Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

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

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“當下鮮活語言： 從北京猿人到當今土著網民”- 顧曰國教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Living Language Here and Now: From Peking Man to Digital Natives” by Prof. Gu Yueguo
2022-09-21 20:30 - 22:00 UTC | E21-3118

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Temporal ontology and formal ontology” by Prof. Francesco Orilia, University of Macerata, Italy
2022-09-21 17:30 - 19:00 UTC | E21-3121
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/92060951944
Abstract
Temporal ontology is more and more recognized as a crucial part of metaphysics. Nowadays metaphysics textbooks often include a chapter on this topic. These works take for granted that there is substantial disagreement between the different traditional views in temporal ontology such as A-eternalism, B-eternalism, growing block theory, presentism. This seems to be right and yet many philosophers have argued that the disagreement is only verbal or not substantial. Then, in an attempt to clarify the nature of the dispute in temporal ontology new views, such as permanentism and transientism have entered the arena. This however appears to have added additional perplexities, up to the point that the very authors of the entry on presentism of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Tallant and Ingram, have recently argued that “presentism” is a merely idiomatic term for a collection of views that “share no salient core.” To go out of these quandaries, it may seem apt to invoke the logical tools of formal ontology, whose goal is “to bring together the clarity, precision, and methodology of logical analyses on the one hand with the philosophical significance of ontological analyses on the other” (Cocchiarella, Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism, 2007). The relevant logical tools here are those of temporal, or tense, logic, and yet this logic, as typically understood, appears to be unfit to provide a formal representation of the competing theses of temporal ontology. This is due to its strange combination of tensedness in the object language and tenselessness in the metalanguage, without an interplay of these two aspects of language. However, this interplay is somehow needed in order to capture the theses in question. I plan to examine this situation and propose some remedies, and then plea for the importance of formal tools in metaphysics and for a more widespread and accurate use of them in the future.
Bio
Francesco Orilia has studied at the University of Palermo (M.A. in philosophy, 1979) and at Indiana University (Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1986). Since 1997 he teaches at the University of Macerata, where he chaired the philosophy teaching program in 2010-2013 and was rector’s delegate for research and research evaluation from 2011 to 2016. Previously he was a researcher in the Olivetti lab in Pisa and has taught at the University of Cagliari. He has also had visiting teaching positions in Bloomington (1986), Paris IV (2005), Iowa City (2006), Cambridge (2008), Blaise Pascal at Clermont Ferrand (2013), Lugano (2019).
His main research interests are in analytic ontology and the philosophy of language, time, mind and logic. He has published several monographs, including Singular Reference. A Descriptivist Approach (Springer, 2010) and many articles in international journals such as dialectica, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Philosophical Studies, Synthese. He is now leading a research group for a 3-years project on The scientific image and the manifest image funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research.

“Ye Ting and Macao” Seminar
2022-09-21 10:00 - 23:30 UTC
Event Information

Event Name

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FAH-CCHC : “Ye Ting and Macao” Seminar

Categories

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Activity

Organizer

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The Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC), Yancheng Culture Radio Film and TV and Tourism Administration, New Fourth Army Memorial Hall, National Conditions Education Association (Macau)

Date

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21 September 2022

Time

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10:00 – 11:30

Venue

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Lobby, Cultural Building Room-G019 (E34)

Target Audience

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All are welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name

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Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Tel. No

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88222708

Fax

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28822383

Email

:

cchc.info@um.edu.mo

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“漢語詞彙化和語法化研究”系列講座- 張秀松教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: Lecture Series on “Lexicalization and Grammaticalization in Chinese” by Prof. Zhang Xiusong
2022-09-09 19:00 - 2022-10-28 21:00 UTC | Zoom /E21A-2100

Conspicuous Consumption and Economic Reasoning in the “Inequality of Wealth” Chapter of Huan Kuan’s Discourses on Salt and Iron
2022-09-08 09:00 - 11:00 UTC | By Zoom

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Patterns of Thought in the Chinese Bronze Age” by Prof. Paul R. Goldin, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
2022-09-07 10:00 - 11:30 UTC
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/ j/ 98172916562
Abstract
The Chinese Bronze Age corresponds roughly to two dynasties, Shang 商 (ca. 1600-ca. 1045 B.C.) and Western Zhou 西周 (ca. 1045-771 B.C.). The name Bronze Age is defensible because these were bronze-using societies whose artifacts evince a high degree of metallurgical skill, and who left behind some of their most important documents as inscriptions on bronze vessels. Conspicuously, the surviving textual sources derive from the world of the elite, if not the very apex of power in the form of the King and his closest ministers. One of the major questions is the extent to which they believed what they wrote and transmitted. How much confidence did they have in their oracles? Did the King believe that Heaven would reward him for virtue and punish him for vice? If anyone in the Bronze Age harbored doubts about these convictions, no such record has survived. Accordingly, the Bronze Age may seem barren to philosophers, for I do not think there can be “philosophy” without doubt: the awareness that there can be other perspectives, that a moral life requires thinking for oneself and not simply living up to the expectations of some unquestioned authority. But what can be inferred? This paper will survey questions such as the interpretation of oracles, the doctrine of Heaven’s Mandate (tianming 天命), the concept of learning from history, ideals of jurisprudence, and the reasons for the collapse of Bronze Age ideology in later centuries.
Bio
Paul R. Goldin is Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, and he is currently the Roger E. Covey Member in East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
He is the author of Rituals of the Way: The Philosophy of Xunzi (1999); The Culture of Sex in Ancient China (2002); After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy (2005); Confucianism (2011); and The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them (2020). In addition, he edited the revised edition of R.H. van Gulik’s classic study, Sexual Life in Ancient China (2003), and has edited or co-edited six other books on Chinese culture and political philosophy.

