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About the Talk

The universal Catholic Church is celebrating the centenary of the apparitions of our Lady at Fatima. The devotion to our Lady of Fatima has a special place among Macau Catholics. The Faculty of Religious Studies of the University of St. Joseph-Macau wants to contribute from our field of expertise to this the yearlong celebration by organizing a Roundtable Discussion on Mary.  Our target participants are our students, religious men and women, lay Catholics.

About the Speaker

• Peter Stilwell – Rector of the University of St. Joseph; professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Faculty of Religious Studies; has a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome).
• Judette Gallares, R.C., is a member of the Religious of the Cenacle. She has a Ph.D. in Biblical Theology. She is involved in the ministry of retreats and spiritual direction. She is professor of Spirituality at the Institute for Consecrated Life in Asia and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Religious Studies, University of St. Joseph (Macau). She is the editor of Religious Life Asia Magazine and an author of several books and articles on women in the Bible, spirituality and formation.
• Fausto Gomez, OP – Emeritus Professor of Moral Theology at the Faculty of Religious Studies; has a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas (Manila); author of several books on Moral Theology and Bioethics. A Spanish Dominican friar belonging to the Rosary Province.

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The topic of her conference paper was “King David Kalakaua’s visit to the British colony of Hong Kong (1881): Trans-Pacific Freemasonry Encounters and Exchanges in the late nineteenth century”. The conference was organized by the Department of History and International Studies and the College of Arts of the Hawai’i Pacific University, the World History Association of Hawai’i, The California World History Association, the Northwest World History Association and the Department of History of the University of Hawai'i and co-sponsored by several other American institutions. Presenters came from across Asia and the Asia-Pacific Region, the United States of America and Canada as well as from Europe." 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Then, the difference between elastic solids and viscous liquids will be discussed, because these are the two main behaviours of rocks, from the cold and low pressure surface of the Earth to its very high temperature and very high pressure core. the behaviour of elastic, viscous and mixed visco-elastic materials like rocks will be shown using analogies and materials. To finalize this introduction, the forces acting in the Earth's interior, and their effects will be included. Based on this knowledge of rock behaviour and forces, we will travel from the Earth's surface down to the core, through its main layers and their mineral and mechanical properties, and along the most dynamic settings of the Earth's interior in the framework of Plate Tectonics: mantle convection, subduction zones, continental and oceanic rifts, and unstable topographic reliefs. In the end, movies of numerical models of some fundamental processes related to Plate Tectonics will be shown.   About the Speaker Fernando Ornelas Marques got his PhD in Geodynamics from the University of Lisbon, where he currently is Assistant Professor with Habilitation. His main areas of research are in Tectonics, Tectonophysics and Geodynamics, aiming to contribute to a better understanding of the way the Earth works. He uses modelling (experimental and numerical) as a tool to investigate the Physics governing geological processes still not well understood, at all scales, from the millimetres (e.g. the behaviour of rigid bodies in flowing high viscosity fluids) to the thousands of kilometres (e.g. subduction initiation). For several years now, he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the prestigious scientific journal Tectonophysics, from Elsevier.  He is currently the Head of Research Project MEGAHazards2, dedicated to investigate the instability of oceanic volcanic islands (Hawaii, Azores, Canaries and Cape Verde), their destruction by large-scale landslides, and the generation of tsunamis." 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About the Talk

Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining, Milano 1688- Beijing 1766) was a devoted Jesuit missionary, and a truly innovative and cross-cultural artist. His talent was used by the Society of Jesus for diplomatic purposes for example to win over the appreciation from the Manchurian court.

All of the religious works Castiglione painted for Beijing churches and private chapels are lost. Significantly, we can still admire Lang Shining’s secular projects (such as the Western style buildings of Yuanmingyuan Garden) to try to understand his trans-formative mental journey in Qing dynasty China, as well as his contribution to early modern Chinese aesthetic.

In fact, working for three Emperors Castiglione bridged Italian sensibility with a Chinese sense of beauty.

