Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: “守正創新:中國書法審美觀念的嬗變 ——兼論當代“醜書”產生的背景” – 張維佳教授
2025-11-27 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | E21-3118 | Tencent Meeting

"Presence & Concept" the Second Part: Creative Practice of the "Self" in Contemporary Art Trends - 「現場與理念」第二講：當代藝術潮流中「我」的創作實踐
2025-11-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Room G011, Cultural Building, Lecture Hall (E34)

Curriculum Exhibition - 教學課程展覽
2025-11-29 08:00 - 2025-12-07 17:00 | Exhibition Hall of UM Wu Yee Sun Library (E2-G007)

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: “古代中國文學和文化在西方的學術出版”–Dr. Qin Higley FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Scholarly Publishing of Premodern Chinese Literature and Culture in the West” by Dr. Qin Higley
2025-12-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Online

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: “語料庫詞頻表與二語中文詞匯分級：價值、問題與對策”–儲誠志教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “Corpus-based Word Frequency Lists and Vocabulary Grading in L2 Chinese: Values, Challenges, and Approaches” by Prof. Chengzhi Chu
2025-12-03 09:30 - 11:00 | Online

FAH-DENG Guest lecture: "Emotion Recognition and Textual Representation in British Novels from a Digital Humanities Perspective"
2025-12-04 09:30 - 11:00 | E21A-3118
Abstract:
This study examines British novels from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, exploring innovative applications of digital humanities methods in literary emotion research. First, we constructed an automated emotion recognition pipeline based on the NRC Emotion Lexicon, covering large-scale corpora to perform precise extraction and quantification of emotion words from original novel texts. Second, we conducted genre-level emotion trend analysis across two hundred years of literary history. Finally, we extracted scenes with the highest density of emotion words in individual works, supplemented by close reading analysis. Through multi-dimensional visualization and various secondary metrics, we not only delineate temporal changes in emotions such as anger across dimensions of length, frequency, and intensity, as well as the lexicon of emotion-bearing words in specific works, thereby providing evidence for comparative studies of how different authors represent the same emotions. This research demonstrates how digital humanities can provide new perspectives on emotion history and pathways for textual representation in the history of British novels.

Biography:
Dr. Haifeng Hui (惠海峰) is Professor of English, and Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at the School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He researches children’s literature from diverse theoretical perspectives, including narratology, stylistics, adaptation studies, and digital humanities. He serves as an Advisor Board member of International Research in Children’s Literature. Haifeng’s recent publications include Adaptation of British Literary Classics for Children (Peking University Press, 2019), “Canon Studies in China: Traditions, Modernization and Revisions in the Global Context,” Poetics Today (2021), “Embedded Mental States in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and Uneven Distribution of Narratorial Attention,” Orbis Litterarum (2023), “What Can Digital Humanities Do for Literary Adaptation Studies: Distant Reading of Children’s Editions of Robinson Crusoe,” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2023).

李約瑟對文明互鑒研究的貢獻
2025-12-04 15:00 - 16:30 | E21-3118

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: “互見文獻視野下的賈誼《新書》研究”– 潘銘基教授
2025-12-05 09:00 - 10:30 | E21-3118

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座: “風景與秩序：山水遊記的誕生”– 呂家慧教授
2025-12-05 10:30 - 12:00 | E21-3118

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: "From Techne to Device: The Role of Translation in Internationalist Aesthetics"
2025-12-09 15:00 - 16:30 | E21A-G038
Abstract:
In the recent literature on internationalist or Comintern aesthetics, the role of translation tends to be either ignored (see Glaser and Lee 2020) or presented as a problem (see Clark 2021; Tyerman 2022). This paper critically addresses this treatment of translation in order to offer a more systematic theorization of translation’s role in internationalist aesthetics, especially in its eastward trajectory. Part I provides an overview of attempts by Soviet translation scholars to theorize translation’s role in internationalist aesthetics, beginning with Fedor Batiushkov’s contribution to the 1920 edition of Printsipy khudozhestvennogo perevoda [Principles of Literary Translation]. The second part analyzes how those theoretical positions were reflected in the many Soviet journals dedicated to translated literature, ranging from Sovremennyi Zapad [The Contemporary West] and Vostok [The East], of the early 1920s, to the journals Vestnik Inostrannoi Literatury (1928-1930), Literatura Mirovoi Revoliutsii (1930-1932) and Internatsional’naia Literatura (1933-1943). This diachronic analysis will show that translation was initially treated as a techne, i.e., a necessary support for internationalist aesthetics and the creation of a Socialist World Literature, but was later treated as a device, used to represent the linguistic and cultural otherness negotiated through translation.

