Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

人文學院中國語言文學系研討會：「世界眼光與中國人文國際學術研討會」 FAH-DCLL Conference: “International Symposium on World Vision and Chinese Humanities”
2024-11-08 09:00 - 2024-11-09 17:30 UTC | E34 Cultural Building

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: “晉語區“可”的音義關聯和互動" - 郭利霞教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Exploring the relevance and interaction between its pronunciation and meaning of the word “ke”（可）in Jin Dialect” by Prof. Guo Lixia
2024-11-06 19:30 - 21:30 | E21-3118 or via Zoom

Big world small theater Ding Yanyong's "Drama" in His Later Years - 大世界小劇場 丁衍庸的晚年「戲畫」
2024-11-06 19:00 - 21:00 | E34-G011

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – "Reaching Addicted Minds" by Dr. Daniel Morgan, University of York, United Kingdom
2024-11-06 17:30 - 19:00 | E21A-3118
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/96566927288
Password: [REDACTED]

Abstract
One approach to the question of why addiction excuses is to focus on the question of what addiction is. In this presentation, I take a different approach, focusing on the question of what excuses are. I argued that excuses are considerations that block inferences to a morally deficient psychology. It falls out of this view of what excuses are that a relatively surface-level property of addiction – the fact when one is addicted to something, one is highly motivated by it – is sufficient to explain why addiction excuses. The view about excuses also supports a diagnosis of why the point about motivation can seem insufficient to explain why addiction excuses. Central to the diagnosis is a fact about non-addicts: non-addicts typically underestimate how motivating objects of addiction are to addicts, thought ignorance of some of the mechanisms by which those objects motivate.

Bio
Dr. Daniel Morgan received his UG, BPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford. He had post-docs at Oxford, University College London, and the University of Barcelona, and is presently a lecturer at the University of York. He is interested in Mind, Epistemology, and Moral Psychology. His PhD and postdoctoral work looked at issues at the nature and role of perspectival thought (e.g. thought about a time ‘as now’, thought about a person ‘as me’). More recently he has been interested in moral responsibility, including especially the nature of excuses in general and addiction in particular. He has a paper forthcoming on excuses in Free and Equal, and on spontaneous freedom in Ethics.

UM-FAH-DPORT: Seminar by Professor Elaine Grolla on “The Relation between Linguistic Performance and Executive Functions: Data from Child Brazilian Portuguese”
2024-11-06 15:00 - 16:30 | E21-G049
Dear Professors and Students,
We are most pleased to invite all to attend the following Seminar on “The Relation between Linguistic Performance and Executive Functions: Data from Child Brazilian Portuguese” by Professor Elaine Grolla, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics, University of São Paulo (Brazil), on Wednesday, 06/11/2024, at 3:00pm in room E21-G049 (SI Lab).

BIO
Elaine Grolla is an Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of São Paulo and a research productivity fellow from CNPq (the Brazilian National Center for Research). Since January 2024, she has been associate editor of the journal Language Acquisition. She obtained her doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Connecticut (USA) in 2005. She completed postdoctoral studies at the University of São Paulo (2006) and at the University of Maryland, USA (2014-2015).
She is the founder and coordinator of LEAL/USP – Laboratório de Estudos em Aquisição de Linguagem (Language Acquisition Studies Laboratory), where she develops and guides research on the development of syntactic and semantic aspects of Brazilian Portuguese as a first language.
Her line of research is Studies of language acquisition and learning processes. Elaine Grolla has, to this date, 45 publications, both journal articles and book chapters, as the only author and in co-authorship. Her full CV may be found the following web pages:
http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4759486D2;
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elaine-Grolla;
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8126-0493
https://usp-br.academia.edu/ElaineGrolla

