We are delighted to invite you to the 5th Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2024/2025) scheduled on 10 March 2025. The forum provides a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their academic and research outcomes with FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.

In the upcoming forum, we are honored to have Professor Zhang Longxi as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on “Meaning Beyond the Text and Allegorical Interpretation”. Professor Zhang is the Li De Chair Professor at the Yenching Academy of Peking University and the Xiaoxiang Chair Professor of Comparative Literature at Hunan Normal University. He received his MA in English from Peking University (1981) and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University (1989). He has taught at Peking University, Harvard University, the University of California, Riverside, and the City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Zhang has been an elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities since 2009 and of Academia Europaea since 2013, in addition to serving as President of the International Comparative Literature Association in 2016-2019. Furthermore, Prof. Zhang is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Literature, and Advisory Editor of New Literary History, having published more than 20 books and hundreds of articles in both English and Chinese on the East-West comparative studies.

Details of the forum are as below:

Speaker: Professor Zhang Longxi

Topic: Meaning Beyond the Text and Allegorical Interpretation

Date: 10 March 2025 (Mon)

Time: 09:30 – 11:00

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 6 Mar 2025 (Thu) via https://go.um.edu.mo/qaemspma.