Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

Call for Presentations : 3rd FAH MACAO HUMANITIES ROUNDTABLE
2025-03-31 00:00 - 19:00 UTC | E21A
We are thrilled and excited to announce that the 3rd FAH MACAO HUMANITIES ROUNDTABLE will be held on 7 May 2025 (Wednesday), building on the success of the previous editions. The Roundtable aims to foster collegiality and to nurture a research sharing culture in the FAH family. We sincerely hope that the Roundtable will serve as an excellent platform for FAH colleagues and PhD students to share and showcase their research with the UM members. As many of you may have experienced in your research endeavor, sharing and discussing a research project and its (preliminary) findings with colleagues and students is a rewarding experience in that feedback received through this kind of exchange of ideas and insights often helps in enhancing the quality of the publications.

To that aim, the Organizing Committee of the MACAO HUMANITIES ROUNDTABLE cordially invites all FAH academic staff, and the PhD students (who have passed their thesis proposal assessment), to present their research with the FAH community at this event. Please refer to the following for details.

Research Areas
Any topics in Arts and Humanities

Abstract submission
Please send your abstract with a title (200 words maximum) to lisalam@um.edu.mo by 31 March 2025

Eligible presenters
FAH academic staff and PhD students (who have passed their thesis proposal assessment)
Either single-authored or joint-authored presentations would be acceptable.

Presentation & discussion time
25 min talk + subsequent Q&A

Language
English or Chinese

Important dates
Submission deadline: 31 March 2025
Notification of results: 11 April 2025
Roundtable date: 07 May 2025

Inquiry
Please contact Ms. Lisa Lam via lisalam@um.edu.mo should you have any questions.

We believe that this event will provide a great opportunity for FAH colleagues and students to advance communication, collaboration, and exchange in our research. Please join us and present your research in the MACAO HUMANITIES ROUNDTABLE.

FAH-DENG 'Best Essay in English Studies Competition 2025'
2025-03-31 08:00 - 2025-04-17 17:00
To all students enrolled in UM English Department courses

The Best Essay in English Studies competition for 2025 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 (2024–25). If the work has already been graded it must have received a mark of at least 88 to qualify, and please note that creative work and group work is not eligible for these prizes.

Essays will be judged by the relevant professors in each area of study. Prizes will be presented at an Award Day on Friday 2 May, although if no work of a sufficiently high standard is submitted for a subject’s year group, then that prize will not be awarded.

Essays should be submitted to deng.bestessay@um.edu.mo . Please give your name, student number, and year of study (year 1/2/3/4) on the first page of the essay or translation. The deadline for submission is 5pm on Thursday 17 April.

We very much look forward to receiving your work.

人文學院中國語言文學系中國人文講座: “如何研究文學批評史—首部《中國文學批評史》讀札” – 張伯偉教授
2025-04-01 14:30 - 16:30 | E21-3118

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: ““來着”怎麼研究（的）來着？ ——“來着”類標記研究的方法論思考” – 陳前瑞教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “How Was laizhe Studied? Methodological Thinking on the Study of Markers Associated with laizhe” by Prof. Chen Qianrui
2025-04-02 19:00 - 20:30 | E21-3118

從“學以致用”到“學以報國”—民國清華留美生職業量化研究
2025-04-07 16:30 - 18:00 | E21-3118

ELC-ECAC :International English Tests: Tips for Success
2025-04-09 10:30 - 12:00 | E6-1113B
Going to study abroad and need a better score on your English test?
This workshop aims to provide students a better understanding of what is required in the sections of the international English tests. Through the activities, students will gain more understanding and ideas on how to handle different parts of a test and obtain a better band score in the required skills.

