Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

FAH/PHIL Conference – “Philosophy of Gambling”
2019-10-18 - 2019-10-19 | E21-3118
October 18th
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15-10:00
Fiona Nicoll (Edmonton) Beyond “the Zone”: Gambling and Political Philosophy
10:00-10:45
Tim Simpson (Macau) The Porcelain Ashtray: Taming the Volatility of Baccarat in Macau
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00
Rick Dolphijin (Utrecht) Gilles Deleuze on the (Ideal) Game
12:00-12:45
Kah-Wee Lee (Singapore) From Vice to Icon: “Moral Laundering” as critique of the present
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15
Darrel J. B. Manitowabi (Greater Sudbury) Indigenous Casinos are a Medicine for Colonialism
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:30
Mark Johnson (Edmonton) The Unpredictability of Gameplay
16:30-17:15
Melody Lu (Maccau) Temporality and Sociality of Casino Space: Comparing an IR and a Gambling Cruise in Singapore
17:15-18:00
Michael Hemmingsen (Guam) Do Cheaters Never Prosper? Winning by Deception in Purely Professional Games of Pure Chance
18:00-18:20
Cesar Albarran-Torres (Melbourne) Stock trading apps and digital capitalism: where Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Las Vegas meet
19:00 Dinner

October 19th
9:00-9:45
Judith-Frederike Popp (Würzburg) Daring to play oneself – similarities and differences between gambling and practical self-determination
9:45-10:30
Mario Wenning (Macau) Gambling in Film Noir
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30
Nahum Brown (Miyazaki) Why Does the Future Seem Less Necessary than the Past? Kierkegaard’s Response to Aristotle’s Sea Battle Paradox
11:30-12:15
Csaba Olay (Budapest) Indulgence in play and gambling: Gadamer and Csíkszentmihályi
12:30 Lunch
15:00-18:00 City Tour
18:00 Dinner

FAH/PHIL Philosophy and Religious Studies Lecture Series – “Intercultural Questioning” by Dr. Kwok Sai Hang
2019-10-16 16:00 (Asia/Macau) | E21-3118

FAH-DHIST Guest Lecture: Treaties in Danger? Contemporary Crises of International Order in Historical Perspective
2019-10-11 17:30 | E2, Library Auditorium
“Treaties in Danger? Contemporary Crises of International Order in Historical Perspective”
Abstract:
The rise of political populism in Europe and the United States, together with its accompanying nationalism and isolationism, has generated widespread apprehension that instability and division at the national level are scaling up to unsettle the international realm as well. The symptoms seem to be widespread: the Trump administration’s withdrawal from international agreements; Russia’s invasion of Crimea; Brexit; even a failed referendum in Switzerland to prefer “Swiss law over foreign judges”: all seem to indicate a crisis of the so-called “rules-based international order”. The ligaments of that order are treaties – the ties that bind international actors together in webs of trust and obligation. But where did the idea that treaties could create order come from? And what is the relation of treaties to various forms of disorder, such as empire, power politics, and the supremacy of the state over the individual and other competing actors? This lecture traces ideas of treaty-making and treaty-breaking over the centuries to place contemporary concerns in long-range historical perspective.

FAH-ELC talk: Helping Students Discover Self-Confidence Through Speaking
2019-10-09 11:00 - 12:00 | E3-2043

FAH/PHIL Philosophy and Religious Studies Lecture Series – ‘“The Unity of a Spiritual Life”: Husserl on Cultural Phenomenology’ by Prof. Dermot Moran, Boston College, USA
2019-10-03 16:00 | E21-3118

FAH-ELC Student Activity — Business Letter Writing Workshop **1 Smart Point**
2019-09-27 14:00 - 15:30 | E3-3034
This workshop aims to help students develop business letter writing skills for English learning and working. Students will be introduced to the basic structure, writing style, and the use of language in writing business letters through different exercises. After the workshop, students will learn what a business letter is and how to write it effectively.
All levels of English are welcome, especially for beginners and intermediates. Quotas are limited and taken very quickly, so please register soon!
Date: 27 SEPT. 2019 (FRI.)
Time: 2:00PM – 3:30PM
Venue: E3-3034
Medium of instruction: English
Quota: 15
Registration: scan the QR code on the poster or please click:
https://ummoodle.um.edu.mo/mod/choice/view.php?id=1330620
*1 smart point will be awarded for full participation.
Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to contact us at fah_elc_elta@um.edu.mo

