Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

[Call for Presentations] The 1st FAH Macao Humanities Roundtable
2022-02-10 08:00 - 2022-03-12 17:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21A-FAH
FAH will launch the 1st ROUNDTABLE in May this year. The FAH is committed to achieving research excellence while striving for the nurturing of a research sharing culture. The Roundtable will serve as an excellent platform for FAH colleagues and PhD students to share and showcase their ongoing or recent research with their colleagues and students. 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 at this event. Please refer to the following for details.

Research Areas
Any topics in Arts and Humanities

How to apply
Please submit an abstract with a title (200 words maximum) by 11 March 2022 at https://go.um.edu.mo/lx7x9f05

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
35 minutes (25 min talk + 10 min Q&A)

Language
English or Chinese

Important dates
Application deadline: 11 March 2022
Notification of results: 25 March 2022
Roundtable date: First week of May (exact date TBC)

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 this coming May.

FAH-CCHC : [Online]Chinese Spirit - the Photo Exhibition of Red Ribbons on the Earth Activity, Student Activity
2022-01-16 09:00 - 2022-01-21 17:30 | Room G016, Cultural Building, Exhibition and Multi-function Hall (E34)
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC : [Online] Chinese Spirit – the Photo Exhibition of Red Ribbons on the Earth

Categories
:
Activity, Student Activity

Organizer
:
the Association of Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture of Macau

Co-organizer
:
FAH-Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Target Audience
:
All are Welcome

Link
:
https://cchc.fah.um.edu.mo/opendayexhibition/

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Ms. Stephenie Tong

Tel. No
:
88224028

Fax
:
88222383

Email
:
cchc.info@um.edu.mo

FAH-CCHC Lecture Series – "Social and Cultural Changes before and after Macao's return"
2022-01-10 15:30 - 16:30
Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC Lecture Series – “Social and Cultural Changes before and after Macao’s return”

Categories
:
Seminar / Lecture

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

Speaker
:
Dr. Chong Chon Fai

Date
:
10 January 2022

Time
:
15:50 – 16:50

Venue
:
Macau Baptist College

Target Audience
:
Students and teachers of Macau Baptist College

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Ms. Stephenie Tong

Tel. No
:
88224028

Fax
:
88222383

Email
:
cchc_adm@um.edu.mo

FAH-CCHC Lecture Series – "Lasting Spirit of Confucius:Confucius' Inheritance and Development of Zhou Gong's thought"
2022-01-10 08:00 - 09:00
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC Lecture Series – “Lasting Spirit of Confucius:Confucius’ Inheritance and Development of Zhou Gong’s thought”

Categories
:
Seminar / Lecture

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

Speaker
:
Prof. YEUNG Siu Kwai

Date
:
10 January 2022

Time
:
08:15 ~ 09:00

Venue
:
Hou Kong Middle School

Target Audience
:
Students and teachers of the above mentioned local school

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Ms. Stephenie Tong

Tel. No
:
88224028

Fax
:
88222383

Email
:
cchc_adm@um.edu.mo

FAH-CCHC : 13th Lu Xun Youth Literature Award Launching Ceremony of Macao Selection Campaign
2021-12-29 15:30 - 16:00
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC : 13th Lu Xun Youth Literature Award Launching Ceremony of Macao Selection Campaign

Categories
:
Activity, Student Activity

Organizer
:
Asia Culture Tours Satellite TV International Media Group

Co-organizer
:
FAH-Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Date
:
29 DEC 2021

Time
:
15:30 – 16:00

Venue
:
Lobby, Cultural Building (E34)

Target Audience
:
All are welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Ms. Stephenie Tong

Tel. No
:
88224028

Fax
:
28822383

Email
:
stephenietong@um.edu.mo

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“現代作家與漢字書法縱橫談”- 李繼凱教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Modern Writers and Chinese Calligraphy” by Prof. Li Jikai
2021-12-23 19:00

FAH-CCHC : Series of Academic Exhibition of Special topics in the Special Era : The carrier of Macao Dragon Culture
2021-12-23 11:00 - 13:00 | Room G011, Cultural Building, Lecture Hall (E34)
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC : Series of Academic Exhibition of Special topics in the Special Era : The carrier of Macao Dragon Culture

