Faculty of Arts and Humanities | University of Macau

FAH – CCHC Lecture Series : Selected Readings from Classical Works of Four Treasuries Study
2024-01-08 16:40 - 17:40 UTC
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FAH – CCHC Lecture Series : Selected Readings from Classical Works of Four Treasuries Study

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Seminar / Lecture

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FAH – Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

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Prof. TANG Keng Pan

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8 January 2024

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16:40 – 17:40

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Premier School Affiliated to Hou Kong Middle School

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Students and teachers ofPremier School Affiliated to Hou Kong Middle School

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Cantonese

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The Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC)

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88222708

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88222383

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cchc.info@um.edu.mo

Spring 2024 i-Learner English for Universities Marathon Competition
2024-01-04 - 2024-04-30
Spring 2024 i-Learner English for Universities Marathon Competition
春季i-Learner英語馬拉松競賽

This semester, ELC is glad to introduce the i-Learner English for Universities Marathon Competition. The deadline for the competition is April 30.
To join the contest, students have to complete as many lessons as possible. The ELC will select one champion who achieves the highest completion regardless of the level. The champion will be awarded MOP 1000 in book and supermarket coupons. Meanwhile, the top students at each level who have completed the most will be awarded for their exceptional efforts. For the writing competition, the top students from UE 1-3 who have completed the writing task with the highest score will be awarded. The winners will also receive a certificate from the ELC.

All students enrolled in ELC courses in 2023/24 are automatically registered as i-Learner users. Follow the steps below to explore new lessons:

Log into https://um.i-learner.com.hk/ with your UM account information.
Lessons in both the “University English” and “English Marathon” sections are counted in the competition.
Choose the topics at your current ELC course levels.
Complete as many lessons as you can with a score above 70% to win the prize!

*Notes:

Scores will be valid only if you complete the i-Learner lessons at your current ELC course level, e.g. students in EELC1011 should complete UE1 lessons
UE1 lessons are open to EELC1011 students; UE2 lessons are open to EELC1012; UE3 lessons are open to EELC1013 students; Advanced Skills Practice lessons are open to EELC2008/09/10/11/12 students.

For inquiries, contact us at fah_elc_ells@um.edu.mo.

Best regards,
English Language Centre
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親愛的同學們，
澳門大學英語中心（ELC）將在本學期繼續舉辦i-Learner英語馬拉松競賽。競賽截止日期為4月30日。

同學們的任務：盡可能完成最多的課節，並獲得70％或以上的分數。

在眾多級別中表現最佳的總冠軍將獲得價值澳門幣1000元的書券和超市禮券。與此同時，在各自級別表現頂尖的學生們將獲得從價值澳門幣500元到100元不等的禮券。英語中心在本學年更增添了寫作比賽。同學們僅須提交第24課的寫作作品，則有贏得價值200澳門幣的禮券。所有獲獎者將獲得英語中心頒發的優秀證書。

所有在2023/24學年註冊ELC課程的學生都自動註冊為i-Learner用戶。按照以下步驟探索新課程：

使用您的澳門大學帳戶信息登錄https://um.i-learner.com.hk/
“大學英語”和“英語馬拉松”部分的課程都計入比賽
選擇與您當前ELC課程級別相符的主題
完成盡可能多的課程，並且確保分數超過70%以贏得獎品

*注意事項：

只有在您當前ELC課程級別完成的i-Learner課程分數才有效，例如EELC1011的學生應完成UE1課程。
UE1課程開放給EELC1011學生；UE2課程開放給EELC1012學生；UE3課程開放給EELC1013學生；Advanced Skills Practice課程開放給EELC2008/09/10/11/12學生。

如有任何疑問，請通過fah_elc_ells@um.edu.mo與我們聯繫。
澳門大學人文學院英語中心謹啟

FAH/DPHIL: MRI Public Forum - From Matteo Ricci to the Chinese Rites Controversy: A Historical and Theological Analysis
2024-01-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Library Auditorium (G012), University Library (E2)

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “State Ritual, Political Legitimacy, and Religious Practice of the Jidu in Imperial China” by Prof. Li Teng, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China
2023-12-29 16:00 - 17:30 | E21-3118 or via Zoom
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/92871894953
Password: [REDACTED]

