Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

Part II: From Brush and Ink to the World —— The Novelty of Ink Painting - 第二講：從筆墨到天地——水墨圖像的創新
2023-11-23 15:30 - 17:30 UTC

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“從共時和歷時角度探討粵語多功能詞“過””-姚玉敏教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “The multifunctionality of gwo3 in Cantonese: A synchronic and diachronic perspective” by Prof. Yuk-man Carine Yiu
2023-11-22 19:00 - 20:30 | E21-3118

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Viewing Humans and the World Through Affairs” by Prof. Yang Guorong, East China Normal University, China
2023-11-22 17:30 - 19:00 | E21-3118 or via Zoom
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91442748446
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Abstract
Understanding and shaping the world are always related with the transformation of the world from its original state into the actual world. The world in its original state is the world as it is of itself. It is only when humans function in the world in their various ways that the questions of understanding and shaping the world arise. The processes of people functioning in the world are also the processes of the unfolding of “affairs” (shi). Affairs (shi) are primarily interrelated with actual human activity. According to Chinese philosophy, “affairs are action” and “all affairs in the world arise from conduct.” “Affairs” also refers to the outcomes of people’s conduct and action. An outlook that sees the world in terms of affairs seeks to understand and shape the world on the basis of actual human activity and its outcomes.

Bio
Yang Guorong is a senior professor at East China Normal University, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, director of the China Modern Thought and Culture Research Institute at the Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, and director of the academic committee of the university. He is also the Dean of Ma Yifu Academy at Zhejiang University, Changjiang Scholar of the Ministry of Education, and a member of the 5th and 6th Philosophy Discipline Evaluation Groups of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. His main research areas include Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy between China and the West, ethics, metaphysics, etc. He has published more than 20 academic works, and various works have been translated into English and Korean. He has been published in Indian University Press, Brill, and others. His academic part-time positions include the President of the International Metaphysics Society (ISM), Academician of the International School of Philosophy (IIP), Former President of the International Society of Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) (2019-2022), President of the Chinese Philosophical History Society, etc.

Part I: Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Creation: A New Paradigm of Materials, Process and Painting - 第一講：材料、過程與繪畫：AI時代的藝術創造
2023-11-22 15:30 - 17:30

History Forum 15: In the Weft of Words: Mapping Global and Local Histories in the Chinese Terminology for American Cochineal
2023-11-22 14:00 - 15:30 | E21-3118

CCHC : The Sixth Macao Forum for Chinese Culture
2023-11-22 08:00 - 2023-11-23 13:00
Event Information

Event Name
:
CCHC : The Sixth Macao Forum for Chinese Culture

Categories
:
Conference / Symposium

Organizer
:
Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Co-organizer
:
Think Tank of United Citizens

Date
:
21 November to 23 November 2023

Time
:
9:00 – 18:00

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

Target Audience
:
All are welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Tel. No
:
8822 2708

Fax
:
2882 2383

Email
:
cchc.info@um.edu.mo

Opening ceremony for key projects of "Second Festival of Chinese Culture"
2023-11-22 08:00 - 18:30
Event Information

Event Name
:
Opening ceremony for key projects of “Second Festival of Chinese Culture”

Categories
:
Activity

Organizer
:
University of Macau

Date
:
22 November 2023

Time
:
9:30 – 11:30

Venue
:
Lobby, Cultural Building (E34)

Target Audience
:
All are welcome

Language
:
Mandarin

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Tel. No
:
88222708

Fax
:
88222383

Email
:
cchc.info@um.edu.mo

活 動 資 料

活動名稱
:
“第二屆中國文化節”主旨項目啟動儀式

類別
:
活動

主辦單位
:
澳門大學

日期
:
2023年11月22日

時間
:
9:30 – 11:30

地點
:
崇文樓大堂(E34)

適合對象
:
歡迎有興趣人士參與

語言
:
普通話

聯 絡 人 資 料

姓名
:
中國歷史文化中心

電話
:
88222708

傳真
:
88222383

電郵
:
cchc.info@um.edu.mo

CCHC: Exhibition of Ye Zhongqiao on the topic of South China Lychee Leaves
2023-11-22 08:00 - 17:00
Event Information

Event Name
:
CCHC: Exhibition of Ye Zhongqiao on the topic of South China Lychee Leaves

Categories
:
Activity

Organizer
:
Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Date
:
22 November to 7 December 2023

