During our bachelor, we have many opportunities to attend extra lectures, workshops and events. These are often hosted by very interesting people with connections to either Brazil specifically or at least some part of the Portuguese diaspora. This spring we had a lecture by Bo Skovsboell , who works for the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. One of Brazilian Studies’ 3 rd semester students, our very own Juul Van de Voort , contacted him to arrange an excursion to visit him at the Danish Translation Service in Brussels. In the end, a one-day internship at the European Commission was set up. This trip took place late November, and was attended by Juul, Tanja and yours truly.        Our trip began early Monday morning, which allowed us to spend the entire afternoon as tourists in the most politically important city in Europe. We stayed at an apartment rented through Airbnb, which was conveniently close to the European Parliament. Unfortunately, there w...

When Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho in 2012 came up with the idea to make a newsletter, Fernanda Gláucia worked hard to get it up and going. She gathered a group of students and together they established Brasil Aqui.   A lot of work was put by them to decide together everything about how the newsletter should be, by the smallest details.   It started as a published newsletter, online and in paper, at the end of every semester dealing with the wide variety of subjects and activities regarding Brazilian Studies at Aarhus University. They used this blog for promotion of the newsletter as well as other articles. Fernanda has the last 10 years dedicated herself to Brazilian Studies studying both her bachelor and masters’ degree here in Aarhus, and afterwards becoming the visiting associate professor on the studies. In 2016 her contract as lector came to an end and Fernanda is now searching for the next adventure. Her beautiful personalit...