Brazilian Studies are soon coming to an end of this semester and we are all having many things to do. But one thing we all are looking forward to is the Christmas celebration next month where we all can enjoy the Christmas atmosphere, which some freshmen have stacked. You can already feel the winter is approaching and the mood is enjoyable, but us from the third semester are soon going to take an even bigger decision, the travel to Brazil. It will soon become a reality, but until then we can only dream about samba and cachaça. Written b y  Daniel Thorn Reuss Schmidt

In here the articles will be published as soon as they've been written. Wednesday, September 19, 2012   Re-Translating James Joyce's The Dubliners By Marc Vincent Klitgaard : The lecture was held on Thursday 19/09 – 2012. It was about re-translating a translated text, and for those who haven't Translation as a course on their current semester, or just those who have an interest in translation and re-translation, it was a golden opportunity to learn more about translation and what lies behind the translated text. We started off by hearing the most fundamental about translation, the three stages in witch we start with the word-for-word translation and end up at the third stage with the flawless text. We also learned, that the technology nowadays makes it easier to translate old text, such as Shakespeare. After a short break Vitor Amaral continued with the lecture, but this part of the lecture was  characterized by the work he was doing with tran...

Trading with Latin America On Tuesday the 2 nd of October we attended a series of presentations regarding five Latin American countries, including (of course) Brazil. These five presentations were all held by the leaders of each trade department and their specific embassy of the five countries. They informed the Danish companies which attended the seminar about the golden opportunities to export their products to Latin America – but also some of the challenges included. From Asia to Brazil Nicolai Prytz from “Consulado Geral da Dinamarca”, told us that Danish exporters have mainly had their focus on the Asian market, but because of the recent economical growth in Brazil, eyes are now turned west. This has resulted in a five-double-raise export to Brazil from 2003 to 2011. The major export areas are food, electronics, industrial machinery, pharmaceutical products and renewable energy. The last mentioned area will be a great future challenge for   Brazi...

 

As you can see, SambaMax got a lot of attention. A LOT! You can be as enthusiastic as you want to ;) Snapshot of the bride on which people were watching It is essential for Caipirinhas that there are ice. LOTS of ice! Small parade A small bateria

On the 7th September 1822 Brazil announced its”Independence Day”. As history tells us, Portugal reigned over Brazil and it was actually the King of Portugal (Dom Pedro I, nicknamed “the Liberator”) who declared in the ‘Grito do Ipiranga’: “By my blood, by my honor and by God: I will make Brazil free.” Now that is a man of his word. No need to tell that Brazilians are masters in celebrating. They are usually having big parades on the 7th.   September and this year is no exception. The parade counts this year 6321 people divided among 4664 military and 1657 civilians. It is starting with the passage of historic flags , followed by the first group to be the Ex-Combatants of the armed force followed by the ‘Marinha do Brasil’ (the Navy), the Army, the Airforce, the Military Police, the Salvamar (Coast Guard) and last but not least schools and civil institutions. All by all a powerful commemoration of a historic event. Written by  Marie-Julie de Meyere

The World of Jorge Amado/ Jorge Amado and the World  A day of literary and cultural reflections marking the  100th anniversary of Jorge Amado’s birth  The British Library Conference Centre - 8 June 2012  Writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University) Writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University), Mark Sabine (University of Nottingham) Anthropologist Roberto Damatta (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) Anthropologist Roberto Damatta (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro), Ana Maria Machado (Academia Brasileira de Letras ) and David Treece (King’s College London) Fernanda Gláucia Pinto (foreign lector at Aarhus University), Anthropologist Roberto Damatta ( Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) , Vinicius M. de Carvalho (lector at Aarhus University) Vinicius M. de Carvalho (lector at Aarhus University)/ Fernanda Gl...