Professor de Jong was the first dean of the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications and a pioneer in Portuguese studies at BYU and in the United States.
All events are free and the public is welcome.
A BYU alumnus, Williams has also studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Music Academy of the West and the Royal College of Music in London. She and Welch, university organist and lecturer in music at Santa Clara University, have collaborated for a Temple Square Concert Series performance as well as a four-city tour of Asia and in recitals throughout California. On Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., a symposium and exhibit will bring together experts who will discuss the diverse aspects of Portuguese language and culture and their impact on world events, both past and present. Speakers will include Dean Van Gessel of the College of Humanities, who will discuss the Japanese reception of Portuguese explorers, and Donald B. Holsinger, director of the Kennedy Center for International Studies, who will speak on the Portuguese presence in Africa today. Another was that the disparate branches of the human family were brought together for the first time.