UM students published on Project Macau History (PMH)
Amalia Huang Yuncen, one of UM’s first-year MPhil students in Macao Studies, recently published an essay on an understudied and marginalized group in Macao- Filipino immigrants. Based on an interview with Rodantes V. Quejano, the essay reviews major events— Jackie Chan’s visit in the nineties, the 19 ...
UM professor awarded 2022 National Rare Books Collation & Publication Grant
Professor Yang Bin, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau, has participated in the collection, collation and compilation of the Jiangxi Fuliang Sanyinwan Wangshi Wenshu江西浮梁三银碗汪氏文书 (The Wang Documents of the Sanyinwan Village, Fuliang, Jiangxi Province) that has be ...
UM Professor wins Prestigious Essay Award
Joshua Ehrlich, Assistant Professor of History (FAH), has been awarded the 2021 Library History Essay Award by the Library and Information History Group. The LIHG is a UK-based organization devoted to the history of information, libraries, and librarianship, and is a part of CILIP, a professional bod ...
To Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of UM: Remarkable Academic Achievements of the Department of History
Being a young member of UM, the Department of History has paid a glorious tribute to the 40th anniversary of UM by its remarkable academic achievements in the year of 2021. In the past year, staff of the Department have cultivated deeply in different fields and achieved a great deal including publish ...
Prof Yang Bin discovered 18th Century Long Scroll on Macao Landscape
Cultural Review (Chinese Version) in its recent issue highlights the paper by Professor Yang Bin at the Department of History, University of Macau on a long scroll on Macao landscape dated the Qianlong Reign (1736-1796). Currently in Museum of the National University of Singapore, Singapore, this scr ...
Prof Yang Bin’s book listed among top ten in 2021
Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History The Chinese version of Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History, written by Prof Yang Bin in the University of Macau (UM) Department of History and published by the Social Sciences Academic Press (China), has been selected as one of the top ten ...
UM completes digital humanities project QingMaps.org
QingMaps The Department of History of the University of Macau (UM) has successfully completed the Digital Humanities Project www.QingMaps.org. The project consists of three enormous maps produced during the Qing dynasty and enables searches, analyses and annotations of approximately 70,000 place name ...
UM scholar receives prestigious J. Worth Estes Prize for her study in the history of pharmacology
Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros, an assistant professor in the Department of History, University of Macau, was named recipient of the 2021 J. Worth Estes Prize at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine. The award is presented annually to the author of the best paper in ...
UM History Students Publish Group Projects on ThingsThatTalk.net
Students from the Department of History of UM have contributed to ThingsThatTalk.net, an interdisciplinary digital humanities platform that explores the lives of objects. The platform facilitates storytelling by giving authors the basic visual tools they need to effectively narrate an object in all i ...
DHIST held a workshop entitled “Worldviews Displaced: Maps and Mapping between Western Europe and East Asia (16th & 17th centuries)” online on 27 & 28 August 2020
The Department of History held an online workshop entitled “Worldviews Displaced: Maps and Mapping between Western Europe and East Asia (16th & 17th centuries)” on August 27 & 28. The workshop brought together a diverse group of senior and junior scholars from East Asia, Europe, and North Ame ...