Abstract
The Jidu 濟瀆 (i.e., the Ji River 濟水), was one of the four waterways (sidu 四瀆) in imperial China. Even though it vanished a long time ago, the Jidu had always been a part of the traditional Chinese ritual system of mountain- and water-directed state sacrifices. From the Western Han dynasty to the Qing dynasty, it continuously received regular state sacrifices. However, Western scholars have failed to notice it. Some modern Chinese and Japanese scholars have studied the development of the Jidu sacrifice, but its embodied political and religious significances for the state and local society were largely ignored. To remedy this neglect, I provide here, with new discoveries and conclusions, the first comprehensive study of the Jidu sacrifice in imperial China.

In this lecture, I will analyze the ideas of state authority, political legitimacy, religious belief, and cosmology, as these underlie the ritual performance concerning the Jidu. I also argue that the Jidu was not only tightly associated with controlling water but was also a symbol and mechanism of political legitimacy. Relying on concrete official and local records, in the third section I further investigate the role that the Jidu God played in local society. I will prove that, after the Song dynasty, the Jidu God was transformed into a regional protector of local society and savior of local people in addition to an official water god.

Bio
Li Teng is now an Assistant Professor at Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, as well as post-doctor at Hebei Normal University. He got his PhD in Philosophy and Religious Studies from University of Macau in 2021. He is the coauthor of The Study of Buddhism in Modern Macau 當代澳門佛教問題研究 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020). He has also published over twenty articles in Chinese and English.

UM-FAH-DPORT: Seminar by Prof. Quintino Lopes on "PHONLAB project: Coimbra – Harvard. Rethinking 20th-century scientific centres and peripheries"
2023-12-14 15:00 - 17:00 | E21-G035
Dear Professors and Students,

We are most pleased to invite all to attend the following Seminar by Prof. Quintino Lopes, from the Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Universidade de Évora / IN2PAST.

BIO
Professor Quintino Lopes is a Principal Investigator of the FCT-funded R&D team project: “Phonetics Laboratory: Coimbra – Harvard. Rethinking 20th-century scientific centres and peripheries” (2022.06811.PTDC). The value of this research, which brings scientific developments in the field of Experimental Phonetics during the 20th century into the mainstream of the History of Science, is demonstrated by the recognition granted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS) with a one-day symposium entitled “Armando de Lacerda: a pioneer of Experimental Phonetics”. The guest speaker’s leading role in this field is also underlined by the joint publication of a book by Technische Universität Dresden Press (2022) and another by the RSAS Center for History of Science (2023). This research has been adapted as content of the curricular programme for secondary schools across Europe as part of the “Sharing European Histories” project (Euroclio; Evens Foundation), and has been translated into 12 different languages.

ABSTRACT
PHONLAB project: Coimbra – Harvard. Rethinking 20th-century scientific centres and peripheries

Speech recognition and synthesis technology is ubiquitous in today’s society and Experimental Phonetics provides an important basis for the development of these technologies. Speech control systems used in mobile phones, digital dictionaries, websites adapted for users with visual impairments and distance education are examples of new interfaces for communication between humans and machines developed thanks to essential work in the field of Experimental Phonetics. In addition to applications for language teaching.
The aim of PHONLAB is to promote knowledge about the development of Experimental Phonetics, bringing the field into the mainstream of History of Science research. We will conduct a case study of the Coimbra Phonetics Laboratory (1936-1979). Created by Portuguese phonetician Armando de Lacerda (1902-1984), the laboratory attracted scientists from leading universities such as Harvard, Cambridge and the Sorbonne, who sought specialist training in the use of innovative laboratory research techniques, absent from other laboratories around the world. The aim of PHONLAB is to contribute to increasing our knowledge of a crucially important but neglected global history topic. We seek to produce a biography of the laboratory, identifying and documenting methods, instruments and techniques, providing recognition for its actors and the scientific networks it was part of. The aim is thus to provide an understanding of the scientific and social impact of the laboratory at the global level. The relevance of this project also derives from the fact that numerous unique historical sources that document the work of this laboratory and portray the evolution of Experimental Phonetics throughout the 20th century are in a poor condition and may be lost. The analysis of these historical sources will enable us to understand the nature and impact of scientific practices at the laboratory, and could serve as the basis for a comparison with studies of other laboratories. By opening up new perspectives in the History of Experimental Phonetics in the 20th century, PHONLAB research will enrich historical narratives and contribute to the reassessment of traditional dichotomies such as that of the ‘creative centre’ versus the ‘passive periphery’. Rediscovering early developments in the field of Experimental Phonetics may have a positive impact on our current understanding of Phonetics and potentially lead to new progress in the field.