FAH Centre for Japanese Studies ~ Guest Lecture
2019-09-26 14:30 - 16:00 | E21A-G035, FAH Building
The Localization Strategies of Kanji (Chinese characters) and Kanbun (Chinese writing) in Pre-modern Japan
近代以前日本的漢字、漢文的在地化策略
Prof. NG Wai-ming, Benjamin

Abstract
The Japanese use Chinese characters and write Chinese in their own unique way. The Chinese language was appropriated to express Japanese expressions and feelings. Based on primary Japanese sources, this talk will discuss how the Chinese language was indigenized and hybridized to become a part of the Japanese language and culture from the Nara-Heian period to the Tokugawa period. Strictly speaking, this is not a study of Japanese linguistics. The localization of the Chinese characters and writing is examined through the lens of Sino-Japanese cultural exchange.
近代以前日本的漢字、漢文的在地化策略
歷代日本人對漢字、漢文的使用跟中國人㢠然不同。這種將中文據為己用的文化現象是日本歷代不斷將漢字、漢文在地化的結果。本研究以歷代日本文獻為基礎，探討從奈良、平安至德川時期漢字、漢文如何被納入日本語及日本文化體系，成為中日混合的文體。嚴格而言，此研究不屬語言學，而是從中日文化交流史及日本思想史為視角的域外漢字文化學研究。

FAH/PHIL Philosophy and Religious Studies Lecture Series – “A Prolegomenon To Husserl’s Phenomenology of Feeling and Emotion” by Dr. Thomas Byrne
2019-09-25 17:00 | E21-G039

FAH-ELC Student Activity: Chatroom — Unusual Food Experience**0.5 Smart Point**
2019-09-20 14:30 - 15:30 | E7-1025
Used to have unusual food experiences in a different country? So shy to speak English in public? Want to talk to a native American speaker? ELC Chatroom allows newcomers to practice communicating in English, make new friends, and together find opportunities to contribute to the wellbeing of the earth. Come and join us!
Date: 20 SEPT. (Friday), 2019
Time: 2:30PM-3:30PM
Venue: E7-1025
Quota: 20
Registration: scan the QR code on the poster or please click:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YQ9_rTyrPtvOavgNDzLZDtLmh1qk2IZVs344-BbZw5g/edit*0.5 smart point will be awarded for full participation.
Should you have any inquiries, please feel free to contact us at fah_elc_elta@um.edu.mo

《日本浪人＋支那浪人＝大陸浪人？》
2019-09-18 15:00 | E21-G002
講座概要：
在近代中日關係史上頻頻登場、作惡多端的“日本浪人（Japan Ronin）”究竟是何等樣人物？本講座將首先從名稱內涵著手, 考察中日兩國民眾、媒體、學界對該問題的認識漂移，繼而從該人物群體的形成環境、政治理念、活動方式、歷史影響等多重面向出發，結合頭山滿（Toyama Mitsuru）、內田良平（Uchida Ryohei）、宮崎滔天（Miyazaki Toten）等具體代表人物，展開具體分析，揭示日本大陸浪人群體在近代中日關係史上的真實地位與影響。對於所謂“民間人士”通過“催戰”、“促戰”等行為凸顯出來的“戰爭責任”問題，也將同聽眾一起展開議論與思考。

The XXII Congress of International Comparative Literature Association
2019-07-29 09:00 - 2019-08-02 09:00 | UM Campus

Summer English Immersion Programme 2019
2019-06-30 09:00 - 2019-07-26 20:00 | UM Campus

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Engaging teachers in sustainable professional development: no quick fixes’
2019-06-06 15:00 | E21-G037

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “Anuradhapura Meets The City of Angels: A Buddhist Traveler Translates Asian America”
2019-05-17 16:00 - 17:30 | E21-3118