The conference highlights Castiglione’s vocational upbringing in Italy as well as his Jesuit spirituality which laid the groundwork for his achievements in Beiing. This is a first step to better analyze which sources and references inspired Lang Shining’s masterpieces at the Qing court.

About the Speaker

Francesco Vossilla Ph.D. is an Italian Art historian and Museum Studies scholar. He has been the editor of several publications and curator of exhibitions. He is teaching classes on Philosophy of Art, Museum Studies, Art History and Design for American universities in Florence, Italy (Gonzaga University in Florence; Middlebury College; ISI Florence).

He is the President of the Società di Studi Giuseppe Castiglione S.J.-Lang Shining, dedicated to intercultural studies, and named after the great Jesuit artist.

He has published mostly on Renaissance culture from philosophy to the visual arts and on the history of Italian Museums. His most recent texts have focused on Michelangelo and Giuseppe Castiglione and their contributions to the birth of modern aesthetics.

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The roots of an ethical foundation are in Greek philosophy (humanism), Christianity and Roman law. Conscious of its spiritual and moral heritage, the Union is founded on the indivisible, universal values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity. Based on the principles of democracy the Union creates an area of freedom, security, comon good and justice. EU seeks to promote balanced and sustainable development and ensures free movement of persons, services, goods and capital, and the freedom of establishment. To this end, it is necessary to strenghten the protection of fundamental rights in the light of changes in society, social progress and scientific and technological developments by making those rights more visible in a Charter.   ABOUT THE SPEAKER Prof. Anton Jamnik is Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Ljubljana. Bishop Jamnik graduated from the University of Ljublijana in 1987, and continued his studies while working as the Chair of Philosophy at the Theological Faculty of the University. He completed his Master’s degree with the work “The Holy between Transcendence and Immanence in Contemporary Slovenian Philosophical Thought” in 1993. He continued his doctoral studies in Ljubljana and completed his PhD in Oxford with the dissertation titled “Rawls’ Attempt of Ethical Argumentation of Liberalism”. Bishop Jamnik published his most important book “Liberalism and the Question of Ethics” in 1998, since then, he has been publishing widely in the area of ethics, especially business ethics, bioethics and other fields of applied ethics." 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We would also like to thank the other team (Ho Wong Cheng and Wong Ka I) for representing USJ and their outstanding performance in the tournament. 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About the Talk

Under the major work of non-tertiary education and youth affairs in the academic year 2016/2017 by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), strengthening students’ counselling and support for parents of students with special educational needs is vital for Macau education system.

Special education teachers are recognized to be prior important for schools to have them in order to provide professional technical support for schools that implement inclusive education and enable schools to assist parents and families with different supporting needs of inclusive students.

This public lecture would be able to explore the current situation in Macau schooling on special education needs and inclusive education, and also demonstrating how teachers would be able to identify the characteristics of special needs students and how they would be able to assist them in learning.

About the Speaker

Sou Fei has been working in the field of inclusive education and special needs education for nearly 10 years already.  She graduated from National Kaohsiung Normal University in Taiwan 2007, came back to Macau and began working with the special needs students since then.

She has experience working with different non-profit organizations, schools and government departments in correlation to the service for special needs students and their parents and families.

Promoting the importance about inclusive and special needs education to teachers and school administrators is also her main concern.  She is currently giving consultation to special cases and advises to schools on working with inclusive and special needs students.

