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On Thursday, March 14th 2019, the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) had the honour of receiving Ambassador Paulo Cunha Alves, Consul-General of Portugal in Macao and Hong Kong, for a courtesy visit to USJ's Ilha Verde Campus.

The Ambassador, in his first visit to the USJ's new campus, was welcomed by the Rector, Prof. Fr. Peter Stilwell, the Acting Vice-Rector, Prof. Rochelle Ge, and the Director of the Public and International Relations Office, Mrs. Ana Paula Mota, before touring the campus facilities and meeting some of our senior management and academic staff members.

This visit comes in the sequence of a long tradition of close relationships with the Portuguese Consulate in Macao, which USJ greatly cherishes and holds in high regard.

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The Symposium of the Ricci Institutes of Macao and Taipei for 2019 is meant to spark serious discussions in China and Southeast Asia over the role of China’s wisdom traditions in promoting moral leadership in business and the professions.  These traditions — as recognised in China’s Constitution, namely, Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Catholicism, Protestant Christianity, and Islam — converge in supporting moral excellence through the teaching and practice of various forms of religious observance: prayer, study of sacred texts, performance of religious rituals, and spiritual self-cultivation or contemplation.  We will use the term “Contemplation” to cover forms of meditation or spiritual practice that include those grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition but also in other wisdom traditions contributing to our deepening appreciation for spirituality, to designate the focus of this year’s conference.  Though China’s wisdom traditions differ among themselves in their metaphysical assumptions — that is, the reality of God and the nature of humanity’s relationship to it — they seem to converge in a number of ways they respond to the depth dimension of human experience. It has been one of the great insights of the founder of the Taipei Ricci Institute, Fr. Yves Raguin S.J. (1910-1998) to explore the importance of Contemplation not only as a path to enrich the Christian faith journey but also as a privileged door to enter in dialogue with other religions especially with Buddhism and Daoism.

Date: Thursday and Friday, October 17 and 18, 2019 Venue: Don Bosco Auditorium (University of Saint Joseph, Macao)

Brief for Submission  With this call for papers we invite submissions that focus on a particular aspect of Contemplation, Mission and Martyrdom particularly in the Ignatian tradition, i.e. what it is, and how the opportunities for cross-cultural exchange and communication related to becoming “Contemplative in Action” might be understood and responded to by scholars, entrepreneurs, business leaders, as well as students, faculty, netizens, and others learning through social media.  What can we learn from the historic experience of those who put Contemplative silence at the core of their being and action?  How might a mission which is genuinely rooted in local cultures not only be enriched through Contemplation but also contribute to new approaches to mission. How do Martyrdom and the blood of martyrs through the centuries help to frame an action-oriented mission which is freed from sectarian concerns but is designed to advance the common good and enhance our capacities for moral leadership and social responsibility? We encourage papers that reflect on the contributions made by the spiritual and wisdom traditions focused on Contemplative practices that flourished along cultural cross-roads including Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.What is the impact of contemplative traditions on our understanding of the terms of Mission and Martyrdom? We are looking for papers that bring together theory and practice, research studies and case-based papers that address the intrinsic link between Contemplation, Mission and Martyrdom.  We welcome both careful empirical studies and thoughtful and well-developed conceptual work that explore this topic. Empirical studies should be supported by rigorous qualitative or quantitative data analysis. Conceptual work should be clearly grounded in the existing literature. Practitioner papers are welcomed to contribute to our understanding of effective teaching and learning, through research, reports and case studies that address any of the questions suggested here, or others that they believe should be addressed. Submitted papers should have the potential to make a significant contribution both to action-oriented educational and academic literature and/or organisational development in order to qualify for inclusion in the Conference. Accepted papers for the Conference will be considered for publication in the MRI Journal.

