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FAH/DPHIL: The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay
The Mario Echano Prize for the Best Undergraduate Philosophy Essay is awarded for excellence in philosophy. Students enrolled in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies undergraduate courses are eligible to enter an essay for the annual award. Students are invited to submit an academic essay written as an assignment in one of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies’ undergraduate courses this academic year (AY2023/2024). Essays of any length are acceptable. The organisers reserve the right not to award the prize if essays are not of sufficiently high standard. Please submit essays by e-mail with the subject line ‘Submission for the Mario Echano Prize’ to Maggie Wong at MaggieWong@um.edu.mo. Attach your essay to the message as a Microsoft Word document (other […]
The 2nd Short Video Shooting Contest of Higher Education Institutions in China
With the theme of "China in the eyes of the new generation", this contest aims to encourage students from Mainland China and Macao higher education institutions to tell the story of China and to show the development of contemporary China through creative short films from their own perspective. 1. Organizers: Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre of the University of Macau, School of International Studies of Communication University of China 2. Eligibility: Participants Undergraduate and postgraduate students of the higher education institutions majoring in Portuguese in China; Students can either participate as an individual or in a group of 3 members or less. Each contestant or group can only submit one application. Video specification Length: 3-5 minutes; Format: MPEG/MP4/MOV; Tools: Any […]
Fall 2023 ELC i-Learner English for Universities Marathon contest
Fall 2023 ELC i-Learner English for Universities Marathon contest Starts from Sept 27 to November 27 Dear students, Get ready for an exciting learning journey with i-Learner's English for Universities Marathon Contest this semester, running from Sept 27 to Nov 27. Your mission: Complete as many lessons as you can with a 70% or higher score. Prizes include MOP1000 in book and supermarket coupons for the top student, and MOP 100 to 500 coupons for the top 3 students in each level. If writing is your strength, submit your writing in Lesson 24 for a chance to win MOP300 coupons. All winners will receive a certificate of distinction from ELC. Make learning a daily habit , enhance your […]
FAH – CCHC : Like — Exhibition of Donated Works by Xu Guixun (University of Macau)
Event Information Event Name : FAH – CCHC : Like -- Exhibition of Donated Works by Xu Guixun (University of Macau) Categories : Activity Organizer : FAH – Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC) Date : 12 October to 31 October Time : 09:00 ~ 17:30 Venue : Room G016, Cultural Building, Exhibition and Multi-function Hall (E34) Content : Opening Ceremony Date: 12 October 2023 Time: 15:00 pm – 16:30 pm Venue: Lobby, Cultural Building (E34) Exhibition Period Date: 12 October 2023 – 31 October 2023 Time: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) Venue: Room G016, Cultural Building, Exhibition and Multi-function Hall (E34) Target Audience : All are Welcome Contact Person for Details […]
Celebration of the Centenary of Henrique de Senna Fernandes
Henrique de Senna Fernandes was born on October 15th, 1923 and passed away on October 4, 2010. Born into an illustrious Portuguese family in Macao, he was a renowned lawyer and writer in Macao, and wrote long and short novels such as The Bewitching Braid, Amor e Dedinhos de Pé, Nam Van: Contos de Macau, Os Dores, Mong-Ha, A Noite Desceu em Dezembro, etc. Among them, The Bewitching Braid and Amor e Dedinhos de Pé have been adapted into films. Most of his works are set in Macao in the last century, and they have a unique significance in the presentation of Macao's history, customs, people and landscapes. The writer is also considered by many literary critics as the guardian […]
【Macao Humanities Forum】 The Lure and Peril of Contrarianism: Wang Anshi’s Poems on Wang Zhaoju by Prof Xiaoshan Yang from the University of Notre Dame
【Macao Humanities Forum】 The Lure and Peril of Contrarianism: Wang Anshi’s Poems on Wang Zhaoju by Prof Xiaoshan Yang from the University of Notre Dame
We are very pleased to announce that the 1st Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (2023/2024) will be held on 30 Oct 2023. The forum aims to provide a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event. In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Professor Xiaoshan Yang as our guest speaker to deliver an online lecture on the topic “The Lure and Peril of Contrarianism: Wang Anshi’s Poems on Wang Zhaojun” 唱反調的誘惑與危險:論王安石的昭君詩. Prof Yang is the Department Chair and Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame. He received […]
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “‘Convinced about Knowing Little’: colonial knowledge production in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928).”