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This event aims to contribute towards a deeper understanding of the geology of Macao and Hong Kong. It will be discussed the genesis and evolution of the Mesozoic magmatic rocks observed in this area and how their geodynamic evolution relates to each other. Local and international researchers, with a large experience in the study of magmatic rocks and in the geology of this region, will give key talks to share their knowledge on the geological features of Macao and Hong Kong within the broader context of SE China. During this session, there will be a workshop where you can have the opportunity to observe rock samples and correspondent microscopy thin sections from this region. The event will culminate with a field trip to Coloane (Macao)." 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About the Talk

Dysfunctions in brain cholesterol homeostasis have been extensively related to brain disorders. The major elimination pathway of brain cholesterol is its hydroxylation into 24 (S)-hydroxycholesterol by the cholesterol 24- hydroxylase (CYP46A1). Interestingly, there seems to be an association between CYP46A1 and high-order brain functions, in a sense that increased expression of this hydroxylase improves cognition, while a reduction leads to a poor cognitive performance. Moreover, increasing amount of epidemiological, biochemical and molecular evidence, suggests that CYP46A1 has a role in the pathogenesis or progression of neurodegenerative disorders, in which up-regulation of this enzyme is clearly beneficial. However, the mechanisms underlying these effects are poorly understood, which highlights the importance of studies that further explore the role of CYP46A1 in the central nervous system. We will summarize the major findings regarding CYP46A1, and highlight the several recently described pathways modulated by this enzyme from a physiological and pathological perspective, which might account for novel therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative disorders.

About the Speaker

Elsa Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa (iMed.ULisboa-FFUL). She holds a degree in Biology and a PhD in Molecular Biology. During her Doctoral studies at Maria Celeste Lechner’s lab at the FFUL in collaboration with Patrick Maurel (Unité INSERM 128), she elucidated mechanisms involved in gene regulation of liver-specific Cytochrome P450 genes. In the last 10 years, Elsa’s main goal is to characterize the regulatory pathways involved in brain cholesterol homeostasis, and therefore to provide a basis for the development of therapeutic approaches for diseases that stretch from genetic disorders, such as Niemann Pick Type C, to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease. Her focus has been on the potential beneficial modulation of cholesterol homeostasis through ectopic expression or pharmacological up-regulation/activation of the neuronal specific cholesterol 24-hydroxylase encoded by the cytochrome P450 CYP46A1 gene.

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José   10h00: SESSÃO 6 Maria Fernanda Costa: O CASO DA LITERATURA DE MACAU NA ÉPOCA CONTEMPORÂNEA Luís Cunha: MACAU E A SAGRAÇÃO DO TOPOS - A TENSÃO ENTRE DOIS MUNDUS Patrícia Calvário: PADRE JOAQUIM GUERRA, SJ: ENTRE CONFUCIONISMO E CRISTIANISMO   11h30: INTERVALO   12h00: SESSÃO 7 Inocência Mata: CONVICÇÕES UTÓPICAS E PROFÉTICAS NA LITERATURA ANGOLANA Maria Luísa Malato: ARQUITETURA DA ALMA: A METÁFORA DA "CASA" EM CINATTI Maria da Conceição Oliveira Guimarães: ESPAÇO MÍTICO OU REAL EM NAVEGAÇÕES DE SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDRESEN   13h30: ALMOÇO   15h00: SESSÃO 8 Isabel Poço Lopes: O PORTUGUÊS EM MACAU: UTOPIA E REINVENÇÃO Caio Cristiano: A DEMANDA DA LUSOFONIA: INCESSANTE QUESTÃO Maria Luci De Biaji Moreira: ENSINO DE PORTUGUÊS NO ESTRANGEIRO: O CASO DOS EUA   16h30: INTERVALO   17h00: SESSÃO 9 Maria Leonor Xavier: RAUL XAVIER: UM MACAENSE QUE ABRAÇOU A CULTURA PORTUGUESA Paulo Borges: RUÍNAS DE SÃO PAULO A-MÁ E GUAN YIN: MACAU NA TRANSIÇÃO ENTRE ORIENTE E OCIDENTE   18h00: CONFERÊNCIA DE ENCERRAMENTO Jorge Rangel: UMA INTERPRETAÇÃO DO LEGADO LUSO EM MACAU   Click here for details" ["post_title"]=> string(79) "International Congress on Philosophy and Literature: Between Portugal and Macau" ["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(59) "international-congress-philosophy-literature-portugal-macau" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2020-07-01 12:49:29" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-07-01 04:49:29" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(52) "http://www.usj.edu.mo/?post_type=events&p=10971" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(5) "event" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [13]=> object(WP_Post)#3750 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(10968) ["post_author"]=> string(2) "10" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2017-03-29 10:33:09" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-03-29 02:33:09" ["post_content"]=> string(468) "The Deputy Director of the International Relations of the Catholic University of Lille (France), Ms Audrey Vanpeperstraete, visited USJ on 17th of March 2017. The aim of the visit was to explore possibilities of collaboration in the areas of Arts, Social Sciences and Business, as well student exchanges and summer programmes. Click here for more photos." 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 The intention of Hugo Dores’ presentation is to question the limits posed by traditional and widely popular perceptions on historical events, usually determined by simplistic or biased explanations of multi-layered and multi-directional historical processes, as was the case of the missionary presence in colonial contexts. Beyond these limits lay many of the challenges of studying this subject. Based in a research centered in the dynamic relations between imperial powers and missionary activities and goals in the so-called third Portuguese colonial empire, during the Scramble for Africa, this communication will focus three main aspects. Firstly, the research paths traced throughout an academic project, highlighting casual difficulties and ongoing discussions; secondly, the historiographical perspectives approached in the research, such as imperialism, transnationalism and internationalism; and finally, the centrality of archival sources in any historical study and its importance to tackle misconceptions in History.

