CPS Affiliated Professor Luísa Caldas (Architecture) Established MoU with the Municipality of Oeiras
In the context of this MoU and in cooperation with CPS, Prof. Caldas(link is external) and the Municipality of Oeiras will jointly conduct research in modular public housing construction, and the use of prefabricated timber solutions, and other prefabricated methods and techniques, particularly those suitable for earthquake prone regions.
Recent Publications
In 2025, Center for Portuguese Studies Director, Jeroen Dewulf, published the following two articles:
In volume 34 of the Colonial Latin American Review journal published by Routledge Dewulf published The captives of the Bruynvisch (1627): new insights into the origins and ladino identities of Manhattan’s first enslaved Africans.
In this article Dewulf discusses Manhattan’s first enslaved Africans were shaped by Luso-African life in São Tomé, where they developed ladino identities before arriving in 1627. These experiences influenced how they used Christianity, kinship, and land to build one of Manhattan’s earliest Black communities.
In volume 77 of University of Oregon’s journal of Comparative Literature Dewulf published On the Dissemination of Carolingian Literature and
Dramain the Former Portuguese Empire: A Comparative Analysis of African, Asian, and Latin AmericanVariants of the Matter of France.
Dewulf uses this article to engage with Carolingian stories of Charlemagne spread across Africa, Asia, and Latin America through Portugal’s empire and were reshaped by Indigenous and Creole communities rather than simply imposed from Europe. The article shows that local actors—especially laypeople, schoolmasters, and confraternities—played a central role in adapting these tales into enduring hybrid cultural traditions