Date: Wed., April 9, 2025
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 noon
Venue: E6-1113B

Come learn tips, tricks, and best strategies with ELC instructor, Mr. Matthew Lambert, who has been teaching students in different countries for over 20 years, as well as an in-depth knowledge of handling international English tests. Mr. Lambert holds an MA in TESOL and a BSc in Psychology (Hons).
​​​​​​​Scan the QR code on the poster to register now!
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/DPHIL Lecture Series – "Mental Minutiae: On the Residues, Fragments, Remnants, and Seeds of Mental Life" by Prof. Benjamin Winokur, University of Macau
2025-04-09 17:30 - 19:00 | E21A-3118
Microsoft Teams: https://go.um.edu.mo/wnp200k4

Abstract
We often refer to the remnants, fragments, and seeds of physical objects in everyday life: the remnants of a fallen building or exploded firecracker, a fragment from a chipped mug, or the seed of an acorn tree. In referring to these, we find nothing of obvious metaphysical difficulty; adequately conceptualizing these items seems to require just basic object concepts, and basic representations of the mereological and temporal relations in which they stand. But what about the remnants or residues of mental phenomena? Here we do confront a metaphysically difficult question, namely whether such mental minutiae exist at all. I first introduce the concept of mental minutiae, contrasting them with “minimally complete” mental phenomena that are not the mere remnants, fragments, or residues of larger mental phenomena. Second, I argue that mental minutiae may be of explanatory use in long-standing philosophical debates about first-person authority and implicit bias. I conclude with some methodological remarks about how to best to ascribe mental minutiae to one another, given their conceptual unfamiliarity from the standpoint of ordinary folk psychology.

Bio
Professor Benjamin Winokur is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Macau. He works primarly on topics in contemporary epistemology and philosophy of mind, such as self-knowledge, first-person authority, the nature of belief, digital epistemology, the epistemology of inquiry, and “hostile” epistemology. He has published papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Synthese, The European Journal of Philosophy, Inquiry, Philosophical Psychology, Dialectica, Episteme, and elsewhere. He is also the co-editor, alongside Adam Andreotta, of “New Perspectives on Transparency and Self-Knowledge”, published with Routledge in 2025. Finally, he is the author of a book in progress titled “Knowing Where You Stand: Essays on the Value of Reflective Commitment”, under contract with Routledge.

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: “再論《切韻》的分韻原則” – 馮蒸教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Revisiting the Rhyme Division Principle in Qieyun” by Prof. Feng Zheng
2025-04-10 11:00 - 12:30 | E21-3118

FAH/DPHIL Conference: 中國形上學傳統中的「物」
2025-04-12 - 2025-04-13 | E21A-3118

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: “論詩歌的文化學研究” – 沈金浩教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “On the Cultural Studies of Poetry” by Prof. Shen Jinhao
2025-04-14 10:00 - 11:30 | E21-3118

人文學院中國語言文學系中國人文講座: “中日宋代文學研究三人談” – 內山精也教授、張宏生教授、張健教授
2025-04-14 15:30 - 17:30 | E21-3118

Translating China: A Cape Verdean poet-translator's history
2025-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 | E21-G049

Portuguese for specific purposes: from theory to practice
2025-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Online

FAH-DPORT: COMEMORAÇÃO DO DIA DA LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA – 2025, 15/04/2025, 15:00h, E31-Auditorium
2025-04-15 15:00 - 18:00 | E31-G001
COMEMORAÇÃO DO DIA DA LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA – 2025

No dia 15 de Abril de 2025 terá lugar, pelas 15h, no Auditório do Centro das Actividades Estudantis (E-31), um evento que contará com a exibição do documentário Douro Boys à qual se seguirá uma sessão de perguntas e respostas com o realizador Max Bessmertny, uma actuação de dança folclórica pelo grupo de estudantes da Escola Luís Gonzaga Gomes, e, por fim, um concerto de música em língua portuguesa com a cantora Betchy Barros acompanhada pelo guitarrista Tomás Ramos de Deus.

Junta-te a nós!

FAH-DPORT: Palestra “A linda Inês e o mito de Portugal", pelo Professor José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes, Professor Catedrático na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
2025-04-16 10:30 - 12:00 | E21-3118
Convidamos todos os Professores e Alunos a estarem presentes na Palestra “A linda Inês e o mito de Portugal”, pelo Professor José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes, Professor Catedrático na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, no dia 16 de Abril de 2025, pelas 10:30 horas, na sala E21a-3118.