Categories
:
Activity, Student Activity

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

Speaker
:
Prof. TAM MEI LENG

Date
:
23 DEC 2021

Time
:
11:00 – 13:00

Venue
:
Room G011, Cultural Building, Lecture Hall (E34)

Target Audience
:
All are Welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Ms. Stephenie Tong

Tel. No
:
88224028

Fax
:
28822383

Email
:
stephenietong@um.edu.mo

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Classical Theism and Cognitive Science of Religion: A Synthesis” by Prof. Tyler Dalton McNabb, University of Saint Joseph, Macao
2021-12-22 17:30 - 19:00 | E21-3121
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/95398896954
Abstract
Lari Launonen and R.T. Mullins (2021) argue that if Classical Theism is true, human cognition is likely not theism-tracking, at least, given what we know from the field of cognitive science of religion. In this talk, we will develop a model for how classical theists can make sense of the findings from cognitive science, without abandoning their classical theist commitments. We will also provide an argument for how our model aligns well with the Christian doctrine of general revelation.

FAH-DPORT-CIELA: WORLD VARIETIES OF PORTUGUESE AND PORTUGUESE-BASED CONTACT LANGUAGES (Session 3)
2021-12-17 20:30 - 22:30 | By Zoom
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. For the current edition spaced out through 3 weeks in December 2021, the series will cover the following:
Session 3 (17/12/21) 8:30pm – 10:30pm Angolan Portuguese – Diachrony and Synchrony

ABSTRACTS:
“Languages ​​in Portuguese” – examples of linguistic phenomena in the vernacular varieties of Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese and Angolan

Prof. Márcia Duarte Oliveira dos Santos (USP)
In this conference, I seek to exemplify some linguistic phenomena in three varieties of Portuguese: (I) vernacular Portuguese spoken in Brazil (VBP); (II) vernacular Portuguese spoken in Portugal (VPP); (III) vernacular Portuguese spoken in Angola (VAP). The term “vernacular” refers to speech data generally captured in informal situations and not committed to the ‘norm’ of each of these countries; these speech data can be expressed in distinct areas (not necessarily all areas) of a given macro-speech variety. From the exemplification of a given variety (Angolan Portuguese), “free translations” will be offered in the other two varieties (Brazilian and European Portuguese).

Towards a Language History of Angolan Portuguese form Amélia Mingas Productions: preliminary study
Prof. Eduardo Ferreira dos Santos (UNILAB)
Our presentation aims at a brief approach on how the reflections of the Angolan linguist Amélia Mingas (1940-2019), present in some of her academic productions, contribute to the construction of a transatlantic linguistic history (NEGRÃO, 2020; COELHO & FINBOW, 2020 ). Thus, we seek to highlight the context in which Mingas’ works were produced and examine the presence of lexical units, such as “Angolan Portuguese”, “interference”, “Angolan”, etc., which were reinterpreted based on ideological choices and which help us in the conception of a subequatorial and decolonized transatlantic historiography.

All session are open and can be accessed through the ZOOM link as provided.
ZOOM LINK: https://umac.zoom.us/j/93458074389
Moderator for this Session: Prof. Carlos Figueiredo (UM)
Language: Portuguese

FAH-DPORT-CIELA: HOW TO WRITE A SCRIPT FOR A SHORT FILM IN SEVEN DAYS
2021-12-17 18:00 - 2021-12-29 20:00 | By Zoom
HOW TO WRITE A SCRIPT FOR A SHORT FILM IN SEVEN DAYS
(COMO ESCREVER UM GUIÃO PARA UMA CURTA METRAGEM EM SETE DIAS)

EVENT TYPE: Workshop (online)
Invited workshop facilitator: Ricardo de Almeida (Script Writer & Film Director)
Dates: 17, 22 & 29/12/2021 – 6:00pm – 7:40PM
Organizers: CIELA (DPT/FAH) in collaboration with Casa de Portugal in Macau.
LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE
Vacancies: 30 participants

WORKSHOP OUTLINE
A script is a movie waiting to happen.
In this workshop, you will learn the basic tools to go from an abstract idea to script writing.
It is aimed at people with no experience in script writing but wanting to make a first film and for writers with basic knowledge who want to improve their writing skills.
If you really like to tell stories and feel like producing a film, this workshop can be a starting point for you. And if you comply with the recommended discipline, you can write your first draft within a week.
Curta vs Longa metragem
Oline Enrolment: https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0NDr8AV2ADyU1LM

