Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“談談新出安大簡《仲尼曰》 對於校讀傳世古書的作用” - 沈培教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: "A Discussion of the Effect of the Newly Published Anhui University Bamboo Manuscript "Zhongni yue" 仲尼曰 on the Interpretation of the Transmitted Ancient Books" by Prof. Shen Pei
2022-11-11 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | E21-2100

FAH - CCHC Lecture Series – "Culture of Chinese Tea Art”
2022-11-11 15:30 - 16:30 UTC
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH – CCHC Lecture Series – “”Culture of Chinese Tea Art”

Categories
:
Seminar / Lecture

Organizer
:
FAH – Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Speaker
:
Dr. CHONG Chon Fai

Date
:
11 November 2022

Time
:
15:30 – 16:30

Venue
:
Escola Oficial Zheng Guanying

Target Audience
:
Students and teachers of Escola Oficial Zheng Guanying

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
The Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Tel. No
:
88222708

Fax
:
88222383

Email
:
cchc.info@um.edu.mo

ELC-EWCC Student Activity: Screen-Writing Workshop
2022-11-10 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | E6-2112

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“南宋華夷觀念的轉變與梅花象喻的生成”- 劉培教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “The Change of the Concept of Hua-yi in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Formation of the Plum Blossom Imagery Metaphor” by Prof. Liu Pei
2022-11-10 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | E4-G053

FAH - CCHC Lecture Series : “The lingering charm of ancient poetry (reading, appreciation, interpretation and simple creative skills)”
2022-11-10 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | 澳門大學附屬應用學校, 澳門
Event Information

Event Name

:

FAH – CCHC Lecture Series : “The lingering charm of ancient poetry (reading, appreciation, interpretation and simple creative skills)”

Categories

:

Seminar / Lecture

Organizer

:

FAH – Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Speaker

:

Prof. CHEONG Kao Leng

Date

:

10 November 2022

Time

:

15:00 – 17:00

Venue

:

The Affiliated School of the University of Macau

Target Audience

:

Students and teachers of The Affiliated School of the University of Macau

Contact Person for Details

Name

:

The Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Tel. No

:

88222708

Fax

:

88222383

Email

:

cchc.info@um.edu.mo

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Daoism and Strategic Thinking” by Prof. Sarah Flavel, Bath Spa University, United Kingdom
2022-11-09 17:30 - 19:00 UTC | E21-3121
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91408400893
Abstract
Scholars have often pointed out that (especially for the Daodejing) the notion of wuwei (non-action) begins as an idea designed to inform a certain model of non-interventionist governance. It is at the same time a guidance for the personal development of the ruler, so that the political and the personal are not necessarily separate levels of meaning, i.e., the right rulership of the Daoist sage requires a process of self-cultivation. In the later history of Daoist philosophies, including contemporary applications, wu-wei has been applied as a philosophy of personal development in its own right.
Although most scholars note that a literalist reading of wu-wei as non-action is untenable, there is nonetheless a prevailing view that the Daoist worldview is to a large extent a passive, anti-interventionist or quietist philosophy. To be wu-wei is thought to imply an association with letting things be, taking them as they come, not interfering with the way of things (Dao), and learning that interference and intervention themselves are detrimental to the prospect of things going well.
In this paper I argue that wu-wei, in combination with knowledge of Dao and cultivation of the art of ziran (naturalness), can equally well be understood as a tool in the art of the proactive management of events, environments, and in anticipating outcomes so as to be able to respond to them most effectively. This is a strategic interpretation that seeks to manage unpredictable circumstances and to move toward an often specific and defined goal – or imagined ideal outcome. This, I suggest, would have been considered more fitting with the surrounding context of the intellectual environment in Early China.
In this sense I wish to put forward a strategic view of Daoist personal cultivation that is far from the stereotype of being quietist or recommending withdrawal.

Bio
Sarah Flavel is Reader in Asian and Comparative Philosophy at Bath Spa University where she teaches in the history of Western philosophy and in Asian philosophy (Chinese, Japanese and Indian philosophy). Sarah is President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and an Associate Editor for Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Taylor and Francis Journals). She has published work in journals including Philosophy East and West, Dao and The Journal of Nietzsche Studies as well as editing books and translations for Bloomsbury Academic and Brill. Her research interests are in politics, ethics and aesthetics in East Asian and comparative philosophy.