“A linda Inês e o mito de Portugal”
Partindo de uma base histórica que remonta ao século XIV, Camões transformou o caso de D. Inês de Castro no mito mais forte e perdurável da sensibilidade portuguesa.
Na presente palestra, estudar-se-ão os fundamentos dessa lenda e a forma como ela se vem mantendo até aos nossos dias, tanto no plano da arte como no plano da cultura popular.
Em Língua Portuguesa

JOSÉ AUGUSTO CARDOSO BERNARDES
Professor Catedrático
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
JOSÉ AUGUSTO CARDOSO BERNARDES é Professor Catedrático na Faculdade de Letras de Coimbra, onde tem regido sobretudo cadeiras no âmbito da literatura portuguesa do século XVI e de História do Teatro.
Tem-se consagrado ainda ao ensino da literatura e à história institucional das Humanidades.
Desempenhou, entre outros, os seguintes cargos institucionais: Presidente do Conselho Científico da sua Faculdade (2004-2007), Membro do Conselho Geral da Universidade de Coimbra (2007-2010), Coordenador Científico de duas unidades de investigação reconhecidas e financiadas pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Centro interuniversitário de Estudos Camonianos e Centro de Literatura Portuguesa), entre 2007 e 2011, Diretor da Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra (2011-2018), Membro do Conselho Nacional de Educação (20011-2014), Membro do Painel Temático (Estudos Literários) da Agência Nacional de Acreditação para o Ensino Superior (desde 2022), Presidente do Júri do Painel de Avaliação das candidaturas a bolsas de doutoramento da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Membro do Conselho Consultivo da Língua Portuguesa, da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (2017-2019), Professor visitante nas universidades de Oxford, California (Santa Barbara), Blaise Pascal (Clermont Ferrand), Valência e São Paulo, Professor Bibliotecário da Universidade de Coimbra e Presidente da Comissão Nacional de Portugal para o V Centenário do Nascimento de Luís de Camões.

History Forum 24: Imperial Intransigence: Revisiting the Fu’an Missionary Case (1746–1748)
2025-04-16 12:30 - 14:00 | E21-3118

Anglo-Portuguese Relations and the British Presence in Macau (18th - 19th centuries)
2025-04-16 14:30 - 16:00 | E21-G040

