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 [...]
My late friend Landeg White, the first person in more than one hundred years to have published English translations of all of Camões’s poetic work, used to say and write that Camões was the first great European poet to have crossed the Equator and that his experience in the East made him discover what it [...]
The course aimed to present a panel of naturalistic theoretical and methodological perspectives applied to issues in communication and language studies. Based on the classical theories of social interaction and ethnographic approaches to communication and language, some techniques, theories and objects of research in communication were presented in authentic or digital environments. Date: 19, 22, [...]
Lançamento de documentário em vídeo. Date: 24 January 2019
O presente estudo tem como objectivo analisar a colectânea de contos A Cabaia (1956), de Deolinda da Conceição (1913-1957), e o romance Amor e Dedinhos de Pé (1986), de Henrique de Senna Fernandes (1923-2010), no âmbito dos Estudos Literários sobre Macau, identificando temáticas culturais recorrentes nas obras de ambos os autores macaenses e que constituem [...]
The semester event aimed to contribute to the stimulation of the Portuguese Department’s undergraduate students’ interest in cultural and social realities beyond China and Macau, as well as their general interest in reading, in Portuguese, specifically. In this particular edition, attending students and staff were also introduced to the Libolo Project. Prof. Roberval Silva, accompanied [...]
The Seminar on Language Annotation was a sequel to the Seminar on Language Documentation, held between 27th September and 03rd October 2018. The instructor was Dr. Patrícia Costa, from the Centre for Linguistics of the University of Lisbon. It provided an introduction to the methods of language documentation, namely in regarding to the use of [...]
The one day symposium is the closing event of the 1st edition of CIELA’s Interdisciplinary Series, entitled Identities in Interaction: multidisciplinary perspectives. Besides the symposium, this edition includes 3 workshops on oral expression for undergraduates and postgraduates of the Department of Portuguese, delivered by theatre producer and drama techniques lecturer Dr. Carlos Antunes (Portugal), who [...]
Celebrating Macanese Cultural Heritage at UMAC Heritage at the table: Macanese Gastronomy in Portugal's Diaspora (talk by Marisa C. Gaspar, Universidade de Lisboa) To value or not to value a heritage language? The case of Patuá (talk by Mário P. Nunes, University of Macau) Date: 26 October 2018
The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) and the Chinese Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre (CPC) and of FAH / UM, jointly organized the seminar “Methods of Language Documentation”. This seminar which was comprised of 4 sessions (2h5 each) was given by Prof. Hugo Cardoso (University of Lisbon), and covered relevant basic theory and [...]