More information

 

Submission Dates Please submit papers or an abstract of 500-700 words for consideration to Brian Chao, at mrijournal@riccimac.org, by 27 April 2019. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 29 June 2019, and at that time will be given a “Style Sheet” with instructions, on the length of the paper, formatting, the use of APA guidelines, and other technical details. The final deadline for papers is 1 October 2019.

Academic Committee Stephan Rothlin SJ, Macao Ricci Institute Jaroslaw Duraj SJ, Macao Ricci Institute Thierry Meynard SJ, University of Sun-Yat-Sen, Guangzhou, China & Macao Ricci Institute Olivier Lardinois SJ, Taipei Ricci Institute Franz Gassner SVD, Religious Studies Department, University of Saint Joseph Yang Hengda, Renmin University of China, Beijing Zhou Shoujin, Peking University Edmund Ryden SJ, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei Mike Thompson, Gustavson Business School, University of British Columbia Dennis McCann, Rothlin Ltd. Research Department

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One Hundred Years ago, Pope Benedict XV called for the missionary activity of the Church to be carried out in future by missionaries from the very countries and cultures being evangelised. This was welcomed by many and resisted by some, but was surely the cornerstone of the Church’s evangelising efforts for a century. To mark this centenary, the Faculty of Religious Studies of the University of Saint Joseph presents a lecture series exploring the history, theology and impact of this teaching, contained in Pope Benedict XV’s document Maximum Illud.

To mark this centenary, the Faculty of Religious Studies of the University of Saint Joseph presents a lecture series exploring the history, theology and impact of this teaching, contained in Pope Benedict XV’s document Maximum Illud.

Admissions free Lectures will take place at 6:30PM in the Gratia Hall, Seminário de São José, Largo de Santo Agostinho, Macau.

Lectures will be in English but outlines will be available in Chinese at the beginning of each lecture and full lecture texts available in English and Chinese at the end of each evening.

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On Tuesday, 26^th February, FRS USJ alumnus, Andrew Leong (Chin Hei Leong) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in Biblical Studies at K. U. Leuven.  Andrew, who is originally from Macao, was one of the first graduates of the Faculty of Religious Studies and will return to Macao to join the faculty at the beginning of the next academic year.

Congratulations, Dr Leong: the Faculty and University are immensely proud of your achievement!

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On February 19th, USJ hosted the Orientation for International Exchange, where all new international exchange students in the 2nd semester of the academic year 2018-2019 had the chance to get to know each other, find out more about some of the USJ services available to them, as well as basic information on Macao and the city’s attractions.

The event was organised by the Public and International Relations Office, the Office for Student and Alumni Affairs, and sponsored by Macao Foundation.

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The speaker studied Civil Engineering in the early 1980s, and had worked as an intern in MTR (Mass Transit Railway) construction site. Therefore, he has some close encounters of the theory and practice of STEM. And he also realises the importance of STEM for social and economical development. After ten years of frontline teaching since graduation, he went back to university to teach and conduct research on curriculum issues and teachers’ professional development. Through this journey, he gained fruitful experience in educating people, and recognised the importance of values education in modern civilised societies. Because of these professional qualifications and experiences, the speaker often ask himself this question, “Are we stressing too much on STEM education, but neglecting the cultivation of individual’s values?’. The speaker will share with the audience, particularly school teachers, his experience in this public lecture.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Prof. Tang Kwok-Chun is an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also an Honorary Professional Consultant of the Faculty of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was born in Macao, and received his primary, secondary and tertiary education in Hong Kong. After graduating from the Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Hong Kong in 1983, he started to teach mathematics in a secondary school and coordinated extracurricular activities. In 1993, he left his frontline teaching post and pursued his PhD study at the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong. After earning his PhD degree in 1999, he joined the Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005. He was the Principal Lecturer of the Department when retired in 2010. His publications include:《香港近半世紀漫漫「小學數教路」：現代化、本土化、普及化、規範化與專業化》and《澳門數學課程評估報告》.

