Date: 19 December 2019 - 16 January 2020 Photographic Exhibition: ‘Female Faces of Macau’ From December 19, 2019 to January 16, 2020, the E1 Gallery of the University of Macao will host an exhibition of photographs by João Palla Martins - Female faces of Macao. These faces depict unmistakable traces of Luso-descendants residing in Macao. A [...]
UM hosts interdisciplinary lectures to promote Luso-Afro-Asian dialogues The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies, under the Department of Portuguese, Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH), University of Macau (UM), recently organised three guest lectures and a public seminar under the title ‘Luso-Afro-Asian Dialogues’. The four events aim to provide an opportunity for students of Portuguese [...]
Date: 14 November 2019
Date: 13 November 2019
In his very first book of poems, O País dos Outros, [The Country of the Others] (1959), Rui Knopfli writes “ European, they say I am”, “but African, I feel’ (Knopfli, 2003:59). By this he is expressing the conflicting quest for his own identity; its split between the two spaces of its self-representation: Europe and [...]
The history of theatre in Portugal is inextricably linked to that of theatre translation, since Portuguese stage productions and theatre repertoires were, and still are, dominated by foreign models and translated plays. A case in point is the period of the Estado Novo, mainly from 1950s onwards, which was marked by prolific translation both for [...]
Although linguistic borrowing is a regular and frequent word-forming mechanism found in languages worldwide, it can spark different reactions among speakers – from acceptance to rejection, or even to the need to propose new forms. Research on the phenomenon raises some questions, such as: (i) Why does borrowing occur? (ii) Are there languages that use [...]
Nowadays, less than 5% of all Portuguese speakers use European Portuguese, the metropolitan variety that lies in the foundations of all Portuguese transplanted varieties. In order to understand the factors that led to this state of affairs, in this talk, I will discuss the Portuguese language situation in the Atlantic, in particular in Africa (Cape [...]
World Voice Day Celebrations The current set of workshops is included in a sequence of initiatives spread over a one week period (11.04 – 16.03), related to the World Day celebrations, put together by CPC & CIELA, of the Portuguese Department. The current proposal refers specifically to the voice preparation and enunciation techniques for teachers, [...]
As translator, I assume that translation is always an act of recreation, because it implicates an interaction of two persons, that are both working with their own creativity. The question is, how far is the final text from the first one, how close can the translator be from the original text, how deep can the [...]