Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

Historiography Lecture Series
2020-11-05 19:00 - 2020-11-13 19:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-2003 (Or via Zoom)

ELC Zoom Workshop – Motivating Techniques – Online and Face-to-Face
2020-11-04 15:00 - 16:30 | Zoom

FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Classics Reading and the Context of Humanity” by Prof. Xu Jie & Prof. Pan Wuzheng 人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“經典閱讀與人文情境”- 許結教授、潘務正教授
2020-11-03 17:30 | E21-G035

ELC Student Activity – 2020 ELC English Festival: “Tending to Your Mind”
2020-11-03 - 2020-12-09 | Please refer to the posters
Please check out the featured English Festival activities:

1. "English Festival Video"

Description:
The 2020 ELC English Festival is here! The theme of this year’s English Festival is “Tending to Your Mind.” Through this theme, we would like to raise students’ awareness on the importance of mental health. A series of inspiring English activities will be held from November 3 to December 9, 2020. Want to learn English and explore your inner mind in a relaxing way? Please don’t hesitate to sign up and join us!
Please see the following posters for registration and details.
Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to contact us.

1. Poster Cover

2. Registration links

3. Video contest and registration link

4. Poetry writing workshop and registration link

5. Film documentary screening and registration link

6. Mental health guest talk and registration link

FAH-CCHC Lecture Series : “From Chinese Characters to Chinese Cultur
2020-10-29 15:00 - 16:50 | Escola Choi Nong Chi Tai Macao

2020/2021 FAH Bentobox Lecture #1 by Prof. Katrine K. Wong & Prof. Damian Shaw
2020-10-28 13:00 - 14:30 | E21-3118
FAH Bentobox Lecture offers an opportunity for academic staff to share academic experiences and foster collegiality in the faculty. All academic staff, administrative staff and students of UM are welcome to join.
There are three lectures scheduled this semester. The speakers for the Oct session are Prof. Katrine K. Wong and Prof. Damian Shaw, both from Department of English. Prof. Wong’s lecture is entitled “Musical Response to Shakespeare in Greater China: Mandopop and Cantopop of Recent Decades” and Prof. Shaw’s “Unstable Identities in Bed: A Literary Motif in Longus, Shakespeare, Richardson, and Harriet Jacobs”.
For registration, please visit this link before 25 Oct.

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“海外漢學視域中的六朝文學研究”- 田曉菲教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Recent Development of Sinology Studies on Early Medieval Chinese Literature” by Prof. Tian Xiaofei
2020-10-27 20:30 - 22:00 | E21A-3118 (講座以網上形式進行)

FAH-ELC Student Activity: i-Learner Contest
2020-10-27 - 2020-12-09 | https://um.i-learner.com.hk/
This contest is for students who can use “i-Learner English for Universities platform” to practice English language skills online. Students need to complete as many i-Learner lessons as they can. The top 10 students, who have completed the most numbers of lessons with the highest marks, will be given attractive prizes up to MOP1,000.

All current ELC students are registered i-Learner users. Please follow the steps below to start accumulating the i-Learner lessons now!

Log into https://um.i-learner.com.hk/ with your UM account information.
Choose “ELC Language Centre” (not Residential Colleges)
Choose the topics and levels that you like.
Complete as many lessons as you can in order to be competitive in the i-Learner Contest!

If you have any further questions, please contact us via email: fah_elc_elta@um.edu.mo

FAH-CCHC Lecture Series : “Macao’s New Eight Scenic Spots and the 20th Anniversary of its Return to China”
2020-10-26 15:00 - 16:50 | Escola Choi Nong Chi Tai Macao

FAH/DPHIL Online Workshop – “The Crisis of Critical Theory? Critical Theory From and Beyond the Margins”
2020-10-24 10:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
Critical theory is a Western, and distinctly European, intellectual tradition that drew its normative resources from the social and political events that transpired in Europe over the course of the 20th century. It is relevant to ask the question whether, as a critical-practical tradition, critical theory has anything to contribute outside the Western-European context, given the emergence of globalization and the issues that arose with it. For some, the Eurocentrism of critical theory is symptomatic of its very own crisis, one which challenges the universality of its normative claims, e.g., the abolition of social injustice. Is it possible for critical theory to overcome its Eurocentrism and, therefore, its own crisis? The irony is that critical theory is only able to defend the universality of its normative claims when it is able to renew itself. If it is at all possible to renew critical theory, what does this renewal entail? The workshop will pursue these questions by expanding the scope of traditional critical theory, especially, but not exclusively, by drawing on critical perspectives on modern societies and emancipation movements that have originated in Asia.
While critical theory has asserted its role as the vanguard of protecting the interest of the oppressed, the pursuit of justice, and the abolition of domination and alienation in society, the question of who is the oppressed, what is justice, and who and what is dominated or alienated remains prevalent. The need to revise, re-align, and remap the trajectories of critical theory becomes an essential call to arms as we continue to experience injustice, domination, and oppression in new forms that displaces our traditional ideas of justice, domination, and oppression. From this vantage point, there is a need to move critical theory beyond the margins of its intended scope and look at the possibility where future discourses in critical theory can become juxtaposed in pursuit of its intended normative goals. There is a need to renew, revisit, and revise existing conceptions of social justice when its possibility entails contrary effects.