Information also available at: https://ciela.fah.um.edu.mo

FAH-CCHC : Chinese Culture Promotion Ambassador - 2022 Promotional Work Prospect Symposium
2021-12-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Room G011, Cultural Building, Lecture Hall (E34)
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC : Chinese Culture Promotion Ambassador – 2022 Promotional Work Prospect Symposium

Categories
:
Activity, Others, Student Activity

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

Date
:
17 Dec 2021

Time
:
15:00 – 17:00

Venue
:
Room G011, Cultural Building, Lecture Hall (E34)

Target Audience
:
Chinese Culture Promotion Ambassador

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Stephenie Tong

Tel. No
:
88224028

Fax
:
28822383

Email
:
cchc_adm@um.edu.mo

FAH/DPHIL Conference– “THE MORAL ROOTS OF QUARANTINE: the East and the West”
2021-12-16 15:00 - 2021-12-17 19:30 | E21-3118

FAH-DPORT-CIELA: Ethnography and Archiving: the Presence of Macau in the Indian Ocean
2021-12-15 17:00 - 2021-12-17 19:00 | By Zoom
The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) is pleased to invite all those interested to the Webinar “Ethnography and Archiving: the Presence of Macau in the Indian Ocean” by Prof. Pedro Pombo (Goa University) , being held on December 15 and 17, 2021, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, via Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91846133353?pwd=[REDACTED]
Registration link: https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_enFqWCxlBnMeiKW
ABSTRACT
This workshop draws on Macao documentation to be found in various archives in the Indian Ocean.
Session 1 will cover Macau’s role in the transoceanic transport routes of Chinese workers hired throughout the 19th century, through the traces that these circulations left in various archives in the Indian Ocean and in local cultural heritage.

Session 2 will take a closer look at Macau as a key connection between the Pacific and Indian oceans through documentation that evidence how the routes of contract workers from the 19th century directly connected the port of Macau to the Caribbean and South America, inserting this territory in extensive transoceanic networks.

Both sessions of this workshop offer participants the opportunity to follow the methodologies and conceptual bases of an investigation that crosses archive and ethnography, history and the present time, historical documents and the sensory world of contemporary societies that translate centuries of maritime circulations.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

FAH-CCHC : The Second Macau Forum on Education in Humanities and Social Sciences - Construction of Campus Culture in extraordinary times
2021-12-15 14:30 - 16:30 | Room G019, Cultural Building (E34-G019)
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC : The Second Macau Forum on Education in Humanities and Social Sciences – Construction of Campus Culture in extraordinary times

Categories
:
Seminar / Lecture, Activity

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

Co-organizer
:
Macao Base for Primary & Secondary Education in Humanities & Social Science (UMHSS)

Date
:
15 Dec 2021

Time
:
14:30 – 16:30

Venue
:
Room G019, Cultural Building (E34-G019)

Content
:
Introduction of the forum:
To strengthen academic and cultural exchanges among basic education units in Macao, accumulate experiences in popularizing and educating humanities and social sciences in primary and secondary schools in Macao, and conduct academic exchanges.

Target Audience
:
All are Welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Stephenie Tong