IN PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

FAH/DPHIL Conference – "Spiritual Exemplars in Philosophy, Theology, and Religion"
2023-12-13 - 2023-12-14 | E21A-3118

Giulio Aleni’s Map Sheet: Exploring the Contents and Materiality of the Only Known Ming-era Print
2023-12-11 16:00 - 17:30 | E21-3118

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“ChatGPT在漢語學習與教學中的應用”-蔡薇教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “The Application of ChatGPT in Chinese Language Learning and Teaching” by Prof. Cai Wei
2023-12-11 10:00 - 11:30 | Zoom

飞来峰造像与杨琏真迦及元代杭州藏传佛教臆度叙事
2023-12-08 16:00 - 17:00 | E21-3118

FAH-DPORT: Lecture and Documentary by PROFESSOR ZHANG LONGXI (CUHK/ Hunan Normal University)
2023-12-06 15:00 - 17:00 | E4-G053
Dear Professors and Students,
We would like to cordially invite you to attend the following Lecture and Documentary by PROFESSOR ZHANG LONGXI (CUHK/ Hunan Normal University).

PROFESSOR ZHANG LONGXI (CUHK/ Hunan Normal University)
Date: December 6, 2023
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: E4-G053 – University of Macau
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: BETWEEN WORLDS
Comparative literature was established in 19th-century Europe with its disciplinary emphasis on the command of different languages and literatures beyond the limitations of nationalist tendencies and their correlative monolingualism. However, until recently, the languages and literatures in the purview of comparative literature were all European, making the discipline almost inevitably Eurocentric. It is in our time with an increasingly strong sense of globalization and the necessity of transcending Eurocentrism that comparative literature has gradually shifted its focus on non-European literary traditions, particularly in East-West comparative studies and studies of the Global South. As a comparatist deeply believing in the value of cross-cultural understanding of all literary and cultural traditions, I have been engaged in East-West studies and worked toward the cosmopolitan vision of treating the world’s literatures as all potentially making contributions to what we can proudly call human culture. The realization of such a vision is possible in our time and it is the task of all comparatists to make it happen, which will have important implications for the world we are living in today.

After the lecture by Professor ZHANG LONGXI, a 40-minute documentary about his work, directed by Prof. João Cezar de Castro Rocha (UERJ, UMDVS), will be shown, followed by a debate moderated by Prof. Castro Rocha.

Prof. ZHANG LONGXI has authored numerous books including World Literature as Discovery. Expanding the World Literary Canon (2024, Routledge), A History of Chinese Literature (2023, Routledge), From Comparison to World Literature (2015, State University of New York Press), Mighty Opposities: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China (1998, Stanford),The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West (1992, Duke). He was President of the International Comparative Literature Association for 2016-2019. With David Damrosch, Theo D’haen and Francesca Orsini, he serves as an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Literature.

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Intention, Ethics, and Convention in Daoism: Guo Xiang on Ziran (self-so) and Wuwei (non-action)” by Prof. Paul J. D’Ambrosio, East China Normal University, China
2023-12-06 15:00 - 16:30 | E21-3118 or via Zoom
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/93533585933
Password: [REDACTED]

Abstract
Much contemporary scholarship on ziran and wuwei views these concepts, which are often coupled, as being 1) anti-intention, effort, purpose, and self-consciousness; 2) indicative of a distinct type of ethics and/or morality; and 3) a rejection of following custom and convention. This discussion will draw largely on the philosophy of Guo Xiang to demonstrate that these widely agreed upon avenues of interpretation are limited and run contrary to other more nuanced readings of ziran and wuwei. I argue that ziran and wuwei are better appreciated as speaking to attitudes, that they should be understood in terms of degrees rather than categories, and that the Laozi and Zhuangzi offer them as advice for ways of reflecting—they are not standardizable ethical rules. In this way, we can see how ziran and wuwei include intention and effort, are anti (most forms of) ethics and morality, and are inherently intertwined with customs and convention.