ELC-ECAC Student Activity: Developing Confidence in Presentations
2022-11-09 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | E3-1032
ELC-ECAC Student Activity: Developing Confidence in Presentations
Nervous when making presentations? Fear no more!
The English Co-Curricular Activities Committee (ECAC), English Language Centre (ELC) of FAH, is inviting to you to the “Developing Confidence in Presentations” workshop by Ms. Miranda Gao, ELC Teaching Fellow.
In this workshop, students will learn how to handle and overcome anxiety and identify factors that trigger them to be anxious during presentations. Ms. Gao will introduce techniques such as breathing, and use of body gestures to help overcome nervousness. Students will also practice some skills and strategies to handle stage fright.
Date: 9 November 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 10:30am to 12:00pm
Venue: E3-1032
Quota: 24 (book your seat early!)
Registration: Scan the QR code on the poster or please click: https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3f22gCT0p5NalPE
Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to contact us at ECAC_ELC@um.edu.mo
Best Regards,
English Co-Curricular Activities Committee (ECAC)
English Language Centre
Faculty of Arts and Humanities

FAH-ELC Student Activities: “EWCC Writing Month - Write Now-Here’s How” 2022
2022-11-09 10:00 - 2022-11-23 21:00 UTC
FAH-ELC Student Activities:
“EWCC Writing Month – Write Now-Here’s How” 2022
Hello UM students! Exciting news from the English Writing and Communication Centre (EWCC), English Language Centre of FAH!
In November 2022, EWCC is holding our first-ever “Writing Month” to celebrate the joy and fun of writing! Our theme this year is: “Write Now-Here’s How.” Our featured activities include three workshops in the “Guest Talk Series” and three workshops in the “ELTA Workshop Series.”
After the completion of each activity, students will be given the opportunity to put what they have learned in the workshops into practice. Students will learn “How” to write and will have the chance to write “Now.” Students who excel in these activities will be awarded book coupons as prizes.
To learn more about our workshop series, check out our posters! Students will receive a certificate of completion from the ELC if they have full participation in the guest talk series (3 workshops) or the ELTA workshop series (3 workshops). Please see more details in the following two posters.
We look forward to seeing you at our events!

Best Regards,
English Writing and Communication Centre (EWCC)
English Language Centre
Faculty of Arts and Humanities

ELC-EWCC Student Activity: Research-based Writing Talk
2022-11-09 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | E6-2112

UM-SAO-FAH-DPORT: Portuguese Debating Contest 2022 on NOV 09, 2022
2022-11-09 06:30 - 20:30 UTC | Auditorium of the Student Activities Centre (E31)
Dear Students,
The UM Portuguese Debating Team is going to organize the Portuguese Debating Contest 2022 for UM Portuguese Debating Team on November 09, 2022 at the Student Activity Centre Theater (E31).
You are cordially invited to attend the event. You may find the regulation HERE.
If you would like to join the event as a contestant, please contact our coaches, Professors Julio Jatoba or Rui Silva for more information since each contestant group requires at least one member of the Portuguese Debating Team.
With our best regards

FAH-DPORT-CIELA: SEMINAR FOR CIELA SERIES: INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES - “Cinema Império”: Representations of former Portuguese Asia on Film. Scarcicity and specifics
2022-11-08 19:00 - 2022-11-10 21:00 UTC | By Zoom
The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) is pleased to invite all those interested to the Seminar “INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES – “Cinema Império”: Representations of former Portuguese Asia on Film. Scarcicity and specifics”, by Prof. Maria do Carmo Piçarra, being held on November 08,09 and 10, 2022, from 7:00pm to 09:00pm, via Zoom.
General description
The Portuguese Estado Novo regime (1933-74) used cinema to impose, internally and externally, the image of a pluricontinental and multiracial country. Many propagated ideas were never questioned after the restoration of democracy in Portugal and after the independence of the former colonies.
This seminar will analyze how propaganda and censorship determined the representations of the countries and/or territories that made up “Portuguese Asia”.
Throughout the seminar, the cases of Goa, Damão and Diu, Macau and Timor will be particularized, viewing available excerpts from the Portuguese filmography on these regions.
Simultaneous interpretation to English may be offered if requested beforehand through survey link provided below.

