We are delighted to invite you to the 4^th Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2024/2025), scheduled on 20 February 2025. The forum provides a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.

In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Professor Chen Zhi as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on “Confucius or Confucianism: Which Came First?“. Professor Chen is the President and Chair Professor of Beijing Normal University—Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), as well as a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities (HKAH). As an internationally renowned scholar and researcher on Chinese Studies, his research interests cover classical studies, early Chinese culture and history, historical writings, traditional Chinese poetry, excavated documents (particularly bronze inscriptions and bamboo/silk writings), and the intellectual history of the Ming and Qing dynasties.  He has served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of several prestigious academic journals and book series, in both Chinese and English, and has published extensively in top-tier journals, as well as with renowned publishers, in the UK, the U.S., Europe, Japan, and China. He is the author of The Shaping of Book of Songs: From Ritualization to Secularization. Prof. Chen was appointed the local convener of Chinese Language and Literature in the Panel of Humanities of RAE 2009-2014 in Hong Kong.

Details of the forum are as follows:

Speaker: Professor Chen Zhi

Topic: Confucius or Confucianism: Which Came First?

Date: 20 February 2025 (Thu)

Time: 14:00 – 15:30

Venue: E21A-G035 

Language: Mandarin (with onsite simultaneous interpretation into English)

*Light refreshments will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please register for the forum by 18 Feb 2025 (Tue) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bxCqPpFJy5t0LmS.