Tel. No
:
88224028

Fax
:
28822383

Email
:
cchc_adm@edu.mo

FAH-DPORT-CIELA: Poetics of emulation and anthropophagy: Towards a new theoretical paradigm?
2021-12-13 20:00 - 22:00 | By Zoom
The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) is pleased to invite all those interested to the Webinar “Poetics of emulation and anthropophagy: Towards a new theoretical paradigm?” by Brazilian scholar Professor João Cezar de Castro Rocha, being held on December 13, 2021, at 8:00pm, via Zoom https://umac.zoom.us/j/99267767347 (Meeting ID: 992 6776 7347)
Brazilian scholar Professor João Cezar de Castro Rocha (invited speaker) will give a talk on his new theoretical paradigm, the poetics of emulation and anthropophagy. The aesthetic concept of anthropophagy was first proposed by Brazilian modernists Oswald de Andrade and Mário de Andrade, and later it was potentiated by Haroldo de Campos in his »transcriation» (internationally known in the Translation Studies field as »cannibalistic» approach of translation). The talk followed by a Q &A and discussion session will be moderated by Prof. Raquel Abi-Sâmara (DPT-UM) and Prof. Matthew Gibson (DE-UM).
ABSTRACT
Non-hegemonic cultures face a common predicament: is it possible to identify a common strategy in dealing with the inevitable presence of foreign elements in the definition of one’s own intellectual and artistic identity? Poetics of emulation would be such common theoretical ground from which anthropophagy emerges. In this talk, this new theoretical paradigm will be presented.
INVITED SPEAKER
João Cezar de Castro Rocha is Full Professor of Comparative Literature at State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, CNPq. Castro Rocha is a top scholar in Brazil in the last decades, with a very significant performance not only in academia but also in a wider context. He has received Distinguished Fellowships and Visiting Professorships from several institutions in the United States, Europe, China, and Latin America.
Castro Rocha is the author of 13 books and editor of more than 20 titles. His latest publications are: Guerra Cultural e Retórica do Ódio. Crônicas de um Brasil pós–político (Goiâna, Editora Caminhos, 2021); Shakespearean Cultures. Latin America and the Challenge of Mimesis in Non-Hegemonic Circumstances (Michigan State University Press, 2019); Cultures Latino-américaines et Poétiques de l’Émulation: Littératures des Faubourgs du Monde?, among others.
Zoom link: https://umac.zoom.us/j/99267767347
Zoom meeting ID: 992 6776 7347
Meeting time: 8pm (Macao, China); 09am (Brazil); 12pm (Portugal)
The webinar is held in collaboration with FASB, Brazil, through Prof. Murilo Jardelino – co-organizer and moderator of previous webinars organized by CIELA.
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH (Q&A session can also include participation in Portuguese)

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“複雜適應系統理論視角下的 隱喻語篇功能分析框架”- 廖美珍教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Metaphor in Discourse Analysis from the Perspective of Complex Adaptability System” by Prof. Liao Meizhen
2021-12-13 10:00 | E21-3118

FAH-CCHC : Meet the spectacular wetland and build a beautiful home together, Yancheng Yellow Sea Coastal Wetland -- the World Heritage -- enters the University of Macau
2021-12-10 09:00 - 2021-12-11 23:30 | Exhibition Hall of UM Wu Yee Sun Library (E2-G007)
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC : Meet the spectacular wetland and build a beautiful home together, Yancheng Yellow Sea Coastal Wetland — the World Heritage — enters the University of Macau

Categories
:
Activity, Others, Student Activity

Organizer
:
Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, Yancheng Municipal People’s Government

Co-organizer
:
FAH-Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Date
:
10 Dec 2021 to 11 Dec 2021

Time
:
09:00

Venue
:
Exhibition Hall of UM Wu Yee Sun Library (E2-G007)

Target Audience
:
All are Welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Ms. Stephenie Tong

Tel. No
:
88224028

Fax
:
28822383

Email
:
cchc_adm@um.edu.mo

FAH-CCHC: “Native Land Emotion" Exhibition by PANG Xunqin, the father of modern chinese design
2021-12-10 08:00 - 2021-12-24 17:00 | Room G016, Cultural Building, Exhibition and Multi-function Hall (E34)
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC: “Native Land Emotion” Exhibition by PANG Xunqin, the father of modern chinese design

Categories
:
Activity, Student Activity

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

Date
:
10 Dec 2021 to 24 Dec 2021

Time
:
09:00 – 17:45

Venue
:
Room G016, Cultural Building, Exhibition and Multi-function Hall (E34)

Content
:
Opening Ceremony
Date: 10 December 2021
Time: 14:00 p.m.
Venue: Room G016, Cultural Building, Exhibition and Multi-function Hall (E34)
Exhibition Period
Date: 10 December 2021 – 24 December 2021
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. , Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays)
Venue: Room G016, Cultural Building, Exhibition and Multi-function Hall (E34)

Target Audience
:
All are welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Stephenie Tong

Tel. No
:
88224028

Fax
:
28822383

Email
:
cchc_adm@um.edu.mo

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“話段：漢語研究的本位”- 尹洪波教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Segment of Utterance: The Basic Unit in Chinese Grammar” by Prof. Yin Hongbo
2021-12-09 15:00 | E21A-3118 (講座以線上/線下形式進行)