Biography:
Brian James Baer is Professor of Translation Studies at Kent State. He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies and co-editor of the book series Literatures, Cultures, Translation (Bloomsbury), with Michelle Woods, and Translation Studies in Translation (Routledge), with Yifan Zhu. His recent publications include the monographs Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature and Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire, and the collected volumes Translation in Russian Contexts, with Susanna Witt, Queering Translation, Translating the Queer, with Klaus Kaindl, and Teaching Literature in Translation: Pedagogical Contexts and Reading Practices, with Michelle Woods. His recent translations include Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics, by Juri Lotman, Introduction to Translation Theory, by Andrei Fedorov, and Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko. He is a member of the advisory board of the Nida Center for Advanced Research on Translation and is the current president of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA).

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: "Discourse-level Semantic Processing Model for Chinese Reading Based on Large Language Models and Intervention for Children with Dyslexia"
2025-12-10 16:00 - 17:00 | E21-3118
Abstract:
Language acts as the medium for information transfer in human society, through which meaning is continuously generated, conveyed, and interpreted. The evolution of large language models (LLMs) put it more challenging and provide insights that meanings, rather than structures, might primarily organize and convey the information. We aim to explore to what extent a LLM might share similarities with human’s behaviours in realistic natural discourse reading. We firstly abstracted LLM-based semantic metrics to quantitively model the semantic representation in a dynamic and multilevel nature. Eye-tracking data were recorded when healthy adult, typically developed children and children with developmental dyslexia read Chinese paragraphs. The LLM-based semantic metrics were found significantly correlated to eye-movement features. In dyslexic individuals, this approach further captured discourse-level reading processing specificity and demonstrated diverse linking patterns. These links can then assist LLMs to generate texts tailored for those with reading disorders: we explored a promising approach to optimize reading texts and generate tailored training material. It would formulate effective personalized intervention strategies, ultimately addressing the special educational needs of children with developmental dyslexia with greater efficacy.

Biography:
Lu Shuo, Ph.D. in Linguistics, is a Distinguished Professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of International Studies, and Director of the Neurolinguistics Laboratory at Shenzhen University. She received dual bachelor’s degrees in Literature and Economics from Peking University in 2005, completed her master’s degree at Peking University in 2008, and earned his Ph.D. from City University of Hong Kong in 2011. She also serves as a Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Professor Lu is the Principal Investigator of the major National Social Science Fund project “Research on corpus construction and language evaluation of aphasia in China” and has been recognized as a High-level Talent in Language Application by the Ministry of Education and as a Young Talent of Guangdong Province (Pearl River Scholar). She has led multiple projects funded by the National Social Science Fund, the Ministry of Education, and Guangzhou Science and Technology Program, and is the director of the Guangdong High-tech Language Service Science Popularization Demonstration Base. She also leads the “Leading Scholar” Innovation Team in Humanities and Social Sciences at Shenzhen University. She has published 30 research articles in SCI-indexed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, NeuroImage, Learning and Instruction, Cerebral Cortex, and Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR), along with 12 papers in CSSCI-indexed journals including Zhongguo Yuwen. She holds more than 10 national patents.

FAH-DPORT: Portuguese Linguistics Seminar Series, Friday, 12/12/2025, 3:00pm, E21a-G049 (SI Lab)
2025-12-12 15:00 - 17:30 | E21-G049
Dear Professors and Students,
We are most pleased to invite all to attend the following Seminars on Portuguese Linguistics this Friday, 12/12/2025, at 3:00pm in room E21a-G049 (SI Lab).