Lecture by UM Distinguished Visiting Scholar Prof. Binhua Wang: "Yan Fu's Early Translation 20 Years before Proposing "Faithfulness, Expressiveness, and Elegance": His Translation of The Times' Political Commentary on Sino-British Relations"
2025-04-16 16:00 - 17:00 | E21A-G049
Abstract:
Yan Fu, who translated eight major social science works into Chinese, is not only known as a prominent figure in “the spread of Western learning to the East” but also profoundly influential in modern Chinese translation studies for proposing “faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance”, which has been canonised as the criteria of translation even since. However, it is rarely mentioned in translation studies that before translating Western knowledge and proposing “faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance”, Yan Fu, as one of the first Chinese students studying in the UK, had actually translated a political commentary on Sino-British relations from The Times in 1878. That translation had also been very influential as an important document about Sino-British relations at the time, which revealed much about the departure of Guo Songtao, China’s first ambassador to the UK and the West. This lecture will explore this significant yet often overlooked document in the context of modern Chinese diplomacy and translation studies.
作為近代翻譯大家，嚴複翻譯了八大社科著作，在當時影響巨大，堪稱中國20世紀最重要的思想啟蒙譯著。對於翻譯學界而言，嚴複在其譯作<天演論>卷首提出的“譯事三難，信、達、雅”更是影響深遠。然翻譯學界鮮少提及，在其翻譯西學和提出“信、達、雅”之前，早在1878年，作為首批留英學生的嚴複就翻譯了《泰晤士報》的中英關係政論，傳達了關於當時中英關係以及中國首任駐西方國家公使郭嵩燾離任事件的諸多資訊，實為近代中國外交和翻譯研究不可忽視的文獻。本講將對此進行探析。
Biography:
Prof. Binhua Wang is Chair/Professor of interpreting and translation studies at University of Leeds in the UK, where he served as Director of the Centre for Translation Studies and Programme Manager of the MA programmes in interpreting. He is an elected Member of the “European Academy of Sciences and Arts” and Fellow of the “Chartered Institute of Linguists”. He sits on the Executive Committee of the UK “University Council of Languages” and the Interpreters Committee of the Translators Association of China. Currently he serves the international academic community as the co-editor of Interpreting and Society (a Scopus-indexed journal published by Sage), Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology and on the editorial boards of other top journals in TIS and language studies, such as Babel, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Forum, Chinese Translators Journal, Foreign Language Teaching & Research, Translation Quarterly and The Linguist.
His research interests focus on interpreting and translation studies, with interdisciplinary extension to digital humanities, Chinese studies and language education, in which he has published over 80 research articles in world-leading SSCI/A&HCI/CSSCI journals and in edited volumes published by Routledge, John Benjamins, Springer, Brill, Palgrave and Bloomsbury. His recent articles have appeared in Across Languages and Cultures, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Babel, Perspectives, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Target, The Translator and in The Routledge Handbook of Conference Interpreting and The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis. He has authored the monographs New Orientations in Interpreting Studies and Interpreting Education (Routledge forthcoming), Theorising Interpreting Studies (FLTRP), A Descriptive Study of Norms in Interpreting (FLTRP), and edited with Prof. Jeremy Munday Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting (Routledge). He has also guest-edited themed special issues for some top international journals such as Perspectives, Frontiers in Communication, and Asia-Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies. He has been invited to give keynote speeches to over 30 international conferences and guest talks in many universities across the world. Parallel to his academic career, he is also a veteran conference interpreter and interpreting trainer with over 20 years’ experience.
王斌華，世界百強大學英國里茲大學終身講席教授、博士生導師，“歐洲科學與藝術院”院士、英國“皇家特許語言專家學會”會士，兼任英國“語言學科大學理事會”（UCFL）常務理事及東亞語言學科代表、中國譯協口譯委員會委員等。擔任SSCI語言學科期刊副主編、Scopus檢索期刊Interpreting and Society聯合主編，SSCI國際期刊Babel、ITT等和CSSCI期刊《外語教學與研究》、《中國翻譯》等10餘家期刊編委。近10多年來受邀擔任“Times高等教育世界高校排行榜”及“QS世界大學排行榜”年度評審人。2023年領銜制訂了“國際電信聯盟”（ITU）有關口譯的指導原則和技術標準文件。
主要研究方向為口筆譯研究和跨文化研究，兼及數位人文、漢學、人工智慧在口筆譯中的應用等領域。在SSCI/A&HCI/CSSCI核心期刊以及John Benjamins、Routledge、Springer、Palgrave Macmillan等國際知名出版社專題論集發表論文80多篇，入選CNKI高被引學者Top 1% 榜單，在30多場國際會議上發表主旨報告。出版著作包括New Orientations in Interpreting Studies and Interpreting Education (Routledge forthcoming)、《口譯理論研究》（外研社）、《口譯規範的描寫研究》（外研社）等，與Jeremy Munday教授在Routledge合編Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting，客座主編Perspectives、Frontiers in Communication等國際核心期刊的主題專刊。研究課題先後獲英國政府、歐盟、香港特區研究資助委員會優配基金（GRF）等立項。獲里茲大學人文學部優秀博士生導師獎，作為參與者獲教育部高等學校科研優秀成果獎一等獎、獲廣東省哲學社會科學優秀成果獎。
是英國首位由華人擔任的口譯及翻譯研究講席教授。被多所高校聘為客座教授，多年受邀擔任中國譯協“全國高等院校翻譯專業師資培訓”的授課專家，應邀為英、美、加、歐盟國家、中國內地及港澳等地百餘所高校作學術講座。

The Deification of Objects and Their Symbolic System A New Interpretation of “大駕鹵薄圇書" -「物」的神格化及其象徵性系統《大駕鹵薄圖書》新解
2025-04-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Room G011, Cultural Building, Lecture Hall (E34)

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: “從“馳煙驛霧”猜想看黃季剛先生的治學特色及其與東南學術之關係” – 程章燦教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Exploring Huang Jigang's Academic Style and Its Relationship with Southeastern Academia through the Hypothesis of "Driving the Mist and Ordering the Fog"” by Prof. Cheng Zhangcan
2025-04-17 19:30 | E21-3118

