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After a six-year hiatus, the International Azorean Whaleboat Regatta is returning to the Whaling City this weekend, riding the waves of culture and history.
The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture/Tagus Press (CPSC/TP) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is seeking candidates for the Hélio and Amélia Pedroso/Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies for the Spring term of 2024 (January to May). The deadline for the applications is 28 August 2023. Established in 2004 by the […]
The president of the Regional Government of Azores, José Manuel Bolieiro, said today that he wants to “enhance” relations between the University of the Azores (UAc) and American universities and stimulate investment by businessmen of Azorean descent in the Portuguese archipelago.
NEW BEDFORD – Francisco Cota Fagundes, a professor emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be offering in a virtual presentation a glimpse into the challenges he encountered while translating Vitorino Nemésio’s novel “Mau Tempo no Canal,” considered by literary critics as one of the greatest Portuguese novels of the 20th century.
Hosted by the New Bedford Whaling Museum, “Stormy Isles: An Azorean Tale. Translating Literary Heterolingualism and Coastal Whaling” will take place Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.
Originally published in 1944, the novel provides a vivid portrait of the Azores in the early twentieth century, revolving around the story of Margarida, a member of the elite who foregoes some of the entitlements of her class and struggles with the morals of the bourgeois society in which her life unfolds.