Before the Chocolate City – Africans in Southeast and East Asia (1800-1960)

GUEST LECTURE (2023-03-29) The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) in collaboration with the History Department is pleased to invite all those interested to the Guest Lecture Before the Chocolate City – Africans in Southeast and East Asia (1800-1960).  The invited speaker is Dr. Clifford Joseph Pereira (Visiting Research Associate at the African Studies Department, [...]

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Palestra Convidada: ‘O português de Timor Leste: aspetos diacrónicos e sincrónicos

A 25 de novembro 2022, a série de palestras convidadas do CIELA - Variedades de Português e Línguas de Contacto de Base Lexical Portuguesa ao Redor do Mundo terá, pela primeira vez, como foco, a língua portuguesa em Timor-Leste. O palestrante convidado desta sessão é o Professor Doutor Davi Albuquerque que apresentará a comunicação 'O [...]

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Palestras Convidadas: ‘Cabo Verdiano: variação linguística e políticas linguísticas’

A 5a. sessão de palestras convidadas da série ‘Variedades de Português e Línguas de Contacto de Base Portuguesa ao Redor do Mundo’, iniciada pelo CIELA em 2021 contará com duas apresentações tendo como foco a língua crioula cabo-verdiana e a variedade emergente de português em Cabo Verde. As oradoras convidas são as Professoras Doutoras Nélia [...]

By |2022-11-18T14:30:26+08:00November 8th, 2022|2022, Past Activities, Talk|Comments Off on Palestras Convidadas: ‘Cabo Verdiano: variação linguística e políticas linguísticas’

SEMINÁRIO LIVRE (‘online’) / OPEN ONLINE SEMINAR

* Please scroll down for English Cinema Império - Representações filmadas da ex-Ásia portuguesa. Escassez e especificidades O Estado Novo português (1933-74) usou o cinema para impor, interna e externamente, a imagem de um país pluricontinental e multirracial. Muitas ideias propagadas nunca foram questionadas após o restabelecimento da democracia e após as independências. Neste seminário analisar-se-á [...]

By |2022-11-11T15:19:53+08:00October 26th, 2022|2022, Conference/Seminar, History and Culture, Past Activities|Comments Off on SEMINÁRIO LIVRE (‘online’) / OPEN ONLINE SEMINAR

World Literature in Portuguese

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to technical issues at the start of session 1, the seminar will now proceed through a new link. This link will be used for the remaining 3 sessions. Please access through the following link or the Meting ID and Password: https://umac.zoom.us/j/95977372873?pwd=b0Q0K0hNYndXM3pVVU5SQ3hHclYxdz09 Meeting ID:  959 7737 2873 Password:      459857   Details [...]

By |2023-02-20T15:05:55+08:00October 11th, 2022|2022, Literature, Past Activities|Comments Off on World Literature in Portuguese

WORLD VARIETIES OF PORTUGUESE AND PORTUGUESE-BASED CONTACT LANGUAGES – MOZAMBIQUE, ANGOLA, SÃO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPE, AND GUINEA-BISSAU

INVITED SPEAKERS:  Prof. TJERK HAGEMEIJER (CLUL - Un. of Lisbon) Dr. RITA GONÇALVES      (CLUL - Un. of Lisbon) Dr. CHIARA TRUPPI         (CLUL - Un. of Lisbon) DESCRIPTION: This open online session will consist of three guest lectures, and is the 4th  of the CIELA open guest talk series World Varieties of Portuguese and Portuguese-based [...]

By |2022-10-11T14:53:29+08:00April 12th, 2022|2022, Linguistics, Past Activities|Comments Off on WORLD VARIETIES OF PORTUGUESE AND PORTUGUESE-BASED CONTACT LANGUAGES – MOZAMBIQUE, ANGOLA, SÃO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPE, AND GUINEA-BISSAU

Digital Poetry in the Portuguese Speaking Countries

There are many ways of making poetry nowadays, but the one that mostly engages the new technologies of language is digital poetry. In  Poesia digital: teoria, história, antologias (Digital Poetry: Theory, History, Anthologies), Jorge Luiz Antonio presents a panorama of digital poetry history, from its origins, in 1959, until our days with the most advanced [...]

By |2022-09-16T15:36:55+08:00April 10th, 2022|2022, Literature, Past Activities|Comments Off on Digital Poetry in the Portuguese Speaking Countries

TRIBUTES TO JOSÉ SARAMAGO ON HIS CENTENNIAL BIRTH ANNIVERSARY

                                The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) is pleased to invite all those interested to the Webinar “TRIBUTES TO JOSÉ SARAMAGO ON HIS CENTENNIAL BIRTH ANNIVERSARY – The Year of the Death Of Ricardo Reis' as a Paradigm of [...]

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How to learn for practicing Portuguese

Xu Yixing Shanghai International Studies University It’s not hard to start to learn a foreign language, but it's really hard to know how we can practice the language so that it can be well used in our daily work or life. So we'd like to suggest that the students might be conscientious of what should [...]

By |2022-04-10T11:47:42+08:00March 5th, 2022|2022, Translation|Comments Off on How to learn for practicing Portuguese

Macao as the origin of Chinese Chilli Pepper’s Culture

Jin Guoping Institute of Macaology, Ji’nan University China is now the largest producer and consumer of Chilli peppers in the world. The Chinese have known of the existence of Chilli peppers for only 429 years. The first reference to Chilli peppers in Chinese classic texts is in 1591. Before that, of course, Chilli peppers had [...]

By |2022-04-10T11:48:36+08:00March 5th, 2022|2022, History and Culture|Comments Off on Macao as the origin of Chinese Chilli Pepper’s Culture