航線與里程:文昌七洲洋與西沙七洲洋的地理位置
2021-12-09 13:00 - 14:30 | E21-3118

Workshop on Excellent Teaching Practices - Prof. Jeremy (Winner of UM Teaching Excellence Award)
2021-12-07 15:00 - 16:30 | E21A-G035, FAH Building
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) is going to organize the Workshop on Excellent Teaching Practices on 7 Dec 2021 at 15:00 in E21A-G035. In this workshop, we are honored to have Professor Jeremy DE CHAVEZ, the winner of 2020/2021 UM Teaching Excellence Award, share his teaching story and some tips in preparing a teaching portfolio.
Professor Jeremy De Chavez is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Macau (UM). He has been awarded the 2020/2021 UM Teaching Excellence Award and the 2020 FAH Best Teacher Award. Prior to joining UM, he held teaching appointments at De La Salle University (associate professor), Wilfrid Laurier University (adjunct lecturer), and Queen’s University (adjunct associate professor). His research and teaching areas are primarily in Postcolonial Studies, Global Anglophone Literature, and Critical/Cultural Theory.
Details of the workshop are as follows:
Speaker: Professor Jeremy DE CHAVEZ
Date: 7 Dec 2021 (Tuesday)
Time: 15:00 – 16:30
Venue: E21A–G035, Lecture Hall, FAH
Language: English
Description: The power of a good story is undeniable: it can arouse wonder, create lasting memories, clarify concepts, connect disparate ideas into a world of meaning, and even forge strong bonds between storyteller and listener. But how can the power of stories be harnessed as a pedagogical strategy? This workshop begins with a sharing session among participants about their own teaching stories toward a collective understanding of effective teaching practices. In the second half of the workshop, the facilitator will share some tips in preparing a teaching portfolio with the aim of helping participants tell their own stories as teachers through that document.
Please register for the workshop by 5 Dec 2021 (Sun) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6gQefKj9TNQGdIG

Department of English Distinguished Lecture Series - ‘Using Rasch measurement in Education and Language Research’ by Prof. Vahid Aryadoust
2021-12-06 10:00 - 12:00 | By Zoom
Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Department of English Distinguished Lecture Series

Prof. Vahid Aryadoust

Using Rasch measurement in Education and Language Research

Monday 6 December 2021, 10:00am

ZOOM: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91831233843

All are Welcome

Abstract:
Rasch measurement is widely used in educational and language research. This workshop introduces fundamental concepts in Rasch measurement and provides step-by-step guidelines for using Rasch analysis in validating questionnaires and tests. The software package used is Winsteps, which is user-friendly and as research shows is the most widely used Rasch software available. The Rasch-Andrich rating scale model, the partial credit model, and the output of each analysis will be presented and discussed.

Biography:
Vahid Aryadoust, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the English Language and Literature Academic Group. He is the Associate Director of the Global Listening Center, and a member of international associations such as the International Listening Association, American Association of Applied Linguistics, and the Cognitive Science Society. He has provided consultation on language assessment projects to, for example, Paragon Testing Enterprises (Canada), the DELTA Project of Hong Kong, and Learning Resource Network (London). Vahid has led multiple language assessment projects funded by, for example, Cambridge-Michigan Language Assessment (CaMLA) in 2013 and 2010, and published his research in Language Testing, Language Assessment Quarterly, Assessing Writing, Educational Assessment, Educational Psychology, and Computer Assisted Language Learning, etc. He has also (co)authored multiple book chapters and books published by Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Springer, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Wiley Blackwell, etc.

*Language: English

*Requirement: Participants are required to install Winsteps or Ministeps on their laptops (link: https://www.winsteps.com/ministep.htm)

Datasets used:

One dataset (SPSS format) from Chapter 11 of the book Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volume I: Fundament (routledge.com): Application of exploratory factor analysis in language assessment (Limei Zhang and Wenshu Luo)
Three datasets (Excel format) from Chapter 6 of the same book: Application of the Rating Scale Model and the Partial Credit Model in language assessment research (Ikkyu Choi)

Recommended sources:

Paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0265532220927487
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Xh2kr9duY

FAH-CCHC: Star of Melco Macau, Youth Talent Competition
2021-12-04 09:00 - 2021-12-05 18:00 | Room G036, The Black Box Theatre (E21)
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC: Star of Melco Macau, Youth Talent Competition

Categories
:
Activity, Student Activity

Organizer
:
National Conditions Education Association (Macau), City of dreams macau

Co-organizer
:
FAH – The Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Date
:
4 December 2021 to 5 December 2021