Time
:
9:00 – 17:30

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

Target Audience
:
All are welcome

Contact Person for Details

Name
:
Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

Tel. No
:
8822 2708

Fax
:
2882 2383

Email
:
cchc.info@um.edu.mo

FAH-DPORT: Seminar "Translation Infrastructure for Assistive Technologies" by Professor Cristiano Bertolini, 22-23/11/2023, 16:00-19:00, E22-G015
2023-11-21 16:00 - 2023-11-22 19:00 | E22-G015
Dear Colleagues/Students,
I am pleased to invite all to the Seminar “Translation Infrastructure for Assistive Technologies” by Professor Cristiano Bertolini, on 22-23/11/2023 (Tuesday and Wednesday), from 16:00 to 19:00, in room E22-G015.
BIO
Professor Cristiano Bertolini
Department of Information Technology
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil
Professor Cristiano Bertolini holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Passo Fundo (2001), a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (2005) and a PhD in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2010).
He has experience in the area of Software Engineering, with an emphasis on Software Testing, Formal Methods and Experimental Software Engineering, and currently works with software engineering in the context of assistive technologies.

ABSTRACT
Translation Infrastructure for Assistive Technologies
People with disabilities face numerous obstacles in their daily lives routines.
For this reason, Assistive Technologies are bringing more independence to all disabled people using computers, smartphones, smart devices, sensors, etc. Nonetheless, there are still many challenges that we can address, considering people have different needs, cultures, and languages.
The seminar will address topics in research, design, and development of accessible information and communication technologies (ICT), from a translation infrastructure technologies perspective.
The seminars will cover all aspects of assistive technologies focusing on the translation infrastructure and how those areas are connected.
In Portuguese/English language

All are welcome!
With our best regards

人文學院中國語言文學系中國人文講座：“最後的“閨秀” ：明清女性詩歌文化在二十世紀轉型期的一些軌跡”-李小榮教授 FAH-DCLL Chinese Humanities Lecture Series: “The Final Trajectories of Ming-Qing Women’s Literary Culture at the Turn of the 20th Century” by Prof. Xiaorong Li
2023-11-20 10:30 - 12:00 | By Zoom

The Theory of "Aniconism" and A Mistaken Trajectory in the History of Buddhist Art
2023-11-17 21:00 - 23:00 | By Zoom

FAH/DPHIL Philosophy Café: Session 3 "Why Do We Need Philosophy?"
2023-11-15 15:00 - 15:45 | Café Rose Garden

FAH - Centre for Japanese Studies Guest Lecture: Translation Methods and Techniques for Chinese and Japanese Classical Texts
2023-11-15 10:00 - 11:30 | E22 – G013

Minchi and Chá Gordo--Macanese Gastronomy
2023-11-15 - 2023-11-22 | E34-1002
Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvX14 (Deadline: 15:00 10 November 2023)

Power of Mahjong: Individual Rights, Collective Interests, and City Image in Post-Mao China
2023-11-13 17:30 - 19:00 | U-Hall

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Art as Inquiry: The Path of Chinese Lyric Aesthetic” by Prof. Danielle Macbeth, Haverford College, U.S.A.
2023-11-13 13:30 - 15:00 | E21A-3118
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/99485044779
Password: [REDACTED]

Abstract
Beginning with music, through the emergence of lyric poetry, and culminating in the literati brush-and-ink landscapes of the Southern Song, something happened, something Kao Yu-kung calls Chinese lyric aesthetic. What is at issue for us here is the nature and character of this happening. I begin with a characterization of the fundamental orientation of Chinese thinkers (as contrasted with that of Indo-European thinkers), then turn briefly to the thought of Confucius and of Zhuangzi to expose the intellectual and existential roots of the lyric tradition. The lyric tradition itself is explicated as a working out of the Zhuangzian ideal of resonating, mirroring things as they are. Since our conception of Chinese lyric aesthetic can seem surprising, somehow unanticipated, the discussion concludes with an account of why this conception has for so long gone unremarked, an account that brings us full circle, back to the fundamental orientation of Chinese thinkers with which we began.

