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 ...
FAH professor appointed member and academic advisor of Association for the Studies of the History and Culture of Macao
Prof António Vasconcelos de Saldanha has been appointed member and an academic advisor of the prestigious Association for the Studies of the History and Culture of Macao Prof António Vasconcelos de Saldanha of the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau (UM), has be ...
UM professor receives Best Book Award from Urban History Association
Prof Wang Di’s book, a co-winner of a Best Book Award from the Urban History Association. Distinguished Professor Wang Di from the University of Macau’s (UM) Department of History recently received the Best Book in Non-North American History Award from the Urban History Association, for his book The ...
FAH scholar receives Imago Mundi Prize
Mario Cams receives the Imago Mundi Prize 2019 Mario Cams, an assistant professor from the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau (UM), received the Imago Mundi Prize 2019 at the International Conference for the History of Cartography in Amsterdam, the Netherlands ...
UM holds first forum on literature and history
Vice Rector Billy So chairs the forum The University of Macau (UM) recently held the First UM Forum on Literature and History. During the event, experts and scholars had an in-depth discussion on the interaction between traditional Chinese culture and new cultures and the relationships between Chines ...
UM Department of History professor wins Lu Liang Literature Award
Distinguished Professor Wang Di receives the Lu Liang Literature Award Wang Di, a distinguished professor from the University of Macau (UM) Department of History, recently received the Lu Liang Literature Award in the ‘Non-fiction Work of the Year Award’ category at the first Lu Liang Literature Seas ...
【MYUM Interview】Joshua Ehrlich: An Adventurous History Scholar
Joshua Ehrlich, an assistant professor in the Department of History, is passionate about his research. But despite his busy work schedule, he loves to travel to different cities and walk along old streets and lanes to look for historical monuments and feel the atmosphere of local cultures. During a t ...