  About the Speaker

Hugo Gonçalves Dores (Lisbon, 1983). PhD in History (University of Lisbon), with the thesis “Uma Missão para o Império: política missionária e “novo imperialismo” (1885-1926)” (2014). A significant part of his PhD research was carried out in archives such as the Vatican Secret Archives (including the archives of the Secretariat of State and the Propaganda Fide), the Portuguese Arquivo Histórico-Diplomático and Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, the Belgian Archives Diplomatiques and Archives Africaines, the National Archives (Kew, London) or the archive of the World Council of Churches (Geneva).

He was a visiting scholar at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and Brown University (United States). He is currently a researcher in the Centre of Religious History Studies – Catholic University of Portugal (2011)

He has been working on missions and empires (19th and 20th centuries), namely imperial policies towards missionary activities (both Catholic and Protestant) related to education and development, having published articles and book chapters on those topics. In 2015, he published his first book, A Missão da República. Política, Religião e o Império Colonial Português (1910-1926).

He is now developing his post-doctoral project - «‘Educating Empires’: International organizations, inter-imperial cooperation, and educational policies in late colonialism» - at the Center for Social Studies (CES-UC, Portugal).

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Students

USJ Career Day is your opportunity to meet with company representatives about internships and full-time careers. Whether you are a first-year student, planning your graduation in the very near future, or somewhere in between in your academic career, you owe it to yourself to attend. This is also a networking opportunity to visit with company representatives and find out for yourself what careers are available.

Employers

Online registration form for Career Day 2017, please fill in the form and send to ico@usj.edu.mo  Meet and talk with our talented students about your internship and full-time positions. This is an excellent opportunity to promote your company or affiliation. Come find your next successful team member! New partners are always welcome." ["post_title"]=> string(19) "USJ Career Day 2017" ["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(19) "usj-career-day-2017" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2017-03-23 11:06:27" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-03-23 03:06:27" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(52) "http://www.usj.edu.mo/?post_type=events&p=10945" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(5) "event" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [16]=> object(WP_Post)#3747 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(10941) ["post_author"]=> string(2) "10" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2017-03-23 10:59:36" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-03-23 02:59:36" ["post_content"]=> string(964) "

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On 17 March 2017, around 200 USJ students, staff, friends and relatives gathered in the beautifully decorated roof top garden of Nape 1 to celebrate "USJ International Cultural Fair 2017- Experience different cultures in USJ”.   This event aimed at promoting cultural exchanges among the participants, broadening their perspectives and deepening their understanding of the diversified cultures in the world.

