10/20/2025
By Monica Melo

Join Us for a Special Program at UMass Lowell!

The Saab Center for Portuguese Studies and Department of World Languages and Cultures presents: In the Mills and Beyond: New Perspectives on New England’s Portuguese

Thursday, October 23, 2025
5–6:15 p.m.
O’Leary Library 528 or join via Zoom

This event celebrates the release of "Migration, Mill Work, and Portuguese Communities in New England" (Tagus Press, UMass Dartmouth).

Speakers:

Cristiana Bastos, professor of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
Rose Rodrigues, professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Fairfield University

Moderator: Gregory Fitzsimons

Discover new insights into the lives, labor, and communities of New England’s Portuguese immigrants — and how their stories shaped the region’s social and economic history.

Free and open to the public!

For more info: Kimberly_Moreau@uml.edu