ABSTRACT
The Relation between Linguistic Performance and Executive Functions: Data from Child Brazilian Portuguese
Children’s linguistic performance is affected not only by their linguistic knowledge, but also by other cognitive processes, as studies on children’s executive functions have been uncovering more recently. In this talk, I will discuss language acquisition data on a less researched language, Brazilian Portuguese, and discuss how Brazilian children’s linguistic performance is related to the development of executive functions, most notably inhibitory control and working memory.
In elicited production studies, children often produce ‘medial questions’ – long-distance Whquestions (LDWh-questions) with an extra wh-element in intermediate [Spec,CP] (as in “What do you think what I ate?”). Children also produce relative clauses with resumptive DPs in the thematic position (as in “the boy that he saw the boy”). These non-adult structures with reduplicated material are also attested in child Brazilian Portuguese (BP).
Following Dell 1986, I hypothesize that, in LDWh-questions, after the wh-word is pronounced at the beginning of the sentence, its activation in memory must be maintained in order to establish a relation with the verb, when it reaches the thematic position. The same process takes place in relative clauses, with the head of the relative clause being active in memory until the gap is reached. In adults, Executive Control (EC) inhibits the reduplication of the highly active word that has already been pronounced. However, children’s EC is not fully developed, leading to the prediction that reduplications will be produced by children with worse EC.
Two studies were conducted, one on LDWh-questions (70 children (age-range: 4;1 – 6;6)) and one on relative clauses (52 children (age-tange: 3;9 – 6;6)). Each study involved a linguistic task eliciting the relevant construction and 2 tasks measuring children’s EC. Our results show that children with more limited EC tend to produce medial questions more often than children with higher executive control capacities (β=2.856, z=4.620, p<0.00001). The same holds for resumptive DP production (p=0.0041, two-tailed Fisher’s exact text). Theories that attribute medial questions and/or resumptive DPs to children’s grammatical representations cannot explain these results. Importantly, attributing these errors to performance factors does not deny children’s rich grammatical representations, but rather explains how these representations are deployed in real-time sentence production.
IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Resistance and Integration: Understanding the Dynamics of Ruling Chinese Secret Societies in Colonial British Malaya
2024-11-06 14:30 - 16:30 | E21-3118

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: 'From adversarialism to antagonism: challenges to the broadcast accountability interview in an age of conflict'
2024-11-06 10:00 - 12:00 | E21-G040
Abstract:
The accountability interview in which a public figure is held to account for their statements or actions is a well-established armature in the delivery of broadcast news. In its broadcast canonical form it relies on questioning as an instrument for addressing issues of knowledge, responsibility, and the rightness of actions of those with public standing. However, shifts in questioning techniques have accelerated a movement towards argument in the context of the broadcast accountability interview and a corresponding loosening of its interview structure. Indeed, there are signs of a growing tendency for the interview framework itself to be questioned by interviewees. This article examines what is at stake in these changes and asks if the accountability interview in an era of heightened conflict remains fit for purpose or is facing a kind of legitimation crisis.

Biography:
Martin Montgomery was appointed Chair Professor in English at the University of Macau in April 2010, as one of the very first Chair Professors to be appointed by the University. He was Head of its Department of English from 2010 to 2013 and also served simultaneously as Head of the Department of Communication from 2012 to 2013, before becoming the first Dean of the newly-formed Faculty of Arts and Humanities as it was established on the new campus. He is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Macau; and he also holds an appointment as Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is editing (with Michael Higgins and Joanna Thornborrow) a special issue of the journal Journalism on Broadcast Talk and Journalism.

FAH-DPORT: Palestras Organizadas pelo Centro de Investigação para Estudos Luso-Asiáticos (CIELA) do Departamento de Português, Universidade de Macau
2024-11-05 - 2024-11-06
Convidamos todos os interessados a estarem presentes nas Palestras Organizadas pelo Centro de Investigação para Estudos Luso-Asiáticos (CIELA) do Departamento de Português, Universidade de Macau, com a Professora Elaine Grolla, Professora Associada e Directora do Departamento de Linguística da Universidade de São Paulo (Brasil), nos dias 05 e 06 de Novembro de 2024.