Specific contents of each session Session 1
The use of cinema to make colonial propaganda (the Portuguese case). The “Goa question” and the beginning of the filmed propaganda cycles of the “Portuguese East”. Specifics of the Luso-Orientalist discourse regarding the ex-Portuguese India. Persistence of representations in current Portuguese and Indian films (Konkani cinema).

Session 2
The exhibition of cinema in Macau. Antunes Amor’s pioneering spirit and attempts at local film production. Macau in Portuguese cinematographic advertising and international projections as a vicious territory. Emergence attempt of a local film production: the case of Os Pescadores de Amangau (Miguel Spiguel) and Caminhos Longos (Eurico Ferreira). Macau in today’s cinema (Portuguese and Macanese).

Session 3
Timor filmed after the Japanese invasion (economic propaganda). Portuguese advertising cycles. Tourism promotion, the importance of the military archive and the importance of “scientific” films (films from the Anthropological Mission to Timor vs films by Ruy Cinatti). Contemporary vision of Portuguese and Timorese filmmakers who have put into perspective the history and struggle for the territory’s independence.

ZOOM
Meeting ID: 956 6651 2923
https://umac.zoom.us/j/956 6651 2923

LINK for Requests for SI from Portuguese to English:

Changing Forms and Contexts of Buddhist Cosmology
2022-11-07 22:00 - 23:30 UTC | Via Zoom

Double Presence: A New Study of Relationships Between the Leonardo da Vinci's Knots and the Frescoes of the sala delle Asse of the Sforza Castle in Milan
2022-11-07 15:00 - 16:30 UTC | E21A-3118
摘要：達•芬奇筆下一系列稱作“芬奇結”的繩結裝飾，長期以來被當作達•芬奇個人創造性的符號而著稱於世。新近的研究更把它們與達•芬奇家鄉“芬奇鎮”的“柳條編織業”聯繫起來，賦予其本地物質文化特產的出身。本文一方面指出這些歸屬的不當之處，在於其有意無意地忽視了這些繩結裝飾具有的跨文化淵源，即其與近東伊斯蘭黃銅鑲嵌銅器等器物裝飾圖案的借鑒關係。另一方面更進一步地探討這些伊斯蘭圖案與達•芬奇設計的米蘭斯福爾扎城堡木板廳壁畫之間的跨媒介聯繫；揭示壁畫中隱藏於贊助人政治意圖之下的創作者個人語義，以及文藝復興藝術風格之下存在著源自近東與遠東藝術異域風格的“雙重在場”現象。
報名 Registration: https://forms.gle/MmTPLJBVPbF4gmsv8

Opening ceremony of "First Chinese Cultural Festival"
2022-11-07 10:00 - 12:30 UTC | Lobby, Cultural Building (E34)
Event Information

Event Name
:
Opening ceremony of “First Chinese Cultural Festival”

Categories
:
Activity, Others, Student Activity

Organizer
:
University of Macau

Date
:
7 November 2022

Time
:
10:00 – 12:30

Venue
:
Lobby, Cultural Building (E34)

Target Audience
:
All are welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Tel. No
:
88222708

Fax
:
88222383

Email
:
cchc.info@um.edu.mo

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“北方漢語的地域性、多元性”- 徐丹教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “The area and diversity of Northern Chinese dialects” by Prof. Xu Dan
2022-11-04 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | E21-3118 or via Zoom

Short Course on Chinese-Portuguese Interpretation (Consecutive Interpretation)
2022-11-03 - 2022-12-05 | University of Macau
Course Date and Time:

03/11-05/12/2022; 19:00-22:00
Every Mondays and Thursdays
Total of 30 hours

Eligibility criteria to enroll to the course:

Successful completion of the third year (or above) of bachelor program majoring in Portuguese studies or Chinese-Portuguese translation or with C1 level certificate of CAPLE exam.
20 quotas (at least 15)

Instructor:

Ms. Wu Xinjuan has many years of experiences working as a Chinese and Portuguese Interpreter. She has extensive experiences in the training of interpreters.

Course content:

Essential knowledge about interpretation; memorization techniques and practice in interpretation; interpretation without taking notes; annotation techniques; numbers; video-interpreting; introduction of the CATTI Examination.

Registration:

https://forms.gle/PMg4yXYxc94h4VTd8 (Deadline: 15:00, 27/10/2022)

Participants must attend at least 80% of the all sessions in order to receive a Certificate of Attendance.