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “The transpacific poetics in Marilyn Chin’s ‘Summer Sleep’ and Li-Young Lee’s ‘Persimmons’”
2019-05-17 11:00 - 12:30 | E21-3118

FAH Guest Lecture: “Regularity and Consistency Effects in Chinese Character Processing and ERP Studies of Reading Chinese as a Second Language”
2019-05-09 10:30 | E21-3118

Early Buddhist Inscriptions in China: An Introduction with Case Studies
2019-05-02 16:00 - 17:30 | E21-G016

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “翻譯研究方法與模式”
2019-04-25 15:00 | E21-G038

FAH-DENG “Prize-Giving Ceremony 2019”
2019-04-24 13:00 - 14:00 | E21A-G035, FAH Building

Call for essays: “Best English Studies Essay Competition 2019”
2019-03-29 - 2019-04-12

Learn English through [Scenarios]
2019-03-25 19:00 - 20:30 | E6-2093

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Leukocentric Hollywood: Whitewashing, Alohagate and the Dawn of Hollywood with Chinese Characteristics’
2019-03-13 19:00 | E21-1055

DHIST Guest Lecture: The Continuity and Discontinuity of Twentieth Century Chinese Art－The Case Study of Feng Zikai
2019-03-11 16:00 | E21-G002

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Pragmatic strategies in Chinese speakers’ emails in English as a lingua franca communication’
2019-03-08 10:30 | E21-3118

Guest Lecture: Belief in Retribution for Good and Evil Deeds under Divine Witnessing in Early and Early Medieval China: A Comparative Perspective 上古、中古中國善惡報應信仰歷史源流辨析
2019-01-29 10:00 | E4-G053

FAH Centre for Japanese Studies ~ Guest Lecture
2018-09-14 10:00 - 11:30
Book Road and Japanese Missions to Sui and Tang Dynasties
書籍之路與遣隋唐使
Prof. WANG Yong
Abstract
More than twenty years ago, I proposed the concept of ‘Book Road’, intending to make a breakthrough based on the conventional concept of ‘Silk Road’ and establish a fresh pattern of cultural exchange in East Asia.
The concept of ‘Silk Road’ was invented by Prussian scholar Ferdinand von Richthofen, defining a trade channel among China, Mesopotamia in Central Asia and India during Han dynasty. By the middle of 20th century, people attempted to add their own perspectives to this term, and artificially broadened the historical coverage of ‘Silk Road’.
As long as the world civilizations inherently differ from place to place, the formation of cultural exchange will not be identical. While westerners firmly believed that silk came from ‘Woollen Tree’, the ancient residents in Japanese archipelago had already produced silk themselves by breeding silkworm and planting mulberry.
Dating back to Sino-Japanese ancient history, there was no trace of silk trade with constantly manner and large quantity. Its impact was not even able to compare with ceramics business. However, the essential fact that fundamentally contributed to the progress of Japanese civilization was neither silk nor ceramics but books. This point has not been given sufficient attention by western scholars.
大約在二十年前，筆者立足於東亞文化交流的歷史事實，針對長期以來研究文化交流史的主流觀點“絲綢之路”，提出“書籍之路”的新概念，以建構東亞獨特的文化交流模式。
眾所周知，“絲綢之路”的首倡者是普魯士地理學者李希德霍芬博士，據他在《中國》一書中的界定，僅指中國與中亞及印度之間的貿易通道；然而進入二十世紀，這個概念被不斷敷衍泛化，直至當今儼然成為文化交流的代名詞。
既然世界各地風土不同、歷史各異，形成別具一格的文明樣式，那麼各個區域間的文化交流模式必不會千篇一律。當西方人津津樂道“羊毛樹”的天方夜譚之時，日本列島的先民已然開始植桑養蠶、製作絲綢了。
考察中日文化交流歷史，尤其在中日交流最為密切的隋唐時代，日本向中國持續派遣使節團，主要目的是為了攝取文化而非從事貿易。《舊唐書》記載遣唐使“所得錫賚，盡市文籍”，說明他們通過購求書籍輸入中國文化，由此開拓出一條“書籍之路”。

