Monthly Archives: June 2021

Announcing the Publication of PLCS 33: Ocean Crossings

We are pleased to announce that Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies (PLCS) 33, “Ocean Crossings,” is now available! You can find this issue as well as all back issues available for free on the journal’s website.

The theme of the seas has long been a central topic in scholarship on the Lusophone world, but more recent research has invested ocean crossings with new relevance and urgency. Instead of focusing on the stereotypical ocean crossings of the Portuguese maritime expansion, this special issue brings together a diversity of approaches focused on the “less obvious” sea mobilities within the Lusophone world, those associated with labor, brutality, precariousness, and indentured migration. Included in this volume are discussions of racialization, migration, colonialism, and labor.

The Center for Portuguese Studies and Cultures ‘s Tagus Press publishes its electronic version of PLCS on the library’s journal hosting platform.

Claire T. Carney Library Building Access

UPDATE: Due to a planned water shutdown, the library building will be closed on July 6th. It will re-open to the public on Wednesday, July 7th.

Beginning Tuesday, July 6th, the library will re-open to the public! UMass Pass ID cards will no longer be needed for admittance. Visitors may enter the building M-F, 7:30 am to 6 pm (summer hours). We look forward to seeing everyone again!

South Reading Room - Just Before the Opening - Sept 2012

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