講座關於：

講者於1980年代初在大學修讀土木工程，亦曾於香港地鐡（港鐡前身）地盤實習，對STEM的理念與實踐有點具體認識，亦明白STEM對社會建設及經濟發展的重要性；畢業後從事前線教育工作十年後,  他重返大學從事課程研究及師資培訓工作，故對教書育人有一定的體驗感受，亦明白良好價值教育對文明社會的重要性。正是這些學歷與經歷，驅使講者不時思考這個問題：「我們是否偏重STEM的推動而忽略價值觀的培養？」故希望透過這個講座與出席學者及教師作經驗分享及交流。 關於講者： 鄧國俊教授，現為香港浸會大學教育學系特邀副教授及香港中文大學教育學院榮譽專業顧問。澳門出生，在香港接受小學、中學及大學教育。1983年香港大學土木工程系畢業後，於一所中學任教數學，並統籌課外活動。1993年離開前線教育崗位，於香港大學教育學院修讀哲學博士。1999年取得哲學博士學位後，加入香港浸會大學教育學系，2005年晉升為副教授，2010年退休時為學系首席講師。著作包括《香港近半世紀漫漫「小學數教路」：現代化、本土化、普及化、規範化與專業化》及《澳門數學課程評估報告》。" ["post_title"]=> string(52) "Public Lecture: Thinking of Education: STEM and PATH" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(43) "public-lecture-thinking-education-stem-path" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2020-07-01 13:03:47" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-07-01 05:03:47" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(53) "https://www.usj.edu.mo/?post_type=events&p=17511" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(5) "event" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [6]=> object(WP_Post)#3757 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(17492) ["post_author"]=> string(2) "10" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2019-02-25 16:27:57" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-02-25 08:27:57" ["post_content"]=> string(2395) "

The event promoted community engagement amongst Residential Hall residents and the USJ community, and was co-organised by the Residential Hall Office (RHO), the Office for Student and Alumni Affairs (OSAA) and the Public and International Relations Office (PIRO). Vice-Rector Professor Álvaro Barbosa and staff members from the three organising offices were present at the dinner, which was kindly sponsored by the Macao Foundation.

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A delegation from the "Macau China Nation Cultural Innovation Association", led by the President of the Association, Macao SAR Legislative Assembly member Ms. Song Pek Kei; the Executive Director, Ms. Ding Xiao; and the Vice-President, Ms. Pun Qiu Ting; visited the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) on February 21st, 2019.

The delegation was received by Vice-Rector Professor Álvaro Barbosa to explore possible collaborations with the University to enhance the development and exchanges between the creative cultural industries in Macao and the Greater Bay Area.

The visit was a culmination of prior collaborations between the association and USJ on a number of events, which featured experience-sharing by high-profile industrial designers and Hollywood movie producers with students, respectively, of the USJ Design and newly created Digital Cinema programmes. President Song emphasised that the purpose of the association was to create a platform for the collaboration and diversification of the creative cultural industry of Macao. She believes that this is done through collaboration between the industry and universities in order to create a sustainable ecosystem, which then benefits both students and the society.

Apart from bringing experts in the field of creative industries from around the world to Macao and the region, the association has launched the Macao-Shenzhen Design Week, which has been running for three consecutive years to showcase the work of designers from Macao and Shenzhen. The competition features high-caliber judging panels from the IFF and Red Dot Design Competition judges, which facilitates a venue for the designers to showcase their work in an international setting.

Furthermore, members of the association have set up various outlets in Sands China Limited and Nam Van Lake, and plan for other outlets in the Galaxy Macao. These outlets are a possible venue in which students’ products and/or creations can be showcased and maybe marketed to promote local talent and products. In addition, these outlets can be managed by students under a mentorship/internship programme, where both business students and creative industries' students may gain first-hand experience in the management of creative industries-related activities in a real life setting.