Professora Elaine Grolla
Professora Associada e Directora do Departamento de Linguística
Universidade de São Paulo (Brasil)
Elaine Grolla é professora associada (livre docente) do Departamento de Linguística da Universidade de São Paulo e bolsista produtividade em pesquisa do CNPq. Desde janeiro de 2024, é editora associada do periódico Language Acquisition.
Obteve o título de doutora em Linguística pela Universidade de Connecticut (EUA) em 2005. Realizou pós-doutorado na Universidade de São Paulo (2006) e na Universidade de Maryland, EUA (2014-2015).
É fundadora e coordenadora do LEAL/USP – Laboratório de Estudos em Aquisição de Linguagem, onde desenvolve e orienta pesquisas sobre o desenvolvimento de aspectos sintáticos e semânticos do Português Brasileiro como primeira língua. Sua linha de pesquisa é Estudos dos processos de aquisição e aprendizagem de línguas. No presente, possui, até o momento, 45 publicações, entre artigos de periódicos e capítulos de livros, como autora única e em coautoria. Seu currículo completo pode ser encontrado nas seguintes páginas da internet:
http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4759486D2
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elaine-Grolla;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8126-0493;
https://usp-br.academia.edu/ElaineGrolla;

RESUMOS
Propriedades Universais da Aquisição de Linguagem
05/11/2024
15:00 – 17:00
E21-3118
Quais são as diferenças entre a aquisição da língua falada e a aquisição da língua escrita? E entre a aquisição da primeira língua e a aquisição de uma segunda língua? As crianças falam de modo mais simplificado que os adultos? Que conhecimento elas possuem sobre sua língua?
Nesta palestra, essas perguntas serão discutidas e as responderemos trazendo resultados de pesquisas recentes na área de aquisição de linguagem. Vamos enfatizar o caráter universal do processo de aquisição de uma primeira língua, apresentando as características mais gerais que são observadas em crianças adquirindo línguas do mundo todo.

As investigações em aquisição de linguagem e os desafios para obtenção de dados
06/11/2024
19:00 – 21:00
E21-3121
A literatura na área de aquisição de linguagem traz evidências inequívocas de que as crianças possuem um conhecimento linguístico bastante específico e abstrato. Os estudos que se dedicaram a investigar o conhecimento linguístico das crianças utilizaram diversos mecanismos engenhosos para acessá-lo. Dado que a capacidade metalinguística – a capacidade de falar sobre a língua, utilizando para isso a própria língua – é bastante reduzida nas crianças, não se pode simplesmente fazer a elas perguntas sobre a interpretação que elas dão a determinadas estruturas, ou se elas conhecem determinada construção. Tentar fazer uma investigação em aquisição de linguagem dessa maneira será uma tarefa infrutífera, fadada ao fracasso.
Nesta palestra, discutirei como os pesquisadores contornam esse problema. Apresentarei os métodos mais utilizados nas pesquisas conduzidas em aquisição de linguagem, ilustrando o potencial e as limitações que eles possuem e como conseguem extrair das crianças suas intuições e conhecimentos. O objetivo principal é descrever tais métodos, fornecendo dicas práticas de como eles podem ser conduzidos.

EM LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA
Disponíveis por Zoom
https://umac.zoom.us/j/93154862789
(Sessão 931 5486 2789)

International Symposium on Investigating Learners' Use of Dictionary Resources
2024-11-03 13:30 - 16:00 | E21A-3118

Clairvoyance of the Small - 於微小處: 感知、狀態與方法
2024-10-30 19:00 - 21:00 | E34-G011

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: “數字人文與《紅樓夢》文本探勘" - 李飛躍教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Digital Humanities and Text Exploration of Dream of the Red Chamber” by Prof. Li Feiyue
2024-10-30 19:00 - 21:00 | E21-3118 or via Zoom

FAH-DPORT: Palestra “Revolução vs. Transição: a Revolução Portuguesa no contexto das democratizações do final do século XX”, pelo Professor Manuel Loff, Professor Associado na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
2024-10-30 14:30 - 16:00 | E21-G035
Convidamos todos os Professores e Alunos a estarem presentes na Palestra “Revolução vs. Transição: a Revolução Portuguesa no contexto das democratizações do final do século XX”, pelo Professor Manuel Loff, Professor Associado na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, no dia 30 de Outubro de 2024, pelas 14:30 horas, na sala E21a-G035.

