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Duarte Pinheiro and Ana Boléo Spring 2026

Duarte Pinheiro is a Portuguese language educator affiliated with Camões, I.P., and serves as the Berkeley representative for this collaboration. His work connects Portuguese language teaching and cultural exchange with opportunities for collaboration between educators in Portugal and California.

In Spring 2026, Pinheiro brought Ana Boléo to UC Berkeley to lead the annual Portuguese...

Sofia Berto Villas-Boas and Pedro Vicente Fall 2025

Sofia Berto Villas-Boas is the Class of 1934 Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor in Agricultural Economics and Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at U C Berkeley. Born in Portugal in 1971 she received her Ph.D. in Economics from U. C. Berkeley in May 2002. Her research interests include industrial organization, consumer behavior, food...

David Oppenheimer and Nausica Palazzo Fall 2025

David B. Oppenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Law.

He serves as the Faculty Co-Director of the Pro Bono Program, and the Director of the ...

Jeremy Magruder and Catia Batista Fall 2025

Jeremy Magruder is a development economist whose research investigates agriculture, labor markets, social networks, and public policy in low-income countries. Magruder’s work integrates field experiments, econometrics, and applied microeconomics to evaluate interventions designed to increase productivity, improve access to jobs, and reduce poverty. His research contributes to...

Jhonni Carr and Professor Thais França Spring 2026

Dr. Jhonni Carr holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Specializing in Spanish Sociolinguistics, she investigates language access and the power dynamics of displayed languages in the public space of California, Mexico, and Brazil. She uses...

Thais França | Language and Colonial Legacies in Portuguese Higher Education: The Experiences of Brazilian and African Portuguese-Speaking Students

April 2, 2026

On 2 April 2026, the Center for Portuguese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley welcomed Thais França, Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology at the University Institute of Lisbon and Visiting Professor in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University, for a guest lecture in Spanish 165: Spanish in the United States and Spanish in Contact with Other...