Bio
Paul J. D’Ambrosio is a professor of Chinese philosophy at East China Normal University (ECNU), fellow of the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, dean of the Center for Intercultural Research, co-director of the English language graduate program all at ECNU. In addition he serves as research fellow at the Ma Yifu Academy of Zhejiang University. He is coauthor (with Hans-Georg Moeller) of You and Your Profile (2021) and Genuine Pretending (both on Columbia University Press, 2017), author of 真假之间 (Between Genuineness and Pretense) (Kongxue tang, 2020), and editor (with Michael Sandel) of Encountering China (Harvard University Press, 2018). He has authored over 100 articles and reviews and translated almost a dozen books. Additionally, he is the founder and director of the online academic forum 四海為學 “Collaborative Learning.”

UMDVS-FAH-DPORT: Lecture by PROFESSOR JOÃO CEZAR DE CASTRO ROCHA (UERJ/FAPERJ)
2023-12-05 16:00 - 18:00 | E4-G053
Dear Professors and Students,
We would like to cordially invite you to attend the following UMDVS Lecture by PROFESSOR JOÃO CEZAR DE CASTRO ROCHA (UERJ/FAPERJ):

UMDVS LECTURE 2023
PROFESSOR JOÃO CEZAR DE CASTRO ROCHA (UERJ/FAPERJ)
Date: December 5, 2023
Time: 16:00
Venue: E4-G053 – University of Macau
Poetics of Emulation and Reading Across Cultures: Towards a Non-Hegemonic Theoretical Framework

The theoretical framework proposed in this lecture advances the concepts of Shakespearean cultures and poetics of emulation. In both cases, I seek to expand on the challenge of mimesis, made even keener by the emergence of the world-system in the modern era. Shakespearean cultures, in general, grew out of non-hegemonic environments; thus, the poetics of emulation tends to be honed amidst such circumstances. What I seek is to understand the worldview of those cultures and the procedures of this poetics. This is the concern behind the project of a “poetics of emulation” characteristic of Shakespearean cultures, a poetics articulated in situations of asymmetrical power dynamics. This strategy includes an array of procedures employed by intellectuals, writers, and artists who find themselves on the less fortunate side of such exchanges, be they cultural, political, or economic.

人文學院中國語言文學系中國人文講座：“中國經典與世界文學”-張隆溪教授、馮勝利教授、盧俊霖博士、張宏生教授 FAH-DCLL Chinese Humanities Lecture Series: “Chinese Classics and World Literature” by Prof. Zhang Longxi, Prof. Feng Shengli, Dr. Lu Junlin, Prof. Zhang Hongsheng
2023-12-05 14:30 - 17:00 | E21-3118 or via Zoom

FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Case for Commitment” by Prof. Sarah Paul, NYU Abu Dhabi
2023-12-01 13:30 - 15:00 | E21-3118 or via Zoom
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91741709275
Password: [REDACTED]

Abstract
Theories of structural, instrumental rationality generally do not make reference to anything we might call ‘commitment’, beyond the sense in which all intentions are a kind of settled commitment. Some views do allow for things like commitment, resolutions, or faith to affect how we ought to reason, but these tend to be characterized as all-or-nothing notions whose role is to preserve inertia by preventing reconsideration and/or desensitizing us to new evidence. I conjecture that we’re led to this overly narrow conception of commitment by thinking of temptation as the primary cause of giving up on an end prematurely, and overlooking the importance of obstacles like procrastination and despair. In my talk, I will try to articulate a puzzle about acting in the face of uncertainty, concerning how we should navigate the tensions involved in trying hard to achieve a goal, while at the same time planning for the possibility of failure and remaining open to giving up. Such decisions are not only difficult to make, but also to live with over time. I argue that our understanding of these dynamics is deepened by bringing in a degreed notion of commitment that involves far more than merely blocking the effects of temptation.

