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An MOU was signed to promote cooperation in education and research.   The YZU delegation consisted of five officials: Prof. Chen Yaping, Vice President of YZU, Prof. Wang Yongping, Dean of Faculty of Social Development, Prof. Wang Chengtang, Dean of Faculty of Law, Prof. Li Gang, Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and Science, and Ms. Hou Jianyan, Director of Setion for Exchanges, Office of HK, Macau and Taiwan Affairs.   The delegation met with Fr. Peter Stilwell, Rector of USJ, Prof. Vincent Yang, Pro-Rector, Prof. Jose Alves, Dean of School of Business, Prof. Alan Baxter, Dean of Faculty of Humanities, and Kent Lou of the Office of International Relations and Regional Cooperation. They made high remarks on USJ’s history and status during a tour of both the seminary campus and the new campus of USJ. 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The topic of her paper was Unfolding Veronica's Veil: Political Change, Identity and Confraternities in Post-Colonial Macao as part of the Panel Religion, Politics, Public Share and Post-Colonial Legacy." 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Hearing loss creates barriers to communication and potentially leads to language delay and other cognitive and social psychological consequences that hamper the literacy development and school performance of deaf and hard-of-hearing (HDD) children. To tackle this problem, one recent proposal is to prescribe hearing devices and speech and language therapy to HDD children to enhance their hearing and oral language performance, and at the same time, expose them to sign language, a barrier-free visual language, in order to strengthen their conceptual foundation of language knowledge. The emergence of Sign Linguistics research has proven beyond doubt that sign language has a linguistic system independent of the surrounding spoken language, and, as a natural language, is acquirable by humans. As such, empirical studies on the acquisition of a spoken language and a sign language either simultaneously or sequentially at a young age (i.e. bimodal bilingual acquisition) have begun to show that both HDD and hearing children are potentially competent bilingual language users, if certain conditions are met.

In this presentation, we argue that Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment (SLCO) in a regular school setting potentially fulfills such conditions. By way of demonstrating how the SLCO model works in a programme conducted in HK, we highlight the ingredients for strengthening the bimodal bilingual development of DHH and hearing students in the classroom, thereby removing the language barrier for the creation of an inclusive ecosystem in a regular school environment.

  About the Speaker

Prof. Gladys Tang received her doctoral degree in applied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Her research interests are language acquisition and language pedagogy. Her interest in sign language research also took her to embark on a series of research projects in recent years on the linguistics of Hong Kong Sign Language, the acquisition of sign language and the development of deaf literacy by deaf children. She has published on second language acquisition, second language pedagogy, sign linguistics, sign language acquisition and deaf education. She is Director of the Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, Asian liaison of International Sign Linguistics Society and member of the Advisory Board of Sign Language Linguistic Society.

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Luis Proença Presents the recent developments and work produced at the Loyola Marymount University Film Scholl in Los Angeles, in regards to the production of Documentaries centered in the topic of social Justice. Additionally Fr. Proença will also present his latest Experimental Short Movie: "Kikola – The Timekeeper”, an exploration of the rhythms, human life, animal life and nature. This experimental short movie shows the resemblances and organic metamorphoses of all forms of life.Experimental Documentary – “Kikolā – the Timekeeper”, 2K, 18 minutes,  ISBN: 978-0-9801378-8-0. Los Angeles: Cactusfield Productions, 2013.   About the Speaker Luis Proenca directs documentaries and new media art. Bali – Arts and Creation is Proenca's most recent work in which he served as Producer, Director and Editor. Pukiki - The Portuguese Americans of Hawaii  was internationally broadcast over five continents on RTPi (Rádio Televisão Portuguesa Internacional) and was an Official Selection of the Hawaiian International Film Festival (October 2003). His documentary, Touchstone - The Rock Art of Côa Valley concerns rare forms of art produced 20,000 years ago and it has been distributed in Europe. Luis has directed live television programs for Portuguese National Television.  He broadcasted at RTPi (Rádio Televisão Portuguesa Internacional) two documentaries about the Portuguese community in California called Tradition and Off the Boat. He is also in pre-production of a documentary about the Missions in California. Proenca is an Associate Professor at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles – USA." 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About the Talk

This lecture is about the poetry of Camilo Pessanha, his intensive philosophical reflection, in the wake of Antero de Quental. “...Um resto de batel (...) para não afundar na treva imensa: “the remains of a boat, so as not to sink into the immense darkness”, pleads the verse which, at the beginning of his poetic career, mirrors the metaphysical pain of Camilo Pessanha. The poet finds himself in a universe without God and submited to a life not glorified as a Destiny. Pessanha’s verses are imbued with  oriental wisdom, not as an exotic element, but,  along with opium, as a kind of narcotic,  a sort of slight balm, yet able to mitigate an incurable metapshysical pain.