Morning session, 10:00am
“Critical Theory at the Margins”
Paolo A. Bolaños, University of Santo Tomas
“Filial Piety vs Critique of Blood Vengeance”
Lee Tingmien, University of Macau
“Critical Theory and Tradition”
Jovito V. Cariño, University of Santo Tomas
Moderator: Christine Tan, University of Santo Tomas

Early afternoon session, 1:15pm
“Profile Politics: A Critique of the ‘White Left’ (bai zuo ⽩左)”
Hans-Georg Moeller, University of Macau
“Critical Theory and Recognition”
Roland Theuas Pada, University of Santo Tomas
“Critical Theory and Revolution”
Raniel Reyes, University of Santo Tomas
Moderator: Ranier Abengaña, University of Santo Tomas

Late afternoon session, 4:00pm
“Critical Perspectives on National and Civilizational Identities: Solidarity and Enthusiasm”
Daniel Sarafinas, University of Macau
“Free Fall: A Hegelian Critique of the Gambling Rabble”
Mario Wenning, University of Macau
Moderator: Anton Rennesland, University of Santo Tomas

Zoom meeting-ID: 976 4344 1616
Passcode: [REDACTED]
HTTPS://UMAC.ZOOM.US/J/97643441616?PWD=[REDACTED]

For details, please refer the Workshop Program

ELC Student Activity – “Zoom Chatroom: Take Caring of Your Emotional Hygiene”
2020-10-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom

CIUM’s Academic Seminar – Three Basic Ideas of Construction Grammar
2020-10-22 09:00 - 23:30 | Zoom
Please register by scanning the QR code on the poster or visit https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4Yq9B3dyPsToF9P. We will then email you the Zoom meeting ID and password.

ELC Student Workshop – EWCC – Crafting Your Personal Statement
2020-10-21 15:00 - 16:30 | E6-2112
This workshop is designed for undergraduate student who needs support with crafting your personal statement for graduate school application. It will help them to reflect on their achievements and experience in order to write a statement that stands out. Attend this workshop to gain insight into how to effectively incorporate interests, skills, and career goals in it!
*This workshop is for Year 3 and 4 undergraduate students who intend to pursue postgraduate studies abroad
* Participants will be awarded 1 Smart Point and 15 CS on “Interpersonal Relation and Teamwork”.

ELC Online Workshop 2020 – Aligning Authentic Texts, Language, and Critical Thinking in Lower-Level EAP Classes
2020-10-21 13:30 - 15:00 | Zoom

History Forum No. 1 – Discovered and Forgotten: The Maldives in Imperial China
2020-10-16 13:00 - 14:00 | E21-3118
Small and remote, the Maldives did not enter the Chinese world until Wang Dayuan’s visit in 1330-31. Decades later, the Zheng He Voyages (1405-1433) followed to visit this island kingdom, and brought its tributary envoys to Beijing. Take the Maldives as a case, angle and approach, this talk on one hand examines the Chinese knowledge of the island kingdom by highlighting Chinese toponymy, local products including coconuts, coir ropes, dried fish, cowrie shells, and ambergris, ship without nails, and women, thus providing a valuable glimpse of medieval Maldives; on the other hand, the talk introduces the Sino-Maldivian interactions, both politically and economically. In conclusion, the Maldives symbolizes the heyday of the Chinese activities in the Indian Ocean and the Chinese understanding of this region, and this small kingdom indeed shaped imperial China to a surprising degree as illustrated by cowrie shells, the Maldivian tributes, and ambergris (including its absence) in the Chinese court. Nonetheless, the Chinese had showed little interest by the end of the sixteenth century. “Discovered” in the 1330s, the island kingdom would had been forgotten in post-1600 China.

FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Research Advances of Dependency Parsing: Data, Modeling, and Applications” by Prof. Li Zhenghua 人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“依存句法分析研究進展： 數據、建模及應用”- 李正華教授
2020-10-15 10:00 - 12:00 | E21A-3118 (講座以線上/線下形式進行)

FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “The Development of the Dragon and Lion Dance Culture in Macao” by Mr. Pun Keng Man & Mr. Chio Man Tou 人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“澳門舞龍舞獅文化的發展與認識”- 潘敬文先生及趙文杜先生
2020-10-10 14:30 - 16:00 | E31-G001 學生活動中心劇場

Film Art Changes your Perspective?
2020-10-08 19:00 - 2020-10-22 22:00 | Zoom
The “Film Art Changes Your Perspective?” workshops aim to introduce the different stages of film production, including pre-production, production and post-production. The speaker will provide training on the technical aspect of film-making and on how to make technical choices to illustrate the emotions of the characters.
Workshop#1: Pre-production (08/10/2020)
Workshop#2: Production (15/10/2020)
Workshop#3: Post production (22/10/2020)
Date: 8, 15 and 22, October, 2020*
Time: 19:00-22:00
Location: Video-conferencing via Zoom (meeting ID and password will be sent to registrants via email)
Language: Portuguese and English
Registration link: https://forms.gle/RAVVpnbWWdqE15pe9 (Deadline: 12:00PM 30/09/2020)
*Note: Please note that participants are required to be present at the entire session in order to receive a certificate of attendance for each workshop.

FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Chinese Dialects and Chinese Cultures along the Silk Road” by Prof. Xing Xiangdong 人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“絲綢之路沿線的漢語方言文化”- 邢向東教授
2020-09-25 10:00 - 12:00 | E21A-3118 (講座以網上形式進行)
摘要：西北地區處於“絲綢之路”起點和沿線，蘊藏著極其豐富的語言文化資源。其中漢語方言有晉語、中原官話、蘭銀官話等，還有西北方言的域外變體——東干語。民族語言則有藏、蒙古、土族、東鄉、保安、東部裕固、撒拉、維吾爾、哈薩克、錫伯、西部裕固、柯爾克孜等多種民族語言。由於多民族雜居共處，漢語同藏語、阿爾泰語系諸語言發生密切的接觸，所以出現了諸多接觸性演變和方言創新的現象。因此，絲路沿線方言兼具存古性與創新性。而絲路沿線的地域文化也同樣豐富多樣，異彩紛呈，民歌如享譽海內外的“信天遊”、“花兒”，飲食民俗如多種多樣、美不勝收的麵食，風俗如獨特的“贖身（圓鎖兒）”“打火”等。本文從方言分佈和特點、民歌與民俗兩個方面，描寫了絲綢之路沿線地區的方言文化現象，闡述了絲路沿線地區語言文化資源的調查、保護與開發，對實施“一帶一路”倡議、傳承優秀傳統文化、建設新文化的重要意義。

Release Conference for 2019 Chinese History and Culture Cognition Index Survey for Primary and Secondary School Students in Macao
2020-09-23 15:00 - 15:30 | Cultural Building Lobby (E34-Lobby)

CIUM’s Academic Seminar – How Linguistic Knowledge and its Resources Nudge the “Explainable” Artificial Intelligence
2020-09-23 09:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
Please register by scanning the QR code on the poster or visit https://forms.gle/5M7jo83THpfSrG8P9. We will then email you the Zoom meeting ID and password.

A1 Level Portuguese Program for Business Administration Professionals II
2020-09-21 08:00 - 17:00 | Portuguese Institute of the Orient (IPOR)
A1 Level Portuguese Program for Business Administration Professionals II

Organizational units: Portuguese Institute of the Orient (IPOR) & Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre (CPC)
Period: Sept 22nd to Nov 3rd 2020 (30 hours)
Schedule: Every Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6.30pm to 9:00pm at IPOR
Registration: IPOR reception counter (10:00-18:30)
Admission requirement:

Completion of the “A1 Level Portuguese Program for Business Administration Professionals” or equivalent to 30 hours of learning Portuguese as a Foreign Language
Seats limited to 20, on a first-come-first-served basis. Please complete the registration and pay the deposit to IPOR. Your seat will only be confirmed after making a full deposit payment to IPOR.

