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John Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, will make an appearance at UMass Dartmouth on Monday, March 1.
A renowned economist, philanthropist, and controversial author, John Perkins is promoting his latest book, Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—And What We Need To Do To Remake Them. Hoodwinked is a blueprint for a new form of global economics that details steps for creating a sustainable and peaceful world. Drawing on personal experiences described in his books, John Perkins explains how four decades of corporate greed in developing countries has enabled the extremely rich to purchase businesses and real estate at fire sale prices and exploit human and natural resources. Perkins will talk about how to transforming the world economy.

Pastor Curtis Dias and People Acting in Community Endeavors (PACE) to be honored as “drum majors for justice” at UMass Dartmouth MLK breakfast January 29.

Curtis D. Dias, Senior Pastor of Calvary Pentecostal Church in East Freetown and People Acting in Community Service Endeavors, Inc. (PACE) will be honored January 29 at the annual UMass Dartmouth Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast and Drum Major Awards ceremony. Award-winning television journalist Liz Walker will be this year's keynote speaker.

November 30, 2009 – Dartmouth, MA. The UMass Dartmouth Department of Portuguese and Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announce a symposium, “Eça and Machado Revisited: A Seminar with Carlos Reis and João Cezar de Castro Rocha,” to be held on Friday, December 11, 2009, 2:00 – 4:00 PM in LARTS 374 (parking available in Lot 1). The event, dedicated to the two leading novelists of the Portuguese language—Eça de Queirós (1845-1900), of Portugal, and Machado de Assis (1839-1908), of Brazil)—is free and open to the public.

Under the direction of researchers Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson, The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth recently conducted a new in-depth and statistically significant study on the usage of social media in fast-growing corporations. This new study revisits the Center’s study of Inc. 500 social media usage for the third consecutive year making it a valuable and rare longitudinal study of corporate use of these new technologies. The new study compares adoption of social media over the last three years (2007, 2008 and 2009) by the Inc. 500, a list of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies compiled annually by Inc. Magazine.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research (CMR) is proud to announce that 3 time Super Bowl winner, Troy Brown, will be the guest speaker at the CMR’s 10th Annual Celebrity/ Scholarship Dinner, March 30, 2010 at the Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea Massachusetts from 6:00-9:00pm. A VIP Reception will be held prior to the dinner at 5:00pm.

November 5, 2009 – Dartmouth, MA. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announces a lecture by James McGlinchey, national coordinator of the Portuguese American Citizenship Project. The presentation— to be held on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 in the Board of Trustees Room, Foster Administration Building (parking lot 6)—will focus on voting patterns among younger Portuguese-American voters in Fall River, Massachusetts, and Stanislaus County, California, in the 2008 Presidential Primaries, State primaries and the Presidential Election itself. The presentation will further include a discussion of the benefits of effective representation and civic involvement, the mechanics of organizing non-partisan get-out-the-vote campaigns, including regular measurement of the effectiveness of these campaigns, in addition to an examination of voter turnout data over different elections and between differing age groups.

Congressman Barney Frank, the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies announce a symposium entitled “The Portuguese Renaissance and the Brazilian Baroque: A Colloquium on Three New Books,” to be held at the Library of Congress Members’ Room on Friday, November 13, 2009, 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please RSVP by contacting Judite Fernandes (tel. 508-999-8255 or email j1fernandes@umassd.edu ) by Tuesday, November 10, 2009.

October 20, 2009 – Dartmouth, MA. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives announce a Book Talk by Katherine Vaz, author of /Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories/, published by Nebraska University Press. The event—free and open to the public—is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5 p.m. in the Browsing Area of the University Library (Parking Lot 13).

CONFERENCE ON GENDER & POST-COLONIAL STUDIES IN LUSO-AFRO-BRAZILIAN STUDIES

October 5, 2009 – Dartmouth, MA. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture is pleased to host the international conference “Gender, Empire and Postcolony: Intersections in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies” on Friday, 9 October through Sunday, 11 October 2009.

Educators from around the state, nation and world gather at UMass Dartmouth for a STEM education showcase event.

UMass President Jack Wilson to keynote showcase event; new doctoral program and major federal grants in STEM education to be announced; international partnership agreements with university systems in Mexico, Brazil and Cyprus to be signed

*Colloquium on Media and Identity in Portuguese America, on Friday, September 18, 2009, Preceding Dedication of the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives*

Dedication of the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives on Friday, September 18, 2009 @ 4 p.m.*

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces the public dedication of the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives at the Claire T. Carney University Library, on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 4 p.m. (Please use parking lot 13.)

The University of Massachusetts, through a five- campus collaboration based at UMass Dartmouth, has won a $471,000 Learn and Serve America grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service. The grant, one of 36 awarded around the country, will support a statewide UMass effort entitled, “Building on the Promise: Strengthening Our University/Community Ties,” that will engage 1,500 students in community service projects that are embedded in their college courses.

Dartmouth, MA The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces the publication of /The Undiscovered Island/, a novel by Darrell Kastin.

This family novel is set in the Azores, to where Julia Castro, a second generation Portuguese-American, goes in search of her immigrant father who has mysteriously disappeared after moving back to his ancestral home. There Julia finds the mid-Atlantic islands abuzz with tales of ghost ships, seductive sirens and witchcraft. The mystery deepens when a drowned man’s body is discovered halfway up a mountainside and an unknown island emerges from the sea. As she pursues the search for her father, Julia gradually succumbs to the bewitching allure of the Azores—and to Nicolau, a fellow musician—eventually discovering a place where dreams lie just beyond the horizon, shrouded in mist. History, legend, poetry and myth are seamlessly interwoven as the novel explores relationships between personal and cultural identity, fate and self-determination, reality and illusion. /The Undiscovered Island/ is a lyrical evocation of a locale and a people, rendered with wonderful respect for Azorean tradition.