Bio
Sarah Paul is Professor of Philosophy at NYU Abu Dhabi and a Global Network Professor of Philosophy at NYU. Before joining NYU in 2019, she was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for nine years. She is the author of Philosophy of Action: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Press 2021), as well as articles that have appeared in Ethics, Philosophers’ Imprint, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophical Studies. She is currently working on a book titled Striving with Jennifer Morton, under contract with OUP.

UM’s Doctor honoris causa Lecture "SAPIENS - a Journey of 6 Million Years" by Professor William Shiyuan WANG
2023-12-01 11:00 - 12:30

Swoop the Mangy Mutts!: The Forgotten Anti-Dog Movement, 1970s Hong Kong
2023-11-30 14:30 - 16:30 | E21-G002

【Macao Humanities Forum】The Inheritance and Development of Traditional Chinese Culture by Prof Tian Qibo from Shenzhen University
2023-11-29 16:00 - 17:30 | E21A-G035
We are very pleased to announce that the 2nd Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2023/2024) will be held on 29 Nov 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 Tian Qibo as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on the topic “The Inheritance and Development of Traditional Chinese Culture 中華傳統文化傳承與發展的幾個問題”. Professor Tian Qibo, a graduate from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, is the Executive Dean of the Jao Tsung-I Institute of Culture Studies at Shenzhen University. He is a nationally recognized leading talent in Shenzhen, and serves as the Chief Expert for a major project funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China. Additionally, he holds the position of Vice President of the China Society of Hominology. Prof. Tian, whose research focuses on ecological philosophy and political philosophy, has published more than 10 academic works, including Ecological Justice Research and Reflections and Surpassing on Developmentalism: The Evolution and Innovation of Development Philosophy in Contemporary China, and more than 80 research papers in academic journals ranging from the Journal of Peking University to Modern Philosophy. He has received a number of academic awards, such as the Distinguished Social Science Research Award of the Guangdong Province (First Prize) and the Distinguished Social Science Research Award of Shenzhen City (First Prize).

Details of the forum are as follows:
Speaker: Professor Tian Qibo田啟波教授
Topic: The Inheritance and Development of Traditional Chinese Culture 中華傳統文化傳承與發展的幾個問題
Date: 29 Nov 2023 (Wed)
Time: 16:00 – 17:30*
Venue: On-Site (E21A-G035) / ZOOM (link: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91736797065)
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 27 Nov 2023 (Mon) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_egjCbg5jTQrsxCe

For more information, kindly refer to the attached poster. For further inquiries, please feel free to contact Ms. Lisa Lam via lisalam@um.edu.mo

Anglo-Indians or Anglo-Pakistanis? Regional Leadership and Provincial Association Politics in Future Pakistan
2023-11-29 15:00 - 16:00 | E21-G002

MLRG Seminar Series
2023-11-29 14:00 - 17:00
Ricardo Moutinho
14:00: Communicating time inside the dome: depicting the periodicity of celestial movements in talk
Cosmological time, and the connection between time measurement and astronomical events, are central to astronomy and astronomy communication, yet people’s use of time concepts in astronomy outreach activities have not received sufficient attention in the research literature. How is time depicted and communicated in outreach contexts? In this paper we present an analysis of the communication of time concepts in planetarium sessions. Participants in these sessions varied: school children between 3 to 12 years old, families and adults. Data were collected during the summer of 2019. Taking Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EM/ CA) as our approach, we analyse instances of actual events in planetarium sessions. EM/CA consider social reality and meaning-making as phenomena achieved and produced by the participants. Transcripts from recordings of these sessions enabled in-depth study of how concepts were communicated. Our analysis reveals that people make sense of time through their in situ work of making an astronomy outreach activity happen. In the data analysed, a frequent aspect concerning time and time concepts is the connection between time and the periodicity of celestial movements. Time is a ubiquitous concept, perceived and available interactionally. Therefore, detailed study of real events can certainly be applied in other areas to reveal how, in practice, time is communicated and understood.