Costs: 500 MOP deposit and refundable if participants meet 80% of attendance requirement; plus 250 MOP for course materials.
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/WF377FfRM29qX7Fn9 (Deadline: 12:00 p.m. Sept 15th 2020)

English Writing and Communication Centre (EWCC) of FAH-ELC opens from September 17 to December 18, 2020, running on Zoom
2020-09-17 09:00 - 2020-12-18 17:30 | E7-1022

A1 Level Portuguese Program for Legal Professionals III
2020-09-08 18:30 - 2020-10-20 21:00 | Portuguese Institute of the Orient (IPOR)
A1 Level Portuguese Program for Legal Professionals III

Organizational units: Portuguese Institute of the Orient (IPOR) & Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre (CPC)
Period: September 8th to October 20th 2020 (30 hours)
Schedule: Every Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6:30pm to 9:00pm at IPOR
Registration: IPOR reception counter (10:00-18:30)
Admission requirement

Completion of the “A1 Level Portuguese Program for Legal Professionals II” or equivalent to 60 hours of learning Portuguese as a Foreign Language
Seats limited to 20, on a first-come-first-served basis. Please complete the registration and pay the deposit to IPOR. Your seat will only be confirmed after making a full deposit payment to IPOR.

Cost: 500 MOP deposit and refundable if participants meet 80% of attendance requirement; plus 250 MOP for course materials.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/fEPZcvVHD2fiFrZm6 (Deadline: 12:00 p.m. August 25th 2020)

Workshop on Strategies to Excel in the Examinations of CAPLE-ULisboa
2020-09-01 15:00 - 2020-10-23 18:00 | Zoom

Anti-epidemic Exhibition: Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting
2020-08-21 09:00 - 2020-09-30 17:30 | Room G016, Cultural Building, Exhibition and Multi-function Hall (34)
Opening CeremonyDate: 21 August 2020Time: 11:00am~11:30amVenue: Room G016, Cultural Building, Exhibition and Multi-function Hall (34)

Exhibition PeriodDate: 21 August 2020 – 30 September 2020Time: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays)

省思與開拓–先唐文學與文化國際學術研討會 Reflection and Exploration–International Symposium on Pre-Tang Literature and Culture
2020-08-18 - 2020-08-19 | E21A-G047 (網上形式進行，會議連結另行發送與會嘉賓)
會議議題：

回顧和總結先唐文學和文化
解讀先唐文學和文化典籍
運用新方法詮釋先唐文本

日期：
2020年8月18日(二) 上午9:30 開幕式
2020年8月19日(三) 上午9:00

FAH-DENG Online Seminar: “CoronaGothic: Cultures of the Pandemic”
2020-06-30 17:00 - 19:15 | Zoom
UMGothic are delighted to announce an innovative research event: ‘CoronaGothic: Cultures of the Pandemic’. We have invited six leading academics from Europe and the UK who work in the Humanities and Social Sciences to join with UM in a ‘flash’ Zoom conference on the cultural implications of Covid-19. UMGothic will be represented by Prof. William Hughes and Prof. Nick Groom, with Prof. Victoria Harrison chairing; the other speakers will be Prof. Mariaconcetta Costantini (D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara), Dr Sam George (University of Hertfordshire), Prof. Steve Hinchliffe (University of Exeter), Prof. Darryl Jones (Trinity College, Dublin), Prof. David Punter (University of Bristol), and Prof. Corinna Wagner (University of Exeter).
The ‘flash’ format will consist of very short ten-minute presentations followed by questions from participants. Abstracts will be circulated shortly before the event to allow participants to submit questions.
You may register here before 5 p.m. on 29 June 2020: https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3awBw8Na13qiQO9
All updates will be available via the @UMGothic Twitter account.

The ELC welcomes 300 incoming UM students for the Summer English Programme 2020
2020-06-30 - 2020-07-21 | Zoom
Today marks the beginning of the ELC’s 3-week Summer English Programme, which will welcome 300 students from Macau and surrounding areas who plan to enter UM in September. The Summer English Programme 2020 aims to bridge students’ current academic language, conceptual and study abilities and better acquaint them with the study expectations within an international university context. Over 20 experienced ELC teaching faculty will support the programme, and more than 30 graduate-student programme assistants will provide important mentorship to assist the student transition from high school to university.

This year also marks an evolution from previous years as the ELC adjusts the programme to better suit student needs and the ongoing COVID teaching situation. The programme will focus more specifically on the English and skills necessary for academic and faculty-specific language environments that students will encounter upon university entry. Other programme adjustments include updated teaching materials, approaches and assessments to match the online teaching context. The programme aims to comprehensively support students through a raft of in-house produced materials for instruction and support via Moodle, Zoom, DingTalk and other accessible technology platforms. Finally, the programme will address student motivation, learning and assessment through integration of numerous 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 2020 and their ongoing studies at UM, as we strive to support student success at the university.

第七屆南國人文論壇 The 7th Southern China Humanities Forum
2020-06-06 09:30 - 2020-06-07 09:30 | E21A-3118 (講座以網上形式進行)
會議議題：

當代中國文學文化自信的檢視
多媒體、全球化時代的中國文學文化自信問題
漢語與中國文學的文化自信