Zhuangz's Five Arguments for the Unknowability of the World - 莊子關於世界不可知的五個論證
2025-04-22 06:30 - 20:30 | Room G011, Cultural Building, Lecture Hall (E34)

FAH-DPORT: Palestra “Vegetarianos portugueses de há 100 anos: um caso de amnésia coletiva”, pela Professora Fátima Vieira, Vice-Reitora para a Cultura e Museus da Universidade do Porto
2025-04-22 14:30 - 16:00 | E21-1027
Convidamos todos os Professores e Alunos a estarem presentes na Palestra “Vegetarianos portugueses de há 100 anos:um caso de amnésia coletiva”, pela Professora Fátima Vieira, Vice-Reitora para a Cultura e Museus da Universidade do Porto, Presidente do Conselho Diretivo da Fundação Marques da Silva e Professora Catedrática da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, no dia 22 de Abril de 2025, pelas 14:30 horas, na sala E21a-1027.

“Vegetarianos portugueses de há 100 anos: um caso de amnésia coletiva”
Quem for hoje a Portugal, encontrará como prato nacional o bacalhau, e, dependendo da zona geográfica que visite, também o leitão, as tripas, o peixe e o marisco, entre outros pratos. A gastronomia portuguesa é apresentada como tendo origens longínquas, mas na verdade esta é uma ficção cultural. No projeto Alimentopia, que coordenei (financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), a equipa de investigadores provou que os portugueses recalcaram a memória de um período da sua história em que um número considerável de indivíduos optou por uma alimentação vegetariana, numa altura em que o vegetarianismo era visto, internacionalmente, como uma filosofia e um modo de vida.
Na minha palestra, falarei da singularidade do periódico português O Vegetariano (1909-1935), que se distinguiu, no panorama internacional, pela forma como comunicava e engajava os leitores; da implantação do naturismo em Portugal; da rede de restaurantes hotéis, e serviços médicos que então foi criada; e do livro de receitas vegetarianas de Julieta Ribeiro (1916), que a autora considerava ser um contributo importante para a [pseudo] libertação das mulheres do início do século XX.
EM LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA
Professora Fátima Vieira
Vice-Reitora para a Cultura e Museus da Universidade do Porto, Presidente do Conselho Diretivo da Fundação Marques da Silva e Professora Catedrática da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Fátima Vieira é Vice-Reitora para a Cultura e Museus da Universidade do Porto, Presidente do Conselho Diretivo da Fundação Marques da Silva e Professora Catedrática da Faculdade de Letras da mesma universidade, onde leciona desde 1986. Tem vasta experiência de gestão de instituições culturais (Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da U.Porto, Casa-Museu Abel Salazar, Fundação Marques da Silva), académicas (foi membro do Conselho Geral da Universidade do Porto e Conselho Científico da FLUP; diretora do Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos) e de centros e projetos de investigação (Coordenadora do CETAPS / Porto; Investigadora Responsável por 4 projetos financiados pela FCT). Foi Presidente da Utopian Studies Society / Europe entre 2006 e 2016.
Fátima Vieira foi agraciada com a Medalha Municipal de Mérito, Grau Ouro, da Câmara Municipal do Porto em 2024; com a Medalha de Mérito Municipal – classe Cultural, Grau Ouro, da Câmara Municipal de Gaia em 2023; com o “Lifetime Achievement Award 2023”, atribiído pela Utopian Studies Society / Europe; com o “Larry E. Hough Distinguished Service Award” pela associação americana e canadiana “Society for Utopian Studies em 2013; e com o Selo Europeu das Línguas para o projeto que coordenou administrativamente “STETS-UP: Support for Teaching English in Primary Schools” in 2008 (o projeto foi considerado pela Comissão Europeia, em 2012, como “o melhor projeto português para o ensino de línguas dos últimos 10 anos”).