中國文化節系列活動之“十分澳門”短視頻創作大賽
2022-09-05 00:00 - 2022-09-30 23:59 UTC | Online platform (0:00-05/09/2022&23:59-30/09/2022)
大賽主題：澳門大學中國歷史文化中心中國文化節系列活動之“十分澳門”短視頻創作大賽以“十分澳門”為主題，旨在弘揚、繼承中華優秀傳統文化，突顯澳門以中華文化為主流、多元文化並存的獨特性，增進澳門學生對本土文化的理解和認同。參賽者可自行選擇澳門深層次、具有本土文化的事或物進行拍攝，並介紹其歷史內涵；
主辦單位：澳門大學中國歷史文化中心
參賽要求：

(a)資格

澳門高校學生及中國文化推廣大使；
參賽者須以個人或不超過五人的隊伍形式組成參賽單位，每一參賽單位只可遞交一份作品，參賽者不可重複組隊;

(b)作品要求

參賽視頻長度：5分鐘內；
格式：MPEG/MP4/MOV;
字幕：中文；

(c)報名方式

將視頻作品上傳至Bilibili，並確保視頻鏈接有效；
附視頻作品簡介（約150字），語言為中文；
按報名表格填妥相關報名信息 ；

日期：

報名日期：請於2022年9月5日(一)至9月30日(五)期間在網上(填寫及提交Google Form)或親臨澳門大學中國歷史文化中心(E34-G001/G026)提交報名表(附件一及附件二)。報名成功後會獲發參賽序號；
活動章程及報名表格(可下載)
請於2022年10月6日(四)至10月25日(二)將作品上載至Bilibili，並確保視頻鏈接有效；參加視頻需命名爲【“十分澳門”+ 參加隊伍序號 + 參加隊伍名稱 + 作品名稱】；

獎項：

一等獎二名(組)，獎金為澳門元2,500
二等獎二名(組) ，獎金為澳門元2,000
三等獎四名(組) ，獎金為澳門元1,500

得獎作品將在安排在Bilibili平台播放，以宣揚澳門文化；

查詢：如欲了解更多有關本中心舉辦之活動，請瀏覽https://cchc.fah.um.edu.mo/　如對本次比賽有任何疑問，歡迎與中國歷史文化中心何小姐或唐小姐聯絡，辦公電話：88229956/ 88224028，電郵：cchc_adm＠um.edu.mo。

A Campus of Gender Equity
2022-08-25 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | By Zoom

FAH-DPORT: 36th Portuguese Language Summer Course (Online)
2022-07-11 09:00 - 2022-07-29 18:00 UTC | By Zoom
Because of the recently development of the epidemic, the 36th Portuguese Language Summer Course, organised by the University of Macau (UM) Department of Portuguese, has moved online and will begin on 11 July. This year’s summer course has attracted students from Japan, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao. Over 50 per cent of students will enroll in courses at intermediate or advanced levels.
This year’s summer course will be taught by Portuguese professors, researchers, and authors of Portuguese textbooks and reference texts from Macao and around the world. During the three-week course, in addition to 45 hours of language lessons, students will participate in public lectures and thematic courses, which will cover topics such as linguistics, history, gastronomy, music, dance, as well as society and culture of Portuguese-speaking African countries. In addition, this year’s summer course will offer special courses in two areas of great relevance and interest to Portuguese-speaking professionals in China, namely Chinese-Portuguese translation and Sino-Lusophone relations, and they will be taught by renowned translators and academics.
The online lectures are free and are open to the public. Portuguese writers José Luís Peixoto, Nuno Júdice, and Adriana Lisboa will speak on ‘The First Portuguese Novelists of the 21st Century’ (11 July, 7:00pm), ‘What is Poetry’ (20 July, 7:00pm) and ‘Literature and the Natural World’ (29 July, 7:30pm) respectively. Those who are interested can attend the public lectures by visiting the following site at the time of the lectures: https://umac.zoom.us/j/93170073369?pwd=[REDACTED] Participants will have the opportunity to interact directly with the speakers to broaden their knowledge of Portuguese literature and culture.

ELC Online Summer English Programme 2022 (June 29 to July 19)
2022-06-29 09:00 - 2022-07-19 13:00 UTC | By Zoom
The ELC welcomes over 300 incoming UM students to the online Summer English Programme 2022
Today (June 29) marks the beginning of the ELC’s 3-week Summer English Programme (SEP) 2022, which will welcome over 300 students from Macau and surrounding areas who plan to enter University of Macau (UM) in August. The SEP 2022 aims to bridge students’ current academic language, conceptual and study abilities, to better acquaint them with the study expectations within an international university context. Nineteen experienced ELC teaching faculty will support the programme to assist students’ transition from high school to university. Due to the current unstable COVID-19 situation in Macau, the SEP 2022 will take place online.
The programme will focus specifically on English and other skills necessary for academic and faculty-specific language environments that students will encounter upon university entry. The programme aims to support students through a comprehensive raft of in-house produced materials for instruction and support via Moodle, Zoom, Padlet, Screencast-o-matic, and other accessible technology platforms. Programme instructors also encourage student engagement in their classes through interactive and gamified learning activities connected to the language skills and vocabulary within the curriculum. Finally, the programme will address student motivation, learning, and assessment through integration of student-produced digital projects and an E-portfolio to exhibit a body of students’ work from the 3 weeks.
The ELC wishes students the best for the Summer English Programme 2022 and their ongoing studies at UM, as we strive to support student success at the university.
Sincerely,
English Language Centre

FAH-DPORT: SEMINÁRIO HÍBRIDO: PORTUGUÊS COMO LÍNGUA PLURICÊNTRICA NOS CONTEXTOS DE SALA DE AULA DA ÁSIA (11 E 12 DE JUNHO DE 2022)
2022-06-11 09:00 - 2022-06-12 18:00 (Asia/Macau) | FUNDAÇÃO RUI CUNHA ou via Zoom
SEMINÁRIO HÍBRIDO:
PORTUGUÊS COMO LÍNGUA PLURICÊNTRICA NOS CONTEXTOS DE SALA DE AULA DA ÁSIA
(11 E 12 DE JUNHO DE 2022)
Local: FUNDAÇÃO RUI CUNHA