Bio
Danielle Macbeth is T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Frege’s Logic (Harvard UP, 2005) and Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing (Oxford UP, 2014), as well as many essays in, for example, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and the history and philosophy of mathematics. She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) in Palo Alto in 2002-3 and has been awarded both an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Burkhardt Fellowship and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

From Fernando Pessoa to Eugénio de Andrade: Poetry Translation and the Creation of Imagery
2023-11-09 19:00 - 20:30 | E21-3118

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“從贛中方言濁上字的演變看贛客方言的關係”-謝留文教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “On the Relationship between Gan and Hakka Dialects from the Perspective of the Pronunciation Evolution of the MC Voiced Characters with Shangsheng Tone in Gan Dialects in the Middle Jiangxi Province” by Prof. Xie Liuwen
2023-11-08 19:00 - 20:30 | E21-3118

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Problem of Contingency for the Descriptivist Account of Semantic Deference” by Dr. Ryo Tanaka, University of Tokyo, Japan
2023-11-08 17:30 - 19:00 | By Zoom
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/98680905452
Password: [REDACTED]

Abstract
Semantic deference is a phenomenon where the referents of linguistic expressions in an ordinary speaker’s vocabulary are determined by the use of the expressions by a group of experts about the relevant subject matter. For example, the meanings of terms such as ‘elm,’ ‘beech’ and so on for an ordinary speaker are partly determined by what botanists in her community say about the relevant tree kinds. Traditionally, the phenomenon has been taken to motivate semantic externalism, according to which meanings “ain’t in the heads” (Putnam 1975) of individual speakers. Those who challenge this tradition, however, attempt to provide a fully internalist-descriptivist account of semantic deference. On the internalist proposal, semantic deference is a matter of each individual’s cognitively associating a description such as [whatever thing that the experts are talking about when they use ‘C’] with the referential expression ‘C’ (Jackson 1998). In this paper, I argue that the internalist-descriptivist account faces the problem of contingency: different speakers can, problematically, come to mean different things by using the same term, by identifying different groups as meaning-determining “experts.” To respond to this problem, one needs to invoke communal linguistic norms that dictate which group of experts speakers should defer to, given the subject matter (cf. Ball 2020). I argue that implementing this strategy requires adopting some form of semantic externalism in the end.

Bio
Dr. Ryo Tanaka is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy based at the University of Tokyo, Japan (JSPS postdoctoral fellow, History and Philosophy of Science Lab). He specializes in philosophy of language in the analytic tradition and also works in related areas such as philosophy of mind, ethics, as well as the Western early modern treatment of these topics. He is currently working on the research project entitled, “Moral obligation to explicate the semantic rules of one’s language.” He has published his work in journals such as The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Contemporary and Applied Philosophy (Japanese).

ECAC-ELC 2023 Fall workshop "Macau: Asia’s Gateway to Photography"
2023-11-08 14:30 - 16:00 | E3-1032
Dear Student,
You are invited to join the second workshop of this year “Macau: Asia’s Gateway to Photography” by the English Co-Curricular Activities Committee of the English Language Centre (ECAC-ELC).
This workshop will:

describe how photography entered China, and then Asia through Macau,
describe international cultural/political zeitgeist in the mid-19th century,
practice describing photographic images and materials,
learn photography and history-related vocabulary,
recognize different types of photographic materials and technologies used from the late 19th to early 20th century.

This workshop is hosted by ELC Instructor, Mr. Hugo Teixeira, students will handle early (19th & 20th century) photographs, discuss and compare old and contemporary Macau, and view historic photos taken by photographers in Macau and other parts of China.
Come with your friends and earn CS & SP points while you learn!

Date: 8 November 2023
Time: 14:30 to 16:00
Venue: E3-1032
Scan the QR code on the poster to register now!

Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to contact us at ECAC_ELC@um.edu.mo
Best Regards,
English Co-Curricular Activities Committee (ECAC)
English Language Centre
Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Short Course on Chinese-Portuguese Simultaneous Interpretation
2023-11-08 - 2023-12-13 | E21-G049

大千世界：人文通識講座：“古詩與中國人的情感世界”-張健教授
2023-11-01 15:30 - 17:00 | 劉少榮樓 – 劉佐德伉儷演講廳 (E4-G078), 劉少榮樓 - 劉佐德伉儷演講廳 (E4-G078)

