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The 11th ACSS Conference: Post-Asia Film, Media and Popular Culturewill be held between 14-16 July, 2014, at the University of Macau (old campus)

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The 3-day conference has attracted some 120 scholars, researchers, professors and graduate students working in film, media and popular culture studies from the interdisciplinary field of the arts, humanities and social sciences. In addition to a wide array of paper presentations, it also features three keynote lectures by distinguished scholars of international reputation,

Our student Lawrence Dang Hao wins the first Model APEC Taiwan

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With fluent English, swift responsiveness and composed diplomatic etiquette, Dang Hao, a postgraduate student from the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macau (UM), won the first prize at a competition on the first Model Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Taiwan.For more information, please visit the page here.

Prof. Wu Mei and Masters program alum Anni Lam Leong Iok received an Outstanding Achievement Award for Macao Research in Humanities and Social Sciences

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Recipients of the Outstanding Achievement Awards for Macao Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, co-organised by the Macao Foundation, Guangdong Social Sciences Association, and the Social Sciences in China Press, have been announced. Of the 395 submissions from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan (96 monographs, 299 papers), 28 awards were awarded

Prof. Tim Simpson gives invited lecture for Hispanic Baroque Project

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In May, Tim Simpson delivered an invited lecture at a meeting of the Hispanic Baroque Project, held at the Universidade Federal Sao Paulo, in Brazil. The Hispanic Baroque Project is funded by a Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Grant financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The title of his