Sara Santos
15:00: Increasing the reasoning demands of a task and task sequencing on the oral production of Chinese learners of Portuguese as a foreign language
This study had two aims: (1) investigating the impact of increasing the reasoning demands of a monologic narrative task on the oral performance of Chinese learners of Portuguese as a foreign language (PFL) and (2) testing the Simplify Stabilize Automatize Restructure Complexify (SSARC) Model of the Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2022). Fifty-two university learners of PFL participated in this research. Two comparisons were made: (1) the first one within subjects where two tasks (simple vs. complex) were performed on two conditions (simple-complex sequence/ complex-simple sequence) and (2) the second one among subjects where two tasks were performed vs. the individual performance of a task (simple or complex task). Measures of linguistic complexity, accuracy, and fluency were used to quantify learners’ oral production. Robinson’s Cognition Hypothesis has been partially confirmed, as results showed that task complexity positively affected accuracy, lexical diversity, and the amount of coordinate clauses, but with a negative effect on clause length. Task sequencing had a positive impact on accuracy.

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“The First Emperor of Qin and Jing Ke in the Mythic Imagination”-李安敦教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “The First Emperor of Qin and Jing Ke in the Mythic Imagination” by Prof. Anthony Barbieri
2023-11-27 20:30 - 22:00 | E21-3118 or via Zoom

人文學院中國語言文學系研討會：“第十二屆現代漢語語法國際研討會” FAH-DCLL Conference: "The 12th International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar (ICCCG-12)"
2023-11-27 09:30 - 2023-11-28 18:30 | E4-G078、E4-3062,3063,3064、E3-4042,4043

人文學院中國語言文學系嘉賓講座：“追夢漢語的戰略思考”-邵敬敏教授 FAH-DCLL Guest Lecture: “The Strategic Thinking for Pursuing the Chinese Language Dream” by Prof. Shao Jingmin
2023-11-25 20:30 - 22:00 | E21-2100

Part III: Thinking Matters —— The Innovation of Art Education - 第三講：重要的是思維——藝術教育的創新
2023-11-24 15:30 - 17:30

FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Telling Stories with Large Corpora: New Approaches to Language Change and Variation'
2023-11-24 10:00 - 12:00 | E21-3118
Abstract:
The humanities tell the stories of our shared human experience, strengthen communities, and help bridge divides. -Ohio Humanities Council
Humanities focuses on understanding meaning, purpose, and goals and furthers the appreciation of singular historical and social phenomena. – Wilhelm Dilthey on ‘Human Sciences’

This talk focuses on how we can turn the multitude of data points (e.g., big data) into the story of the purpose and goals, to understand meaning of ourselves and our society. In particular we will answer three research questions. First how can language tell the story of the purpose and goals, and interpret the meaning of ourselves and our society? Second, what are the linguistic devices for expressing meaning, purpose, and goal? What are the linguistic cues that can be used to discover them? And third, how to interpret with linguistic cues the purpose, goals and meaning of ourselves and our society? To answer these questions, we underline Language’s nature as a dynamic self-adaptive complex system that is consisted of many linked small worlds and formed by many relations. As such, language big data or corpora offers continuous sampling over the continuum of time and space. To construct a narrative to explicate this complex system we must adopt and End-to-End paradigm by partitioning the data in more than one way, e.g., both diachronic and cross-sectional. This will allow us to tell a story, especially how and why it happened and to Interpret it with a shared conceptual framework/ontology. Several examples will be provided to illustrate the points raised.

Biography:
Chu-Ren Huang is a Chair Professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Focusing on Chinese, computational, and corpus linguistics, he is fascinated by what language can tell us about human cognition and our collective reactions to natural and social environments. He approaches these questions with a deep and comprehensive study of the Chinese language. His recent books on Chinese include A Reference Grammar of Chinese (Cambridge), the Routledge Handbook on Chinese Applied Linguistics, and the Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics, His recent papers appeared in Behavior Research Methods; Computational Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theories; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Knowledge-based Systems; Language, Cognition and Neuroscience; Language Resources and Evaluation; Lingua; Natural Language Engineering; PLoS One; etc.

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

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.

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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