Executive Director Ms. Ding also explored the idea of co-creating a Centre for Product and Design, where USJ and the association would achieve synergies in bringing the best of Mainland China, Portuguese-speaking Countries and Europe to collaborate in the research, design and incubation of new products and talent, benefitting the creative cultural industries of Macao via industry and university collaboration.

Professor Álvaro Barbosa welcomed the ideas and will explore possible collaborations opportunities between USJ and the association. He agrees that USJ can add value to the development and promotion of the creative industries of Macao, through mutual collaboration, especially in the realm of linkage between Portuguese-speaking Countries and the industry of China. In fact, the Faculty of Creative Industries was originally created with the goal of assisting in the development of the industry in Macao. This is evident in the selective programmes launched by USJ in recent years, such as the Design, Architecture and Digital Cinema programmes. The University is also planning to launch Cultural and Arts' Management programmes in conjunction with the School of Business and Law, along with the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, to complement the programmes already in place.

The delegation took a short tour of the Faculty of Creative Industries and gave high praise to the work that USJ has done in the area of supporting the development of the creative industries in Macao, looking forward to collaborations between the University and the association in the near future.

For more pictures, please click here.

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About the talk

The lecture will discuss the Syngnathids form a truly unique family of teleost fish that encompasses pipefishes, seadragons and the iconic seahorses. Apart from obvious genetical, morphological and behavioural similarities, all syngnathids share an unique character that sets them aside from all other taxa, aquatic or terrestrial: male pregnancy. During development, the male’s brood pouch not only provides the embryos with protection and osmoregulation, but it also allows for the exchange of nutrients between parent and offspring, as well as trans-generational immune priming. The syngnathid brood pouch can thus be viewed as a structure analogous to the mammalian uterus and the intimate relationship formed between father and offspring sets the stage for selection to operate. Some of his most recent findings which led to the discovery of a new post-copulatory sexual selection mechanism (the “Woman in Red” effect) where pregnant pipefish males, at the sight of a sexier female, can curb ongoing pregnancies, will be presented in the lecture.

Apart from male pregnancy, some syngnathid species also display sex-role reversal (i.e., females actively compete for male access while males tend to be the choosier sex). This uncommon characteristic has converted sex-role reversed pipefish into extensively used mirror-like model species to address questions related with sexual selection. I will present some of our own results with pipefish, from showing how sex roles are not fixed and can be quickly adjusted according to social surroundings, to depicting the dynamic nature of sexual selection, whose intensity is prone to fluctuate both seasonally and spatially. I will also show how we discovered, in the worm pipefish, an inverted lek mating system, the first ever described in the aquatic environment.

Even though sexual selection is an extremely active research area, its precise impact on adaptation to anthropogenic change remains unresolved, with conflicting evidence emerging from the very few existing studies. Thus, I will also talk about our own approach to understand the role of sexual selection in evolutionary responses to environmental perturbation, namely by using genomics to definitively address the impact in adaptation to climate change (patterns of mating, sexual traits expression, phenotypic condition, genetic variance and, ultimately, survival of local populations).

About the speaker

Nuno Monteiro is currently a researcher at CIBIO/InBIO, a professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, and an invited professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto. He completed his degree in Biology in 1996, followed by a MSc in Applied Ecology (2000) and a PhD (GABBA Program) in Biology (2005). His research focuses mainly in questions related with behaviour and evolution, and he has a special interest in all subjects dealing with sexual selection. His extensive work with syngnathids (a fish family that comprises seahorses, pipefish and seadragons) stems from the interest in understanding the selective processes operating during and/or after sexual reproduction. Due to his large body of published work, mainly on pipefish, he is now a IUCN specialist for the SPS group. Some of his ongoing research include projects dealing with the conservation genomics of endangered syngnathid species and the understanding of the impact of sexual selection in adaptation, under a climate change scenario.

For pictures of the public lecture, please click here.

