical Park, 115 John Street. Reception to follow. Parking is across the street in the Joseph Downes Parking Garage at 75 John Street.
The roundtable discussion is part of the international conference, “Migration and Millwork: Portuguese Communities in Industrial New England”, to be held at several venues in Massachusetts, including the Boott Cotton Mills Museum on December 3-4, 2017. The two-day event at the Lowell National Historical Park—free and open to the public—is organized by the Institute of Social Sciences at the University Lisbon, in partnership with the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies and the Lowell National Park. For more information about the conference, see next press release from the Saab Center or email Miguel Moniz at: Miguel.Moniz@ICS.ULisboa.pt.
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- Read more about the academic conference in the Migration and Millwork: Portuguese Communities in Industrial New England Press Release (pdf)
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Miguel Tamen
Two Cases of Portugal-Talk
When: Monday, November 13, 2017 at 2 p.m.
Where:Dugan Hall, Room 104, UMass Lowell South Campus
Parking is available in the Wilder Lot, across from 61 Wilder Street, Lowell, MA.
This event is free and open to the public.
Talk about your own country is supposed to vary along political and ideological lines. A striking counter-example will be examined: the resemblance between the ways in which Portugal is talked about in the left-leaning Guia de Portugal (The Portugal Guidebook, 1924) and the unapologetically right-wing Livro de Leitura da Terceira Classe (The Third Grade Reader, 1951). This affinity suggests that ways in which you talk about your own country cannot merely be derived from your overt political inclinations. The lecture will be in English.
Miguel Tamen (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, 1989) is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon. He has held visiting appointments at Stanford University and the University of Chicago, and is currently at UMass Dartmouth. He has also been a senior fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and the National Humanities Center. His interests include the philosophy of language, interpretation, and moral philosophy, as well as aesthetics. He is the author of nine books, among which The Matter of the Facts (Stanford UP) and Friends of Interpretable Objects (2001) and What Art Is Like, in Constant Reference to the Alice Books, both from Harvard UP. His latest book, co-authored with António M. Feijó, is on the liberal arts at the university.
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Ambassador Sherman at UMass
US Ambassador to Portugal, the Honorable Robert A. Sherman, gave a public, free lecture on US- Portugal relations on Tuesday, February 23 at noon in Moloney Hall, University Crossing (220 Pawtucket Street, Lowell). The talk is sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research, and the International Relations Club.
Ambassador Sherman, who hails from Boston, Massachusetts, has prioritized 21st century economic diplomacy, including bilateral investing. He led a delegation of Portuguese investors and businesses to the SelectUSA Summit in Washington and has also taken American investors to Portugal, to understand the high quality of Portuguese innovation and entrepreneurship.
Ambassador Sherman and his wife Kim Sawyer, an entrepreneur and lawyer, have launched Connect to Success, the Embassy’s flagship initiative in women’s entrepreneurship, which is composed of a corporate mentorship program, an MBA/Masters Consulting program, and free practical business workshops.
In an increasingly interdependent world, containing complex threats and challenges, the Ambassador has pursued President Obama’s agenda of “smart” leadership, looking to increase ways in which the United States and Portugal, along with other allies, can leverage their capabilities on issues of international security. In Portugal, his focus has been on strengthening engagement in areas such as maritime security in West Africa, cybersecurity, narcoterrorism and NATO.
Ambassador Sherman holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Rochester and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. He was a founding member of the Boston office of Greenburg Traurig, a large international law firm.
UMass Lowell is excited to welcome Ambassador Robert A. Sherman to the campus and we hope you will be able to join us for the lecture. For more information, please write to Prof. Frank F. Sousa at frank_sousa@uml.edu or call Natalia Melo at 978-934-5199.
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Brazilian Poet Salgado Maranhão
Reading & Conversations with Brazilian Poet Salgado Maranhão and Translator Alexis Levitin
Free and open to the public! Reception to follow.
- Wednesday, October 18 at 12:30 p.m.
Allen House, UMass Lowell South Campus - Wednesday, October 18 at 5 p.m.
Boston University School for Global Studies, 121 Bay State Rd., Boston, MA
Salgado Maranhão is the best known poet of his generation in Brazil. Just a year ago, the Union of Brazilian Writers honored him with its poetry award for his retrospective collection A cor da palavra. In 2014, he won the Brazilian PEN Club prize for his book O mapa da tribo. In 2011 he won the poetry award from the Brazilian Academy of Letters for the above mentioned A cor da palavra, and in 1999 he won the prestigious Jabuti for Mural de ventos. At this stage he has won every major literary award available in Brazil. He has also collaborated extensively with well-known Brazilian musicians and composers and his work has appeared on a number of recordings.
Here in the USA, his bilingual collection Blood of the Sun (Milkweed Editions, 2012) led to a 90 day reading tour that brought the two of us to fifty-two universities in the Eastern half of the country. His second book in the USA, Tiger Fur (White Pine Press, 2015), brought us to over twenty colleges and universities on the West Coast, the Midwest, and the Northeast in 2016.
Salgado may be of special interest as an Afro-Brazilian success story, having risen from rural impoverishment to the peak of poetic achievement in his country. We would be available for a bilingual reading and for classes in Brazilian Studies or Latin American Studies. We hope for an honorarium of $1000, plus one night’s lodging and a congenial dinner with our hosts.
Alexis Levitin has translated forty books, including Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm and Eugenio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words (both from New Directions). Books published in 2015 include: 28 Portuguese Poets, translated with Richard Zenith, (Dedalus Press, Dublin, Ireland), Destruction in the Afternoon by Santiago Vizcaino (Dialogos Books, New Orleans), Exemplary Tales by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (Tagus Press), and Salgado Maranhão’s Tiger Fur. He has been awarded three Fulbrights and two National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships. He has held translation residencies at the Banff International Translation Center, The European Translators Collegium in Straelen, Germany (twice), and the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center at Bellagio.
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