Project researchers participate in World Portuguese Language Day activities

In 2019, the 40th session of UNESCO’s General Conference decided to proclaim 5 May of each year as “World Portuguese Language Day”. The choice of the day is linked to the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), officially established in 2009, o celebrate the Portuguese language and Lusophone cultures.

Check the schedule for May 5, 2021:

World Portuguese Language Day Seminar, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães. Organization: Guimarães City Council, University of Minho and Instituto Camões. From 9am (GMT + 1, Portugal)

Moisés de Lemos Martins was invited to the panel Language as a living heritage (coordination: Vítor Ramalho – UCCLA), at 3pm.

  • O papel das organizações da Sociedade Civil, Nazim Ahmad – Fundação Aga Khan
  • O Museu da Língua de S. Paulo – Brasil – Secretário de Estado da Economia Criativa do Estado de São Paulo Diretora do Museu da Língua de São Paulo
  • O Museu Virtual da Lusofonia da Universidade do Minho – Moisés Martins (Universidade do Minho)

Debate Cycle “Promotion and Dissemination of the Portuguese Language: Global Strategies and National Policies”. Organization Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries. Formal sitting at 10 am followed by the Panel (GMT + 1, Portugal).

Sheila Khan was invited to the panel: Portuguese, language of culture, science and innovation.

Opening formal sitting: Francisco Ribeiro Telles, Secretário Executivo da CPLP, Eurico Monteiro, Presidência cabo-verdiana em exercício da CPLP, Delivery of the Fernão Mendes Pinto Prize (intervention by AULP and the winner), Delivery of the UCCLA Prize (intervention by the UCCLA Secretary-General and the winner), and Music moment, with Angolan singer Paulo Flores.

  • Panel «Português, língua de cultura, ciência e inovação» Coordination: João Ima-Panzo, Diretor de Ação Cultural e Língua Portuguesa
  • António Sampaio da Nóvoa, Embaixador de Portugal junto da UNESCO
  • Amélia Dalomba, escritora angolana
  • Marco Lucchesi, Presidente da Academia Brasileira de Letras
  • José Luís Hopffer Almada, jurista, poeta e ensaísta cabo-verdiano
  • Sheila Khan, Profª Universitária/investigadora moçambicana

The Portuguese language in Astronomy – International Portuguese language day. Organization: PLOAD, Portuguese Language Office of Astronomy for Development/Grupo Lusófono de Astronomia para o Desenvolvimento, established by the International Astronomical Union and its Development Astronomy Office. (GMT + 1, Portugal). Coordination: Alan Brito, Gustavo Rojas e Sara Anjos. Live streaming via Facebook on the PLOAD page:  https://www.facebook.com/PLOAD.IAU

Vítor de Sousa is the guest speaker : “Identidades transnacionais e transculturais. Pós-colonialidade, lusofonias e interculturalidade. O caso do Museu Virtual da Lusofonia. O português como língua de ciência”, in the panel, at 2pm.

  • Hélio Rocha, presidente da Sociedade Astronómica Brasileira e Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
  • Eliana Inge Pritsch, professora da UNISINOS, doutorada em Literatura Brasileira, Literatura Portuguesa e Literaturas Luso-Africanas, pela UFRGS;
  • Paulino Lima Fortes, Universidade de Cabo Verde
  • Teresa Manjate, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Moçambique
  • Vítor Sousa – investigador CECS, Projeto Cultures Past&Present e Museu Virtual da Lusofonia.

The II International Conference on Culture and Society will be held online

The II International Conference on Culture and Society – What literacy (s) for Economic and Social Justice? will be held on May 27 and 28, 2021, through the Zoom platform.

Researchers on the Cultures Past & Present Martins Mapera, FCSH / Universidade Zambeze and Moisés de Lemos Martins, CECS / Universidade do Minho, are the keynote speakers of the first day.

The Conference is a joint realization of CHAM – Humanities Center / NOVA FCSH-UAc; CIJES – Center for Legal, Economic and Social Research/Zambezi University, Mozambique; Center for Multidisciplinary Studies (CEM) Eduardo Augusto Kambwa of the Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of Luanda (ISCED-Luanda); Lev’Arte Literary and Artistic Movement, ISCTAC, Alberto Chipande Higher Institute of Sciences and Technologies, Mozambique, Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS/UM) and Cultures Past &Present Project.