The
Portuguese Studies Program (PSP) was established in 1994
with a signed agreement between the Fundação
Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD)
of Lisbon and International and Area Studies (IAS)
at UC Berkeley. Active since its inception in the University's
European studies program, it is now housed in the newly-configured
Institute of European Studies. The program's goals are various
and interlocking: to support intellectual work clarifying the
complicated and powerful role played by Portugal on the world
stage and in Europe, to promote the understanding of contemporary
social, economic, political and cultural developments within
Portuguese
borders, to foster collaboration between Portuguese and American
researchers in their work on various technical, economic, cultural
and environmental problems, to spotlight the crucial and complex
but often overlooked experience and contributions of the Portuguese-American
community, and to improve the Cal educational experience for
students of Portuguese heritage. To strengthen scientific,
academic and
cultural ties between the Berkeley campus, northern California
and Portugal, the PSP works with Portugal and its representatives
in the U.S, various California institutions of higher learning,
and a number of Portuguese-American institutions. It provides
grants to Cal professors for research involving Portugal or Portuguese
communities, organizes campus lectures, conferences and workshops
involving international scholars concerned with Portugal, offers
fellowships to doctoral students embarking on dissertations
focused
on Portugal, and administers scholarships and fellowships for
study at Cal to students of Portuguese descent. In 1998, the
collaboration
between the FLAD and the University was renewed for three years.
G. Mathias Kondolf
(Landscape Architecture)
Chair
Deolinda Adao
Program Coordinator
