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Liu Haisu Art Education Symposium held at UM
Liu Chan presents a certificate of honorary advisor to Zhu Shoutong The University of Macau (UM) Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC) and the Liu Haisu International Art Research Association recently co-organised the Liu Haisu Art Education Symposium and the first general meeting of the association to shed light on Liu’s artistic life. During the event, Zhu Shoutong, director of CCHC, gave a brief introduction to Liu’s achievements in art. Liu Chan, a renowned painter and the daughter o ...
Renowned author Su Tong to give talk at UM
Su Tong, a renowned author, will give a talk titled ‘Ways into Creative Writing’ at the University of Macau (UM) on Tuesday 18 April to share his writing experience and skills. Su Tong is an acclaimed author in China who holds several prestigious positions, including member of the Presidium of the Chinese Writers Association and distinguished professor at Beijing Normal University. He began his literary career during his university years, after graduating from the Chinese Department of Beijing N ...
UM Held Language and Culture Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb2lTDnN0X4 The University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) recently held the Fourth UM Language and Culture Day to promote language and cultural diversity. With the theme ‘Cherish Mother Tongues, Embrace All Cultures’, the event featured various cultural performances presented by academic staff and students from different countries and regions. More than 200 UM students, faculty members, and staff participated in the event. The Language and Cul ...
Inter-varsity Chinese classics recitation and exchange activity held at UM
The Macao edition of a Chinese classics recitation and exchange activity for university students from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao was recently held at the University of Macau (UM). The event was co-organised by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) of UM, the School of Linguistics Sciences and Arts of Jiangsu Normal University (JSNU), and the Faculty of Humanities of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). At the opening ceremony, Yuan Yulin, head of the Department of Chinese L ...
International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse held at UM
International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse held at UM The Sixth International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse (ISCLD) was held at the University of Macau (UM) for two consecutive days. The ISCLD is a biennial symposium and in this edition, more than 100 experts and scholars from all over the world participated online and offline and shared the results of their latest research around the theme ‘Discourses and Multilingualism: Focus on Greater China and Chinese Diasporas ...
UM, BFSU co-organise 2nd Chinese-Portuguese Translation Contest for Higher Education Institutions in China
UM and BFSU co-organise the Second Chinese-Portuguese Translation Contest for Higher Education Institutions in China The Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre of the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the School of Hispanic and Portuguese Studies of Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) recently jointly held the Second Chinese-Portuguese Translation Contest for Higher Education Institutions in China. The contest aimed to promote exchanges i ...
UM holds groundbreaking ceremony for ‘Suao Pavilion’
Guests officiate at the groundbreaking ceremony for ‘Suao Pavilion’ To promote outstanding traditional Chinese culture and strengthen the cultural connections between Jiangsu province, particularly Suzhou, and Macao, including the University of Macau (UM), the Suzhou Overseas Friendship Association and the Jiangsu Overseas Friendship Association have donated to UM for the construction of ‘Suao Pavilion’ and the groundbreaking ceremony for the pavilion was recently held on the campus. Yonghua Son ...
UM sweeps top three prizes at Portuguese Speech Contest
Three students from the University of Macau (UM) recently won the first prize, second prize, and third prize respectively at the 20th Portuguese Speech Contest after competing with students from different higher education institutions in Macao. UM holds the Portuguese Speech Contest The topic of this year’s competition was ‘Man is the Master of What He Thinks and Slave of What He Says’. A total of 11 students from UM, Macao Polytechnic University, the Macau University of Science and Technology, ...
UM holds Macao Humanities Forum on cross-gender theatrical performance
The University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) recently held the Macao Humanities Forum. The event featured Sun Mei, professor of the Department of Chinese Literature at Taiwan Central University, who delivered a lecture titled ‘On Cross-gender Performance’. Involving both in-person and virtual elements, the lecture attracted nearly 200 participants, including faculty members and students of UM. At the forum, Joaquim Kuong, assistant dean of the FAH, introduced the different ...
UM Commemorates The Centenary Of José Saramago
https://youtu.be/xvPx4n7Qf-Y This year marks the centenary of the Portuguese writer José Saramago, born on November 16th, 1922 in Portugal, and passed away on June 18th, 2010 in Spain. José Saramago is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in Portuguese literature. In 1995, José Saramago received the Camões Prize that was considered as the premier literary prize in the Portuguese-speaking world. In 1998, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. To date, José Saramago is the first and ...