Professor Manuel Loff
Professor Associado
Departamento de História, Estudos Políticos e Internacionais da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
MANUEL LOFF, nasceu em 1965. É licenciado em História, pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (1988); Mestre em História dos séculos XIX e XX, pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1994) e doutorado em História e Civilização, pelo Instituto Universitário Europeu de Florença (2004).
Actualmente, é professor associado no Departamento de História, Estudos Políticos e Internacionais da FL/UP, investigador integrado do Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC-FCSH/UNL) e Deputado à Assembleia da República, pelo PCP, desde 2023.
Foi Visiting Professor na Universidade Hebraica de Jerusalém (2013), Assistente na Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico do Porto (1994-96) e Profesor Asociado na Facultad de Filosofía y Letras da Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1996-97).
É autor de diversos livros, ensaios, artigos, etc. assim como avaliador de projectos nacionais e internacionais na área da História Contemporânea. A sua principal área de investigação é a História política, ideológica e social do século XX, centrada sobretudo no estudo comparado do fenómeno das experiências autoritárias de natureza fascista ou fascizada do período de 1918-45, com particular incidência nos casos português (1926-74) e espanhol (1936-75). Neste território de investigação cruzam-se investigações que recorrem frequentemente à metodologia da História Oral e que têm avançado para os domínios da construção social da memória e histórias de vida, da História da Educação e das políticas educativas, do Colonialismo e da ideologia colonial, e das Relações Internacionais. Coordena, desde 2010, o projecto Estado e memória: políticas públicas da memória da ditadura portuguesa (1974-2009), financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.
É colaborador regular do diário Público, onde escreve sobre questões de natureza histórica, política e cultural.

RESUMO
“Revolução vs. Transição: a Revolução Portuguesa no contexto das democratizações do final do século XX”
A Revolução Portuguesa de 1974-76, além de uma consequência lógica dos últimos 15 anos da ditadura salazarista (guerra, migrações, urbanização, desruralização, feminização da esfera pública), deve ser lida no contexto da nova cultura política que, desde o final dos anos 1950 (emancipalismo anticolonial, Revolução cubana, 1968), tem pouco a ver com o arranque de uma terceira vaga de democratização, como a define Samuel Huntington, e das transições negociadas e de génese liberal-democrática muito diferentes da rutura política e social que ocorreu em Portugal.
Em Língua Portuguesa

Department of Japanese: Teaching Japanese Case Particles through Imagery イメージで教える日本語の格助詞
2024-10-30 10:00 - 11:30 | E4-1061

Preparation Workshop for CAPLE-ULisboa Exams
2024-10-30 | E34-1002

【Macao Humanities Forum】Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization and Scope by Prof. Heiko Narrog from Tohoku University, Japan
2024-10-29 14:00 - 15:30 | E21B-G016
We are delighted to announce that the 2nd Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2024/2025) will be held on 29 October 2024. 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 Prof. Heiko Narrog as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on the topic “Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization and Scope”. Prof. Narrog is a professor at Tohoku University, Japan. He received two PhDs from Ruhr University Bochum and Tokyo University respectively. His research interests include linguistic typology, modality, grammatical change, especially grammaticalization, and the study of semantic maps. His publications include the monographs Modality in Japanese and the Layered Structure of Clause (Benjamins, 2009), Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2012), and co-edited volumes with Bernd Heine Grammaticalization (Oxford University Press, 2021), as well as The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization (Oxford University Press, 2011/2021), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 2015), and Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Details of the forum are as follows:
Speaker: Prof. Heiko Narrog
Topic: Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization and Scope
Date: 29 Oct 2024 (Tue)
Time: 14:00 – 15:30*
Venue: On-Site (E21B-G016) / ZOOM
Language: English (Simultaneous interpretation into Mandarin will be provided on Zoom)
*Light refreshments will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis

Please register for the forum by 27 Oct 2024 (Sun) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3KjCmsA0bbEnccC

UM-FAH-DPORT: Seminar by Professor Manuel Loff on “A revolution to end a colonial war? Uses of history in literary and media narratives of Portuguese democratisation”
2024-10-29 11:30 - 13:00 | E21-G040
Dear Professors and Students,
We are most pleased to invite all to attend the following Seminar on “A revolution to end a colonial war? Uses of history in literary and media narratives of Portuguese democratisation” by Professor Manuel Vicente de Sousa Lima Loff, Tenured Associate Professor of the Department of History, Political and International Studies, University of Porto (Portugal), on Tuesday, 29/10/2024, at 11:30am in room E21-G040.
This talk will be moderated by Professor Francisco José da Silva Leandro, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of Institute of Global and Public Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau.

BIO
Source: https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/en/func_geral.formview?p_codigo=237852
Manuel Loff (Oporto, 1965). Tenured Associate Professor at the Department of History, Political and International Studies, University of Porto (Portugal), and senior researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, coordinating the research line on “Connected Histories: State-Building, Social Movements and Political Economy”, working closely with a number of researchers from Portugal, Spain, France and Brazil. PhD in History and Civilisation (2004) at the European University Institute (Florence), MA in Contemporary History (1993) at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid). My main research interests deal with Political, Social and Ideological History of the 20th century (Fascism and Neofascism, Colonialism, International Relations and Education), Memory Studies, and 21st century authoritarian transitions through securitisation. Currently I am focused on 21st century new authoritarianism, extreme-right and neofascism; democratic transitions in the 1960s and 70s in a comparative international perspective; and social forms of (re)construction of collective memory on coloniality and political transitions. In this field of research, I have headed a research project on «State and memory: memorial public policies on the Portuguese dictatorship (1974-2009)» (PTDC/HIS-HIS/121001/2010), with researchers from Portugal, Spain, Italy and France, and I participate in several international research projects financed by Spanish and European institutions. I organised a number national and international academic events, curated a national exhibition (on Democracy-building and anti-authoritarian resistance, 1890-1974), and work very often in Spanish universities and research units (am a member of the Centre d’Estudis sobre Dictadures i Democràcies, CEDID). I am an evaluator at the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain), the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portugal) and often for the École d’Hautes-Études Ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid), section “Temps Présent” and “Histoire contemporaine”. I peer review for different scientific journals (Análise Social, Ayer, Pasado y Presente, among several others) and publishing houses (Oxford UP, etc.). I have a regular column in Lisbon’s daily newspaper Público and am a historical and political commentator at the Portuguese public television Rádio e Televisão de Portugal.
Main publications:
«O nosso século é fascista!» O mundo visto por Salazar e Franco (1936-1945) (Porto: Campo das Letras, 2008)
Salazarismo e Franquismo na Época de Hitler (1936-1942). Convergência política, preconceito ideológico e oportunidade histórica na redefinição internacional de Portugal e Espanha (Porto: Campo das Letras, 1996)
(Ed. with Filipe PIEDADE e Luciana Castro SOUTELO) Ditaduras e Revolução. Democracia e políticas da memória (Coimbra: Editorial Almedina, 2014)
(Ed. with ROLLO, Maria Fernanda, et al., Dicionário de História da I República e do republicanismo, 3 vols., Lisbon: Assembleia da República, 2013-14.
(Ed. with Teresa SIZA), Resistência. Da alternativa republicana à luta contra a ditadura (1891-1974) (Comissão Nacional para a Comemoração do Centenário da República, 2010)
(Ed. with Maria da Conceição PEREIRA) Portugal, 30 anos de Democracia (1974-2004) (Porto: Editora da Universidade do Porto, 2006)