“A Diacronia das Formas de Tratamento no Português Europeu”
Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra é uma figura maior da linguística portuguesa. O seu trabalho incidiu sobre áreas tão diversificadas como a linguística histórica, a linguística românica, a dialetologia, a literatura medieval, e edição, a gramática do português contemporâneo, a política da língua portuguesa… Ou seja, Cintra é o perfeito retrato do filólogo na aceção tradicional de Filologia. Toda a sua carreira decorreu na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, onde foi aluno e professor. Ensinou, orientou projetos e influenciou de forma decisiva os investigadores que hoje marcam a linguística portuguesa. Direta ou indiretamente é o centro de uma constelação de várias gerações de linguistas. Prova disso mesmo é o facto de os trabalhos que Cintra iniciou continuarem, ainda hoje, como ‘work in progress’, como é o caso dos estudos sobre as formas de tratamento em português. Retomando o ensaio de Cintra, publicado em 1972, Sobre “Formas de Tratamento” na Língua Portuguesa (Lisboa: Horizonte), uma equipa, constituída por seis investigadores, sob o patrocínio da Imprensa Nacional, está a revisitar o tema, agora com meios e ferramentas de que Cintra não dispunha.
Esta comunicação pretende apresentar resultados parciais deste projeto em curso.
EM LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA
Professora Esperança Cardeira
Professora Associada aposentada de Linguística na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL) e investigadora no Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL), Portugal. É licenciada em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, mestre em Linguística Portuguesa e doutorada em Linguística Histórica pela Universidade de Lisboa.
Especialista em linguística histórica, os seus principais interesses incluem Etimologia, Lexicografia, Contactos Linguísticos, Onomástica, Crítica Textual, Filologia e Humanidades Digitais.
É autora, coautora e editora de várias obras, entre as quais Entre o Português Antigo e o Português Clássico (2005), O Essencial sobre a História do Português (2006), Norma e Variação (2007), Colour and Colour Naming: Crosslinguistic Approaches (2016), Breve storia della língua portoghese (2019) e Gramática histórica do Português Europeu (2021).
Proferiu conferências convidadas em diversas instituições académicas, incluindo a Universidade Masaryk, Universidade Carolina, Universidade de Zagreb, King’s College, Universidade de Londres, Universidade do Salento e Universidade de São Paulo. Participou em vários projetos nacionais e internacionais, nomeadamente: (i) como consultora do projeto História do Português Paulista (PHPP II – Projeto Caipira II, financiado pela FAPESP, Brasil); (ii) como membro das equipas dos projetos EE-T (Economics e-translations into and from European Languages) e da COST Action IS1305 – European Network of e-Lexicography (ENeL); (iii) atualmente integra a equipa do projeto Toponomasticon Hispaniae (https://toponhisp.org/).
CV completo: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/D41A-E805-E841

“Inferência de Relações Discursivas Implícitas em Português Europeu”
A coerência textual depende das relações discursivas (RD) que ligam as partes do texto, explícitas ou implícitas. Estas relações, teorizadas em modelos como a Rhetorical Structure Theory e a Segmented Discourse Representation Theory, explicam fenómenos como anáfora temporal e estrutura discursiva. As RD implícitas, não sinalizadas por conectores, são particularmente desafiantes. Este estudo procura identificar fatores linguísticos que influenciam a inferência dessas RD em português europeu. Para isso, compilámos um corpus de 30 fábulas, anotadas segundo a norma ISO 24617-8, incluindo classes aspetuais (Moens, 1987) e relações temporais (anterioridade, posterioridade, simultaneidade). Os resultados preliminares indicam que as RD implícitas superam ligeiramente as explícitas. Algumas, como Concessão, dependem fortemente de conectores, enquanto outras, como Sincronia, ocorrem com ou sem marcadores. Estes dados contribuirão para melhorar os padrões de anotação e a compreensão das RD no discurso.
EM LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA
Professora Purificação Silvano
Professora Auxiliar no Departamento de Estudos Portugueses e Românicos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto e investigadora no Centro de Linguística da mesma universidade. Doutorada em Linguística pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (2011) e mestre pela Universidade do Minho (2003). A sua especialização centra-se na semântica, com particular enfoque nos domínios do tempo, aspeto e relações retóricas, tanto ao nível da frase como do discurso. Colabora em projetos interdisciplinares com a área da informática para a criação de corpora anotados. É autora de diversos artigos publicados em revistas, livros e atas de conferências, coeditou quatro livros, participou em vários projetos de investigação e está atualmente envolvida em três. Tem apresentado comunicações em conferências nacionais e internacionais, integrou comités científicos e coorganizou eventos académicos.
CV completo: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/D61C-EF0F-A42F

“Marcadores Discursivos em Ação: Conectando Textos e Gerindo a Interação”
Os marcadores discursivos constituem uma classe heterogénea e multifuncional de elementos linguísticos que desempenham um papel fundamental na estruturação e gestão do discurso, tanto na modalidade oral como na escrita. A sua relevância na investigação linguística é evidenciada pelo vasto conjunto de estudos dedicados à sua análise sob diversas perspetivas teóricas e metodológicas, bem como pela variedade de designações terminológicas utilizadas.
Embora o term marcador discursivo possa funcionar como hiperónimo abrangendo um vasto conjunto de elementos, assumimos que estes se podem agrupar em duas categorias principais, distintas pelas suas funções e contextos de ocorrência. Em primeiro lugar, existem marcadores que estabelecem preferencialmente conexões entre segmentos do discurso, contribuindo para a coesão e coerência textual, tanto na escrita como na oralidade. Em segundo lugar, há marcadores que atuam sobretudo na gestão estrutural e interacional, predominantemente no discurso oral. Esta distinção sublinha a natureza multifuncional e dependente do contexto destes elementos, evidenciando que ambos contribuem para a coerência comunicativa, mas com papéis distintos — uns centrados na ligação lógica e coesão textual, outros na organização interacional e coordenação social.
Aos primeiros atribuímos a designação “marcadores discursivos” e, aos segundos, “marcadores conversacionais”.
A discussão destes dois tipos de “marcadores discursivos”, num sentido lato, será desenvolvida nesta comunicação através da análise de propriedades comuns e pontos de divergência, com exemplos retirados de “corpora” de português europeu e de análises contrastivas.
EM LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA
Professora Fátima Silva
Professora Associada na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP), onde leciona linguística nos níveis de licenciatura, mestrado e doutoramento, bem como o Seminário de Projeto, colaborando também na formação de professores do mestrado em Português Língua Segunda/Estrangeira. É membro do Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto. As suas áreas de investigação incluem linguística do texto, semântica lexical, aplicação da linguística ao ensino e aprendizagem do português como língua não materna e formação de professores nesta área. Interessa-se particularmente pela análise dos marcadores discursivos do português e pelo seu estudo em contraste com outras línguas. Colaborou em diversos projetos de investigação, integrou comités científicos de conferências e revistas especializadas e é autora e coautora de vários artigos publicados em revistas nacionais e internacionais, atas de conferências e livros.

