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UM holds launching ceremony for key project of Festival of Chinese Culture
UM holds the launching ceremony for the key project of the 3rd Festival of Chinese Culture and the 7th Macao Forum on Chinese Culture The University of Macau (UM) held a launching ceremony for the key project of the 3rd Festival of Chinese Culture and the 7th Macao Forum on Chinese Culture, with the aim of promoting Chinese culture, enhancing patriotism among Macao’s academic community and society, and creating a good atmosphere for the promotion of Chinese culture in the city. The event was a ...
Tsinghua University Professor explores Digital Humanities and Dream of the Red Chamber at UM
On October 30, 2024, the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau hosted an academic lecture titled “Digital Humanities and Text Mining of Dream of the Red Chamber,” featuring Professor Li Feiyue from Tsinghua University. The lecture was hosted by Professor Zhang Yue from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and attracted a large audience of faculty members and students online and offline, creating a lively and engagin ...
UM Macao Humanities Forum discusses grammaticalisation of languages
Heiko Narrog The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) of the University of Macau (UM) held the Macao Humanities Forum, featuring a lecture titled ‘Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization and Scope’ by Heiko Narrog, professor at Tohoku University, Japan. The lecture was well-attended by students and faculty, as well as online participants. Joaquim Kuong, assistant dean of FAH, said in his speech that languages around the world have evolved over the years in terms of phonology, semantics, morph ...
Inter-varsity Chinese classics recitation and exchange activity held at UM
A group photo The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) of the University of Macau (UM), in collaboration with the School of Linguistic Sciences and Arts of Jiangsu Normal University (JSNU) and the Faculty of Humanities of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), organised the Mainland-Hong Kong-Macao University Students’ Chinese Classics Recital Show. The event received over 350 entries from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao, and two UM students won the ‘Best Recitation Award’ and the ‘ ...
‘Legacy of Golden Stone’ Suzhou-Hong Kong-Macao Seal Carving Joint Exhibition held at UM
The opening ceremony of the ‘Legacy of Golden Stone’ Suzhou-Hong Kong-Macao Seal Carving Joint Exhibition The ‘Legacy of Golden Stone’ Suzhou-Hong Kong-Macao Seal Carving Joint Exhibition, organised by the Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC) of the University of Macau (UM), Suzhou Overseas Friendship Association, Changshu Overseas Friendship Association, and Changshu International Cultural Exchange Promotion Association, was held at CCHC in UM’s Cultural Building. The exhibition ...
UM holds third Festival of Chinese Culture
UM holds third Festival of Chinese Culture To promote Chinese culture and create an atmosphere conducive to learning Chinese culture on campus, in local schools and in the local community, the University of Macau (UM) is currently holding the third Festival of Chinese Culture, which runs from October to December. Through a series of creative activities, students have the opportunity to learn about traditional Chinese culture in a relaxed manner, thus sparking their interest in Chinese history an ...
UM holds events to commemorate Portuguese writer Maria Ondina Braga
The seminar ‘Images of Macau in the Work of Maria Ondina Braga’ The University of Macau (UM) has organised a seminar and an exhibition to commemorate renowned Portuguese writer Maria Ondina Braga, with the aim of celebrating the friendship between China and Portugal and Braga’s important contributions to literature and cultural exchanges between the two countries. Maria Ondina Braga was one of the most influential Portuguese writers of the 20th century. Her works, which cover a wide range of gen ...
UM hosts 1st International Symposium on Japanese Studies
The 1st International Symposium on Japanese Studies at University of Macau was successfully held at the University of Macau on October 26-27, 2024. The symposium was hosted by the Department of Japanese, FAH, UM, with the aim of promoting international academic exchange in the field of Japanese studies. The theme of this symposium was Japanese linguistics and Japanese language education, with Japanese being the working language. The keynote speakers for this symposium included three inter ...
UM Macao Humanities Forum explores Chinese history through Illustrations of the Tributary States
Ge Zhaoguang The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) of the University of Macau (UM) held the Macao Humanities Forum, with Ge Zhaoguang, Distinguished Professor in the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and the Department of History at Fudan University, as the guest speaker. Prof Ge gave a lecture titled ‘Imagining a Universal Empire: A Study of the Illustrations of the Tributary States of the Myriad Regions Attributed to Li Gonglin’, attracting many students, faculty members, ...
Potential undergraduate students attend Principals’ Recommended Admission Briefing
Faculty booth at N1 Multi-Function Hall The University of Macau held the annual event “Principals’ Recommended Admission Briefing” for undergraduate admissions on 28th September 2024, attracting students from local high schools along with their parents and teachers. The Principals’ Recommended Admission (PRA) scheme is a key admission channel for high school students seeking entry to UM. FAH staff and students worked together at the programme consultation booths in the N1 Multi-Function Hall to ...