The event attracted numerous visitors from many other universities and local expat and ethnic minority communities. On behalf of the University, Prof Vincent Yang, Pro-Rector, welcomed all the participants and acknowledged the contribution of the teams of staff of OIR and OSA, the student society, professors and alumni. He thanked Bishop Stephen Lee and Rector Fr. Peter Stilwell for attending the event and the Macau Foundation for sponsoring it.  Students and staff of 17 nationalities volunteered to serve various types of food which they had prepared in advance. A total of 9 performances were staged by student groups from different nations, with the support of professors, staff and volunteers. Everyone enjoyed the food, music and dance performances. Many of them took this opportunity to share their culture by wearing their country’s traditional costume during the event.

We thank Bishop Lee of Macau for his kind remarks on the internationalization and cultural diversity of the USJ community. Rector Fr. Peter Stilwell visited the student booths and talked to many students. We would also like to thank all the participants once again for their participation and contribution in this event. Their joint effort has made it a success.

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About the Talk

Due to their location, estuaries and other key coastal water systems are loaded with significant number of contaminants. From diverse anthropogenic activities, creating a “toxic soup” for local biota, humans too can be contaminated. Due to agriculture and intensive land use, several million tons of fertilizers and pesticides are applied each year, polluting surface- and groundwater. In order to evaluate the impact of pesticides in aquatic systems, such as estuaries, a total of 56 pesticides were screened in different matrixes, with consideration to possible spatial and temporal fluctuations. As a biological matrix, the commercial species Scrobicularia plana was chosen.

The goal of this demonstration is to provide an overview of the results obtained for different Portuguese estuarine environments, with specific focus on presenting the used methodologies and data treatment to support future environmental studies.

About the Speaker

Catarina Cruzeiro concluded her graduation (2007) as an Animal Science Production Engineer, in the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal), in collaboration with the Aeres University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands). In collaboration with same university, CIIMAR (Porto) and CCMAR (Faro), she completed her master degree (2009), in the same area. Since then, she has been gaining further expertise at CIIMAR, mainly focusing on ecotoxicological and monitoring studies of several pollutants. In the same vein, she concluded her PhD in Biomedical Sciences (2016), at ICBAS (University of Porto, Portugal), focusing her work on pesticide monitoring studies and their potential effects. More recently she acquired a post-doc grant to pursue her studies concerning the pesticides. Along these nine years, she has been passionate to work on different subjects (cellular, analytical, and molecular) in collaboration with diverse mind-sets. Her continuous efforts resulted in 30 international publications, with more than 300 citations, in various analytical, molecular and toxicological journals.

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Still, there is a flagrant knowledge gap in relating those 2 kinds of priority concerns. However, for global climate change, predicting the response of ecosystems and resources is problematic and is at a very early stage. Besides climate change, over the last 2 decades, considerable concern has been given to the environmental health risks posed by endocrine disruptor chemicals (EDCs) that possibly upset animal hormonal systems. Also, despite EDCs have been widely studied worldwide, little attention has been paid to some specific steroid hormones, such as progestins and the risks they pose to aquatic organisms are largely unknown. In this talk we will explore a bit the combined effects of global change and progestins in different aquatic species.   About the Speaker Patrícia Cardoso concluded her PhD in Biology in 2005 from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Since then until March 2015 has worked at IMAR-CMA at the same university, developing her research in ecosystem ecology in estuarine/marine systems. In a straight collaboration with the University of York (UK) she specialized in long term studies on benthic communities in response to multiple stressors; biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. In the last years has been interested in ecotoxicological studies, specifically the assessment of contaminants (e.g. mercury) effects on coastal systems, namely macrobenthic and planktonic communities. Since 2015, as Senior Researcher at CIIMAR (Portugal) her main scientific interests are related to the study of the combined effects of climate change and emergent contaminants on the structure and functioning of coastal ecosystems. She is author of more than 50 publications (> 1400 citations, h index = 19) in leading international journals in the area of Marine Ecology and Ecotoxicology. She is research advisor of several Ms and PhD students." 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