Time
:
09:00 – 18:00

Venue
:
Room G036, The Black Box Theatre (E21)

Target Audience
:
All are welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Stephenie Tong

Tel. No
:
88224028

Fax
:
28822383

Email
:
cchc_adm@um.edu.mo

FAH-DPORT-CIELA: World Varieties of Portuguese & Portuguese-Based Contact languages
2021-12-03 20:30 - 2021-12-17 22:30 | By Zoom
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 languages, the synchronous description of a language does not always include the documentation and inclusion of instances of variation, since this can be perceived as a marginal phenomenon, attributable to forces random or resulting from performance errors. In other cases, due to obsolescence and the small size of communities, it is the access to a restricted demographic sample and its more or less homogeneous linguistic behavior that leads to the categorical description of certain phenomena. In addition to these more general limitations, there is also the difficulty of identifying and interpreting instances of variation in under-documented and/or under-described languages, which neither benefit from previous linguistic and ethnographic research nor from the standardization that other languages ​​have.
Taking Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole as a case study and the analysis of spontaneous data contained in its documentation corpus (Cardoso 207), this presentation will discuss the methodological challenges and potentialities associated with the study of sociolinguistic variation in Creole languages , often situated at the intersection between contact, linguistic obsolescence and necessarily idiosyncratic social dynamics.
Cardoso, Hugo C. 2017. Documentation of Sri Lanka Portuguese. London: SOAS University of London, Endangered Languages Archive. http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-CB5E-2.

The path of Sri Lankan Portuguese: rise and decline
Hugo C. Cardoso (University of Lisbon, Faculty of Arts)
Among the set of Luso-Asian Creoles (existing or extinct), Sri Lanka (former Ceylon) is notable for having, at a certain point in its history, such a substantial implantation among the population of the territory that several agents ( colonial and religious) felt the need to promote a process of description and standardization of the language. Its current situation, however, is quite different, having observed a geographical and social contraction which, despite not having neutralized the use of the language, now places it under serious threat. In this communication, we map, as the documents reveal, the path of formation, expansion and contraction of the so-called Sri Lankan Portuguese. We will also present a set of initiatives that, in recent times, have promoted not only the documentation and description of this language, but also its preservation.

Hans-Jörg Döhla (Tübingen), Anja Hennemann (Potsdam)
& Alexander Teixeira Kalkhoff (Regensburg)
Aspectual markers in papiá kristang. Uses and functions based on an empirical study
Unlike other Portuguese lexical-based creole languages, papiá kristang (Malaca, Malaysia) has three grammatical markers TAM (tense-aspect-mode) that encode only the aspect and mood and, moreover, do not combine a with the other (see Baxter 1988, Pinharanda Nunes/Baxter 2004). The ta (1) and ja (2) markers encode the imperfective and the perfective and lo (3) mark the unreal future:
(1) pai ta bai Singapura
father ipfv go pn
‘Father is going to Singapore’
(2) “ja ola yo sa gatu?”
pfv see 1sg poss cat
‘“have you seen my cat?”’
(3) Yo… kore ake buraku lo intara ku eli.
1sg dig dem3 hole fut bury obj 3sg
‘I… dig that hole and (we) will bury it’
It is not surprising that papiá kristang does not have formal time markers because Malay Bazaar and Hokkien Chinese as the first substrate and astratum languages ​​of papiá kristang also lack these morphological time markers. Nevertheless, the temporal integration of events in Papiá Kristang is evidently possible.Based on empirical data (36,000 tokens) –collected in fieldwork on the basilectal variety of papiá kristang (Döhla 2021)– our study analyzes the linguistic resources for encoding the grammatical and functional-semantic categories of time and temporality. These semi-spontaneous data come from sixteen announcers who narrated a story through forty images. In our corpus we count 1,086 occurrences of ta, 1,537 occurrences of ja and 68 occurrences of lo.In the framework of this study, we will analyze the distribution and function of formal aspect markers with verbs that express dynamic and static (Aktionsart), the interaction between aspect and time, and the speaker’s perspective (viewpoint aspect).Our investigation presents empirical data on how a purely aspectual formal system works regarding the expression of the temporal deixis. We show how complex coding works through non-complex formal means.
References
APiCS = Michaelis, Susanne Maria et al. (eds.). 2013. Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. <http://apics-online.info>
Baxter, Alan. 1988. A Grammar of Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese). Canberra: ANU Pacific Linguistics.
Döhla, Hans-Jörg. 2021. When a companion becomes a patient: Differential object marking in Ibero-Asian Creoles and beyond. unpublished habilitation thesis, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Maurer, Philipp. 2004. „La marca de los objetos en los criollos de Batavia y Tugu“ In: Fernández Rodríguez, Mauro; Fernández-Ferreiro, Manuel; Vázquez Veiga, Nancy (eds.). Los criollos de base ibérica. Actas del III encuentro de ACBLPE. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 61‒71.
Maurer, Philipp. 2011. The Former Portuguese Creole of Batavia and Tugu (Indonesia). London/Colombo: Battlebridge.
Pinharanda Nunes, Mário; Baxter, Alan. 2004. „Os marcadores pré-verbais no crioulo de base lexical portuguesa de Macau“ In: Papia 14, 31‒46.

