The John Dos Passos Cultural Center in my family’s ancestral hometown in Ponta do Sol, Madeira (an autonomous region of Portugal) is serving its community with its new Digital Nomad initiative.

Congratulations to Onésimo Teotónio Almeida on winning the 2019 John Dos Passos Prize, administered by the autonomous region of Madeira. Story in Portuguese.

Traditionally, many Portuguese coming to the United States have settled in New England, in Massachusetts or Maine, along the coast.

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 31, 2018. Graduate students wishing to be considered for supplemental travel funding must submit a full paper by February 28, 2018.

With a heavy heart, I relate the passing of Maria do Carmo da Cunha Santos, founder of the Centro Cultural John Dos Passos in Madeira.