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: "John Polidori's Geneva Journal (1816): Social Gatherings in Geneva and the Identity of the Mysterious Portuguese Lady"
2025-04-22 15:00 - 16:00 | E21-3118
Abstract:
In 1816, Lord Byron travelled to Switzerland with his physician John William Polidori. In Geneva they met Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her stepsister Claire Clairmont. During one of the group’s evenings at the Villa Diodati, Byron challenged his friends: “We will each write a ghost story”. Mary Shelley would start Frankenstein, and Polidori, influenced by the challenge, would later write his novella The Vampyre. The young author also kept a journal of the voyage which would only be published in 1911. This paper deals with the author’s description of the trip, the group’s social gatherings in Geneva and with the identity of a mysterious Portuguese lady and her daughters whom Polidori met at the Countess of Bruce’s famous parties in Genthod.
(A digitized version of the first-edition of The Vampyre is available online at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/thevampyretale00poliuoft/mode/2up)

Biography:
Rogério Miguel do Deserto Rodrigues de Puga has an MA and PhD in Anglo-Portuguese Studies from the Universidade Nova (2006 and 2007 respectively), and a BA in Modern Languages and Literatures (Portuguese and English Studies) from the same University (1998). He was a Post-Doc Fellow at the University of Lisbon’s Centre for Comparative Studies (FCT grant, 2007), Assistant Professor at the University of Macao (2007-2009) and has been invited researcher/professor at several foreign universities. He is currently Associate Professor with Habilitation (“Agregação”) at Universidade Nova (NOVA-FCSH), where he teaches English contemporary literature, literary theory, travel writing, literary intermedialities and digital humanities, and children’s literature and young adult fiction. Prof. Puga has authored 86 articles, 53 book chapters, has published 22 books. He was awarded the Santander-Nova Research Internationalization Award 5 times and is a member of CETAPS, where he coordinates the Orientalism and (Post-)Colonial Anglo-Portuguese Relations strand.. He has published extensively on Sino-Western relations, namely Anglo-Portuguese relations in China, and on early British and North-American presence in China (Macao). He also promotes a wide range of outreach activities in cooperation with (inter)national museums, newspapers, tvs, libraries and schools.

ELC -EWCC: Writing & Public Speaking Workshops
2025-04-22 16:30 - 2025-04-25 18:30 | E3-G033
Join Our Exclusive Writing and Public Speaking Workshops!
Looking to elevate your writing and public speaking skills? The English Writing and Communication Centre (EWCC) has got you covered! This April, we are excited to bring you two engaging workshops designed to help you excel in your academic and professional pursuits.
1. Writing Workshop: Revise, Edit, and Proofread

Topic: Strategies for Polishing Your Final Essay
Date: Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Time: 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Venue: E3-G033

Enhance your essay-writing skills by learning the art of revision, editing, and proofreading. This workshop will provide you with practical techniques to refine your essays, ensuring coherence, clarity, and grammatical accuracy. You will also discover how to identify and address common writing errors, strengthen your arguments, and produce high-quality, polished work.
2. Public Speaking Workshop: Speak to Captivate

Topic: Mastering Your Voice & Vocabulary
Date: Friday, 25 April 2025
Time: 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Venue: E3-G033

Boost your confidence and captivate your audience with effective public speaking techniques. This workshop focuses on using the right vocabulary and voice strategies to craft compelling speeches. With practical tips and strategies, you will learn to deliver your message with clarity, confidence, and impact.
Why Join?

Gain valuable skills for academic and professional success.
Learn practical strategies to improve your writing and speaking.
Participate in interactive sessions led by experienced instructors.

Register Now!
Secure your spot today by scanning the QR code on the poster or clicking this “Register link“ . Limited seats are available, so do not miss this opportunity!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Organized by:
English Writing and Communication Centre (EWCC)
English Language Centre
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
The University of Macau

ELC- EWCC: "Finding Success Across (Language) Borders" Chatroom
2025-04-23 14:00 - 16:00 | E3-G033
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EWCC Chatroom: Finding Success Across (Language) Borders
The English Writing and Communication Centre (EWCC) at the University of Macau is delighted to host an inspiring event, “Finding Success Across (Language) Borders”. This chatroom session will explore how learning a new language can transform lives and create opportunities for personal and professional success.
Event highlights:
This event features real-life stories of individuals who have migrated to new countries and overcome challenges by mastering English. Participants will gain insights into how language proficiency serves as a bridge to achieving dreams and building successful careers in a globalized world.
Event details:

Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Room E3-G033

This chatroom session is an excellent opportunity for students and faculty members alike to:

Learn from inspiring personal journeys of language and cultural adaptation.
Understand the critical role of language in achieving success across borders.
Engage in meaningful discussions about the transformative power of English.