FAH Centre for Japanese Studies ~ Guest Lectures
2018-08-29 09:30 | E21A-G035, FAH Building
万葉集の魅力 The charm of Man’yōshū
Prof. Nobuyuki Sakamoto
Abstract
Man’yōshū (Collection of Myriad Leaves, 785) is Japan’s oldest extant anthology of poetry. It was compiled between the mid-seventh to the mid-eighth century. It consists of twenty volumes containing more than 4,500 poems (uta). From emperors to peasants, it is unique that the poets in Man’yōshū are from various hierarchical classes. Furthermore, the place names appear in the poems cover many regions in Japan, from north-east to Kyūshū that is in the west.
The three poetic categories of the Man’yōshū are sōmon, banka, and zōka. Sōmon (literally means “exchanges”) includes poems about love. Banka (literally means “coffin-pulling songs”) are poems lamenting people’s death, and Zōka (“miscellaneous poems”) comprises public poems and poems composed on trips. Various aspects of human life are chanted in those poems, and the anthology is truly a representative work of Japanese literature.
The lecture is about the charm of Man’yōshū.

天上界から降ってくる神 The God descending from the celestial world
Prof. Masamori Mouri
Abstract
Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters, 712) was the oldest book survived from the ancient times in Japan. It was compiled in 712, more than 1300 years ago, and comprises three volumes. In Book 1, starting with the creation of Japan, it describes the myths in the age of the gods until the birth of Kamu-yamato Iware-biko no mikoto, the first emperor Jinmu. Book 2 covers the period from Emperor Jinmu to Emperor Oujin, and Book 3 covers the reigns from Emperor Nintoku to Empress Suiko.
As the ancestral god of the imperial family, the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, who is related to Emperor Jinmu, is the most venerated god in Book 1. But how does the god of the celestial world connect with the emperor on earth? It turns out that, it is Amaterasu’s grandson, the god Ninigi, who descends from heaven to earth and becomes the ancestor of the Yamato emperors.
Differing from Nihon shoki (Chronicles of Japan, 720), according to Kojiki, Amaterasu resides in heaven while illuminating the earth where people live at the same time. The “Mirror,” Amaterasu’s sacred soul, descended to the Ise Shine and was worshipped there. The lecture will introduce the legendary stories of this mythical world in an interesting and straightforward manner.

FAH-CJS 川柳コンテスト Senryu Contest
2018-02-26 - 2018-03-09
Dear Students,
This is an opportunity for you to discover more about Japanese language and explore into Japanese poets. For those of you who had study Japanese for a year, you can try to write a senryu poem and submit it to us. Unlike Haiku, Senryu is easy to write, it is a 3-line unrhymed Japanese poem with 17 syllables. If you are interested and would like to know more about Senryu, you are welcome to approach our teachers at the Centre for Japanese Studies.

2017華南地域国際日本語教育シンポジウム 2017 International Symposium on Japanese Language Education in South China Region
2017-11-18 09:00 - 2017-11-19 17:40 | E21-G014, G015, G016

FAH-CJS Japanese Movie Series – “耳をすませば Whisper of the Heart” – (1995)
2017-04-18 17:30 | Blackbox Theatre (E21-G036)
“Whisper of the Heart”
Mimi wo Sumaseba (original title)
One summer evening in 1994, Shizuku Tsukishima, a junior high school girl living in Tama New Town, a Tokyo suburb, looks through the checkout cards in her library books and notices a pattern: Each book had previously been checked out by someone named “Seiji Amasawa”. The next day at school, Shizuku shows her friend Yuko a draft of the song she has been writing for graduation. On the way home, Shizuku realizes she left her book at the school. She rushes back, only to find a boy her age reading it. He hands it back to her and comments on her lyrics, calling them “corny” — which leaves her feeling irritable for the rest of the evening …
Whisper of the Heart, literally “if you listen closely” is a 1995 Japanese anime film directed by Yoshifumi Kondo. The film is based on the manga of the same name by Aoi Hiragi. The screenplay was written by Hayao Miyazaki. This is the first theatrical Studio Ghibli feature to be directed by someone other than Miyazaki Hayao.
Reference: http://studio-ghibli.wikia.com/wiki/Whisper_of_the_Heart