“We couldn’t be happier about having this multitalented professional joining the CMR Advisory Board,” said Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Director of the UMass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research. “She’ll bring a remarkable amount of real-world experience and professional achievement to the board; she is a visionary and her enthusiasm is infectious.”

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announces a gift of $5,000 from an anonymous local donor for the 16^th Annual Summer Program in Portuguese (July 6-August 6, 2009). The Program offers intensive courses at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels, in addition to a graduate course entitled “Transatlantic Passages in Lusophone Literatures and Cultures.” The donation is earmarked for scholarships and other expenses related to the program, including the lecture series and concert series.

For further information, please contact Judite Fernandes at 508-999-8255 or j1fernandes@umassd.edu, or visit www.portstudies.umassd.edu

June 15, 2009 – Dartmouth, MA. The Consulate of Portugal in New Bedford and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announce the launching of two books: "Sonnets and Other Poems", by Luís de Camões, with translation by Richard Zenith, and "Community, Culture and the Makings of Identity: Portuguese-Americans along the Eastern Seaboard", edited by Andrea Klimt, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Rutgers University.

The event will take place on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 7 pm at the Consulate of Portugal, Camões Room, 628 Pleasant Street, 2nd Floor, New Bedford, MA 02740. To RSVP, please contact Judite Fernandes by telephone (508-999-8255) or email (j1fernandes@umassd.edu ) by Thursday, June 21, 2009.

June 1, 2009 – Dartmouth, MA. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announces the launching of /Sonnets and Other Poems/, by Luís de Camões, with translation by Richard Zenith, at the Luso-American Foundation, in Lisbon, on Monday, June 1, 2009, at 6:00 PM. Vasco Graça Moura, noted author, translator and member of the European Parliament, will present the book.

UMass Dartmouth awarded 1,506 bachelor’s degrees on Sunday during its 109th Undergraduate Commencement ceremony. The event followed Saturday’s Graduate Commencement at which 308 master’s and doctorate degrees were awarded.

April 30, 2009 – Dartmouth, MA. The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces a lecture entitled, “Luiz Pacheco—Libertine Writer & All” by Professor Rui Zink. The lecture, in Portuguese, will be in the Foster Administration Building, Board of Trustees Room (parking lots 5 & 6), on Friday, May 8, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.

The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives at the Claire T. Carney Library and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announce the completion of the digitization of the daily, /Diário de Notícias/ (1919-1973), the most important Portuguese newspaper ever published in the United States.

Lecture by Inês Pedrosa, Portuguese writer, at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

April 15, 2009 – Dartmouth, MA. The Department of Portuguese and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announce a lecture entitled, “Eternity and Desire: A Talk with Inês Pedrosa.” The lecture will be in the Foster Administration Building, Board of Trustees Room (parking lots 5 & 6), on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 5:00 pm.

April 10, 2009 – Dartmouth, MA. The UMD Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announces a $10,000 grant from the Luso-American Foundation of Lisbon for the 16th Annual Summer Program in Portuguese (July 6-August 5, 2009).

March 30, 2009 – Dartmouth, MA. The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces a lecture entitled, “After /Watchmen,/” by Professor Rui Zink. The lecture will be in the Foster Administration Building, Board of Trustees Room (parking lots 5 & 6), on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at Noon.

On April 8, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Director of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research (CMR) will present the information most in demand in today’s business community. Hear about the two most popular business groups, the Fortune 500 and the Inc. 500. What they are doing (and not doing!) will surprise you. The social media tools like blogging, social networking, podcasting, wiki’s etc. are the hot topics at every major business meeting in 2009. What kind of businesses are using these tools and are these tools successful? How fast are businesses adopting social media? Are you running behind? Which tools are most popular? How do you begin? What are the tools that successful businesses recommend? These questions will be answered. The seminar will include a look at the Inc. 500 and the Fortune 500 in 2007 and again in 2008. The movement in social media adoption is incredible!

Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston will be speaking at the UMass Dartmouth Charlton College of Business on Thursday, March 26.

Mr. Levy has earned an international reputation for his management of a major medical center during a time of economic stress and industry transformation. His insights provide lessons for all who are working to confront today’s unprecedented challenges and students who aspire to leadership positions.

He will be on campus for much of the day, speaking to faculty at 10 a.m. and students at p.m.

http://www.runningahospital.blogspot.com/

March 4, 2009 – Dartmouth, MA. Tony: A New England Boyhood by Charles Reis Felix is an autobiographical novel about growing up in Gaw (New Bedford), Massachusetts in the 1930s much in the same way that Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s celebrated boyhood novel, The Story of a Bad Boy, recounts his adventures growing up in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

If you’re serious about growing your business, earning more revenue and making more profit, then you better understand BUZZ! The MSBDC, The Metro South Chamber of Commerce and the New England Business Bulletin are sponsoring a three part marketing workshop series. The program will be presented by Dr. Cliff Robbins, a visiting lecturer at UMASS Dartmouth, a Senior Business Advisor at MSBDC and a battle scarred veteran of growing, marketing and selling his own businesses.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces a colloquium entitled “Migrant Women and the Media” organized by the UMD Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives, in collaboration with the Consulate of Portugal in New Bedford.