By: Marc Vincent Klitgaard 19 high school students chose to go to Aarhus University during a high school internship which took place all over Denmark, to hear about Brazilian Studies. It was 2 days of learning and hopefully remembering – if you click the link below you can see the program. Please notice that the table is in Danish. Skema for studiepraktik Brasilianske Studier 2013 At Thursday the students got their pronouncing tested because they should do a pronounciation of a well-knowned poem of famous Brazilian poet and writer Carlos Drummond.de Andrade (1902-1987). When Andrade wrote this poem he was living in Rio de Janeiro by Ipanema, and every morning he went for a walk to sit on a bench near the beaches, looking up on the mountains and remembering his home state (he moved to Rio de Janeiro to work, but was born in Minas Gerais). Author: Carlos Drummond de Andrade Title: No Meio do Caminho Year: 1967 Portuguese: No meio do caminho tinha uma pedra Tin...

Brazilian Studies has entered the month of November and you can already sense the winter will be arriving soon. The Brazilian Studies has just had its annual “Brazilian Days” with many workshops ranging from the Brazilian dance “Forró”, guitar-play and exciting lectures. A new semester with new students has begun at the University, but with the help from the Brazilian Studies new mentoring program the new students will be in safe hands. The Brazilian Studies is also going toward the end of this semester, before the exams will begin in December and January but until then the Brazilian Studies has a great Christmas party to celebrate in the beginning of December. Written by Daniel Schmidt

After the summer vacation Brazilian Studies is now ready to present the first event of the semester from the 23th to the 27 th of September. On Monday at 15.00 in “Nobelsalen” at Aarhus University the world renowned Brazilian author Miltoun Hatoum is coming and talking about his newest book “Cinzas do Norte” along with the Danish translator Tine Lykke Prado, who has translated it into Danish. Hatoums main subject in his book is the Amazonia area where he is born and he will together with Tine Lykke Prado be part of a round table discussion afterwards. Dr. Marcel Vejmelka from the University of Mainz will give a lecture about the amazon as a global stage at 14.00 Tuesday in building 1481 room 366. Wednesday will be about the Indian languages in the Brazilian Amazon, where professor in linguistic Peter Bakker from Aarhus University will give a lecture about this subject. The lecture begins at 16.00 and afterwards the documentary “The Grammar of Happiness” by the famous A...

Grupo de capoeira Ginga Mestre Agostinho i Århus, professor Renato Munaia

In this article I will be writing about my experiences on two islands in the states of Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. For more in-depth articles with links to the pictures of my travels, please click the links in this article. In the beginning of March, when I still was in Denmark, I didn’t fully understand I would be in Brazil within half a month. It is easy to dream yourself away to a life on the beach, bonfire in the night and perfect social conditions: the economy of Brazil grows and grows, but unfortunately you see Brazil from a polished surface. The experience I got with me from the university in Denmark has helped me with so many things – how to handle the culture chock and have the opportunity to understand my way around Brazil, because coming to Brazil from Denmark is to walk into a different world.  I came to Brazil in March; half a month after the Carnival had taken place. And when coming to Brazil for the first time you’d expect something completely different for what ...

The 5th of April the university year at the University of Brasília (UnB), where I am an exchange student this semester, began. As Brasília is the capital of Brazil and the home city of the Supreme Federal Court, the President and the Congress UnB had the possibility to invite one of their former students, president of the Supreme Federal Court, Joaquim Barbosa, to make a speech at the inauguration of the university year.  Before Barbosa’s speech, there were several speeches from the other deans of the university and there was also a short music session. However the biggest applause came when Chief Justice Barbosa arrived and people took pictures of him as if he was a celebrity. Barbosa expressed himself calmly while he talked about his time at UnB and prised the university for the events and conferences that they arranged. Besides that he talked about how the university now is more democratic and fair and said that interdisciplinary is very important in universit...

The 13th of May this year it was exactly 125 years since the "Lei Á urea" (The golden law) was signed by Princess Isabel in 1888. Slavery was thereby declared abolished in Brazil. Since I am currently living here I thought it would be a great experience to see how Brazil celebrates this day, but I ran into some obstacles along the way.  First of all, it was very difficult to even find an event. In my mind I had pictured a big parade but the only event I could find was at UERJ, the state university of Rio de Janeiro. Secondly it was even more difficult to find the precise location of the event when I arrived at the university. Neither the students nor the teachers had even heard about it. Finally, with a lot of help, I found it and to my disappointment there were only between 20-40 people attending.   The event consisted of a demonstration of an afro-Brazilian folk dance and a panel discussion about education, racism and affirmative action. Furthermor...