São Paulo – On Friday (24), Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA) professor Liliane Faria Corrêa Pinto will give a lecture on the relation the Portuguese author Eça de Queiroz and Brazil’s emperor Dom Pedro II had with Egypt at the University of Porto in Portugal. Liliane teaches Humanities at UFMA and will participate in an open seminar at the Portuguese university, according to information published by the Brazilian university.
The lecture “Egypt between Eça de Queiroz and Dom Pedro II” will address Egypt in the 19th century, when author and diplomat Eça de Queiroz traveled to Egypt to report on the opening ceremonies of the Suez Canal and encountered a country with many social contradictions, a tangle of cultures. A couple of years after Eça de Queiroz, Dom Pedro II traveled to that country to learn about the remains of the ancient Egypt. He identified with the Egyptians of those times.
Liliane Corrêa researched the theme and went to places in Egypt where Dom Pedro II were (pictured above) as part of her post-doctoral studies at the University of Aswan in Egypt. She is currently studying post-doctorate in the University of Porto and to do so she has gone to places Eça de Queiroz visited. The idea is to compare the impressions of both travelers, according to Liliane.
A bachelor in history from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Liliane earned a master’s degree in economic history from the University of São Paulo (USP), and a doctoral degree in History, Politics, and Cultural assets from the Contemporary Brazilian History Research and Documentation Center (CPDOC) at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV).
The lecture is part of a seminar of the Contemporary History Master’s Degree program at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Porto (FLUP), which will be moderated by professor Jorge Fernandes Alves. In addition to Liliane, the Egyptian post-doctoral researcher at Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa in FLUP, Maged Elgebaly, will give the lecture “Comparative study between ‘Egypt’ by Eça de Queiroz and ‘Tahrir’ by Alexandra Lucas Coelho.”
Elgebaly will present a comparative study of Eça de Queiroz’ “Egypt” and the book “Tahrir: Days of the Revolution,” a journal written by the Portuguese journalist Alexandra Lucas Coelho at the Egyptian revolution of 2011, during the so-called Arab Spring. Elgebaly is the coordinating professor at the Portuguese Language Department at the University of Aswan and participates actively in the promotion of the Portuguese language around Egypt. He supervised Liliane’s research on Dom Pedro II in Egypt.
The event takes place from 3 to 5 pm at room 409 of the Faculty of Letters at University of Porto and admission is free.
Quick Facts
Seminar of the Contemporary History Master’s Degree
Friday, May 24, 2019, at 3pm
Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto – Room 409
Via Panorâmica s/n – Porto, Portugal
Free Admission
More information here
Translated by Guilherme Miranda