ABSTRACT
Social exasperation after 13 years of war in the African colonies and the imminent military defeat were major causes of the Portuguese Revolution of 1974. This is one of the features that brings the Portuguese model of democratisation much closer to the 1943-45 anti-fascist liberation process in Europe than to the post-authoritarian transitions in Greece, Spain, Latin America, the Far East and Central Eastern Europe from the 1970s to the 90s. In the media and literary fiction and autobiography, however, very contradictory narratives about that historical context have emerged over the last 50 years, in which a self-victimising discourse of Portuguese society has prevented an open debate about the colonial war (1961-74) and the systemic nature of Portuguese colonialism.
IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: 'God in Gatsby - A Spiritual Odyssey'
2024-10-28 16:00 - 18:00 | E21-3118
Abstract:
The Great Gatsby might lay easily claim to be “the great” American novel of the 20th century. As we approach the centenary of its publication – 2025 – this seminar explores some stranger features of the novel that are rarely touched upon. These include the implicit religion of the novel, and yet the absence of God. We will also explore some of the other more familiar themes – including repression, depression, gaudy conspicuous consumption, dishonesty, and classism. If the novel were written today, the parallels with Mar-a-Largo in Florida and the world of Donald Trump might be hard to resist. As this seminar will explore, here again we find distorted and refracted signals of faith and belief in 2025, just as in 1925.

Biography:
Martyn Percy is Professor (honorary post) of Religion and Culture at the University of St. Joseph Macao (with the Xavier Centre for Memory and Identity) and Provost Theologian at Ming Hua College, Hong Kong. He is a Professor of Theology at the Institut für Christkatholische Theologie, Theologische Fakultät, Universität Bern (CH), and a Senior Research Associate at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Martyn was Principal of Cuddesdon (Oxford) from 2004-2014, and then served as Dean of Christ Church Oxford (i.e., the Head of the College and Cathedral) until 2022. Martyn’s research and writing span various disciplines, including theology, religion, education, cultural theory, anthropology, and sociology. He has taught at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, working on moral and social values in public life. Martyn holds a unique distinction in the theological world, as the only living theologian featured in Dan Brown’s 2003 bestseller The Da Vinci Code. This intriguing fact and other notable achievements led the journal Theology to describe him as “the British Theologian closest to being a missionary anthropologist”. His writings have been the subject of an academic study, Reasonable Radical: Reading the Writings of Martyn Percy (Pickwick Publishing: Edited by Ian Markham & Joshua Daniels, 2016). His book The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England will be published by Hurst in January 2025.

The 1st International Symposium on Japanese Studies at University of Macau 第1回マカオ⼤学⽇本研究国際シンポジウム
2024-10-26 09:00 - 13:00 | E21A-G035

The 1st International Symposium on Japanese Studies at University of Macau 第1回マカオ⼤学⽇本研究国際シンポジウム
2024-10-26 - 2024-10-27 | TBA

History Forum No. 20: Mediating Between Empires: A Comparative Analysis of the Casa Branca Mandarins and Kowloon Authorities
2024-10-25 12:30 - 14:00 | E21-2001

