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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" } [3]=> object(WP_Post)#3804 (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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Lately, the Dean of Faculty of Creative Industries, Prof. Álvaro Barbosa, together with Prof. Carlos Caires, and Prof. Vincent Ho visited the Wuyi University (click here for more information of WYU). During the visit they met the faculty members of the School of Art and Design. They also had a chance to look at the showcases from students in Fashion Design, Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Packaging and Graphic Design.

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They were cordially received by Mr. Hong Bo, Director of Department of Youth Affairs of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macau SAR. During this visit, Mr. William Un expressed their gratitude towards the Liaison Office for their continuous support to AAUSJ and USJSA in the past and presented the current development of both associations. Ms. Joyce reported to Mr. Hong the progress of the AAUSJ Chinese cultural trip to Nanjing while Mr. Lo informed Mr. Hong that USJSA is organizing some cultural exchange activities to Portugal and Fujian.  Mr. Hong extended his appreciation for these activities and recognized the contributions made by Alumni and Students of USJ. He stated that their contributions do not only raise cultural awareness, but also help develop new ideas for the improvement in the society. Mr. Hong praised the dedication of USJ to promote multilingualism among students and to equip students with the languages skills to meet the demand in Macau with its unique multilingual environment. Moreover, USJ can also play a positive role in China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative and the establishment of “One Centre, One Platform” in Macau.  Mr. Hong Bo also praised the close relationship between the Alumni Association and the Students’ Association that facilitated youth development. The other members who participated in this visit included Ms. May Chan, President of Supervisory Committee of AAUSJ, Mr. Addy Chan and Ms. Angela Sou, Vice-Chairpersons of Executive Committee of AAUSJ, Mr. Jeremy Tang, Vice President of Executive Committee of USJSA and Ms. Katherine Hong, General Secretary of Executive Committee of USJSA, Ms. Teresa Loong, Director and Mr. Andrew Wong, Officer of Office for Student Affairs." 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Four students of the Master in Community Development, namely Olivia Lam, Nelson António, Katrina Lok and Calvin Tam, accompanied by Professor Ray Choy, taking the Module ‘Power, Strategy and Social Change’ interviewed one of the Macau Legislative Assembly law makers and social service practitioners of Macau. As part of the classes, the visits were aimed at having a better understanding of the process of social and community change in Macau, and in particular comprehending the various power strategies adopted and recognizing the main characteristics of community activists and leaders.

On 14 January 2017, students had an interview with Mr. José Pereira Coutinho who is a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Macau SAR. Discussion topics included Macau’s power structure and his leadership strategy and style. Some of the Macau’s major current social issues were also discussed. Mr. Coutinho believes that Macau’s education system and youth generation have great potential for future improvement. He shared that Macau social values tend to be materialistic nowadays because of the increased importance of the gaming industry. In his point of view, for the sustainability of Macau’s development, the government has to diversify the economy. He also advised that the younger generation should raise their competitiveness and broaden their horizons.

On 20 January 2017, students visited the Holy House of Mercy Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind and had an interview with the center director, Ms. Janet Leung, and the coordinator, Mr. Eric Leong.

Eric, an individual with visual impairment, shared his experience of empowerment. Besides the administrative work at the center, he organizes training and public education workshops. He also teaches his fellow members to use IT tools, computer and smart phones to help them integrate to the society. During the interview, the students realized that he Eric is a graduate of USJ and is now pursuing a master degree in Counseling and Psychotherapy. During the conversation with Ms. Leung, the students learned that the center representatives are actively participating in the government consultation for transportation for people with disabilities and free access facilities.

Katrina, a student, shared that “Mr. Coutinho is very experienced in politics and he shared some aspects of his own strategies and working style.” She also said that “Eric showed us a positive attitude towards his life, what he needs is people to have deeper understanding of visual impairment rather than simply showing sympathy. People with visual impairment lack job opportunities and respective training to better integrate into the society.”

Professor Choy highlighted that “It is a good opportunity for students to have community visits and learn from community leaders.  Students should have learned the kinds of power the law maker and the individual with visual impairment have.  The aim of their strategies such as social and community actions, and public education is to give Macao people more power over their own lives and to make Macao a better society”.

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About the Talk

Co-author of the books Hong Kong In-Between (MCCM / Park Books, 2015) and The People of Duckling Hill (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2015), Géraldine Borio will illustrate the journey of a Swiss architect researching and working on Asian in-between spaces.

The narrow back lanes of Hong Kong and leftover spaces under Bangkok’s expressways have been the entry points to understand the mechanisms of urban environments. Less regulated and less sterile than official public spaces, these edge public spaces – unplanned and appropriated by the inhabitants – function as important buffer zones across the city. By observing people’s interactions with these in-betweens, in both physical and metaphorical ways much can be learn from their strategies to overtake the harsh environment.

Through architecture, artistic and research projects, Géraldine Borio has been engaging city users to experience urban space differently, using constraints as a starting point for creativity.

About the Speaker

Géraldine Borio is a Swiss Registered Architect who graduated from the Swiss Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL / ETH). She is the co-founder of Parallel Lab (an architectural office and laboratory for urban research based in Hong Kong) and the founder of Bah! (a micro development infrastructure). She is currently teaching at the School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  Prior to that, she has worked with various firms in Tokyo, Beijing, and Hong Kong and has taught architecture at the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  Her work has been exhibited at Vitra Museum; Rotterdam Architecture Biennale; St-Etienne Design Biennale; Beijing Design Week; Zurich University of the Arts and ICI Curatorial Hub, New York.

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