INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

MANUEL CÉLIO CONCEIÇÃO AT INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARABIC LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

CIAC researcher Manuel Célio Conceição attended the 5th edition of the International Festival of Arabic Language and Culture, in Milan. Under the theme “La Lessicografia araba, intreccio di lingue, culture e civiltà” [Arabic lexicography, an intertwining of languages, cultures and civilisations], the event took place between 17 and 19 of March 2022.

Integrated in the panel “Etymology and Study of Terminology”, Manuel Célio Conceição presented the communication “Terminologies in Portuguese: Arabic Ethnological Effects”, on the second day of the event.

The International Festival of Arabic Language and Culture is promoted by the Faculty of Foreign Language and Literature, the Arabic Language Research Centre and the Linguistic Service of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan). This edition has brought together academics, linguists, experts in lexicography and etymology, literary critics, historians, translators and poets from fourteen different countries (eight of which are Arabic), to mark the birth of the great dictionary of the Arabic language and to identify lexicography as a space for dialogue between cultures and languages.