Macao Humanities Forum – “Arts and Humanities Education — The Portugal Experience” by Prof. João Costa, the Minister of Education of Portugal
2023-04-21 @ 4:00 pm ~ 5:30 pm
We are very pleased to announce that the 3rd Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2022/2023) will be held on 21 April 2023. The forum aims to provide 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 João Costa deliver a lecture on the topic “Arts and Humanities Education in the 21st Century—The Portugal Experience”. Professor Costa is the Chair Professor of Linguistics at the NOVA University of Lisbon, and its former Director of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. His areas of research include formal linguistics, language acquisition, and educational linguistics. He is the editor of Portuguese Syntax: New Comparative Studies (Oxford University Press), the author of multiple books and over 100 articles and book chapters, and the editorial board member of diverse international linguistics journals. He has served as a member of the Scientific Board of the National Reading Plan, the National Commission of the International Institute for the Portuguese Language, and the Advisory Board of the Camões Institute. Professor Costa was the President of Portuguese Linguistics Association and President of the European Association of Linguistic Students (SOLE). Besides his teaching and research activities at his University, he has been a guest professor at various universities in Brazil, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, as well as Macau.
Details of the forum are as follows:
Speaker: Professor João Costa
Topic: Arts And Humanities Education in the 21st Century—The Portugal Experience
Abstract: please refer to the poster
Date: 21 April 2023 (Fri)
Time: 16:00 – 17:30*
Venue: On-Site (E21A-3118) / ZOOM
Language: English (with simultaneous interpretation into Mandarin)
*Light refreshments will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis.
Please register for the forum by 20 Apr 2023 (Thru) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eL1lyloFXPWYWnI
For more information, kindly refer to the poster.