Session 3 (17/03/21) 8:30pm Portuguese Language in Angola
All session are open and can be accessed through the ZOOM links provided.
ZOOM LINK: https://umac.zoom.us/j/93458074389
Language of the current edition: Portuguese

FAH-DPORT: DPORT Lecture series 1 - FALL 2021
2021-12-03 16:00 - 18:00 | By Zoom
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 a product but rather an activity. He then gives a brief synopsis of the philosophy of language before pointing out that as one increases in proficiency in a new language one moves from learning through automation to learning through action and finally to learning through thinking. He then presents a series of theses, guidelines, and observations on language development, language learning and language teaching pointing out that language development is an interpretative and creative process, which proceeds holistically through increasingly accurate approximations.
SHORT BIO
Waldemar Martyniuk is Professor at the Institute of Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and is a teacher trainer, author of several textbooks, curricula, and testing materials for Polish as a foreign language. Visiting Professor and lecturer at universities in Germany (Bochum, Giessen, Goettingen, Mainz, Muenster), Switzerland (Basel), and in the USA (Stanford University). Seconded to the Council of Europe, Language Policy Division in Strasbourg, France, 2005–2006, and 2008–2013 as Executive Director of the European Centre for Modern Languages in Graz, Austria. Since 2019, he has been Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE).
Graham SEED
European Research Manager in the Research division at
Cambridge Assessment English
Secretariat Manager of ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe)
Taking account of plurilingualism in learning-oriented language assessment
In focusing on the importance of a language learner developing plurilingual competence, the CEFR (Council of Europe, 2001) and its Companion Volume (2020), are part of a wider shift in the emerging “multilingual turn” in language learning and teaching (May, 2014; Conteh and Meier, 2014), where the whole linguistic repertoire of a learner is valued. Little focus has so far however been paid to what that means for language assessment. In this presentation, I will define plurilingualism and its role in language learning and assessment, making the case the integration of learning and assessment helps us understand the construct of plurilingualism in language assessment. In addition, I will present a simple framework which categorises the different ways in which plurilingual competence is recognised in assessment and provide examples to illustrate these
SHORT BIO
Graham Seed is the Secretariat Manager of ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe). He is also the European Research Manager in the Research division at Cambridge Assessment English. His current professional interests include the operationalisation of the CEFR; and multilingualism in assessment contexts. He holds an MA in Language Testing from Lancaster University, DELTA and CELTA, and previously taught EFL in Bosnia, Russia and the UK.
IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
ZOOM LINK: https://umac.zoom.us/j/96575800447

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the University of Macau: Macao Humanities Forum by Professor Fu Gang from Peking University
2021-12-03 10:30 - 12:00 | Zoom
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) is going to organize the 1st Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2021/2022) on 3 Dec 2021. 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 FU Gang deliver a lecture on the topic “How do we understand pre-Qin literature and documents? (如何認識先秦文學與文獻).” Professor Fu is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts of Peking University, a leading scholar on pre-Qin literature, and President of the Chinese Wen Xuan Literary Research Association. His representative works include History of Poetry in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Research on the Selections of Refined Literature (Wen Xuan), Research on Editions of Wen Xuan, Commentary on the Biography of Xiao Tong (co-authored), New Songs from the Jade Terrace and Southern Dynasty, as well as Studies on Literature and Documents of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties.