FAH - CCHC Lecture Series – “Chinese Traditional Festivals in Tang and Song Poetry”
2022-11-02 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | 澳門大學附屬應用學校, 澳門
Event Information

Event Name

:

FAH – CCHC Lecture Series – “Chinese Traditional Festivals in Tang and Song Poetry”

Categories

:

Seminar / Lecture

Organizer

:

FAH – Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Speaker

:

Prof. WANG Sihao

Date

:

2 November 2022

Time

:

15:00 ~ 16:00

Venue

:

The Affiliated School of the University of Macau

Target Audience

:

Students and teachers of The Affiliated School of the University of Macau

Contact Person for Details

Name

:

The Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Tel. No

:

88222708

Fax

:

88222383

Email

:

cchc.info@um.edu.mo

人文學院嘉賓講座：“《詩序》的文本生成與流傳”- 王承略教授 FAH Guest Lecture: “The Text Generation and Dissemination of the Preface to the Book of Songs” by Prof. Wang Chenglue
2022-10-31 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | E21-3118

The 2nd Chinese-Portuguese Translation Contest for Higher Education Institutions in China
2022-10-29
Please visit the Contest’s webpage at http://cpc.fah.um.edu.mo/ctcp2022 for details.

The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives
2022-10-28 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | E21-3118

Growing in “Disquiet” – Research and Translation of the New Edition of The Book of Disquiet
2022-10-26 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
Abstract:
The Book of Disquiet written by Fernando Pessoa – Father of Portuguese Modernism, has caused a lot of “unease” to several generations of scholars and translators, which owes much to the uncertainty, plurality, and inherent subversive in the multifaceted corpus. Over four decades, this work has had numerous editions, publications, and translations around the world. The two translators of the new edition of The Book of Disquiet ( Yazhong/Elegance edition, 2022) intend to share the experience of research and translation of this work, underlining, with concrete examples, the patronymic proliferation, the stylistic metamorphosis and the inner artistic quality that mark this modern classic.
Registration link (for those who would like to collect Smart Points for the seminar):
https://forms.gle/QdSo2FddQ2yzyxW68
Zoom link:
https://umac.zoom.us/j/93077314427 (Meeting ID: 930 7731 4427 Password: [REDACTED]
Important Notes on Smart Points Scheme:
1. Students who registered to the seminar, attend the WHOLE activity AND arrive ON TIME will be given 1.0 Smart Point and 20.0 Knowledge Integration(CS);
2. Students who arrive late or leave early within 10 minutes will be given only half a Smart Point;
3. Students who arrive late or leave early over 10 minutes will NOT be given any Smart Point;
4. Students who leave the venue during the activity for over 15 minutes will NOT be given any Smart Point; and
5. CPC reserves the right to make the final decision, in case of any disputes on the awarding of Smart Point(s).

ELC Professional Development Workshop - Supporting Students with Mental Health Problems
2022-10-26 14:30 - 16:30 UTC | E3-1032
ELC Professional Development workshop – Supporting Students with Mental Health Problems
Student mental health problems are on the rise locally and globally. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of students suffering from mental health problems has increased dramatically, and their problems are becoming more serious as well.
Through a mini-lecture and role play, the workshop is designed to increase teachers’ understanding of student mental health conditions and to enhance teachers’ competence in supporting students in need.

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “More and happier women. On the political significance of Wittgenstein and hinge epistemology” by Prof. Annalisa Coliva, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
2022-10-26 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | E21-3118
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/98417058644
Abstract
In this paper, we consider ameliorative projects, with special emphasis on their bearing onto the concept WOMAN. We start by looking at Haslanger’s proposal. By tracing it to its Carnapian origins, we criticize it for its top-down approach to the issue and for its shortcomings in explaining the possibility of conceptual continuity through change. We then lay out the details of a Wittgenstein-inspired, bottom-up alternative. Key to this approach is to think of WOMAN as family-resemblance concept. It is argued that this approach is better suited than its Carnapian counterpart to account for conceptual continuity through change, and for its ability to include transwomen within that category. It is claimed that the proposed account of conceptual continuity through change depends on changes actual practices and is thus both descriptively more adequate and politically preferable to a top-down approach. We then consider the externalist credentials of this approach, as well as its bearing onto the proper understanding of the interplay between concepts and stereotypes. By drawing on a reconfiguration of the concept of HERMENEUTICAL INJUSTICE, a case is then made in favor of the proposed account of WOMAN, based on its being less susceptible of giving rise to forms of hermeneutical injustice against transwomen. Moreover, drawing on the role of hinges as norms of evidential significance and, in some cases, as meaning-constitutive norms, the proposed account of WOMAN is analyzed as a case of hinge change. The chapter closes with a section on the relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophical quietism, activism and role of imagination in philosophy and politics. Please let me know if there is anything else you need from me at this point.
Bio
Professor Annalisa Coliva is Inclusive Excellence Professor, in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Moore and Wittgenstein. Skepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010), Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (2015), Wittgenstein Rehinged (2022), Relativism (with M. Baghramian, 2020), Skepticism (with D. Pritchard, 2022).

