USJ’s Public Educational Events page features lectures, forums and events that promote dialogue, lifelong learning, and education outreach. Organised by academic year and month, these events highlight USJ’s commitment to quality education.
AY2024/2025
September
October
- Public Lecture | “Kenosis and Krisis. Christianity’s Inculturation into Modernity (Vatican Council II, Gaudium et spes)”
- Public Lecture | “Living without Limits? Christian Reflections on the Ecological Dilemmas”
- Public Lecture | “New Poetic Cinema”
- Guangdong – Hong Kong – Macao Greater Bay Area Forum: “Innovation and Entrepreneurial Opportunity for Economic Development and Diversification”
- Public Lecture | The Preservation of Cultural and Artistic Heritage: Current Challenges in the field of Conservation and Restoration
- Public Lecture | Sounding Spaces: Exploring Geolocated Media, Open Source, and Experimental Music in Artistic Practice
- Doctoral Talks on Campus | “Artificial Intelligence: Holography & Medicine”
- The Doctoral Talks on Campus | “Architecture of New Molecules: A PhD Adventure”
- Public Lecture | Introducing Corpus Linguistics to future educators
- Public Lecture | ELF and Global Englishes: Implications for Educators
- Year of Prayer Lecture Series | St Teresa of Avila – Teacher of Prayer
November
- Doctoral Talks on Campus | “Hi-Tech + low Tech: technological art and multiculturalism”
- Materiality, beyond the norm | Hori-zonte (Portugal): “Beyond Blueprints: Bioclimatic Strategies for Tomorrow’s Habitats”
- Public Lecture | Winning for All – From Award Shows to Achieving SDGs
- Year of Prayer Lecture Series | “Hesychasm, Theosis, and Divine Darkness: Eastern Christian Perspectives on Prayer”
- Public Lecture | Jonathan Edwards and Bernard Lonergan on Religion
- Public Lecture | The Casino at the Center of the World: Chinese Tourists at the Venetian Macau
- MRI Public Forum | “The Challenge of the Second Deignan Award for Responsible Entrepreneurship”
- Materiality, beyond the norm | Design to Product (China-Italy): “From Concept to Creation: Material-Driven solutions”
December
- Public Lecture | Industrial Heritage Tourism in Macau: The case of Iec Long Firecracker Factory
- Public Lecture | “DATA CORK: Designing the Hidden Patterns of Sustainability”
- Public Lecture | Detecting residential cetaceans in Hong Kong waters using environmental DNA
- Public Lecture | ART+ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN: Cultivating Business Synergies Through Creative Innovation
- Materiality, beyond the norm | “The Process is the Message”
- Year of Prayer Lecture Series | In Good Hope: Advent Mediation on Psalm 139
- Year of Prayer Lecture Series | “Prayer in the Benedictine Tradition”
January
February
March
- School of Education Public Lecture Series | Stories of the Navigators: “School + Education = ?”
- Public Lecture | “Know the Rules, and Break Them: Rethinking Web Design Conventions”
- Public Lecture | The Future of Learning Transformed by XR Technology: Innovative Educational Possibilities with Physical Education as a Case Study
April
May
- Public Lecture | What is the relation between Confucianism, Philanthropy, Media and strategic communication? The Impact of Corporate Philanthropy on Media, Art and Technology
- Public Lecture | “Telecom Frauds” Are Not Related to You? — Media Literacy in the AI Era
- MRI Public Forum | “From Tribute to Treaties: How China Navigated Geopolitics and European Relations in the Westphalian Era”
- Free Short Course | Design and Implementation of Green Roofs and Walls for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
- Public Lecture | Quo Vadis? —— Where does Nicaea I lead us?
- Applied New Media Training Course
June
- USJ Doctoral Forum in Religious Studies and Philosophy | “Practical Theology and Religious Studies – Developing Imagination, Reflexivity and Wisdom for Research in the Field”
- USJ Doctoral Forum in Religious Studies and Philosophy 2025
- MRI Public Forum | “Filioque or not? A Look into the Coining of the Trinitarian Doctrine”
- Materiality, beyond the norm | “From Object to Territory: Trajectory, Project and Purpose”
AY2023/2024
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September
October
- Public Lecture | Macao’s East-West Tourism Economy: Culture, Gastronomy, and Identity Imaginaries
- Public Lecture | For My Eyes Have Seen Salvation: on the Credibility of Christianity
- MRI Public Forum | Religion and Science as Partners: The life and research of Fr. Johann Nepomuk Hinteröcker SJ
- Public Lecture | Gamification in Teaching and Learning
- History & Heritage Public Lecture Series | Documenting Intangible Cultural Heritage via VR Tour: Hungry Ghosts (Yulan) Festival Celebrations in Hong Kong
- Doctoral Talks on Campus | Academic Writing and Academic Publishing
- Language and Linguistics Seminar | Contemporary Sinograms Rooted in Chinese Tradition
- ESST 2023 | Symposium on Environmental Science and Sustainable Technology
- Doctoral Talks on Campus | The Doctoral Project: How Not To Get Lost And To Arrive At The Finish (And Win The Medal)?
