Two essential figures in the history of science in Portugal, Orlando Ribeiro and Manuel Viegas Guerreiro, will be evoked on Saturday, the 25th, at 16 pm, at Leya no Pátio bookshop, in Faro, under the motto “Experiences from Africa, Field Notebooks”.
Orlando Ribeiro is considered the renovator of Geography in Portugal in the XNUMXth century, and the Portuguese geographer with the broadest international projection.
His vast work, however, produced alongside his long and intense career as a professor and university researcher, encompasses much more than scientific advances in geography, and reveals a diversity of interests and interventions that draw an unusual intellectual geography.
Manuel Viegas Guerreiro was born in Querença, municipality of Loulé, and his extensive activity as a professor and researcher in areas as diverse as Ethnography, Anthropology, History, Literature, Geography, has produced a rich and diverse work, which includes numerous initiatives, such as , for example, the creation of the Free General Studies and the Center for Portuguese Popular Traditions, the publication of works with a pedagogical-didactic concern, or the work of collecting oral literature from different regions.
The session will be led by Maciel Morais Santos, from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (on the “Caderno de Campo – Guiné 1947”, by Orlando Ribeiro), and by Luís Guerreiro, president of the Manuel Viegas Guerreiro Foundation (about the new volume from the Experiences of Africa collection, in press: “Caderno de Campo by Manuel Viegas Guerreiro – 1957”).
The organization is by Leya no Pátio, the Center for African Studies of the University of Porto, and the Manuel Viegas Guerreiro Foundation, Querença. Admission is free.
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