As part of the colloquium, the University will be bestowing a Doctorate in Humane Letters Honoris Causa upon Professor Gregory Rabassa on Friday, 2 May 2008 at 11:30 AM. The ceremony will take place in the Woodland Commons.

Gregory Rabassa, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Portuguese at City University of New York, is the translator of over 40 novels, among which masterpieces of the greatest literary figures of Latin America, including Machado de Assis, Miguel Ángel Asturias, the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1967, and Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1982. Rabassa has also translated the Spanish novelists Juan Goytisolo and Juan Benet, the the Portuguese novelists António Lobo Antunes, Mário de Carvalho and João de Melo, the latter being the foremost Azorean writer today.

All are welcome to join the UMass Dartmouth community in honoring Professor Rabassa for his extraordinary contributions and service to our field. To read more about Rabassa, please click here. For more information on the honorary degree ceremony, please contact Gina M. Reis.

A collection of posters commissioned by the Instituto Camões on the life and work of Antonio Vieira will be on display in the Lobby Area of the Woodland Commons. All are invited to visit the exhibition on Friday and Saturday, 2-3 May 2008, between 9 AM and 6 PM.

The organizers would like to thank the Instituto Camões for making these posters available and the Consulate of Portugal in New Bedford, MA for facilitating the exhibition.