PREZADOS COLEGAS, ESTUDANTES E PARCEIROS,
O Departamento de Português da Universidade de Macau, com o apoio do Ministério das Relações Exteriores do Brasil (MRE) e da CÁTEDRA UNESCO “Políticas Linguísticas para o Multilinguismo”, realizará o SEMINÁRIO HÍBRIDO: PLURI 2022 – PORTUGUÊS COMO LÍNGUA PLURICÊNTRICA NOS CONTEXTOS DE SALA DE AULA DA ÁSIA, a ter lugar na Fundação Rui Cunha, Macau, China, entre 11 e 12 de junho de 2022.
O SEMINÁRIO busca oferecer uma plataforma aberta para reflexões teórico-práticas sobre ensino e formação de professores com base em conceitos contemporâneos de língua, cultura, identidades e comunidades. O eixo norteador será a concepção do Português como Língua Pluricêntrica, que considera legítimas todas as variedades linguísticas e culturas geradas em diferentes contextos de língua portuguesa no mundo.
No formato híbrido, o congresso reunirá professores, tradutores, intérpretes, linguistas e demais interessados de todo o mundo que exploram diferentes áreas de pesquisa e se interessam pela investigação da diversidade contextos onde as línguas portuguesas criam realidades. Serão debatidos e confrontados estudos linguísticos voltados para as suas dimensões formais, interacionais, pragmáticas, políticas, ideológicas, cognitivas, sociais, culturais, históricas, literárias…
Por promover e realizar discussões democráticas, em que todos terão voz, o encontro será uma oportunidade para profissionais em geral, estudantes de graduação e de pós-graduação manterem-se atualizados com as tendências atuais da pesquisa em torno da língua portuguesa. Será, ainda, um espaço para a construção de redes e projetos internacionais.
O evento será organizado a partir de Mesas-Redondas, Rodas de Conversas e Oficinas.

INSCRIÇÕES
O SEMINÁRIO constituiu-se para ser aberto ao debate de reflexões gerais e de pesquisas teóricas e aplicadas nas diferentes perspectivas que refletem sobre todas as variedades do Português no âmbito da tradução, da interpretação, da literatura, da filosofia, da linguística, da história, da didática das línguas etc.
Venha debater – presencialmente ou online – temas de interesse e passar a fazer parte de grupos de discussões.
Os inscritos receberão a) CERTIFICADO DE PARTICIPAÇÃO com o conteúdo do Seminário: as Mesas-Redondas, as Rodas de Conversa; E b) CERTIFICADO DE FORMAÇÃO para quem fizer um ou duas Oficinas. As Certificações terão os selos da Universidade de Macau, do Ministério das Relações Exteriores do Brasil e da Cátedra UNESCO “Políticas Linguísticas para o Multilinguismo”.
Temas de debate:

A formação histórica do plurilinguismo em Português;
A difusão e promoção da língua portuguesa em diversos países dos diferentes continentes;
Questões de identidades;
A variabilidade;
Políticas do idioma;
Português como língua transnacional;
Português e pós-colonialismo, pós-estruturalismo, superdiversidade;
Reflexões sobre novos conceitos que procuram descrever e ao mesmo tempo fixam/cristalizam realidades como o Português como língua de herança, língua segunda, estrangeira, de acolhimento etc;
Outros temas e áreas aplicadas e teóricas da linguística que estudam a língua portuguesa.

PARA INSCREVER-SE E PARTICIPAR DAS DISCUSSÕES (PRESENCIALMENTE OU ONLINE), CLIQUE AQUI: FORMULÁRIO DE INSCRIÇÃO
DATA IMPORTANTE PARA INSCRIÇÃO: ATÉ 12 DE JUNHO (Agora é possível inscrever-se durante os dias do Seminário)
INSCREVA-SE UTILIZANDO O FORMULÁRIO ACIMA PARA TERMOS ACESSO AOS SEUS DADOS E PREPARARMOS OS SEUS CERTIFICADOS.
ATENÇÃO!
PARA ENTRAR NO SEMINÁRIO DE FORMA ONLINE, É PRECISO ACEDER AO LINK DA FUNDAÇÃO RUI CUNHA. ACESSE O LINK E INSCREVA-SE NO DIA EM QUE VAI PARTICIPAR (ou nos dois). CADA PARTICIPANTE RECEBERÁ UMA MENSAGEM PARTICULAR PARA PODER ENTRAR NOS WEBNÁRIOS.
LIGAÇÕES:
DIA 11 JUNHO
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1Qb-BjzSSnq0sqnq8VVSeg
DIA 12 JUNHO
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yJQMZVZGQNSljEmEHrXDlw
ATENÇÃO: AS OFICINAS TÊM VAGAS LIMITADAS
(25 PRESENCIAL/25 ONLINE)

PROGRAMAÇÃO
CLIQUE AQUI PARA VER A PROGRAMAÇÃO DO DIA 11/06/2022

CLIQUE AQUI PARA VER A PROGRAMAÇÃO DO DIA 12/06/2022

COMISSÃO ORGANIZADORA
Coordenação
Roberval Teixeira e Silva – Universidade de Macau/Cátedra UNESCO PLM
Caio César Christiano – CPCLP – Universidade Politécnica de Macau

Comissão Local
Bruna Morelo – Universidade de Macau
Erasto Santos Cruz – Universidade de Macau
Júlio Jatobá – Universidade de Macau/ Cátedra UNESCO PLM
Vanessa Amaro – FLT – Universidade Politécnica de Macau
ZHU Chenglin – Universidade de Macau
LI Yuanzhou – Universidade Politécnica de Macau