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “‘Convinced about Knowing Little’: colonial knowledge production in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928).”
Abstract: Drawing on my recent two-volume study of Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928), I will discuss the different axes, conflicting strands, and productive paradoxes of colonial knowledge in the Linguistic Survey of India . In particular, I will address the following questions: What do the terms ‘India’, ‘Survey’, and ‘knowledge’ mean in the Linguistic Survey of India? In what sense is the Survey ‘colonial’? What is the relationship between superintending and authoring in the Survey? What role do ignorance & doubt play in the Survey’s generation of knowledge in relation to the failure of the planned Linguistic Survey of Burma? Finally, how might we think about the LSI’s postcolonial legacy? Biography: Javed Majeed is Professor of English […]
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “To be Moved: Affect and Migration in Southeast Asian Literature”
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “To be Moved: Affect and Migration in Southeast Asian Literature”
Abstract: Movement and mobility have always been entangled in how affect is conceptualized and understood. To be affected, after all, may also mean to be moved, as the condition of affectivity traverses senses of displacement, transformation, and passage. This is why stories about migration, of bodies crossing borders and cultures, are charged with emotions and feelings that are, in themselves, fraught with contradictions that intervene in public discourses. This talk looks at the development of affect studies at the intersections of class, race, gender, sexuality, and postcoloniality while also exploring the emerging literary and cultural texts written by migrant underclass from Southeast Asia. Through the lens of affect, migrant writings illustrate the importance of the ordinary and the everyday in […]
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ECAC-ELC 2023 Fall workshop “Macau: Asia’s Gateway to Photography”
ECAC-ELC 2023 Fall workshop “Macau: Asia’s Gateway to Photography”
Dear Student, You are invited to join the second workshop of this year “Macau: Asia’s Gateway to Photography” by the English Co-Curricular Activities Committee of the English Language Centre (ECAC-ELC). This workshop will: describe how photography entered China, and then Asia through Macau, describe international cultural/political zeitgeist in the mid-19th century, practice describing photographic images and materials, learn photography and history-related vocabulary, recognize different types of photographic materials and technologies used from the late 19th to early 20th century. This workshop is hosted by ELC Instructor, Mr. Hugo Teixeira, students will handle early (19th & 20th century) photographs, discuss and compare old and contemporary Macau, and view historic photos taken by photographers in Macau and other parts of China. Come […]
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Problem of Contingency for the Descriptivist Account of Semantic Deference” by Dr. Ryo Tanaka, University of Tokyo, Japan
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Problem of Contingency for the Descriptivist Account of Semantic Deference” by Dr. Ryo Tanaka, University of Tokyo, Japan
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/98680905452 Password: 382583 Abstract Semantic deference is a phenomenon where the referents of linguistic expressions in an ordinary speaker’s vocabulary are determined by the use of the expressions by a group of experts about the relevant subject matter. For example, the meanings of terms such as ‘elm,’ ‘beech’ and so on for an ordinary speaker are partly determined by what botanists in her community say about the relevant tree kinds. Traditionally, the phenomenon has been taken to motivate semantic externalism, according to which meanings “ain’t in the heads” (Putnam 1975) of individual speakers. Those who challenge this tradition, however, attempt to provide a fully internalist-descriptivist account of semantic deference. On the internalist proposal, semantic deference is a matter […]
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FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Art as Inquiry: The Path of Chinese Lyric Aesthetic” by Prof. Danielle Macbeth, Haverford College, U.S.A.
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Art as Inquiry: The Path of Chinese Lyric Aesthetic” by Prof. Danielle Macbeth, Haverford College, U.S.A.
