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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A workshop proposed by a UM scholar has received a grant from Harvard-Yenching Institute An international workshop titled ‘The (Un)Making of China: A Frontier Approach’, jointly proposed by Associate Professor Yang Bin from the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Maca ...

Joshua Ehrlich, an assistant professor from the University of Macau (UM) Department of History, recently discovered three historically important letters in a London archive. The letters provide new evidence that in 18th century British India, politics and scholarship were intertwined. The author of t ...

A book written by Distinguished Professor Wang Di from the University of Macau (UM) Department of History, namely Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949, recently received the Academic Excellence Award from the Chinese Historians in the Un ...