Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

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

Gender History Colloquium : “Stubborn Silences: Writing the History of Chinese Women”
2022-10-19 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | E21-3118 or via Zoom

FAH-DPORT-CIELA: Online Seminar - "WORLD LITERATURE IN PORTUGUESE" by Professor Helena Buescu, 18-21/10/2022
2022-10-18 19:00 - 2022-10-21 21:00 UTC | By Zoom
The Department of Portuguese of FAH, through its Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA), is pleased to invite to attend the Online Seminar on “WORLD LITERATURE IN PORTUGUESE” from October 18 to 21, 2022, 19:00 to 21:00..
Introduction:
The seminar has the main aim of presenting literature written in Portuguese as part of world literature. It will be of interest both to newcomers to the field as well as those who may already be familiar with it. The sessions will all be based on the volumes that make up the work ‘Literatura-Mundo Comparada: Perspectivas em Portugues’, of which the invited speaker for this seminar is its main coordinator. Albeit carried out mainly if a presentation mode, every session will include some time for Q&A discussion with the participants. For a better understanding and audience participation in session 4, the prior reading of ‘Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura’ is recommended.

Seminar Syllabus
Session 1. 18 October 2022.
‘Comparative World-Literature in Portuguese. A project, a realization.’
This session will introduce the participants to the published anthological project World Literature in Portuguese. through a guided explanation of the he three parts into which it is divided. It will provide a focus on the global dimension of a translation project in Portuguese. Some of the core examples commented in this session will be the references to Adonis and Bei Dao.

Session 2. 19 October 2022
‘Lusophony, its critical limits.’
Examples of iconic works related to the underlying theme of this session will be presented and commented upon: Machado de Assis; João Paulo Borges Coelho; Luis Cardoso; Goncalo M. Tavares. Other East-West Dialogue Traditions: Milton Hatoum; Raduan Nassar; Tatiana Salem Levy. The notion of scale (Nirvana Tanoukhi) will also be presented and discussed . The session will also present and allow for discussion with the participants the issue of the ‘point of view “in Portuguese”’ as a way of escaping from monolingualism and cultural monolithism.

Session 3 October 20 & 21, 2022
‘The comparative perspective.’
In this session the participants shall be exposed to several key concepts of world literature and their relevance and relation to the case of world literature in Portuguese, namely: i) Defamiliarization: reading differently; ii) the Good Neighbor Concept (Aby Warburg); iii) the characteristics of the semi-periphery “in Portuguese”; iv) the different faces of cosmopolitanism: a review; v) cultural “cannibalism” (metaphor of Brazilian modernism) and its multiple reading; vi) from bilateral to multilateral: Agualusa; Bernardo Carvalho; vii) textualism and balance between “close” and “distant reading”.

REGISTRATION & FULL PROGRAM LINK:

https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_08jsfM98wvvnEKq

ZOOM LINK

https://umac.zoom.us/j/95977372873?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 959 7737 2873
Password: [REDACTED]

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“弄蟾光兮捉娥影： 中國歷史與文學中的后宮嬪妃”- 米歐敏教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Capturing the Shadows of Lovely Ladies: Foreign Empresses and Imperial Consorts in History and Fiction” by Prof. Olivia Milburn
2022-10-17 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | E21-3118

CIUM's Academic Seminar - Corpus linguistics: ideas, methods and new horizons
2022-10-14 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Zoom

Empire by Treaty: Unequal Signatories, Mis-translations and the Imperial International Order
2022-10-13 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | E22-4012 (Via Zoom)

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Dilthey, Individuation, and Self-Awareness” by Prof. Eric Nelson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2022-10-12 17:30 - 19:00 UTC | E21-3121
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/92005225257
Abstract
Contemporary philosophy remains ensnared in a dialectic between reifying the subject and reducing it to natural and social forces. Neither approach appears adequate to the first- and second-person perspectives of the lived experience (Erlebnis) of being a relational self with others in the world. This self is in Dilthey’s analysis experienced as conditioned and other-dependent and the conditioning world is experienced as “there-for-me” (da-für-mich) in ways that do not appear to merely reproduce and potentially resist and transform its situation. How should we account for these experiences and the phenomenality of being a self? Dilthey has been criticized in subsequent hermeneutics and social theory for prioritizing reflexive self-awareness (Innewerden), self-reflection (Selbstbesinnung), and a structural methodological individualism. In this paper, I reconsider Dilthey’s hermeneutical alternative in which the self is an individuated intersection of natural and social processes and historically situated through autobiographical, reflexive, and reflective self-awareness and self-formation that calls for interpretive understanding in everyday self-other relations, life contexts, and the human sciences.
Bio
Professor Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the author of Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought (Bloomsbury, 2017), Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other (SUNY Press, 2020), Daoism and Environmental Philosophy: Nourishing Life (Routledge, 2020), and is the editor of Interpreting Dilthey: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

