Monthly Archives: May 2025

Limited Computer Access During New Student Orientation – June 2025

New Student orientation will take place at the Claire T. Carney Library over several days in June. Please note that this will limit access to our public computers on the following days:

6/9: Transfer Orientation

6/12: First-year Session I

6/13: First-year Session II

6/17-6/18: First-year Session III (overnight)

6/23-6/24: First-year Session IV (overnight)

6/26: First-year Session V

New students will have priority access to the library’s 1st floor and 2nd floor computers as part of their training on UMass Dartmouth systems. If you plan to visit the library during orientation, you are welcome to bring your own laptop or mobile device. UMass Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff may also borrow laptops at the first floor circulation desk. If you have any questions, please contact Library Administration.

If you have any questions, please contact Library Administration.

Announcing the Publication of PLCS 42: Mapping the Public Rituals of the Portuguese Empire

We are pleased to announce that Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies (PLCS) 42, “Mapping the Public Rituals of the Portuguese Empire,” is now available! You can find this issue as well as all back issues available for free on the journal’s website.

Present in all spaces of the Portuguese empire—which in the early modern period extended to four continents—public rituals offer a unique lens to compare cultural and political practices in different geographies, and to study their transmission and transformation on a global scale. This special issue gathers articles that analyze and compare public rituals—including royal acclamations, solemn entries, religious processions, and autos-da-fé—in various areas of the Portuguese empire, from Lisbon to Macau and Goa in Asia; Bahia and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil; and Luanda in Africa. With a focus on the spatial dimensions of ritual and the ethnic diversity of participants, the essays illuminate the various agendas, tensions, and dialogues on display in public rituals, and challenge simplistic readings of the relationship of public ritual to power and discipline, harmony and hierarchy.

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