Comissão Geral
Ângela Teodoro Grillo – Universidade de Línguas Estrangeiras de Zhejiang
Jakeline Pereira Nunes – Universidade de Estudos Estrangeiros de Sichuan
José Medeiros da Silva – Universidade de Estudos Internacionais de Zhejiang
Kétina Allen da Silva Timboni – Universidade de Estudos Estrangeiros de Pequim
Tatiane Macedo Costa – Universidade de Ciência e Tecnologia de Macau

Secretaria
Nuno Antunes – Universidade de Macau
Iny Chan – Universidade de Macau

FAH-CCHC: “2022 Work Exhibition and Award Ceremony of the New Year Calligraphy Competition in Hong Kong and Macau”
2022-06-01 17:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Macau) | Lobby, Cultural Building (E34)
Event Information

Event Name
:
FAH-CCHC: “2022 Work Exhibition and Award Ceremony of the New Year Calligraphy Competition in Hong Kong and Macau”

Categories
:
Activity, Student Activity

Organizer
:
Calligraphy Education Research Association of Macau

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

Date
:
1 June 2022

Time
:
17:00 – 18:00

Venue
:
Lobby, Cultural Building (E34)

Content
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Opening Ceremony
Date: 1 June 2022
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Lobby, Cultural Building (E34)
Exhibition Period
Date: 1 June 2022 – 30 June 2022
Time: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays)
Venue: Room G016, Cultural Building, Exhibition and Multi-function Hall (34)

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

Book Launch Ceremony — Luz Dentro De Nós
2022-05-28 11:30 - 13:00 (Asia/Macau) | 官樂怡基金會

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Free Will and Neuroscience” by Prof. Alfred Mele, Florida State University, U.S.A.
2022-05-18 20:00 - 21:30 (Asia/Macau)
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/95284746257
Abstract
A major source of scientific skepticism about free will is the belief that conscious decisions and intentions never play a role in producing corresponding actions. I present three serious problems encountered by any attempt to justify this belief by appealing to existing neuroscientific data. Experiments using three different kinds of technology are discussed: EEG, fMRI, and depth electrodes. I focus on three questions: When are decisions made (or intentions acquired) in the experiments at issue? When, in these experiments, is the point of no return reached for the featured overt actions? And can we properly generalize from the experimenters’ alleged findings to all decisions?

FAH/DPHIL Congress - "Theology, Translation, and Interpretation: the work and legacy of Fr. Joaquim Guerra, S.J."
2022-05-09 20:00 - 2022-05-31 22:00 (Asia/Macau)
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/95422719548

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The morality of custom and the morality of rules” by Prof. Hans Sluga, University of California at Berkeley, USA
2022-05-04 11:00 - 12:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-G047
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/95562460083
Abstract
According to Nietzsche the primordial form of morality was that of the “Sittlichkeit der Sitte” – a morality of custom – which has come to be overlaid for us with a morality of rules. How and why has this process taken place? Is there still room for and perhaps even a necessity for the morality of custom? Should we think of Confucian and Aristoetlian ethics, in particular, as designed to preserve elements of the morality of custom?

FAH Macao Humanities Roundtable
2022-05-04 09:30 - 18:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21A-3118 & E21A-G049
The 1st FAH Macao Humanities Roundtable will be held on 4 May 2022. As one of the major events in FAH, the Roundtable aims to foster collegiality in the faculty and serves as an excellent platform for FAH colleagues and Ph.D. students to share and showcase their research with UM members. There will be parallel sessions in E21A-3118 and E21A-G049 (SI LAB). The 22 excellent presentations are grouped into 6 sessions, including 1A-Literature & Translation, 1B-History & Language, 2A-Literature & Education, 2B-Linguistics, 3A-Philosophy, and 3B-Translation & Linguistics. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.
Details of the event are as follows:
Event name: The 1st FAH Macao Humanities Roundtable
Date: 4 May (Wed)
Venue: E21A-3118 & E21A-G049 (SI LAB)
Time: 9:30 – 18:15

Session 1 A (Literature & Translation) at E21A-3118: 9:30-12:50 (1 Smart Point & 35CS)
Session 1 B (History & Language) at E21A-G049: 9:40-12:50 (1 Smart Point & 35CS)
Session 2 A (Literature & Education) at E21A-3118: 14:00-15:45 (1 Smart Point & 25CS)
Session 2 B (Linguistics) at E21A-G049 : 14:00 -16:20 (1 Smart Point & 25CS)
Session 3 A (Philosophy) at E21A-3118: 16:30-17:40 (1 Smart Point & 20CS)
Session 3 B (Translation & Linguistics) at E21A-G049: 16:30-18:15 (1 Smart Point & 20CS)

Programme: Roundtable Programme
Registration: Register for the Roundtable by 3 May 2022 (Tue) via https://forms.gle/JfTZBccPLvnXhwQH7
For further inquiries, please feel free to contact Ms. Lisa Lam via lisalam@um.edu.mo

Presentation abstract:
Session分組1A:
Literature & Translation 文學 & 翻譯
中国文化人常犯的中国文化错误
朱壽桐 Zhu Shoutong
中國語言文學系Department of Chinese Language and Literature
中国文化历史悠久，博大精深，即便是从事中国文化研究的人士，也常常犯各种错误。这些错误就在我们身边，可能经常会遇到，可能司空见惯。有些是见识性的，包括错别字之类，有些是知识性的，由于不懂得历史情由造成的错误，还有些是学术性的，情形就复杂一些。但这些错误都可以避免。如何避免犯这样的错误？还是要进行中国文化的进修，包括加入我们的讲座。

