CASA DO BRASIL (Brazil Cultural Centre operating under the auspices of the main University in Cluj, dounded in 1581), in partnership with the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography (manager Tudor Sălăgean), invites you to meet Daniel Perdigão, high representative of the Portuguese Camões Institute in Romania. Erudite anthropologist and impeccable speaker of the Romanian language, Mr. Perdigão is one of the main Portuguese experts in the field of Luso-Romanian relationships. His PhD dissertation, presented at the University of Bucharest, is focused on the connections between Mateiu Caragiale’s personality and work and the first ambassador of Portugal in Romania, Martinho de Brederode.
We have invited Daniel Perdigão in Cluj to tell us with his unmistakable narrative charm about the way the great emerging power Brazil is seen from the perspective of the Old Continent. The lecture will be focused on the idea of the Discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese people in the late 15th century and will be accompanied documentary by an exhibition dedicated to Pedro Álvares Cabral and Pêro Vaz de Caminha. These two explorers were exponential personalities of the process by which the Portuguese people have earned the fame of descobridores (= discoverers), as a Lusitanian pendant at the action made by Hispanic neighbours on the American continent in the position of conquistadores (= conquerors). The moderator Virgil Mihaiu, honorary director of Casa do Basil and of the Latin-American Studies Library in Cluj, would guide the discussion also to the interesting aspects related to the Romanian-Luso-Brazilian historical and cultural relations
According to the information on the poster, the soiree will take place on 25th of March 2016 in Reduta Hall of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography (on Memorandum Street no. 21 in Cluj), starting at 5 p.m.