The International and Institutional Affairs Office (DRII in Portuguese) of Feevale University will host international and national professors. The teachers will be in the institution as lecturers in the Journey of Studies - Fiction of Machado de Assis: poetic system and context that takes place on August 9th and 10th. At the meeting, DRII will receive Paul Dixon from Purdue University; and Kenneth David Jackson from Yale University, United States; Antônio Marcos Vieira Sanseverino, from the University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Atílio Bergamini Junior, from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC); and Lúcia Granja, from UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista). The reception will be held next Friday, 10th, at the Rectory Auditorium, in the Lilac building, 4th floor, Campus II of Feevale University (ERS-239, 2755, Novo Hamburgo), at 9 a.m.

The Journey of Studies is related to the activities of the research group Fiction of Machado de Assis: poetic system and context, coordinated by the professors Juracy Ignez Assmann Saraiva, coordinator of the Graduate Degree Program in Cultural Expressions and Processes of Feevale University and Regina Zilberman, professor of the Graduate Degree Program in Languages of UFRGS. The research group is registered in the Directory of Research Groups of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The event, which is aimed at academics and professionals of History, Literature, Pedagogy, Arts, Communication, Fashion, Gastronomy, among others, will take place from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday and from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday at Espaço Cosmos, in the Red building, Campus II of the institution. For registrations, the participant should inform full name and institution by the e-mail pgprocessos@feevale.br.