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Language and Fraternity: Chiara Lubich’s contribution

Sep 25, 2024

From 12 to 13 August, the 2nd Seminar of the Linguistics, Philology and Literature Group of the Abba School (1) was held in Recife - Brazil, entitled ‘Language and Fraternity: Chiara Lubich’s contribution’.

The Seminar, in its second edition after the first one held in 2017 at the Federal University of Paraiba in Joao Pessoa, presented 15 academic papers produced by researchers from six universities, around the Chiara Lubich Chair of Fraternity and Humanism at the Catholic University of Pernambuco (Unicap). The seminar comprised of two days of presentations and dialogue, introduced by a warm greeting from Vice-Rector Prof. Delmar Araújo Cardoso, and followed by live streaming to an audience of about 350 people.

The event, which was organized with the support of the Chiara Lubich Centre, was held mainly in Portuguese and was particularly appreciated for its openness to an international dimension, for the consistent and qualified contribution of the speakers, for the interdisciplinary perspective that brought together papers around the theme of language, not just in the field of linguistics, but also in the fields of law, pedagogy, communication, sociology and architecture.

What emerged, in extreme synthesis, was how a language inspired by love, of which Chiara Lubich was an effective model, can contribute to building a world of peace and fraternity.

Anna Maria Rossi

(1) The Abba School is a Centre of life and study desired and founded by Chiara Lubich in 1990. It is composed of members of the Focolare Movement, united in the name of Jesus and experts in various disciplines, whose aim is to draw out and elaborate the doctrine contained in the charism of unity.

Links to the 2nd Seminar on Linguistics, Philology and Literature:

12/08/24 – Morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7bZbiZz_T4
12/08/24 – Afternoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R65O526wQCE

13/08/24 – Morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTnP2OF87xY
13/08/24 – Afternoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGtpHakqrvs

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