Portuguese & Lusophone World Lecture Series: 50th Anniversary of the Carnation Revolution

Join the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 6:00 PM for a special program commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. Duncan Simpson, Ph.D., will lecture on the Portuguese Society and Salazar’s Political Police (PIDE) Before and After the Revolution of April 25, 1974. A panel discussion with members of the local Portuguese community will follow this. A light reception will follow at 7:00 PM. Duncan Simpson is a FLAD Visiting Professor in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University and a research fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Simpson gained his PhD at King's College London. His doctoral thesis examined the relations between the Catholic Church and the Salazar dictatorship. He authorizes two books and numerous book chapters and articles published in Britain, France, Brazil, and Portugal. As a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon from 2019 to 2021, he completed a history of the Salazarist political police “from below,” combining oral history methodologies, opinion surveying, and archival research. In 2022, he was awarded an Individual Research Grant by Portugal’s national academic funding agency (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia). He is currently working on public letter-writing in Salazar´s Portugal between 1933 and 1974, focusing on the operation of dictatorial power at the micro level and the processes of clientelism. Doors open at 5:30 PM, and the program starts promptly at 6:00 PM in the Cook Memorial Theater. A light cocktail reception will follow in the Jacobs Family Gallery from 7:00 to 8:00 PM. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies of Brown University with support from FLAD - Luso-American Foundation of Lisbon.

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