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[Deadline Postponed to 19/11] Short Video Shooting Contest of Higher Education Institutions in Macao
[Deadline Postponed to 19/11] Short Video Shooting Contest of Higher Education Institutions in Macao
"Paixão" has many meanings in Portuguese: it can be the interest of something, the attraction of someone; it is love, desire, even resentment and pain; it is a kind of strong feeling. How would you interpret this word? How do you express this feeling and impulse? The purpose of this contest is to encourage undergraduate and postgraduate students in Macau to express their understanding of "Paixão" in the form of short video shooting in five minutes. Please refer to the contest information below: Eligibility: Undergraduate and postgraduate students of the higher education institutions in Macau Student can either participate as an individual or in a group of 3 members or less Each contestant or group can only submit one application Video […]
Portuguese Legal Translation: A Procedural Approach Intensive Course
Portuguese Legal Translation: a Procedural Approach Intensive Course Organizational units: Portuguese Institute of the Orient (IPOR) & Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre (CPC) Period: October 11th to November 8th 2021 (20 hours) Schedule: Every Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 18:15 to 19:45 at IPOR (the last lesson will end at 20:15) Registration: IPOR reception counter (10:00-18:30) Admission requirement: Translators and Interpreters dealing with legal Portuguese language or anyone with an interest in legal Portuguese language with a B1/B2 level of Portuguese as a Foreign Language Seats limited to 15, on a first-come-first-served basis. Please complete the registration and pay the deposit to IPOR. Courses will be offered if the number of applicants reaches 10 or more. Your seat will […]
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FAH-DPORT-CIELA: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE LUSOPHONE INDIAN OCEAN
FAH-DPORT-CIELA: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE LUSOPHONE INDIAN OCEAN
The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) is pleased to invite all those interested to the Webinar "ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE LUSOPHONE INDIAN OCEAN ", being held on November 11, 2021, 6:30pm, via Zoom. This workshop discusses multiple ethnographic explorations on the Lusophone Indian Ocean. Geographically and culturally connecting the Indian Ocean worlds with the Asia Pacific region, from Macau and Timor to Mozambique and East Africa, the Portuguese presence across Africa and Asia has left significant cultural heritages and a diversity of archival traces. This workshop intends to introduce the participants to the lusophone Indian Ocean, a conceptual frame here explored navigating across a plurality of materialities and testimonies. Following the 3rd speaker’s presentation, a Q&A session with attending online […]
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FAH-DPORT-CIELA: Maria Valéria Rezende’s Literature. An interview with the author
FAH-DPORT-CIELA: Maria Valéria Rezende’s Literature. An interview with the author
The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) is pleased to invite all those interested to the Webinar "Maria Valéria Rezende’s Literature. An interview with the author", being held on November 10, 2021, 8:00pm, via Zoom. Maria Valéria Rezende writes poetry and juvenile literature. She is also a translator. In 2020, her novel “Carta à rainha louca” (Ed. Companhia das Letras) won third place at the Oceans Award and among the finalists for the Jabuti Award. In 2017, the novel “Outros Cantos” (Ed. Alfaguara) won the Casa de las Américas Prize (Cuba), the São Paulo Literature Prize and third place in the Jabuti Prize. In 2015, “Quarenta Dias” (Ed. Alfaguara) earned her the Jabuti awards for best fiction novel and book […]
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FAH-DPORT-CIELA: Ultramarine blue. Re-imagining the empire through the analysis of (anti-)colonial projections in cinema
The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) is pleased to invite all those interested to the Webinar "Ultramarine blue. Re-imagining the empire through the analysis of (anti-)colonial projections in cinema", by Prof. Maria do Carmo Piçarra, being held on November 17 & 24, and December 01 & 09, 2021, at 6:30pm, via Zoom at "Casa Garden", Orient Foundation. Seminar Syllabus The ‘Estado Novo’ used cinema to impose, internally and externally, the image of a pluricontinental and multiracial country. Many ideas propagated were never questioned after the reestablishment of democracy and after the independence of Portuguese-speaking countries. This seminar, structured into four two-hour sessions, will reveal evidence of the (im)possibility of an alternative look to that of propaganda […]
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FAH-DPORT-CIELA: Workshop on Oral Expression of Poetry
