We are delighted to invite you to the 3rd Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2025/2026) scheduled on 4 February 2026. 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 Charles Sanft as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on “Land of Marvels: Twenty Poems about Dunhuang”. Professor Sanft is Professor of History at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, USA. Professor Sanft has published two monographs and numerous articles about the history and culture of premodern China. As a recipient of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he is Guest Professor in the Institute for Sinology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich during the 2025-2026 academic year.

Details of the forum are as below:

Speaker: Professor Charles Sanft

Topic: Land of Marvels: Twenty Poems about Dunhuang

Date: 4 February 2026 (Wed)

Time: 15:00 – 16:30

Venue: E21A-G049

Language: English (with onsite simultaneous interpretation into Mandarin)

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

Please register for the forum by 2 Feb 2026 (Mon) via https://umac.questionpro.com.au/t/ARuLQZR9pU.