The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) is pleased to announce its upcoming event – a talk given by Dr. Cecília Jorge on her most recent publication, a book of poems entitled ‘Poemas para Macau’ (Poems for Macau). During this session held at the Faculty of Arts (University of Macau) and simultaneously online, the author [...]
On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the birth of one of the most prominent Brazilian and world-literature authors (10th December), CIELA is pleased to announce two separate events in her honor. 1st. Event -- POSTGRADUATE ONLINE SYMPOSIUM The objective of this symposium is to present two important aspects of her work to Post-Graduate [...]
The current talk will inaugurate the Ciela continuous guest talk series World Portuguese Varieties. The guest speaker is Professor Hanna Batoréo, Associate Professor with ‘agregação’ (habilitation to full professor) at Universidade Aberta, in Lisbon, since 1997. She earned her PhD in Linguistics/ Psycholinguistics in 1997. Her PhD thesis “Expressão do Espaço em Português Europeu” (Expression [...]
CIELA is pleased to announce an upcoming online seminar on language Diversity and Language Endangerment jointly organized with the Research Center for Humanities in South China (FAH – University of Macau). The seminar instructor is Prof. Hugo Cardoso, from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Professor Cardoso has collaborated previously with CIELA in different [...]
Interdisciplinary Guest Talk Series: Rostos de Macau / Facets of Macau 1st Talk Title of talk: Coming of Age in Twentieth-Century Macau: “Love and Toes”, by Henrique de Senna Fernandes as a Double Bildungsroman Speaker: Rogério Miguel Puga, PhD Date: 29 Oct 2020 Time: 19 – 20 (Macau/Hong Kong local time) [...]
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 [...]