The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) is pleased to invite all those interested to the Workshop on Oral Expression of Poetry, by Carlos Nicolau Antunes, being held on November 25 & 29, and December 02 & 06, 2021, at 6:00pm, via Zoom. The overall contents which will be presented and worked on throughout the 4 sessions of this workshop include: fundamentals of elocution, articulation and diction; sound and musicality in poetry and its conscious use; words of value, breathing and rhythmic cadence; relationship between word, imagination and emotion; written Poetry Styles and Poetic Expression Styles. Each participant will have the opportunity to orally work on a short poem of their choice (no larger than a sonnet or equivalent), communicating […]
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FAH-DPORT: 19.ª EDIÇÃO DO CONCURSO DE ELOQUÊNCIA EM LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA PARA ESTUDANTES UNIVERSITÁRIOS DE MACAU
FAH-DPORT: 19.ª EDIÇÃO DO CONCURSO DE ELOQUÊNCIA EM LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA PARA ESTUDANTES UNIVERSITÁRIOS DE MACAU
19.ª EDIÇÃO DO CONCURSO DE ELOQUÊNCIA EM LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA PARA ESTUDANTES UNIVERSITÁRIOS DE MACAU 30 de novembro de 2021 Em 2021, o concurso realiza-se no dia 30 de Novembro de 2021, entre as 10:00 horas e as 12:30 horas, no auditório do Centro de Atividades Estudantis (E31) da Universidade de Macau. O tema do concurso é MUDAM-SE OS TEMPOS, MUDAM-SE AS VONTADES. Os textos a concurso deverão ser carregados até às 17:00 horas do dia 26 de Novembro de 2021 em https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpCdP3sixhrTUl8 O ensaio geral do Concurso decorrerá no dia 29 de Novembro de 2021, entre as 18h00 e as 20h00. Contacto: portuguese@um.edu.mo O Regulamento do Concurso encontra-se AQUI.
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FAH-DPORT: DPORT Lecture series 1 – FALL 2021
FAH-DPORT: DPORT Lecture series 1 – FALL 2021
The Department of Portuguese of FAH is pleased to invite all those interested to attend the “DPORT Lecture Series – FALL 2021” to be held from December 01 to 03, 2021, at 4:00pm, via Zoom. Please find below the details for the December 01, 2021 session: Prof. Lorenzo ROCCA Società Dante Alighieri The Council of Europe LIAM project: aims and concrete resources In my talk, I will address the role of the Council of Europe, the European continent’s leading human rights organization, particularly focusing the attention on its endeavour of supporting the linguistic integration of adult migrants (LIAM). Respecting learners’ identity, their linguistic and cultural diversity, their particular personal circumstances and their varying educational biographies, is key to achieve the goals […]
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FAH-DPORT: DPORT Lecture series 1 – FALL 2021
FAH-DPORT: DPORT Lecture series 1 – FALL 2021
The Department of Portuguese of FAH is pleased to invite all those interested to attend the “DPORT Lecture Series – FALL 2021” to be held from December 01 to 03, 2021, at 4:00pm, via Zoom. Please find below the details for the December 02, 2021 session: Dr. Nick Saville Director of Thought Leadership at University of Cambridge Press and Assessment Secretary-General of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) Systemic Learning Oriented Assessment (LOA) The twin goals of promoting and measuring learning have been characterised as formative and summative respectively, but this familiar distinction is one which Learning Oriented Assessment challenges, because it represents these two purposes as fundamentally at odds with each other. A systemic and ecological approach seeks […]
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FAH-DPORT-CIELA: World Varieties of Portuguese & Portuguese-Based Contact languages
The CIELA open guest talk series World Varieties of Portuguese and Portuguese-based Contact Languages aims to contribute to the diffusion of current research in the field, from creole languages to non-vernacular varieties, emerging national varieties and L2 learner varieties. Each session will focus on specific regional or national varieties of Portuguese or Portuguese-based contact languages. Foir the current edition spaced out through 3 weeks in December 2021, the series will cover the following: Session 2 (10/12/21) 8:00pm Asian Portuguese-based creoles: Sri Lanka Portuguese and Malacca Papia Kristang ABSTRACTS Variation as an object of study in creole languages: the case of Sri Lankan Portuguese CreolePatrícia Costa Universidade de Lisboa Although variability constitutes an inherent and universal property of the world's […]
FAH-DPORT: DPORT Lecture series 1 – FALL 2021
FAH-DPORT: DPORT Lecture series 1 – FALL 2021
The Department of Portuguese of FAH is pleased to invite all those interested to attend the “DPORT Lecture Series – FALL 2021” to be held from December 01 to 03, 2021, at 4:00pm, via Zoom. Please find below the details for the December 03, 2021 session: Prof. Waldemar MARTYNIUK Institute of Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) Language, Languaging, Plurilanguaging: considerations on the nature of language and language education" The Author considers the nature of language learning and the relevance of plurilingualism to language and language education. Citing Wilhelm von Humboldt, he reminds the audience that language is not […]