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“Shine” by Alina Garcia, Year 3 Fashion Design Student was honoured to be one of the finalist garments showed in the “Reflective Surface Section” during the WOW – “World Of WearableArt” Opening Night 2018 at the TSB Bank Arena in Wellington, New Zealand. The design competition features entries from more than 40 countries, and more than 60.000 people attended throughout the three-week show. Furthermore, her piece has been chosen to display in the museum of New Zealand, and other venues, for 15 months.

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On December 19^th, 2018, the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) and 20 other Higher Education institutions in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, joined the “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Marine Science and Technology Innovation Alliance”. Professor Rochelle Ge and Professor David Gonçalves, respectively USJ’s acting Vice-Rector and the Dean of USJ’s Institute of Science and Environment (ISE), attended the Inaugural Meeting, held at the Zhuhai Campus of Sun Yat-sen University. The collaboration is launched with expectations of bolstering research development to advance innovation technology development in the Greater Bay Area.

The Alliance aims at training high-level marine talents of the region to promote sharing of marine resource technology, especially in the following areas of cooperation: marine science and technology, academic exchange, scientific research projects and use of marine scientific and technological advancements.

USJ is organising a new visit to the Zhuhai Campus of Sun Yat-sen University to further discuss the working plan for the development of cooperation opportunities and ideas exchange among the Alliance, in late February.

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• Research Methods in Cinema
• Film Semiotic Analysis
• Asian Cinema/Post Cinema
• Finance and Fiction
• Fiction-Cinema/Hybrid Cinema

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On December 14^th 2018, the Council for the Promotion of Guangdong – Hong Kong and Macao Cooperation reelected its members and executives during its General Assembly. Furthermore, University of Saint Joseph was mentioned for the successful organization of the Delegation’s visit to Portugal and Spain, which took place from June 30^th 2018 to July 7^th 2018.

This was the result of work done by USJ senior lecturer; Emil Marques who was elected this term as an Executive Board Member of the council.  The report also featured the meeting of USJ Vice Rector Prof. Alvaro Barbosa with Alberto Carvalho Neto, President of the Portugal – China Young Entrepreneurs Association and Delegation members during their visit to Porto. The delegation understands USJ’s international education experience and capacity and hopes USJ can explore opportunities for further Sino – Luso education collaborations between Portugal and Macao to benefit the Great Bay Area. The meeting laid foundations for future collaborations between the arts and cultural committee of the Council and USJ, which promises future Portuguese and Chinese cultural interaction and exchange.

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Our Chancellor, D. Stephen Lee, the Medal of Altruism

Mr. Sou Chio Fai, the Medal of Education Merit

St Madalena School, the Medal of Education Merit

Dr. Vitor Sereno, the Honorific Title of Prestige and Value

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On December 20-21, 2018, the School of Education - University of Saint Joseph had an opportunity to understand the contemporary issues on Inclusive and Special Education in mainland China: Leading by Professor Carrie Ho, Professor Susannah Sun and PGDE student Susanne Wong visited the School of Special Education, Normal College, Chengdu University (成都大學師範學院特殊教育系), Prince Island English Kindergarten, Chengdu (皇子島英語幼稚園), Chengdu Jinyang Primary School (成都晋陽小學), and Chengdu Special Education School (成都武侯區特殊教育學校). The trip contributed to the insightful and practical teaching learning strategies for SEN students, as well as further collaboration between USJ and Chengdu University on autism research.

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On Dec 7, 2018, School of Education - University of Saint Joseph hosted the first seminar on Arts Education with The International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA), a world famous non-governmental arts organisation for educators and an official partner of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization UNESCO): More than 60 educators and local primary school children attended the InSEA workshops and seminar. The President of InSEA, Teresa Torres de Eça; Angela Saldanha and Prof. Steve Willis brought us examples of art education theory and praxis from Europe and North America, integrating core questions about the role of the arts, specially the visual arts, in formal and non-formal education and possible developments of art education in the context of the sustainable development goals.  Further collaborations with InSEA will be developed to promote international arts education and research collaboration.

 

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