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: "Recontextualizing the Basic Law in News Media: A Corpus-assisted Discourse Study"
2025-12-12 16:00 - 17:00 | E21A-G038
Abstract:
This talk explores how the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has been recontextualized in news media through a corpus-assisted discourse analysis. Drawing on a large dataset of news articles, this study examines the discursive strategies and linguistic patterns used to represent the Basic Law across different socio-political contexts. It identifies key themes, ideological stances, and shifts in framing over time, shedding light on how media outlets engage with and reinterpret the legal framework to align with broader political narratives. By combining critical discourse analysis with corpus linguistics, the study provides a systematic and data-driven approach to understanding the role of media in shaping public perceptions of the Basic Law. This research contributes to the fields of media discourse, legal communication, and socio-political studies, offering insights into the dynamic relationship between law, media, and ideology.

Biography:
Liu Ming, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include corpus-assisted discourse studies, critical discourse studies, ecological discourse studies, corporate communication, and intercultural communication. He has led and completed one project funded by the National Social Science Foundation and one by the Ministry of Education’s Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation for Young Scholars. Currently, he is leading a GRF project funded by Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council.
Dr. Liu has published over 40 papers in international journals such as Discourse & Society, Language and Communication, Discourse & Communication, Discourse, Context & Media, Journal of Language and Politics, Journalism, Pragmatics & Society, and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, as well as in leading Chinese journals such as Foreign Languages and Modern Foreign Languages. He also serves on the editorial boards of Discourse & Society and Journal of Language and Politics.

【FAH Open Day on 11 Jan 26】Perennial Humanities : From Ancient Wells to Modern Shores!
2026-01-11 11:00 - 17:00 | E21A
The University of Macau (UM) will host its Open Day on Sunday, 11 January 2026. Join us to explore UM’s latest developments and vibrant campus life! As part of this event, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) will present 12 exciting game booths and one art exhibition under the theme: “Perennial Humanities: From Ancient Wells to Modern Shores”.
FAH will also host a Programme Briefing for undergraduate programmes and provide an information booth. We warmly invite you to immerse yourself in the excitement of humanities within a multicultural horizon, experience FAH’s inspiring teaching and learning environment, and get a chance to win fabulous prizes!
Event Details

Date: 11 January 2026 Sunday
Time: 11:00 – 17:00
Venue: E21A – Ground Floor

Game Booths

Knowledge & Pitch-Pot Challenge (FAH Student Association)
History Tic Tac Toe (Department of History)
The Chinese Characters Learning Lab (Confucius Institute)
The Thinker’s Teasers (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies)
Match-Up Fun on Chinese History and Culture (Centre for Chinese History and Culture)
Piece of Me (Department of Arts and Design)
Pun Intended, Fun Extended (Department of Chinese Language and Literature)
Passport to World Englishes (English Language Centre)
Where Do They Come From? (Department of Portuguese)
Word Search in Cubes (Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre)
Fun in Translation (Department of English)
Guess the Gairaigo! (Department of Japanese)

Exhibition
【Staff Art Exhibition of Department of Arts and Design】A Tree of Knowledge: Creation based on Greatness

Venue: Museum of Art, University of Macau Wu Yee Sun Library (E2)

FAH Admission talk
Learn about the Faculty of Arts and Humanities’ undergraduate and master’s programmes, admission requirements, and opportunities for your future.

Date: 11 January 2026, Sunday
Time: 14:30 – 15:00
Venue: E21A – G035
On-site participants will receive a souvenir!

Come and discover FAH’s unique teaching environment and rich cultural life on 11 January 2026!