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: "To be Moved: Affect and Migration in Southeast Asian Literature"
2023-11-01 14:00 - 16:00 | E21-G035
Abstract:
Movement and mobility have always been entangled in how affect is conceptualized and understood. To be affected, after all, may also mean to be moved, as the condition of affectivity traverses senses of displacement, transformation, and passage. This is why stories about migration, of bodies crossing borders and cultures, are charged with emotions and feelings that are, in themselves, fraught with contradictions that intervene in public discourses. This talk looks at the development of affect studies at the intersections of class, race, gender, sexuality, and postcoloniality while also exploring the emerging literary and cultural texts written by migrant underclass from Southeast Asia. Through the lens of affect, migrant writings illustrate the importance of the ordinary and the everyday in understanding the larger themes of colonialism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asian literature.
Biography:
Carlos M. Piocos III is a professor of literature and cultural studies at the Department of Literature of De La Salle University (DLSU). He has published widely on literature, cinema, gender, sexuality, activism and transnationalism in international peer-reviewed journals, and his book, Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration, was published by Routledge in 2021. He is also the editor and translator of the anthology of Indonesian migrant women’s fiction, Bantay Salakay sa Loob ng Aking Bahay (‘Intruders at Home: Anthology of Short Stories by Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan’), published in 2020, and a poet who have published two poetry collections Corpus (University of Sto. Tomas Publishing House, 2010) and Kung ang Siyudaday Pag-ibig (‘If the City were the Beloved’, University of the Philippines Press, 2019).

Chinese Seamen and their Global Adventures 1780-1840
2023-11-01 14:00 - 15:30 | E21-3118

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: "‘Convinced about Knowing Little’: colonial knowledge production in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928)."
2023-10-30 13:00 - 14:30 | E21-3118
Abstract:
Drawing on my recent two-volume study of Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928), I will discuss the different axes, conflicting strands, and productive paradoxes of colonial knowledge in the Linguistic Survey of India [LSI]. In particular, I will address the following questions:

What do the terms ‘India’, ‘Survey’, and ‘knowledge’ mean in the Linguistic Survey of India?
In what sense is the Survey ‘colonial’?
What is the relationship between superintending and authoring in the Survey?
What role do ignorance & doubt play in the Survey’s generation of knowledge in relation to the failure of the planned Linguistic Survey of Burma?
Finally, how might we think about the LSI’s postcolonial legacy?

Biography:
Javed Majeed is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at King’s College London. His book publications include Ungoverned Imaginings. James Mill’s The History of British India and Orientalism (1992); Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity. Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal (2007); Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism (2009); Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (2019); Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (2019); with Christopher Shackle, a translation and critical edition of Hali’s Musaddas: The Flow and Ebb of Islam (1997); and with Isabel Hofmeyr, the edited collection India and South Africa (2016). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2021.

‘Convinced about Knowing Little’: colonial knowledge production in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928).
2023-10-30 13:00 - 14:30 | E21-3118

【Macao Humanities Forum】 The Lure and Peril of Contrarianism: Wang Anshi’s Poems on Wang Zhaoju by Prof Xiaoshan Yang from the University of Notre Dame
2023-10-30 09:00 - 10:30 | E21A-3118 & Zoom
We are very pleased to announce that the 1st Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2023/2024) will be held on 30 Oct 2023. 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 Xiaoshan Yang as our guest speaker to deliver an online lecture on the topic “The Lure and Peril of Contrarianism: Wang Anshi’s Poems on Wang Zhaojun” 唱反調的誘惑與危險：論王安石的昭君詩. Prof Yang is the Department Chair and Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. His representative publications include To Perceive and to Represent: A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Poetics of Nature Imagery, Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: Gardens and Objects in Tang-Song Poetry (Harvard 2003), and Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture (Harvard 2021). His research has been recognized with grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. His research interests include classical Chinese poetry, language and poetics.

Details of the forum are as follows:
Speaker: Professor Xiaoshan Yang 楊曉山教授
Topic: The Lure and Peril of Contrarianism: Wang Anshi’s Poems on Wang Zhaojun 唱反調的誘惑與危險：論王安石的昭君詩
Date: 30 Oct 2023 (Mon)
Time: 09:00 – 10:30 AM
Venue: On-Site (E21A-3118 and 3121) / ZOOM (Link：https://umac.zoom.us/j/95539337498)
Language: Mandarin (with simultaneous interpretation into English on Zoom)
*Light refreshments will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis
Please register for the forum by 26 Oct 2023 (Thur) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9mh7aTNTGbTMYo6
Abstract:
The fame of Wang Anshi’s two poems on Wang Zhaojun rests primarily on three morally controversial lines. For many, these lines blurred the fundamental distinction between the Chinese and the barbarians and even provided a devious justification for shifting loyalty on the grounds of personal favors. Criticisms of the poems were soon enmeshed in a strand of political discourse of which a major theme is Wang’s culpability in the fall of the Northern Song at the hands of the Jurchens. The poems would also be castigated as prime examples of Wang’s pernicious or idiosyncratic views on morality in general. I approach Wang’s iconoclasm as an exercise in polemical fan’an and demonstrate that the attacks on him were driven less by the problematics in his poems than by the attackers’ biases. At the same time, it should be acknowledged that Wang’s sensational lines are a cause of legitimate concerns about the balance between poetic novelty and moral propriety in the use of fan’an.

