Founded in 2013, with generous gift from the Saab Family Fund, the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies promotes the multidisciplinary study of the language, literature and culture of the vast and varied Portuguese speaking world comprised of over 250 million people in eight countries on four continents and its diaspora.
The Saab Center for Portuguese Studies presents a special program: "In the Mills and Beyond: New Perspectives on New England's Portuguese"
Thursday, October 23, 2025
5-6:15 p.m.
Saab Center for Portuguese Studies
O’Leary 528
Parking at Wilder Lot
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Please join us for a special program in recognition of the recently published "Migration, Mill Work, and Portuguese Communities in New England," from Tagus Press of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
The program features Cristiana Bastos, Professor of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, an editor of this new volume, and Rose Rodrigues, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fairfield University, one of the volume's principal authors. Moderated by Gregory Fiztsimons.
Bastos will highlight the significance of the book, which is the first major historical work published by Tagus Press in nearly 15 years. Rodrigues will then present her key discoveries on New Bedford's Portuguese. This represents some new understandings on the relationship between occupations of immigrants, social and job mobility, home ownership and the creation of urban, immigrant communities.
Program coordinators: Gregory Fiztsimons and Frank F. Sousa
For more information, email Kimberly_Moreau@uml.edu.
Image by Pedro Letria
We hope you can join us on June 8 for the opening of this intimate view of Lowell’s Portuguese Community as captured by photographer Pedro Letria.
Learn more about The Portuguese In Lowell: The Familiar And The New
Image by Lowell Historical Society
The Back Central Project is a comprehensive study of an historic urban neighborhood in Lowell, rich in its immigrant, social and cultural history. UMass Lowell’s Saab Center for Portuguese Studies is leading this interdisciplinary effort along with the History Department and Art & Design.
