Conference World Portuguese Language Day, Portuguese Language and Culture Day in the CPLP

The conference “World Portuguese Language Day and Portuguese Language and Culture Day in the CPLP” aims to highlight the central role of language in Portuguese-speaking higher education and in strengthening relations between CPLP countries.

It also seeks to value linguistic diversity, recognizing the richness of the mother tongues of African countries and Timor-Leste, and to encourage reflection on inclusive policies that preserve the linguistic heritage of communities while strengthening Portuguese as a language of cooperation, dialogue, and shared identity.

Programme

14:15 | Reception

14:30 | Opening Session

Speakers:

• José Bragança de Miranda | Rector of ULusófona
• Maria de Fátima Jardim | Executive Secretary of the CPLP

14:50 | Conference: The identity of the Portuguese language and the mother tongues of African countries, Brazil, and Timor-Leste

Speakers:

• José Domingos Pedro | Director-General of the National Languages Institute of Angola
• Sóstenes Rego | Mozambican linguist, researcher, and linguistic activist of Afro-black languages
• Filinto Elísio Correia e Silva | Cape Verdean poet, novelist, and columnist

Moderator:

• Isabel Babo | Vice-Rector for Internationalisation, Cooperation and Citizenship

15:40 | Round Table: Do we speak the same language and the same art?

Moderators:

• Carlos Pimenta | Theatre director, lecturer at ULusófona, and member of the Thematic Commission for the Promotion and Dissemination of the Portuguese Language
• Possidónio Cachapa | Writer, filmmaker, screenwriter, lecturer at ULusófona, and member of the Thematic Commission for the Promotion and Dissemination of the Portuguese Language

Guest Artists:

• Alberto Magassela | Actor; Mozambique
• Ângelo Torres | Actor; São Tomé and Príncipe
• Eugénia Mussa | Visual Artist; Mozambique
• Ivan Lima | Historian & Musicologist; Brazil
• Klemente Tsamba | Director of the Lusophonies Festival; Mozambique
• Luís Cardoso | Writer; Timor-Leste
• Tânia Pires Abrão | Curator and Director of FESTLIP - International Festival of Portuguese Language Arts; Brazil

17:10 | Musical Moment & Networking Snack