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Sexual Creepiness” by Prof. Dan Demetriou, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
2023-10-27 13:30 - 15:00 | E21A-3118
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/95168727885
Password: [REDACTED]

Abstract
Accusations of “sexual creepiness” appear to be on the rise. Why is this so, and are such accusations morally problematic? In this essay I will follow legal scholar Heidi Matthews in arguing that sexual creepiness is in tension with liberal and progressive moral commitments. Liberals and progressives may, as Matthews does, maintain a principled stance and reject creepiness as a category, just as they do sluttiness. But the costs of abandoning sexual creepiness may be high, and these costs should be tallied before creepiness norms are expunged. Empirical findings about what gets accused of being creepy suggest that creepiness norms may have been recruited to establish important social equilibria. It is plausible that recent technology, intersecting with the collapse of traditional courtship norms and higher percentages of unattached men, has resulted in a deluge of sexual proposition aimed at young women and fewer desirable mates for unattached older women. I advance the hypothesis that creepiness norms have been largely repurposed to control male sexual advances: first, by discouraging substandard male suitors from approaching young women who are unlikely to be interested in them (“prefiltration”), and second, by deflecting eligible older men away from young women and towards older women (“redirection”). The ethical question liberals and progressives must wrestle with is whether these benefits justify the moral costs.

Bio
Dan Demetriou is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Morris. An ethicist and social-political philosopher, he is the co-editor of Honor in the Modern World (Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) and has recent and forthcoming work in the areas of sex ethics, monument ethics, gun rights, and migration ethics.

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Pluralistic Theism and Religious Syncretism in Southeast Asia” by Prof. Jeremiah Joven Joaquin, De La Salle University, Philippines
2023-10-25 17:30 - 19:00 | E21A-3118
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/98342254152
Password: [REDACTED]

Abstract
Pluralistic Theism is the view that there are different and equally correct conceptions of the divine, and conjoining these varying conceptions need not imply a (logical) contradiction. I show how this view explains the contradictions implied by religious syncretism in Southeast Asia. I then compare and contrast the theoretical merits of this view with those of Ninian Smart’s Philosophy of Worldviews and John Hick’s Religious Pluralism. I conclude that the former view explains the target phenomenon better than the two latter views.

Bio
Jeremiah Joven Joaquin is a Professor of Philosophy at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, where he is also a Founding Fellow of the Southeast Asia Research Center and Hub. He works on philosophical logic, especially its applications to moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion. His latest work explores the application of gappy to glutty logics to issues in philosophical theology.

ECAC-ELC 2023 Fall workshop “American Ways”
2023-10-25 14:30 - 16:00 | E3-G033
Dear Student,
You are invited to join the first workshop of this year “American Ways” by the English Co-Curricular Activities Committee of the English Language Centre (ECAC-ELC).

Understand the basic concepts of intercultural communication.
Understand the basic American cultural values.
Learn some do’s and don’ts on American culture.
Learn how to interact and communicate with westerners in general and Americans in particular, to minimize cultural shock.
Meet new friends and learn together some best practices when visiting the US.

This workshop is hosted by ELC Instructor, Mr. Ricky Ribeiro. It intends to help students familiarize themselves with specific social norms and behaviors displayed by Americans. Through this workshop, students will gain an overall and better understanding of Western cultural customs and traditions, learn how to handle intercultural communication, and feel comfortable when interacting with westerners in general.
Come with your friends and earn CS & SP points while you learn!

Date: 25 October 2023
Time: 14:30 to 16:00
Venue: E3-G033
Scan the QR code on the poster to register now!

Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to contact us at ECAC_ELC@um.edu.mo
Best Regards,
English Co-Curricular Activities Committee (ECAC)
English Language Centre
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