明清澳門詩詞的分期與特點
鄧駿捷Tang Chon Chit
中國語言文學系Department of Chinese Language and Literature
摘要：明清澳門詩詞因澳門獨特的歷史發展過程，而成為了中國區域文學中一個別致的樣本。澳門詩詞發端於明萬曆年間，至清乾隆時期，開始出現了本土士人的作品，從此以後，形成了外來人士與本土士人共築的文學圖景。另一方面，澳門詩詞內容複雜，既有豐富的西洋意象，又有對中國傳統風物的歌詠，風格多樣，並形成了特定的“文學風景”。澳門詩詞是由生活在澳門這塊土地上的人們所感所思形成的，也是澳門歷史的曲折而又真實的反映。
關鍵字：澳門文學；澳門詩詞；明清時期；發展階段；藝術特色
Due to the unique historical development process of Macao, Macao poetry has become a unique sample of Chinese regional literature during Ming and Qing dynasties. Macao poetry originated in Ming Wanli period, and it began to appear the local scholars until Qing Qianlong period. From now on, an objective literary scene was formed by foreigners and local scholars. On the other hand, since the content of Macao’s poems was complex, there was full of Western imagery, recitation of Chinese traditional things with diverse styles and forming a specific “literary landscape”. The Macao poetry was formed by the feelings and thoughts of people living in Macao, and also the tortuous and true reflection of Macao’s history.

從蒲松齡到北島：淺議葡語國家的中國文學翻譯
姚京明Yao Jing Ming
Department of Portuguese
本講座結合最近在巴西出版的兩本由我主編的譯著《我不相信雷的迴聲——北島詩選》和《聊齋誌異》，漫談近些年來中國文學在葡語國家，特別是巴西和葡萄牙的翻譯情況。

淺論江淹對左思《詠史》的模擬與接受
張月Zhang Yue
中國語言文學系Department of Chinese Language and Literature
本論文在前賢研究的基礎上，通過文本細讀、互文性與接受史的方法、視角來重新解讀江淹對左思《詠史》八首的擬作，側重江淹在表達方式、主題、思想等方面對左思詩歌精神內核的把握以及該擬詩在學術史、詠史詩發展史中的重要意義。

Who Speaks for Nature? Genre, Gender and the Eco-translation of Chinese Wild Animals
You Chengcheng
Department of English
Wild animal stories, as a literary genre, often oscillate between authentic representations of animal behaviours and various degrees of anthropomorphic projection. The study identifies how the voices of wild animals are articulated in two contrasting Chinese wild animal stories, Shixi Shen’s Jackal and Wolf (2012) and Gerelchimeg Blackcrane’s Black Flame (2013), and how culture-specific understandings of genre, gender and environmental education are negotiated in the published translations. Informed by Michael Cronin’s model of “eco-translation” and David Herman’s “narratology beyond the human,” it argues that the eco-translation of the source texts is mainly manifested in the reduction of gender stereotypes and sentimental anthropomorphism, problematisation of genetic descriptions and reappropriation of non-fictional texts. These strategic interventions enhance eco-translation’s potential as an anti-anthropocentric narratology, a co-authored life writing that recognises the generic ambivalence within animal storytelling practice and further speaks for nature with more conscious allocation of agency across the species lines.

Session分組1B:
History & Language 歷史 & 語言
The Zhang on Chinese Southern Frontiers: Disease Constructions 中国历史上的瘴
Yang Bin
Department of History
Adopting a historicalist-conceptualist approach, this article scrutinizes from a longue durée perspective the Chinese disease-concept zhang, which refers to a group of tropical and subtropical diseases on Chinese southern frontiers. It firstly reviews how the Chinese literati created and employed the term to set the southern, non-Han peoples culturally apart, followed by an analysis of the zhang diseases and their treatment in Chinese traditional medicine. Then the article turns to the question of how the zhang diseases constituted as an ecological barrier that hindered Chinese southern expansions, illustrated by the Sino-Burmese War (1765–70). Finally, the case of Yunnan during the Ming-Qing period (1368–1912) will be examined to reveal how Chinese colonization reduced the instances of the zhang, at least reflected in imperial texts. In sum, the Chinese notion of the zhang diseases as a distinct group interplayed with Chinese frontier process and empire-building, and may shed light on both the Chinese march toward the tropics in a broad context and the transformation of Chinese civilization over the lounge duree.

Literary Plunder: The Making and Unmaking of Tipu Sultan’s Library
Joshua Ehrlich
Department of History
The library of Tipu Sultan, Sultan of Mysore (r. 1782–99) was once among the richest in South Asia, if not in the world. It contained as many as four thousand books and manuscripts, on a wide range of subjects and in numerous languages, Asian and European. Many of these works were beautifully illustrated and had belonged to a series of distinguished owners previously. Amassed largely through plunder, the library was plundered in turn by the British East India Company in 1799. In this talk, Joshua Ehrlich, Assistant Professor of History, will explore how Tipu Sultan used the library to legitimize his rule, as well as how rival factions within the Company sought to do the same. Finally, he will discuss what the fortunes of Tipu’s library reveal about the enduring symbolic power of plunder and the complex meanings of libraries.

Framing the epidemic by WAR metaphors in the Macao Daily News – Lexis, themes, and frames for persuasion
Vincent Wang
Department of English
The study investigates the use of metaphors in a leading conventional media of Macao for covering epidemic related matters. We discovered that WAR metaphors have been primarily used in the reports of the Macao Daily News, and have identified the three sets of lexical expressions for realising the metaphors. The main themes delivered by the WAR metaphors include describing the gravity of the situation, communicating anti-epidemic measures, and calling for joint efforts. In addition, the persuasion of the call for actions is examined in terms of the gain/loss frames and the collectivism appeal. The results are discussed in relation to effective health communication and the interplay between the collective gain versus the individual loss in the context of war.

