1st UFRN Hebrew Language and Culture Meeting

The department of Modern Foreign Languages ​​and Literature, of the Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts at UFRN, will hold the “I Meeting of Hebrew Language and Culture at UFRN” on the 4th and 5th of July. The event takes place in Auditorium “B” at CCHLA, starting at 9 am and registration takes place on site.
The meeting aims to introduce the history and development of the Hebrew language and classical Hebrew texts to the general public, present aspects of Jewish history and culture that are relevant to contemporary times and encourage future studies on the language and culture within the university.
Programming
 
4th of July
 
09:00 – 09:30 – Accreditation;
09:30 – 10:00 – Opening table;
10:00 – 11:30 – Hebrew and the Bible – Prof. Dr. Marcos Tindo;
14:00 – 15:30 – Remains of Ladino in the Speech of the Brazilian Northeast – Prof. Cleudo Benarez; Freire
15:45 – 17:15 – Musical presentation.
 
July 5th
 
10:00 – 11:30 – Jewish identity, memory and forgetting: the question of the inquisition in the northeast – Prof. Dr. Pablo Capistrano;
14:00 – 15:30 – The State of Israel – Prof. Me. Samuel Max Gabbay;
16:00 – 17:30 – Marranism, return and Jewish identity: reflections – Prof. Dr. Thadeu de Sousa Brandão;
17:30 – 18:00 – Closing.