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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Trust, Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize’
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Trust, Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize’
Abstract: In this talk for students and faculty, Hernan Diaz reflects on the making of his fiction, including his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Trust, and the formal experiments that shape his exploration of power, finance, and narrative authority. He discusses how his work interrogates the myths of capitalism and the construction of historical truth, moving between intimate psychological portraits and vast economic systems. Situating these concerns within a global frame, Diaz considers how stories about money, speculation, and ambition resonate far beyond Wall Street, finding echoes in port cities and financial hubs around the world. Turning to Macao and China’s Greater Bay Area, he reflects on the region as a dynamic crossroads of trade, risk, and reinvention, where local histories intersect […]
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Amitav Ghosh Speaks About Writing, Macao, and Challenges of the Twenty First Century’
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Amitav Ghosh Speaks About Writing, Macao, and Challenges of the Twenty First Century’
Abstract: In this wide-ranging lecture, Amitav Ghosh explores the dynamic interplay between history and literature as intertwined modes of understanding our interconnected world. Drawing on his work across continents and centuries, he reflects on how storytelling recovers silenced pasts, illuminates patterns of migration and trade, and reveals the deep entanglements linking Asia, Africa, and Europe. He considers the Indian Ocean and South China Sea not as distant peripheries but as vibrant corridors of exchange that have long shaped modernity. Turning to China’s Greater Bay Area, he examines how this region embodies both historical continuities and new global aspirations, offering a living laboratory for thinking about urbanization, ecology, and cultural hybridity. Addressed to students and faculty, the talk invites listeners to […]
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Reflections on Personal Career Development in the Era of Human-AI Collaboration’
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Reflections on Personal Career Development in the Era of Human-AI Collaboration’
Abstract: This presentation offers a deeply personal yet broadly applicable reflection on how artificial intelligence is reshaping the landscape of professional career development— drawing from the speaker's own 14-year journey spanning physics research, academia, and cloud technology leadership. As AI Agents evolve from tools into collaborative partners, professionals across every discipline face a pivotal question: how do we redefine our value, adapt our skills, and chart a meaningful career path alongside intelligent systems? Through real-world observations and firsthand experience in deploying AI, deep learning, and high-performance computing solutions in higher education and scientific research, this talk examines three critical dimensions of career evolution in the AI era: cognitive repositioning—shifting from knowledge accumulation to judgment, creativity, and cross-domain synthesis; skill hybridization—building […]
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Modern Manhood – Imagining Contemporary Masculinity’
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Modern Manhood – Imagining Contemporary Masculinity’
Abstract: In this lecture, Carlos Andrés Gómez reflects on the evolution of his literary work and its sustained engagement with the theme of masculinity in contemporary society. Drawing on selected novels, essays, and short fiction, he explores how his characters grapple with vulnerability, expectation, intimacy, and power, challenging inherited models of manhood while probing the emotional costs of silence and pride. Gómez considers masculinity not as a fixed identity but as a shifting cultural script shaped by family, history, migration, and media. He examines how young men navigate friendship, ambition, and failure in rapidly changing social landscapes, and how literature can open space for more expansive, humane forms of self-understanding. Addressing university students and faculty in Macau, he reflects on […]
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Translation Studies, Industry, and Translator Training in the GenAI Era: Challenges and Directions’
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Translation Studies, Industry, and Translator Training in the GenAI Era: Challenges and Directions’
Abstract: The advent of Generative AI has fundamentally disrupted the translation landscape, compelling us to reimagine the future of translation research, industry practices, and translator education. This talk proposes a dual framework for understanding translation in the GenAI era, distinguishing between scholarship and craftsmanship as complementary yet distinct domains of inquiry and practice. On the scholarship front, I examine GenAI-Assisted Translation (Gen-Translation) through multiple lenses: linguistic, computational, and social. This scholarly approach provides the theoretical foundation for understanding how GenAI transforms not just translation processes, but our conceptualization of translation itself. The craftsmanship dimension addresses the practical pursuit, operating across micro and macro linguistic levels. This practical focus extends to various contemporary techniques, all aimed at identifying and rectifying translation […]
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FAH-DENG Best Essay in English Studies competition (Deadline extended to 15 April 2026)
To all students enrolled in UM English Department courses The Best Essay in English Studies competition for 2026 is now open. The Department looks forward to acknowledging student achievement by awarding a prize for the best essay in each year of the undergraduate degree, and in each of our three subject areas: Linguistics, Literary Studies, and Translation (for Translation this may be a translated passage). Please submit your most original, insightful, and/or best-researched work. The competition is open to all students enrolled in UM English Department courses. Each student may submit one piece of work, which should be an academic assignment in one of the Department’s courses in the current academic year (2025–26). If the work has already […]
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Lecture by UM Macao Distinguished Visiting Scholar: ‘How health influencers use algorithms to create discourses: distorting medical information for niche marketing groups’
Lecture by UM Macao Distinguished Visiting Scholar: ‘How health influencers use algorithms to create discourses: distorting medical information for niche marketing groups’
Abstract: Health professionals are concerned about how social media influencers, lacking professional training, have become leading players in the provision of health-related knowledge to the public. Such information can be, at best, misleading. Yet, as scholars have observed, there is still less good understanding of this form of influencer-created, health-related, content and why it is so successful. In this talk I look at some case studies from an ongoing project looking at how leading influencers on a Chinese social media platform, RedNote, provide information for young women about sexual health and STDs as part of their primary aim of marketing a probiotics product for which they are sponsored. I show how information is formulated in the first place, not on […]