By Contributing Writer Nicole O’Connell  On Tuesday, October 8, Márcia Rego presented Portuguese Disturbed: The Contested Sovereignty of the Cape Verdean Language. The students, professors, and other UMass Dartmouth community members crowded into a LARTS conference room to hear Rego speak.  Rego, a cultural anthropologist professor at Duke University, was born in this region of New England, but moved to Brazil when she was young. … Continue reading Tensions of a language and identity 

By Contributing Writer Nicole O’Connell The Italian Film Series prepares to entertain audiences for another semester, and this time, the theme is horror!  If that theme sounds eerily familiar to you, it is because this is not the first time the film series has decided to scare its audiences.  “We actually had a horror theme in the spring semester of 2018,” says Rose Facchini, professor … Continue reading Film D’orrore !