Details of the forum are as follows:
Speaker: Professor FU Gang
Date: 3 Dec 2021 (Friday)
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Venue: Zoom
Language: Mandarin (with simultaneous interpretation in English)
Topic: How do we understand pre-Qin literature and documents?
The study of pre-Qin literature begins with solving the problem of documents. Unlike later dynasties, pre-Qin is divided into the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Eastern Zhou, and Warring States stages. In each stage, the nature and characteristics of the documents were different, and could not be summarized in general terms. There was no clear division of disciplines in the pre-Qin period, and the discipline of literature was not established; therefore, it is not possible to conduct research on the concept of post-Qin literature. In today’s academic research in literature, history, and philosophy, it is necessary to understand the nature and characteristics of pre-Qin literature.

The lecture will be conducted in Mandarin with simultaneous interpretation into English. Please register for the forum by 1 Dec 2021 (Wed) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9NVi6G3QVUBcK90

For more information, kindly refer to the below poster.

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“正反義詞存在音義關聯嗎？—— 對100種語言各20對正反義詞語音表現的分析”- 冉啟斌教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Are there sound-meaning associations between antonyms？--Analysis and exploration of a database containing 20 antonym pairs in 100 languages” by Prof. Ran Qibin
2021-12-03 09:30 | E4-G053

FAH Conference: “The Second Macau Roundtable Conference on Linguistics”
2021-12-03 09:00 - 2021-12-04 17:00 | E4-G053

FAH-CCHC : Series of Academic Exhibition of Special topics in the Special Era: A Talk of Children Literature
2021-12-02 16:30 - 18:00 | Room G019, Cultural Building (E34)
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC : Series of Academic Exhibition of Special topics in the Special Era: A Talk of Children Literature

Categories
:
Seminar / Lecture

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

Speaker
:
Prof. TANG Sulan

Date
:
2 Dec 2021

Time
:
16:30 – 18:00

Venue
:
Room G019, Cultural Building (E34)

Target Audience
:
All are Welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Ms. Stephenie Tong

Tel. No
:
88222708

Fax
:
28822383

Email
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cchc_adm@um.edu.mo

FAH-DPORT: DPORT Lecture series 1 - FALL 2021
2021-12-02 16:00 - 18:00 | By Zoom
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 complementarity: informal classroom assessment and formal large-scale assessment should both contribute to the two key purposes of assessment: to provide evidence of learning and evidence for learning.
In this talk I will explain these points with reference to several publications, including Jones and Saville, 2016 and Saville, 2021.
Jones and Saville is free to download from this URL: https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/Images/639876-silt-volume-45.pdf
SHORT BIO
Dr Nick Saville is the Director of Thought Leadership at University of Cambridge Press and Assessment, and is the elected Secretary-General of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE). His current research interests include assessment and learning in the digital age; the use of ethical AI; language policy and multilingualism; the CEFR; and Learning Oriented Assessment (LOA).
Nick is a consultant for European institutions including the Council of Europe, the European Parliament & the EU Commission. In this capacity he has been involved in the development of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) since its inception, and more recently was an invited Expert for the development and validation of the Companion Volume. He has worked on educational reforms which use the CEFR as a basis in developing curricula and setting objectives for learning and objectives. He has also worked as an advisor to many ministries around the world, including in Italy, Mexico, Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan and China. He is currently an Expert for the National Educational Examination Authority, China and Visiting Professor at Xiamen University, China.
More widely at Cambridge, Nick has collaborated with Cambridge University Press as co-founder of the Cambridge Learner Corpus (1993) and co-founder/coordinator of the English Profile Programme (2006). He lectures and supervises PhDs in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Linguistics), and is Joint-Director of the MSt in English Language Assessment. He sits on several University Boards, including: MEITS, an interdisciplinary research programme in Multilingualism; the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Language Sciences; the Institute for Automated Language Teaching and Assessment; and English Language iTutoring, providing AI-informed automated systems.
Nick holds a PhD from the University of Bedfordshire in language test impact, as well as a BA in Linguistics and an MA in TEFL from the University of Reading. Before moving to Cambridge in 1989, he worked at the University of Cagliari (Facolta’ di Magistero) in Italy from 1980 to 1986 teaching English. He has specialised in language testing and assessment since 1987, initially managing a test development project for Cambridge in Japan based at the British Council, Tokyo (1987-1989).
IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
ZOOM LINK: https://umac.zoom.us/j/96575800447
