Conferences and Events
2011, December 2-3: “Portuguese as a Heritage Language Workshop: O ABC do Português: Oficina de treinamento e capacitação de professores de Português Língua de Herança”
The two day workshop is designed to bring specialists and practitioners in second-language acquisition to campus in order to discuss and facilitate language instruction for children of Lusophone immigrants in the Washington D.C. area as well from other parts of the United States. The objectives are to strengthen the Lusophone immigrant community and connect it to the University, and to further research interest in language and cultural acquisition among “heritage speakers” or second-generation immigrants. The workshop will be led by professors, Prof. Maria José Grosso/U of Lisboa and Prof. José Carlos Paes de Almeida, U of Brasília. For more information, contact: Prof. Vivaldo Santos (portugueslinguadeheranca@yahoo.com).
2012, April 17-18: The Political Consequences of Economic Crisis: Crisis, Voting, and Protesting in Europe.
This two-day conference will focus on the consequences of the European economic and financial crisis on voting choices and protest behavior across a variety of countries, making use of recently available data from post-electoral surveys in Iceland, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, as well as other data sources on the Greek and Italian cases. The conference is a joint organization of the Department of Government and the BMW Center for German & European Studies of Georgetown University, supported through the Luso-American Foundation Visiting Professorship and the Prince of Asturias-Fundación Endesa Chair.
Confirmed participants:
António Costa Pinto (U Lisbon)
Eftichia Teperoglou (MZES, Mannheim and CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon)
Emmanouil Tsatsanis (U Athens and CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon)
Harold Clarke (U T Dallas)
Indrid Indridason (U California Riverside)
Irene Martín (U Autónoma Madrid)
John Karamichas (Queen’s U, Belfast)
Josep Colomer (Georgetown U)
Mariano Torcal (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Michael Marsh (Trinity, Dublin)
Paolo Bellucci (U Siena)
Pedro Magalhães (U Lisbon and Georgetown U)
Pedro Ramos Pinto (U Manchester)
For more informations, contact Josep Colomer (josep.colomer@gmail.com) or Pedro Magalhães (pcm43@georgetown.edu).