About the Speaker

Born in Lisbon, in 1963, Carlos Morais José holds a BA in Anthropology  from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, and has taught at the Macau Polytechnic Institute. In 1990 he came to Macau as deputy editor of the Revista de Cultura, do Instituto Cultural de Macau; he has been working as a journalist for several media since then. He is currently the director of Hoje Macau. He founded two publishers, COD and Livros do Meio, which has been publishing Wenceslau de Moraes and Chinese poets. As an author he has published chronicles (“Porto Interior”, “A Coluna da Saudade”), poetry (“Macau – O Livro dos Nomes”, “Anastasis”, “Visitações”) and fiction (“A Morte São Quatro Noites”, “O Arquivo das Confissões – Bernardo Vasques e a Inveja”). He has also prepared an edition of Pessanha’s Poetry (with Rui Cascais).

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A visit to University of Saint Joseph’s Future Campus at Ilha Verde was held at noon time on Saturday, 29^th April 2017. The visit began with an introductory speech by Fr. Peter Stilwell, Rector of USJ, followed by some words of welcome by USJ’s new Chancellor, Bishop of Macao Diocese Rev. Stephan Lee. Guests were then invited on a guided tour around the new campus and a simple standing lunch.

The Visit was attended by prestigious guests, such as: the Head of the Holy See Study Mission, Msgr. Ante Jozic; Bishop Emeritus of Macao Diocese, Rev. José Lai;  Acting Director of the Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES), Mr. Chang Kun Hong; Deputy Director of Department of Culture and Education of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Macao SAR, Mr. Li Yongxian; Deputy President of the Macao Foundation, Ms. Chong Yee; Head of Division of Educational Equipment of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, Mr. Wong Chio In; Head of Department of Research and Planning of the Social Affairs Bureau, Ms. Tang Kit Fong;Priests from the Macao Diocese and Parishes; Principals and representatives from local high schools; and representatives from local associations.

During the tour, visitors were welcomed by students of the university, and guests were amazed by the state-of-art design of the campus and its facilities. The guided tour took the guests to the large and small auditoriums, classrooms, dormitory, swimming pool, in-door basketball court and gymnasium. Booths and showrooms were set up across the central garden and classrooms on the 1^st floor for the visit of USJ’s friends and community.

In the afternoon, students of USJ and students from local high schools were invited to have a preview of the future campus of the University of Saint Joseph. The University’s international students arranged different cultural experiences for the visits, with booth games, food from different parts of the world and cultural dance performance. Through the exhibits and presentations in classrooms, organised by the seven USJ’s academic units, students had a glimpse of the future study life in the university’s colourful campus.

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ABOUT THE TALK At the mention of exceptional abilities, IQ and giftedness come to mind. However, the term exceptional ability refers to that capability of an individual who can achieve at a level of capacity that is significantly in advance of his/her peer group. In mainstream schools, students with exceptional abilities are always considered academically gifted and/or talented with a high level of intelligence or an IQ score of more than 130 or in the 98th percentile range. However, this is not always the case. There are those whose exceptional abilities are found in non-academic areas and they possess the inherent inclination to react intensely to individually different stimuli and hence, amplify socio-emotional growth. Termed as overexcitabilities by Kazimierz Dabrowski (b.1902-d.1980), there are five categories of overexcitabilities that are manifested in different forms of socio-emotional behavioral challenges: psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational and emotional intensities. A clear understanding of these overexcitabilities will help teachers to better understand why their students with exceptional abilities are behaving in certain ways or manners.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER Dr LIM Boon Hock, PhD, FCollT, FRETA, HonFRSAS, Cert SNET SPECIAL EDUCATION CONSULTANT, BH Lim Special Needs Consultancy, Malacca, Malaysia Dr Lim has been actively involved in special needs education for more than twenty years, often as an invited speaker and presenter at national and international conferences and seminars. He runs a special needs consultancy providing support for families with children with special needs through such services as initial screening of children, youths and adults suspected of disabilities and disorders; psycho-educational and behavioral assessments of children and young adults for developmental disabilities; learning difficulties; emotional and behavioral difficulties. In addition, Dr Lim also provides Access Arrangement, i.e., special provisions to students with disabilities attending international schools in preparation for international examinations. Dr Lim also conducts parent support training programs, student behavior management, and professional development and training for teachers, therapists and post-graduate students.

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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.

" ["post_title"]=> string(98) "Lecture: The Transformative Journey of Giuseppe Castiglione S.J. into China and its Visual Culture" ["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(76) "lecture-transformative-journey-giuseppe-castiglione-s-j-china-visual-culture" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2017-04-22 20:54:46" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-04-22 12:54:46" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(52) "http://www.usj.edu.mo/?post_type=events&p=11138" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(5) "event" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [15]=> object(WP_Post)#3792 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(11022) ["post_author"]=> string(2) "10" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2017-04-19 22:05:33" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-04-19 14:05:33" ["post_content"]=> string(2176) "Due to unexpected circumstances, we apologise to announce that this public lecture tonight is cancelled.     ABOUT THE TALK The people of Europe, in creating an ever closer union among them, are resolved to share a peaceful future based on common values. 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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