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UM Open Day – FAH’s “Opening the Door to a World of Possibilities” received great success
This year, FAH featured “Opening the Door to a World of Possibilities” with 11 booth games, including various language, culture, philosophy and history games. Visitors were exposed to the multilingual world as they explored human stories and experienced riches of various cultures. CCHC also takes this opportunity to organize a ceremony to kick off the “Legend of Pen and Ink -Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Celebrities Calligraphy (One of Fu Tianhong’s New Poetry Personal Collection Exhibitio ...
The Final Bentobox Lecture: A Philosophical Inquiry on Self-Deception and the Art of Literary Translation
The Final Bentobox Lecture The final session of the Bentobox Lecture Series was held on the 16th of December 2020. The thoughtful and inspiring presentation by Prof. Nevia Dolcini from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and Dr. Raquel Abi-Sâmara were a fitting way to conclude the Bentobox Lecture Series before it transforms into the Macau Humanities Forum. This final Bentobox event was well attended, and a lively discussion that involved both in-person and online participants fo ...
UM launches bilingual online column to promote Chinese and Portuguese culture
The Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre (CPC), Department of Portuguese, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau (UM), recently launched a new online column titled ‘Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Theme-based Article Series’. The centre holds activities on a regular basis to promote Portuguese language learning as well as Chinese and Portuguese culture, in order to help Macao play its role as a platform between China and Portuguese-speaking countries. So far, the ...
The Second Bentobox Lecture for 2020-2021
The second session of the Bentobox Lecture Series for the 2020-2021 academic year was held last Wednesday, the 25th of November. The session was conducted online and offline simultaneously and was able to attract highly engaged participants who took part in a dynamic Q&A session, following the presentations by Mr. José Pascoal from Department of Portuguese and Prof. Catherine Chan from Department of History. Mr. Pascoal’s presentation entitled “Is my B2 your B2? Is my B2 in Chinese your B2 ...