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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “Australian Literature on Fire”
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “Australian Literature on Fire”
Abstract: Fire is a major determinant for life in Australia. The seasonal and spasmodic quality of Australian rain and the hot dry air masses that form in the central arid regions provide the conditions for bushfires in the dry months. Australian literature reflects the recurrence of fire in various ways, most obviously in providing narratives with their moment of extremity and climax. As a limit moment within the Australian settler imaginary, fire has always signified a certain terrifying terminus in its literary representations. But this quality has varied with time and Australian literature captures these qualitative changes. In the early settler literature, fire represented the terrible return of Australian strangeness, which had been violently pushed away by the settler […]
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FAH/DPHIL: UM DISTINGUISHED VISITING SCHOLAR LECTURE – “Investigating a Philosophical Method” by Prof. Claudine Verheggen, York University, Canada
FAH/DPHIL: UM DISTINGUISHED VISITING SCHOLAR LECTURE – “Investigating a Philosophical Method” by Prof. Claudine Verheggen, York University, Canada
Microsoft Teams: https://go.um.edu.mo/7mnk1eav Abstract Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical method of #2 is that of trying to make sense of a philosophical idea by trying to “make the idea real”, that is, to “describe or imagine a situation to which the philosophical idea in question truly applies” (Stroud 1983). I argue, with Barry Stroud, that the method of #2 can be used to rule out reductionist accounts of meaning, but, against Stroud, that it can also be used to rule out the possibility of both private and solitary languages. Moreover, constructive claims about meaning can be generated when the method is applied to the idea of a shared or social language. Bio Professor Claudine Verheggen has research and teaching interests […]
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ELC-ECAC: Pecha Kucha Competition
ELC-ECAC: Pecha Kucha Competition
Flex your creativity and presentation skills, and win cash prizes up to MOP1000! Using 20 slides with minimal text and just 20 seconds per slide, share the lessons you have learned. Scan the code to learn more about the topic, check the rules and register to compete. Be 1 of the 5 lucky finalists! Submit your entry before the deadline! ✰ Step up. Claim the spotlight. Live the moment. ✰ ★Entry Submission Deadline : 13 October 2025★ ★Competition : 22 October 2025 ; 19:00 at E4-G062★ Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to contact us at ECAC_ELC@um.edu.mo Best Regards, English Co-Curricular Activities Committee (ECAC) English Language Centre Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “The Uses of Aestheticism in Contemporary Literature”
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “The Uses of Aestheticism in Contemporary Literature”
Abstract: Over the past forty years literary studies have not been very kind to the idea of aesthetic autonomy. As our field moved away from its formalist roots in order to focus on literature’s social and ideological entanglements, it has also grown deeply suspicious of claims to aesthetic detachment in their many guises, from Kantian disinterestedness to Oscar Wilde’s celebration of the aesthetic as a sphere outside the reach of moral judgment, and further to the New Critical understanding of the literary text as a self-contained object. More often than not, such claims are seen as distracting or disingenuous, an expression of a certain kind of Western bourgeois habitus that aim to obfuscate the relationship between the aesthetic and the […]