從語言接觸看“式”的語義演變
王銘宇Wang Mingyu
中國語言文學系Department of Chinese Language and Literature
TBA

基於背襯優先的聯繫項左側優勢：漢語述謂結構配置的動因及後果 Motivation and Consequence of Chinese Left-side-relator Priority: Ground-preference Cognitive Pattern Underlying Predication Accommodation
陳忠Chen Zhong
中國語言文學系Department of Chinese Language and Literature
眾所周知，漢語的主導語序是介詞及其引介的部分賓語前置。這自然引發下列問題：是什麼因素促成漢語介詞結構前置？為了回答這些問題，我們探索漢語語序背後導致語序競爭的認知方式。我們的討論主要集中於下列幾個方面：
1）揭示誘發述謂結構語序配置的關鍵要素；
2）探析聯繫項左側優勢以及如何影響介詞及其聯繫的受事賓語依句法位置而變化的組合能力；
3）聯繫項左側優勢帶來的後果：迫使處置式的介詞聯繫的受事賓語前置於謂語動詞。
總之，該研究通過探索漢語述謂結構變數配置，有助於深度理解認知方式與句法組織互動關係，加深我們立足於多變數視角對於漢語特徵的理解，這一點被以往的研究者所忽略。
It’s widely known that Chinese language is characterized by a notable ordering of preposed preposition together with some objects in a sentence. Consequently, the following question arises naturally: what motivated Chinese to prepose its prepositional structure? In order to answer such question, we aim to explore Chinese word order motivation in light of cognitive pattern which underlies the multivariable word order competition.
This discussion mainly focuses on:
1）the key factors that affect the ordering of predication accommodation;
2）the reason of Left-side-relator Priority, and the way of how Left-side-relator Priority affects the preposition and some patient-objects in terms of their position-relied collocational ability syntactic position;
3) aftermath of Left-side-relator Priority, which determines the prepositional structures with their patient-object being put prior to the predication verb in disposal constructions.
In summary, this research explores the variable that restrict Chinese predication accommodation, which provide an in-depth comprehension of the interaction between syntactic organization and cognitive pattern, deepening our comprehensive understanding into Chinese idiosyncrasy from a multivariable perspective which was previously neglected by most researchers.

Session分組2A:
Literature & Education
文學 & 教育

Slaying Vampires in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Damian Shaw & Matthew Gibson
Department of English
Damian Shaw will present a summary and translation from the Latin of an important early medical lecture on vampires by Nils Retzius. The lecture was delivered in Sweden, at Lund University, in 1737, and was published almost immediately thereafter. This important text has been overlooked by modern scholars of vampires. This article will bring the lecture back into circulation in its first English translation. Matthew Gibson then offers an analysis of the intellectual background to this rational debunking of vampires. He demonstrates how Retzius’s attempt at a comprehensive rational explanation for vampires, typical of much Enlightenment thinking, nevertheless employs a fusion of Galenic medical thinking with more modern medical and psychosomatic notions of medicine, as well as certain Lutheran notions concerning the devil and the spirit world. His argument scotches the belief in the idea of sympathetic magic affecting the dreams of the living, while emphasizing the psychosomatic effects of the imagination on the physical body.

A Cartography of the regard: exile, images and intertextualities in Portuguese Literature
Dora Nunes Gago
Department of Portuguese
This study focuses on the representation of migratory journeys and the exilic experience in Portuguese literature, although starting from a comparatist view intersecting imagology (Pageaux, Leerssen, Beller…) and other theories suitable for analysing the phenomena of exile (Said, Nouss, Gutty and others) . Such journeys and experience are increasingly important in today’s society which has become more and more marked by displacement and rootlessness. On this theme, works are analysed by Rodrigues Miguéis, Ferreira de Castro, Jorge de Sena, Maria Ondina Braga, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Rodrigo Leal de Carvalho and Fernanda Dias
In sum, these are authors who despite their undeniable relevance are somewhat forgotten voices within the panorama of Portuguese literature who it is important to rescue from silence and whose lessons about humanity are important to discover and recognise. Along with them are, for example, the Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Ling, Ling the Macanese writer of Chinese origin, who are evoked through the relations and dialogues woven by intertextuality and the relationship between different cultures.

Repairing Repair: Affective Temporalities and the Practice of Reparative Reading
Jeremy De Chavez
Department of English
This paper examines the consequences of paranoia being infrastructural to postcolonial studies as it speculates on what it might mean for postcolonial critique to strategically conscript reparativity to inform its reception of texts from the postcolony. Against the critical position that argues that reparativity is fundamentally incompatible with postcolonial critique for it is “deeply implicated in colonial, settler colonial, and imperialist histories” (Stuelke 11), I suggest that advocating for reparativity need not be an abdication of the ethico-political commitments of postcolonial critique—on the contrary, it potentially enables an alternative way to realize them. This paper will argue that reparative approaches, which are attentive to textures, tones, and affective impulses, cultivates attentiveness to the temporal mechanisms of worlding of a literary text—or the power of the literary text to open up other worlds through the force of time—in the historical present. I suggest that it is this mode of reading that is most compatible with Pheng Cheah’s concept of world literature as a temporal, instead of as a spatio-geographical, category; that is to say, reparativity is an interpretative practice that renders discernible the heterotemporalities in literary texts that Cheah consider so crucial to the processes of worlding that literary works enact.

Understanding the role of information literacy in writing in the higher education context
YU Chengyuan (PHD student)
Department of English
In the age of information abundance, writing is inevitably associated with information literacy, especially in the context of higher education (HE) where the purpose of writing is to communicate with creators of prior knowledge and construct new knowledge. However, little research has empirically investigated the role of information literacy in writing in HE. To fill this gap, the present study adopted an exploratory mixed methods design to interview graduate students, faculty members, information specialists, and writing experts, develop and validate a multidimensional self-assessment scale based on the interviews, and use this scale to examine the role of information literacy in writing. The findings reveal that information literacy and academic writing are highly correlated in HE and these two competencies are cognitive, social, metacognitive, and emotional. A four-dimensional (cognitive, social, metacognitive, and emotional) information-based academic model is thus proposed to capture the nature of writing in HE.