ELC- EWCC:Words Shape World Guest Talk Series #3 “13 First Draft Mistakes and How to Fix Them”
2024-10-24 19:30 - 21:00 | By Zoom
Guest talk #3 “13 First Draft Mistakes and How to Fix Them”
Are you curious about transforming your draft into a polished masterpiece? You are invited to attend our insightful guest talk on “13 First Draft Mistakes and How to Fix Them”, where you will explore common pitfalls like info dumps and weak structure with expert guidance. This session is perfect for writers ready to elevate their work.
EWCC is delighted to have invited Dr. Tamara Girardi, an award-winning writer and Associate Professor of English from Pennsylvania. Dr. Girardi will share her expertise in practical writing skills, offering invaluable insights.
If you would like to discover the secrets to successful revision with practical techniques from our experienced presenter and learn how to fully develop your novel’s theme, improve pacing, and enrich your protagonist’s inner journey, this talk will equip you with the tools needed to refine your draft into a compelling narrative.
This opportunity is ideal to enhance your writing skills and transform your writing process and achieve your creative goals. If you are interested, join us for an engaging and informative session that promises to improve your writing craft.
Reserve your spot now by signing up at the following link:
https://qfreeaccountssjc1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2rSeO2SJZamYCwe
Description of the talk:
As they should, writers celebrate that first draft, but then the hard part comes – revision. To revise successfully, writers must identify the key issues plaguing that first draft and be able to address them with appropriate tools and tricks. This session will identify thirteen of the most common first draft mistakes such as info dumps, not fully developing the theme or concept of the novel, weak structure, slow pacing, neglecting the protagonist’s inner journey and more. Additionally, the presenter will share specific techniques for how to remedy each of these challenges in that pesky first draft.

Date: 24 October 2024
Time: 19:30 – 21:00
Venue: Zoom
Level(s): Students with all levels of English proficiency are welcome to participate

Seminar on “Images of Macau in the Work of Maria Ondina Braga”
2024-10-23 19:00 - 20:30 | G018, G/F UM Wu Yee Sun Library (E2)

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – "Universal Love (jian’ai) and not Loving Robbers" by Prof. Yun Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
2024-10-23 17:30 - 19:00 | E21A-3118
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/93356482056
Password: [REDACTED]

Abstract
The claim “although robbers are people, loving robbers is not loving people” in the Mohist Canons at first glance seems to contradict their doctrine of “jian’ai”, which is supposed to be all-inclusive. This paper explains why it does not. On the interpretation I shall propose, jian’ai is not merely proposed by the Mohists as a moral goal, but also as a side-constraint—in the sense that its minimum requirement “not to harm the innocent” serves as a moral constraint set upon all actions, including the endeavor to realize the moral goal jian’ai itself. This side-constraint makes sure that jian’ai in any case is not pursued at the cost of defeating itself.
Since “not to harm the innocent” works as the side-constraint, and robbers by definition in the Mohist texts are those who intentionally harm the innocent, the claim of opposing robbers (more concretely in the text “not loving robbers” and “punishing robbers”)—their maxim and actions—can then be understood as an equivalent articulation of the side-constraint. It thus does not contradict jian’ai, but rather sustains its logical consistency.

Bio
Yun Wu received her Bachelor degree of Philosophy from Wuhan University, and both her Master and Doctoral degrees of Philosophy from Tsinghua University in Beijing. She has joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2012 and is now a professor at the Department of Philosophy. Her recent academic visiting experience includes one year at St. Antony’s College in Oxford (2021-2022), and one year at UC Berkeley’s Department of Philosophy (2016-2017).
Her academic interests focus on moral and political philosophy, Chinese philosophy and comparative philosophy. She has published several papers on Mohism in recent years, with a critical reflection on ingrained and still popular views such as that Mohism is a form of consequentialism (or more particularly, utilitarianism), that the Mohist idea of “jian’ai” equals to “love without distinctions”, that the Mohist political theory promotes a kind of “despotism”, and other views.

FAH-DPORT: Palestra "A vocação das Letras", pelo Professor José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes, Professor Catedrático na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
2024-10-23 17:00 - 19:00 | Biblioteca da Universidade de Macau, R/C, sala G018
Convidamos todos os Professores e Alunos a estarem presentes na Palestra “A vocação das Letras”, pelo Professor José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes, Professor Catedrático na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, no dia 23 de Outubro de 2024, pelas 17:00 horas, na sala G018 da Biblioteca da Universidade de Macau.