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/99485044779 Password: 455548 Abstract Beginning with music, through the emergence of lyric poetry, and culminating in the literati brush-and-ink landscapes of the Southern Song, something happened, something Kao Yu-kung calls Chinese lyric aesthetic. What is at issue for us here is the nature and character of this happening. I begin with a characterization of the fundamental orientation of Chinese thinkers (as contrasted with that of Indo-European thinkers), then turn briefly to the thought of Confucius and of Zhuangzi to expose the intellectual and existential roots of the lyric tradition. The lyric tradition itself is explicated as a working out of the Zhuangzian ideal of resonating, mirroring things as they are. Since our conception of Chinese lyric aesthetic can […]
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Minchi and Chá Gordo–Macanese Gastronomy
Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvX14 (Deadline: 15:00 10 November 2023)
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FAH-DPORT: Seminar “Translation Infrastructure for Assistive Technologies” by Professor Cristiano Bertolini, 22-23/11/2023, 16:00-19:00, E22-G015
Dear Colleagues/Students, I am pleased to invite all to the Seminar "Translation Infrastructure for Assistive Technologies" by Professor Cristiano Bertolini, on 22-23/11/2023 (Tuesday and Wednesday), from 16:00 to 19:00, in room E22-G015. BIO Professor Cristiano Bertolini Department of Information Technology Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil Professor Cristiano Bertolini holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Passo Fundo (2001), a master's degree in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (2005) and a PhD in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2010). He has experience in the area of Software Engineering, with an emphasis on Software Testing, Formal Methods and Experimental Software Engineering, and currently works with software engineering in […]
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CCHC : The Sixth Macao Forum for Chinese Culture
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
CCHC: Exhibition of Ye Zhongqiao on the topic of South China Lychee Leaves
CCHC: Exhibition of Ye Zhongqiao on the topic of South China Lychee Leaves
Event Information Event Name : CCHC: Exhibition of Ye Zhongqiao on the topic of South China Lychee Leaves Categories : Activity Organizer : Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC) Date : 22 November to 7 December 2023 Time : 9:00 - 17:30 Venue : Room G016, Cultural Building, Exhibition and Multi-function Hall (E34) Target Audience : All are welcome Contact Person for Details Name : Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC) Tel. No : 8822 2708 Fax : 2882 2383 Email : cchc.info@um.edu.mo
Opening ceremony for key projects of “Second Festival of Chinese Culture”
Opening ceremony for key projects of “Second Festival of Chinese Culture”
Event Information Event Name : Opening ceremony for key projects of "Second Festival of Chinese Culture" Categories : Activity Organizer : University of Macau Date : 22 November 2023 Time : 9:30 - 11:30 Venue : Lobby, Cultural Building (E34) Target Audience : All are welcome Language : Mandarin Contact Person for Details Name : Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC) Tel. No : 88222708 Fax : 88222383 Email : cchc.info@um.edu.mo 活 動 資 料 活動名稱 : "第二屆中國文化節"主旨項目啟動儀式 類別 : 活動 主辦單位 : 澳門大學 日期 : 2023年11月22日 時間 : 9:30 - 11:30 地點 : 崇文樓大堂(E34) 適合對象 : 歡迎有興趣人士參與 語言 : 普通話 聯 絡 人 資 料 姓名 : 中國歷史文化中心 電話 : 88222708 傳真 : 88222383 電郵 : […]
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Viewing Humans and the World Through Affairs” by Prof. Yang Guorong, East China Normal University, China
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “Viewing Humans and the World Through Affairs” by Prof. Yang Guorong, East China Normal University, China
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91442748446 Password: 038288 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 […]
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Telling Stories with Large Corpora: New Approaches to Language Change and Variation’
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘Telling Stories with Large Corpora: New Approaches to Language Change and Variation’
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 […]
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MLRG Seminar Series
MLRG Seminar Series
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 […]
【Macao Humanities Forum】The Inheritance and Development of Traditional Chinese Culture by Prof Tian Qibo from Shenzhen University
【Macao Humanities Forum】The Inheritance and Development of Traditional Chinese Culture by Prof Tian Qibo from Shenzhen University
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 […]
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FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Case for Commitment” by Prof. Sarah Paul, NYU Abu Dhabi
FAH/DPHIL Lecture Series – “The Case for Commitment” by Prof. Sarah Paul, NYU Abu Dhabi
Zoom: https://umac.zoom.us/j/91741709275 Password: 667156 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 […]