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.
Presented by the Saab for Portuguese Studies, in partnership with the UMass Lowell Department of World Languages and Cultures. Sponsored in part by the Consulate-General of Portugal in Boston and Camões, I.P.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 2:30-9 p.m.
In-person at Coburn Hall 110 and via Zoom
Free and open to the public.
Parking in the Wilder Lot, corner of Wilder and Broadway Streets.
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Special Guest: Maria de Medeiros, actress and director of April’s Captains (Capitães de Abril, 2000) The colloquium will examine the significance of the democratic transitions in Portugal and Spain, following the authoritarian regimes of António de Oliveira Salazar and Francisco Franco. Distinguished scholars from Portugal, Spain, and the United States will explore the enduring impact of this historic period. The program will conclude with the screening of Maria de Medeiros's April’s Captains at 6:45 p.m.
Presenters, in the following order, beginning at 2:30 p.m.:
For additional information, write to Bernardo Pinto da Cruz, by email at: bernardo_pintodacruz@uml.edu.
The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies in the University of Massachusetts Lowell College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences announce the FLAD/Saab Visiting Professorship in Portuguese Studies for Spring Semester 2025. This program is a three-year collaboration that sponsors a one-semester a year, open-rank, Visiting Professor of Portuguese Studies at UMass Lowell. The program is open to Portuguese Academics presently teaching at a university in Portugal or abroad. The program contributes a Portuguese academic perspective to the curriculum of the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and, more specifically, supports the Portuguese Studies Program at UMass Lowell and the mission of the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies. The program further enhances the University's relationship with the regional Portuguese-American community.
For the third year of the program (Spring Semester 2025), we seek a Visiting professor in the academic areas of History, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology or Economics. The Visiting Professor will teach up to two courses in English and deliver one or more public lectures in their area of expertise. The program provides for a competitive one-semester salary stipend. The University of Massachusetts Lowell is grateful to the Luso-American Development Foundation and Elisia and Mark Saab and family for co-sponsoring the FLAD/Saab Visiting Professor in Portuguese Studies Program.
Applications received by April 15, 2024 will be considered in the first review of candidates, but the position will remain open until filled.
Please submit the following required documents with your application to be considered:
Apply to be the FLAD/Saab Visiting Professor in Portuguese Studies for Spring Semester 2025.
Questions may be addressed to Prof. Frank F. Sousa, director of the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies, by email at: frank_sousa@uml.edu.
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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.
