About 115 students joined the School of Humanities activity
Professor Klering and exchange students
Chinese, Mexican, Korean and Angolan exchange students joined the 3rd Colloquium for Academic Mobility students: Cultural pluralism and interreligious life, on Jun 14. The event, which was organized by the Nucleus for Religious Culture, professor José Klering, and by the Academic Mobility department, fostered the discussion and information exchange on cultural and religious elements of the different countries, in view of the participants’ testimonials. The activity is part of the course in Humanism and Religious Culture and brought together 115 students from different programs.
The testimonials were presented by undergraduate students Andrea Mena Figueroa, from Universidad de Celaya (Mexico), a Production Engineering student who is exchanging at PUCRS this semester; Kim Jieun, an Economics major who is exchanging from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea); and Lema Luquengo, from ISPETC (Angola), who arrived in 2016/2 and is expected to leave in 2017/2. As well as the aforementioned students, Liu Luoyuan, who came from China to work on her Master’s from 2016/1 to 2018/1.
Professor Klering went on to say that this is an opportunity to bring a larger number of students, from different programs and classes, together with international students, thus facilitating the process of internationalization. “It may also encourage other students to go on an exchange program overseas. Besides, the interaction between various and distinct cultural and religious lives is an opportunity to learn more and an invitation to reflect upon one’s own convictions and practices, as well as an exercise of tolerance and interaction, towards a culture of peace.”
