In the Boston consular area, the Harvard European Studies Center will host a special event on April 25 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, with the support of the Consulate General of Portugal in Boston and the Camões Institute. To celebrate the anniversary, the director of the European Studies Center, Daniel Ziblatt, will lead a discussion with political scientist António Costa Pinto, economist Lúcio Vinhas de Souza and social sciences professor Daniela Melo, to assess the political and economic consequences of April 25, 1974 and what Portugal and other countries can learn from the Revolution. Also next Thursday, the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell is promoting the colloquium "Transition to Democracy in Portugal and Spain", with the support of the Consulate General of Portugal in Boston. The colloquium will explore the meaning of the democratic transitions in Portugal and Spain, following the authoritarian regimes of António de Oliveira Salazar and Francisco Franco. Academics from Portugal, Spain and the United States will focus on the lasting impact of this historical period, with the program ending with a screening of Maria de Medeiros' film "Captains of April". The following day, in the city of Cambridge, also in the US state of Massachusetts, the region's Portuguese-American community will gather for a dinner commemorating the 50 Years of April 25, organized by PAPS -- Portuguese American Post Graduate Society and the Consulate General of Portugal in Boston. The event will be attended by the consul general, Tiago Araújo, and is open to all Portuguese who wish to join the celebration. "We will have very diverse commemorations, with academic aspects and celebrations with the community," Tiago Araújo told Lusa. In New York, the Mission of Portugal to the United Nations (UN) will mark 50 years of freedom and democracy on Wednesday, in a special event with speeches by UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Portuguese Permanent Representative Ana Paula Zacarias. Based on the theme "Portugal 3D: Democracy, Decolonization, Development", the event will feature a discussion panel called "The impact of the Carnation Revolution on the world", with the presence of the ambassadors of Mozambique, Brazil, Spain and Timor-Leste. The celebration will also have two musical moments, with a Portuguese Guitar concert by Marta Pereira da Costa, and a performance of "Grândola, Vila Morena" by the young Portuguese artist Júlia Machado. In Washington, the Embassy of Portugal will commemorate the 50 years of April 25 with a reception at the official residence of the ambassador, Francisco Duarte Lopes, on Thursday. Over the past few weeks, the US capital has been the stage for several events commemorating the Carnation Revolution, such as the screening of the film "Letters to a Dictatorship" by Inês de Medeiros, or the concert by pianist and composer Júlio Resende, accompanied by Bruno Chaveiro on the Portuguese guitar, which also took place in New York and São Francisco, as part of the April 25 celebrations. Read Also: The spirit of the revolution and the beginnings of energy in the new exhibitions at MAAT (Portuguese version)