Session分組2B:
Linguistics 語言學
Special Language Domain
Jie Xu
Department of Chinese Language and Literature
“Special Language Domain” (SLD) refers to domains or areas of language use in which linguistic rules may be violated legitimately. SLD is very similar to well-known “free trade zone”, “special administrative region”, and “special economic zone” in which tariff, executive, and economic regulations may be violated respectively legitimately to a certain extent. Innovative use in SLD is another major resource for language evolution and language change alongside with language contact and language acquisition since some of the temporary and innovative forms of usage in SLD may go beyond SLD at a later stage, developing to be part of the core system of linguistic rules. Focusing on relevant grammatical phenomena observed in the Chinese language, this article makes a generalization that poetry in various forms, title and slogan, and internet language are the three major types of SLD, and their violation of linguistic rules are motivated differently. Furthermore, although core linguistic rules may be violated in SLD, but the violations are yet subject to certain limit and restriction. What could be violated legitimately in SLD are only those language-particular rules, whereas the principles of Universal Grammar applicable generally for all human languages have to be observed whatsoever even in SLD. The study of Special Language Domain provides an ideal and fascinating window for linguists to understand language mechanism, to explain historical change of language, and plausibly to predict the future direction of language evolution.

Caused-motion Constructions: a Cognitive Constructional Perspective
Ronald Fong
TBA

Authenticity in Pop Culture Englishes: Listening to the Beatles Perform Rhoticity
Andrew Moody
Department of English
Peter Trudgill’s (1983) landmark analysis of the influence of American English upon British pop song pronunciation argues that British pop/rock acts in the 1960s — especially The Beatles and The Rolling Stones — had progressively changed their pronunciation styles from ‘American English’ to ‘British English’ over the decade. This presentation will report on attempts to replicate Trudgill’s original phonetic data for non-prevocalic /r/ and critically examine and challenge Trudgill’s conclusion that the shift in pronunciation style represented a development of British identity within popular music. Shifting goals of authenticity (balanced against the authority of a media standard) within the performance of dialect in song account for development of British pronunciation across The Beatles’s album catalogue. Consequently, accent performance is related to a much more complex range of factors, such as musical genre, performer’s identity or fans’ perception.

WE in ME: The Pragmatic Functions of English Lyrics in Macao Original Cantopop Songs in 2016-2021
Alan Chan
English Language Centre
Macao English (ME) is an important medium of communication permeating the communities, among which popular music in Cantonese (Cantopop) is one where Englishization via Cantonese-English code-switching is seen as a norm. Under the prevalence of World Englishes (WE), frameworks for analysing code-switching in pop culture were launched for better theoretical explanation to the phenomenon (e.g., Chan, 2009; Li, 2002; Lin, 2009). Despite the established effort of previous studies about Englishization in languages under various contexts, Cantopop is still in its infancy, and rarely are data gathered in Macao context. In view of this, a mixed-methods approach was adopted with analysis of 15 award-winning songs of a local music awards in the recent five years, together with interpretation obtained from surveys, semi-structured interviews and a focus-group interview with members of the music circle and the general public. The result indicated that English in Macao Cantopop is most often perceived to carry the function of aesthetic effects, expedience, conveying thematic meanings, avoiding embarrassment, and emphasis of emotions. Moreover, different positions and formats of code-switching between lyrics can bring about different pragmatic effects. This research offers a more comprehensive picture of Cantonese-English code-switching in Macao Cantopop with different aspects observed and details given.

Session分組3A:
Philosophy 哲學

From Coastal to River Valley: On the Changing Cultural Manifestations of Macao in terms of Hegel’s and Watsuji’s studies of Fudo
Tam Ka Pok
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
In Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of World-History, Hegel suggests three geographical categories where the cultural self-consciousness (known as ‘cultural spirit’ or ‘cultural self-consciousness’) is manifested: highlands, river valleys, and the coastal region. Hegel’s observation is acknowledged by Watsuji Tetsuro, who argues that cultures manifest their self-consciousness in Fudo (風土) and divide Fudo into three categories in terms of climate: desert, meadow and monsoon.
By employing Hegel’s and Watsuji’s theories, this paper argues that Macao has experienced a shift from manifesting cultural self-consciousness in the sea into manifesting in Pearl river waterway in the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century (from 1842 the Opium War to 1937 the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War) when Macao was replaced by Hong Kong as an international entrepôt, as Macao had lost its role as a maritime in-betweener between China and the West and became more integrated to the West River transportation networks.

The Self-Contradictions of Authenticity
Hans-Georg Moeller
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
The claim to authenticity has been at the centre of a defining the notion of human identity since the Enlightenment period, especially in Western societies. In opposition to orientation to social roles (e.g. traditional gender or professional roles), authenticity seeks individual uniqueness and originality and values creative “self-expression.” Philosophically, and politically, it is closely tied to notions of independence and autonomy. However, authenticity is contradictory: We become “authentic” by conforming to the social demand to be “special.” This presentation will show how in contemporary society authenticity is “simulated” in the curation of personal or collective identity in the form of profiles. The inner contradictions, and the impossibility of being authentic become increasingly obvious in the staging of authenticity in media, politics, and business.