ELC-EWCC Student Activity: Chess Workshop
2022-10-26 10:00 - 11:30 UTC | E6-2112
ELC-EWCC Student Activity: Chess Workshop
Chess is a game of strategic skills, which is fundamentally helpful in facilitating cognitive skills in players. There are a great deal of cases in which the combination of English education and chess has gained great success by teaching English-relevant skills in such a joyful way.
If you are interested in chess and want to enrich your university life by playing chess, but you do not know how to play it, come and join us! We will introduce the basic knowledge of chess, such as understanding the chess pieces, board, the basic moves of chess, etc. If you have a certain chess foundation, and you want to find like-minded friends at the university, you are welcome to join, too. Let’s get together and make friends.

Number of Participants: 20
Targeted Participants: All UM students
Facilitator: ELTAs and the student organiser
Level(s): Students with all levels of English proficiency are welcome to participate.

Students can sign up to the activity via this link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBlNb_hTVPLx4L_Zd_Moc90jZNWK2abboZHe0n6mJjNqggJA/viewform?usp=sharing

Workshop on Examinations of CAPLE-ULisboa
2022-10-26 - 2022-10-27 | E34-1002
This workshop is designed for Chinese learners of Portuguese as a foreign language that are willing to take the CAPLE Exam. The aim is to familiarize students with the content/ structure of exam tasks, and guide them on the better preparation for the exam.
Date: Oct 26 2022 (1st workshop for Levels B2, C1 e C2), Oct 27 2022 (2nd workshop for Levels A2, B1)

Time: 14:30-17:30 (1st workshop for Levels B2, C1 e C2), 17:00-18:30 (2nd workshop for Levels A2, B1)

Speakers:
José Lino Pascoal co-founded CAPLE-ULisboa in 1999 and was a member of its board of directors between 2012 and 2019. Currently, he is a member of the Consultative Committee, as a representative of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He is a test-item writer and an examiner of oral and written performances.

Sara Santos holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Portuguese of the University of Macau. She has an extensive teaching experience of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL) to Chinese learners. She is the author of several teaching materials.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/GPxS2NRKhPeQxazL8 (Deadline: 12:00 p.m. Oct 25th 2022)

If you would like to have feedback on your oral and written performances, you may write a text on one of the topics provided by CAPLE-ULisboa on the website and send it to josepascoal@um.edu.mo. You may also send a 2-3 minute recorded text on this topic:
Voltamos a viver tempos muito complicados. De que forma é que cada um nós pode / deve agir de modo a que possamos viver o melhor possível? Ignoramos o que se passa à nossa volta? Intervimos? Como?
Alternatively, you may choose an image and talk about it. Please send the image with the recorded text.

人民的西湖：共和國時代的自然、景觀與能動性
2022-10-21 20:30 - 22:00 UTC | ZOOM

Book Launch Ceremony — Confúcio, o Fundador da Tradição
2022-10-21 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | Rui Cunha Foundation

International Workshop Rethinking the Gambling City: Challenges in Macau History
2022-10-20 14:30 - 19:00 UTC | E21-3121

FAH-CCHC : Lu Xun's Creation of Chinese New Literature
2022-10-19 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Online
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC : Lu Xun’s Creation of Chinese New Literature

Categories
:
Lecture

Organizer
:
The Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Date
:
19 September 2022

Time
:
20:00

Venue
:
Online

Content
:

VooV / Tencent Meeting ID：902151020

Target Audience
:
All are welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Tel. No
:
88222708

Fax
:
28822383

Email
:
cchc.info@um.edu.mo

Coffee-Tea with Professors
2022-10-19 16:00 - 2022-11-23 17:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-2100
