Portuguese Language and Cultures Week at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

In the scope of The 500th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Portugal and Thailand, the Instituto Camões Lectureship and The Embassy of Portugal organize the Portuguese Language and Cultures Week in co-operation with The Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, aiming to promote the importance of Portuguese Language and the Cultures that use it to express themselves and to celebrate the recently created minor subject of Portuguese, in that Faculty. The initiative also counts on the colaboration of the Embassy of Brazil.-----------------------------------------------------------

Learning Commons of Maha Chakri Sirindorn building

The World of Portuguese Language - Exhibition

and

500Years book's display

and

DVDs and Cds available

(to discover Portuguese and Brazilian cinema and music)

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PROGRAMME

Monday, 22^nd August, 17:00 – Opening of the Portuguese Language and Cultures Week

Wednesday, 24^th August, 16:30 – 17:30 - Foyer of the building Maha ChakriSirindhorn

Portuguese and Brazilian sounds - Workshop of dance and music

Students will present and share songs, poems and dances

Friday 26^th August, 17:00 – 18:00

Talk “How did Portuguese Language influence your life?”

- Thai translators of Portuguese and Brazilian authors and ex-AFS students in Portugal and Brazil;

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Portuguese and Brazilian Authors translated in Thai language:

- ออล เดอะ เนมส์ (All the Names), José Saramago

- มรดกขุนนาง (O Mandarim), Eça de Queirós

- Shores, horizons, voyages selected poems, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen

- เมอนีน่า ดู มาร์ (A Menina do Mar), Sophia de Mello Breyner Anderson

- จักรวาลและดู้เย็น (Universos e Frigoríficos), Jacinto Lucas Pires

- ขุมทรัพย์สุดปลายฟ้า (O Alquimista), Paulo Coelho

- ตามรอยรัก (O Zahir), Paulo Coelho

- เมืองทดสอบบาป (O Diabo e a Senhora Prym) Paulo Coelho