Session分組3B:
Translation & Linguistics
翻譯 & 語言學

Executive Functions in Cross-lingual Processing: A Neurocognitive Investigation
Li Defeng (FAH) , Ruey-Song Huang (FST), Victoria Lei(FAH), Nevia Dolcini(FAH), Ana Nunes (FAH)
Macau is a multilingual and multicultural society. At the core of the multilingualism is how different languages are processed within the same language or between different languages, across different modes (e.g. listening, speaking, reading), in the form of monolingual processing, language switching and interlingual transfer as in simultaneous interpreting. In all these language activities, executive functions is known to play a pivotal role in verbal reception and comprehension, verbal production and language switching and transfer. In fact, enhanced EF is often seen as the cognitive benefit of bilinguals and translators/interpreters. However, whether there is indeed a so-called bilingual advantage has been a topic of controversies for decades. Several top journals, such as the Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Applied Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, AIMS Neuroscience, and Cortex, have devoted special issues addressing this contention. Nature also carried an article in 2019 arguing against the existence of a bilingual advantage. Nevertheless, no definitive conclusions have been drawn yet, partly because the variations in the research designs of previous studies made sensible comparison of the findings almost impossible and partly because some designs were seriously flawed. We therefore would like to join this debate by introducing the newest technology of fMRI, improved methodology (use of surface-based brain atlases) and more stringent control of research variables.
The study will consist of three phrases, mapping, interacting and changing. The major research instruments will be fMRI and eye-trackers in isolation and fusion respectively. A total of 600 scans will be made on approximately 300 subjects of varying linguistic backgrounds and combinations when they are engaged in different modes of language processing, e.g. reading, listening and speaking in Chinese (including Cantonese), English and Portuguese as well as simultaneous interpreting between either two of the three languages.
It is hoped that an online multilingual, multimodal, multi-group brain atlas database [surface-based, functional] will be constructed with the brain images as the world’s very first surfaced-based brain atlas database and made available to brain scientists all over the world, similar to the volume-based Allen Brain Atlas, BrainMaps and BigBrain. It is also expected that with the access to the MRI and therefore the neuroimaging techniques , and the unique resources (demographic characteristics, a diverse education system), we will be in a stronger and privileged position to provide solid evidence to resolve the centennial debate of bilingual advantage as seen in Executive Functions.

Mapping the interface between language and music: An fMRI study
Victoria L. C. Lei (FAH), Ruey-Song Huang (FST), Defeng Li (FAH), Nevia Dolcini (FAH)
The study seeks to map the interface between language and music in the human brain using state-of-the-art fMRI technology. The relationship between language and music, the two abilities that distinguish humans and animals, has been the topic of debate among thinkers since antiquity. Leonard Bernastein’s lectures at Harvard in the 1970s inspired comparisons between musical and linguistic structures. However, the exploration of the music-language relation from the perspective of modern cognitive science only started this century. For instance, Patel (2010) challenges the traditional belief that language and music are processed independently – the music functions mainly localized in the right hemisphere of the brain and language functions in the left hemisphere. Recent studies using neuroimaging technologies like ERP, PET and fMRI have found commonalities as well as differences in neural representations of language processing and musical processing. However, there is still no firm answer to the neural location of the shared resource networks for language and music. fMRI, with its high spatial resolution, is an excellent tool for locating brain activities. However, the use of fMRI in neurocognitive investigation of language and music is limited due to various constrains of the technology, namely the noise generated by the scanner and its intolerance of head motion. The interdisciplinary team at UM has found feasible solution to the problems, making it possible to conduct experiments involving listening, speaking, singing and playing musical instrument in the scanner. Furthermore, with the more advanced surface-based analysis, we are in a good position of accurately locating the overlapping regions associated with music and language processing. Findings of the study may shed light on the origins and evolution of language, as well as having implications on practical questions such as whether training in music have impact on language development, including bilingual/multilingual development, and vice versa; and whether the neuroprotective benefits of music are associated with language processing that require extreme cognitive control.

Borrowing or code-switching? the case of single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese
Brian Chan
Department of English
With reference to two competing views about the distinction between single-word code-switches and lexical borrowing, namely, Poplack (2018) vs. Myers-Scotton (1992, 1993), this paper examines the status of single-word English prepositions in Hong Kong Cantonese. A survey of a small dataset suggests that these English prepositions may bring along syntactic structures distinct of English into Cantonese, but they may also be morphosyntactically integrated to Cantonese and behave as verbs or coverbs. Accordingly, it is virtually impossible to pin down these prepositions as borrowing or code-switching based on morphosynactic integration (Poplack, 2018). Neither are they directly inserted into a sentence morphosyntactically framed in Cantonese (Myers-Scotton, 1992, 1993), which has postpositions rather than prepositions. Taking the view that “languages” are not discrete systems and words of different “languages” are connected in a vast mental network, it is suggested that the boundary between lexical borrowing and single-word code-switching has to be fuzzy (Matras, 2009). Freed from such distinction, degrees of morphosyntactic integration in single-word transfer or replication (i.e. borrowing/ code-switching) can be seen as a function of the word class of the transferred/replicated word due to different strengths in which a word is associated with morphosyntactic patterns of its respective language and its equivalent in the native/recipient language.

Discover the Fantastic & Diverse World of the Portuguese Wines
2022-04-28 17:30 - 19:30 (Asia/Macau) | E34-1002

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“百年文論史編撰的回望與省思”- 黃霖教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “On the Study of the History of Chinese Literary Criticism in the Past Hundred Years” by Prof. Huang Lin
2022-04-27 19:00 - 20:30 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

Coffee-tea with Professors
2022-04-27 17:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Macau)

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“漢語N1VN2型複合詞的構式解讀”- 宋作艷教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “A Construction Morphology Account of N1VN2 Compounds in Mandarin Chinese” by Prof. Song Zuoyan
2022-04-27 10:30 - 12:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-2100

譚其驤先生“積極開展歷史人文地理研究”一文精讀
2022-04-21 20:30 - 22:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-2005

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Transcultural comparative philosophy: Hui Shi, Zeno, and the method of sublation” by Prof. Jana S. Rošker, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2022-04-20 17:30 - 19:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/94032576989
Abstract
In this lecture I will address problems encountered by Western scholars working in the field of Chinese philosophy. The lecture will begin with a discussion of cross-cultural and transcultural methods, and will highlight some of the most common problems encountered in traditional cross-cultural comparisons. On this basis, I will propose a new post-comparative approach. I propose the use of a new method, which I tentatively call sublation. The operation of this method will be demonstrated by a contrastive analysis of the “Flying arrow problem” as interpreted in Zeno of Elea and Hui Shi, respectively.
