UMass Lowell Saab Center for Portuguese Studies

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Founded in 2013, with generous gifts from the Saab Family Fund , the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies promotes the multidisciplinary study of the language, literatures and cultures of the vast and varied Portuguese speaking world comprised of over 230 million people in eight countries on four continents and its diaspora. The Center, administered under the aegis of the Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMass Lowell, organizes and co-organizes colloquia, workshops, exhibitions, visits by distinguished writers from the Lusophone world and Portuguese North America, lectures, theater and dance performances, concerts, and film screenings. It also sponsors and co-sponsors research on collections of documents related to the diaspora. The Center fosters Luso-Afro-Brazilian studies across the UMass Lowell campus and functions as a liaison between the University of Massachusetts Lowell and other institutions involved in Portuguese and Lusophone studies in the United States and abroad. The Center promotes outreach efforts in areas such as the arts, K-12 education, economic development, health and politics, and civic engagement related to the Portuguese speaking communities of the United States, while also sponsoring and co-sponsoring research on the Lusophone world, especially on the Portuguese-speaking communities in Massachusetts in general and the Merrimack Valley in particular. Finally, the Center supports the efforts of the UMass Lowell Department of Cultural Studies to develop a Portuguese program, including new language and culture courses in Academic Year 2014-15. The Center, administered under the aegis of the Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMass Lowell, organizes and co-organizes colloquia, workshops, exhibitions, visits by distinguished writers from the Lusophone world and Portuguese North America, lectures, theater and dance performances, concerts, and film screenings. It also sponsors and co-sponsors research on collections of documents related to the diaspora. The Center fosters Luso-Afro-Brazilian studies across the UMass Lowell campus and functions as a liaison between the University of Massachusetts Lowell and other institutions involved in Portuguese and Lusophone studies in the United States and abroad. The Center promotes outreach efforts in areas such as the arts, K-12 education, economic development, health and politics, and civic engagement related to the Portuguese speaking communities of the United States, while also sponsoring and co-sponsoring research on the Lusophone world, especially on the Portuguese-speaking communities in Massachusetts in general and the Merrimack Valley in particular. Finally, the Center supports the efforts of the UMass Lowell Department of Cultural Studies to develop a Portuguese program, including new language and culture courses in Academic Year 2014-15.