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

RESUMO
A vocação das Letras
Enquanto campo disciplinar abrangente, as Letras têm uma vocação educativa essencial: a análise e a interpretação de textos. Nesse sentido, o estudante e o investigador têm a possibilidade de treinar uma atividade essencial da espécie humana, aplicando-a aos textos e à realidade em geral.
Em Língua Portuguesa

從西域到中亞：漢地佛教藝術的西漸
2024-10-23 16:00 - 18:00 | E21-2001

FAH-DENG lecture by Distinguished Visiting Scholar: "Metaphor"
2024-10-23 15:00 - 17:00 | E21-G035
Abstract:
Metaphor is an ancient concern of poets, philosophers, rhetoricians and historians as well as speakers and audience, writers and readers. Metaphor was, among the ancient Greeks, something important to poetics, rhetoric, philosophy and politics. Since the Greeks, metaphor has become a topic of many coats: in recent decades, there have been studies of metaphor in chess, cognition, cognitive science, psychoanalysis, psycholinguistics, psychology, linguistics, organizational behaviour, education and much else in actual, fictional and virtual worlds. This lecture contextualizes a few aspects of this metaphorical explosion of metaphor, especially in the last century or so, by discussing classical, medieval and nineteenth century views. Before I focus on Paul Ricœur, I discuss Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and G. W. F. Hegel to help us to see the outlines of metaphor and the critical and theoretical issues arising subsequently down to the present age. The nub of the matter is whether metaphor helps us get at the core of philosophy, that is truth, justice and beauty, the good life, or whether it deflects or deludes or both. Northrop Frye and others will contextualize some current and recent views of metaphor, including that of Ricœur. The sharp focus is on whether metaphor is good or bad or both and on the tensions among fields of knowledge such as poetry, philosopher and rhetoric. The lecture concentrates first on the traces, ghosts and hauntings of Plato and Aristotle on metaphor in texts now and will then discuss other texts to understand the ground of metaphor.

Biography:
Jonathan Locke Hart is a literary scholar, historian and writer. Until this year, he was Chair Professor of the School of Translation Studies, and Director, International Cooperation Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities, Shandong University, where he is now an Honorary Professor. He is also Senior Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto; Associate, Harvard University Herbaria; and Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has written over thirty books and written over 100 articles and essays, and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), Leiden, UC Irvine, Peking University and elsewhere and has given classes, talks, readings and lectures internationally. His poetry and scholarship have been translated into Chinese and other languages (for example, his poetry in Collection of Jonathan Locke Hart (Six Volumes), Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, 2021). He was made Distinguished Fellow, Choi Kai Yau College, University of Macau in 2019.

ELC- ECAC : British Afternoon Tea workshop
2024-10-23 14:30 - 16:00 | E3-1032
Afternoon High Tea is a huge part of the traditional British culture. It is rich in history that began in the 19th-century Victorian Britain (Lin & Chang, 2020). It comes with tea etiquette, types of sandwiches, cakes and delicate foods. It has since evolved into an art form, encompassing aspects of porcelain, table setting, and tea tasting, reflecting personal taste and historical influences.
This workshop aims to introduce to students the history and culture of this afternoon treat, through immersing themselves in the planning and organizing of such an event, and then inviting other students to enjoy a British afternoon tea on our beautiful campus.
Come and experience the British Afternoon Tea culture with your friends and learn while you earn smart points!

Date: 23 October 2024
Time :14:30 – 16:00
Venue: E3-1032
Hosted by ELC Senior Instructors Ms. Joan Leong, Ms. Teresa Lam, and Ms. Azita Kuok

​​​​​​​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

"I came here to see the world"---The Life Journey of the Portuguese Writer Maria Ondina Braga
2024-10-23 - 2024-12-30 | Portuguese Corner, 2/F UM Wu Yee Sun Library (E2)

ELC- EWCC: Words Shape World Guest Talk Series #2 “Grab Your Reader”
2024-10-22 19:00 - 20:30 | By Zoom

Changes in Ink —— Liu Qinghe's Artisitc Exploration and Contemporary Dialogue - 墨韻流變——劉慶和的藝術探索與時代對話
2024-10-21 18:30 - 20:30 | E31-G011