ELC-ECAC Student Activities: Empathetic and Powerful Phrases to Resolve Conflicts
2022-10-12 13:30 - 15:00 UTC | Blackbox Theatre (E21-G036)
ELC-ECAC Student Activities: Empathetic and Powerful Phrases to Resolve Conflicts
Dear Students,
The English Co-Curricular Activities Committee (ECAC), English Language Centre (ELC) of FAH, is inviting to you to our first Global Skills Study Workshop this semester, “Empathetic and Powerful Phrases to Resolve Conflicts”.
The workshop will introduce and practice interpersonal communication skills particularly for resolving conflicts in English. Participants will have the opportunity to share their life experience in having conflicts with others. Through different activities like role-play, participants will also learn skills and tips that will help them resolve potential conflicts in their life.
Date: 12th October, 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 1:30PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: E21-Blackbox Theatre
Quota: 24
Registration: Scan the QR code on the poster or please click: https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3y1ecjMpSwBBvaC
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

The Eighteenth-Century Origins of Indian Print Culture
2022-10-12 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | E21-G002

在“荒誕”的文本中尋找歷史的另面——以《探索幽冥》為例 -- 以《探索幽冥》為例
2022-10-07 20:30 - 22:00 UTC | ZOOM

數位文史資料的搜索和使用方法
2022-09-30 20:30 - 22:00 UTC | ZOOM

Macao Humanities Forum: Systemic Ecolinguistics and Harmonious Discourse Analysis
2022-09-28 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | E21A-3118 & Zoom
We are very pleased to announce that the 1st Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2022/2023) will be held on 28 September 2022. 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 HUANG Guowen deliver a lecture on the topic “Systemic Ecolinguistics and Harmonious Discourse Analysis系統生態語言學與和諧話語分析”. Professor Huang is a Chair Professor of the Changjiang Programme selected by the Ministry of Education of P.R. China. He was awarded the title of “Guangdong Excellent Social Scientist” in 2021. He is Dean of the School of Foreign Studies as well as Director of Centre for Ecolinguistics at South China Agricultural University. He received two PhD degrees respectively from the University of Edinburgh (applied linguistics) and the University of Wales, Cardiff (functional linguistics). He was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University during 2004-2005, and he was Chair of the International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (2011-2014). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Zhongguo Waiyu (Foreign Languages in China) (HEP, Beijing), co-editor-in-chief of the M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series (Springer), and is co-editor of the Journal of World Languages (de Gruyter), apart from serving as an adviser or member of editorial boards for a number of international journals and publishers.

Details of the forum are as follows:
Speaker: Professor HUANG Guowen
Topic: Systemic Ecolinguistics and Harmonious Discourse Analysis系統生態語言學與和諧話語分析
Abstract:
Ecolinguistics is the study of the relationships and interactions between language and ecology. One of the goals of ecolinguistics is to explore the role of language in the process of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. This talk will first review the nature of ecolinguistics, its emergence, its development and the present research situation. Then the idea of “systemic ecolinguistics” will be introduced. Finally, the speaker will discuss his proposal of “harmonious discourse analysis”, focusing on the “people-orientedness” assumption and the three principles in doing ecological analysis of discourse, which are the principle of conscience, the principle of proximity and the principle of regulation.
Date: 28 September 2022 (Wed)
Time: 10:30 – 12:00
Venue: On-Site (E21A-3118) / ZOOM
Language: Mandarin (Simultaneous interpretation into English will be provided on Zoom)

Please register for the forum by 26 Sept 2022 (Mon) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d6Z7XIbl2m2pu4K
For more information, kindly refer to the poster.

Confucius Institute’s Student Gathering
2022-09-24 11:00 - 12:30 UTC | E34 Cultural Building
