Partnership between PUCRS and KUL, from Poland, was established in March this year
Photo: Matheus Gomes
On Monday, November 28th, a Polish entourage was welcomed by the Office for International Cooperation to consider the implementation of a Professorship or a Polish Language and Culture Center at PUCRS. Representatives from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and the Polish embassy gathered with PUCRS professors and administrators to discuss perspectives on exploring Polish culture and language through research and interchange opportunities.
PUCRS and KUL signed an agreement in March this year, when the dean of the Polish university, Miroslaw Kalinowski, met with the dean of PUCRS, Br. Evilázio Teixeira. This new visit included the presence of Research Facility for Centers outside of Poland director, Jacek Golebiowski; João Paulo II specialist, Mieczysla Ryba; Polish Culture specialist, Arkadiusz Stasiak; immigration files specialist, Tomasz Nowicki; Polish Embassy representative, Iga Jakubowska; linguist Janusz Bien; Poland’s honorary consul in Porto Alegre, Sérgio José Sechinski; and Father Zdzislaw Malczewks.
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The visitors met with PUCRS’s Language Arts undergraduate course professor Claudia Brescancini to discuss mobility of professors and students, determine how online and in-person Portuguese classes would be for Polish professors and talk about the development of the course on Brazilian literature in Poland and Polish literature in Brazil. Later, the Polish group also met with PUCRS’s Philosophy course coordinator Agemir Bavaresco, History course professor Marlise Meyer, Teology course professor Cássio Murilo Dias da Silva and academic Daniela de Lima Soares.
During the meeting, they discussed student and professor mobility opportunities, the inclusion of KUL in PUCRS’s Capes PrInt Program and the process of digitalization and filing of immigrants’ documents. Professor Marlise was able to share her research projects on German immigration, and they presented Delfos, Cultural and Memory Documentation Space and other files that exist in Rio Grande do Sul.