Register Now!
To attend this event, please register by scanning the QR code on the poster or clicking this “Register link“ .Seating is limited, so early registration is encouraged.
For further inquiries, please contact the EWCC team at ewcc@um.edu.mo. We look forward to welcoming you to this enriching and thought-provoking event!
Organized by:
English Writing and Communication Centre (EWCC)
English Language Centre
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
The University of Macau
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FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – "Daoist Wisdom: An Account of Epistemic Humility" by Dr. Christine Tan, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
2025-04-23 17:30 - 19:00 | E21A-3118
Microsoft Teams: https://go.um.edu.mo/4sjk6f1d

Abstract
This work draws from Daoist thought to argue that epistemic humility is not only a necessary pre-condition to wisdom but is also sufficiently constitutive of wisdom. Additionally, I argue that going beyond that sufficiency undermines the genuineness of said wisdom. More specifically, both Zhuangzi and Laozi argue that going beyond epistemic humility assumes a context-transcending truth, epistemic justification, or metanormative value which exists, and can be known. In contrast, genuine wisdom understands that no knowledge, truth, or epistemic claim transcends any given context.
I advance three central arguments: First, epistemic humility is incompatible with holding any “belief,” “knowledge,” or “understanding” that is taken to be epistemically justifiable or rational. Second, epistemic humility is sufficient, and more radically, necessarily sufficient, meaning that anything added to it undermines it. Third, epistemic humility necessitates, rather than prevents, engagement and action.

Bio
Dr Christine Tan is a Filipino-born philosopher whose main areas of expertise are Chinese and Comparative Philosophy in general, and Neo-Daoist philosophy in particular. Before joining Yale-NUS College, she did her PhD at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where she wrote her dissertation titled ‘Freedom as Self-realisation: Zide in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang’. Before that, she did her MA and BA at the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, where her areas of focus were psychoanalysis and post-structuralist philosophy.
Dr Tan has published extensively in Chinese philosophy (with a specific focus on Guo Xiang). Her work has spanned a variety of epistemological themes from classical and medieval Chinese textual analysis to problem-driven treatments of traditionally Euro-centric issues such as freedom and autonomy. This includes published journal articles on Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. Ultimately, her goal is to push the boundaries for how we understand selfhood, agency, and community from inter-cultural and truly global lenses.

New incursion into the construction of audiovisual materials for teaching listening comprehension of Portuguese as a foreign language
2025-04-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Online

Workshop on Strategies to Excel in the CAPLE-ULisboa Exams
2025-04-24 - 2025-04-25 | E34-1002

【Macao Humanities Forum】The University as a Place of Culture: The Portuguese Experience - Professor Fátima Vieira (Vice-Rector of the University of Porto)
2025-04-24 14:00 - 15:30 | E21A-G035
We are delighted to invite you to the 6th Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2024/2025), scheduled on 24 April 2025. The forum provides 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 Fátima Vieira as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on “The University as a Place of Culture: The Portuguese Experience”. Professor Vieira is the Vice-Rector for Culture and Museums and Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto, President of the Board of Directors of the Marques da Silva Foundation, and Chair of the Specialized Commission on Art and Culture of the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities (CRUP). As an internationally renowned scholar and researcher, she devoted her entire career to cultural studies, with particular emphasis on Utopian and Spatiality Studies.

Details of the forum are as follows:
Speaker: Professor Fátima Vieira
Topic: The University as a Place of Culture: The Portuguese Experience
Date: 24 April 2025 (Thur)
Time: 14:00 – 15:30
Venue: E21A-G035
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 22 April 2025 (Tue) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0O2daAzvn9wSa7I.
Thank you for your attention!

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: “文與圖的交響——圖像時代的《紅樓夢》閱讀” – 王懷義教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “The Symphony of Text and Image: Reading The Dream of the Red Chamber in the Age of Visual Culture” by Prof. Wang Huaiyi
2025-04-24 19:00 - 20:30 | E21-3118
