Dean William Hogan, UMD College of Arts and Sciences [To be confirmed.]
Professor Victor K. Mendes, UMD Department of Portuguese
João Cezar de Castro Rocha, Professor of Comparative Trans-Atlantic Studies,
University of Manchester
Chancellor Jean F. MacCormack will bestow this honor on Gregory Rabassa, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Portuguese at City University of New York and the first translator of a selection of Antonio Vieira's works entitled Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish and Other Texts (forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth).
Professor Rabassa will address the audience and speak about the art of translation. All are invited to attend the ceremony.
Inês Pedrosa, Writer, Journalist and Director of Casa Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon
História do Futuro do Padre António Vieira"
Maria da Penha Campos Fernandes, Universidade do Minho
"António Vieira and the Building of a New Fifth Empire Theory"
Ana Valdez, Universidade de Lisboa
"History of the Future, or how António Vieira Relays the
Dream of Portugal to Eduardo Lourenço"
Carlos Veloso, New York University
"Prophecies from Vieira Park"
Christopher Larkosh, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Bela Feldman-Bianco, UNICAMP and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
"Lusophone, Lusotropical, Lusophile and Lusophobic:
Grim Lessons from the Past and Ecstatic Visions of the Future"
Cristiana Bastos, Instituto de Ciências Sociais/Universidade de Lisboa
"'Not quite white': Portuguese People in the Margins of Lusotropicalism,
the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Space, and Lusophony"
Miguel Vale de Almeida, ISCTE
"Quotas, Voters and Utopias"
Peter Fry, IFCS/UFRJ
"Tropicalist Mutantes: Dada and Kitsch Under Dictatorship"
Dário Borim, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
"Intersections of Literature and Popular Culture in Trans-American Poetics"
Charles Perrone, University of Florida
"New Media, New Popular Culture: From Pereirão to Venice Biennale"
Lídia Santos, City University of New York
Richard Zenith
"Philosophical Futures of Pessoa:
The Book of Disquiet and Theories of Consciousness"
Maureen Eckert, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
"Fernando Pessoa and the 'Shakespeare Problem'"
Mariana Gray de Castro, King's College, London
O Passado e o Presente"
Artur Teodoro de Matos, Universidade Católica de Lisboa e
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Stuart Davis, University of Minnesota
"Uma Diáspora Muda: Cartografias, Evocações, Afasias na Narrativa da Diáspora em Português"
Livia Apa, Università degli Studi di Napoli
"Reflexões Sobre o Futuro dos Estudos Luso-Afro-Brasileiros nos Estados Unidos ou Notas Sobre a Melancolia Temporal e Espacial dos Povos Lusófonos"
Alessandra M. Pires, Missouri State University
"The Dialectic of Resistance: Alfredo Bosi, Literary Critic"
Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University
"Colonia, culto y cultura: Reading Bosi from the Spanish-American Side"
Paul Firbas, Stony Brook University
"Reading the Other in Colony, Cult and Culture"
Phillip Rothwell, Rutgers University