- Doctoral Talks on Campus | Research Integrity: Latest Concerns And Challenges
- International Seminar on Prevention of Drug and Alcohol
November
- Doctoral Talks on Campus | Forensics, Jewellery, and The In-between: Exploring Multidisciplinary Approaches to Researching Across the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Life Sciences, and Design
- 2023 “Along with Youth” Forum on SEN and Inclusive Education Development
- Public Lecture | Macao’s images of change and contrasts: An ethnographic visual approach
- International Symposium on Open Innovation – Macau Edition
- 2023/24 USJ Forum of Psychology
- Sustainable Business Series | The Business of Health and Well-being Round Table – Rethinking to Promote a Better Quality of Health and Well-being in the Workplace
- Theology Public Lecture & Evening Prayer | Making Hope Real
- 2023 International Symposium on Children and Youth Health and Well-being
- Public Lecture | The Teacher in Chinese Culture: Reflections on a Lifetime of Personal Encounters
- Department of Architecture and Design Workshop Series 2023-24 | FOAM TOPOLOGIES
- Public Lecture | Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities
- Public Lecture | The Position and Role of the Belt and Road Initiative in China’s Economic and Social Development Policies
- History & Heritage Public Lecture | Macau’s First Modern University – Exploring the Early History of the University of East Asia
- USJ Doctoral Research Topics Exhibition 2023
December
- Department of Architecture and Design Workshop Series 2023-24 | ROBOTIC ARTS
- Department of Architecture and Design Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Grotto Retreat Xiyaotou – a play of privacy & connectivity with context”
- Department of Architecture and Design Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Fiction and Fabrication”
- Department of Architecture and Design Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Study on Topologies for Disquiet E(m)bodies”
- Department of Architecture and Design Workshop Series 2023-24 | DIGITAL MAPPING
- Public Lecture | A talk on comparative study of prepositions between Portuguese and Chinese Language
- Canon Law Public Lecture I | A Dissolução do Matrimónio em Favor da Fé (The Dissolution of the Marriage Bond in Favour of the Faith)
- Canon Law Public Lecture II | On the Reform of the Roman Curia (Apostolic Constitution Predicate Evangelium)
January
- MRI Public Forum | From Matteo Ricci to the Chinese Rites Controversy: A Historical and Theological Analysis
- Public Lecture | An Introduction to Water Footprints: Changing Paradigms on Water Management Using Food Consumption Patterns
- Seminar | Book Publishing with Springer
- Public Lecture | Experiences from the Campus Grounds: Developing Sustainable Schools
February
- MRI Public Forum | From “Overcoming Self” To “Overcoming Nature” – The Teaching on Human Nature in Diego de Pantoja and Giulio Aleni
- From Research to Revolution: Media, Artivism, and the Power to Transform
- Public Lecture | The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
- OTTOSONICS | Creative Soundscape Workshop Series
March
- 13th Macau Literary Festival | Public Lecture: The Peking Express – The True Story of China’s Great Robbery of 1923
- MRI Public Forum | “Learning Mercy: Spiritual Transformation in Jonah and Hosea”
- Public Lecture & Documentary Exhibition Movie Screening: JA, ANDREI IWANOWITSCH
- Conference | Business Communication Strategies Through Support For Creative Industries. Empirical Cases of Portugal and China
May
- Public Lecture | Macau’s Moving Images: Screening the SAR in the 21st Century
- MRI Public Forum & USJ-FBL Sustainable Business Series | Corporate Philanthropy Seminar
- Public Lecture | Mapping China and Mapping the World
- Public Lecture | Nurturing Holistic Learners: The Multifaceted Roles of Teacher
- SUSTAINABLE FUTURES | Department of Architecture and Design Lecture Series Spring 2024
June
- SEMINAR | Creative and Cultural Industry: Perspectives from Europe, Portugal, and China
- DOCTORAL TALKS IN CITY “UNESCO MIL CITIES: A Citizen-Centred Development Paradigm”
- MRI Public Forum | The Coining of the Trinitarian Doctrine and Its Chinese Translation
- TELL.ME | The First International Symposium on Biographical Narratives in Media and Information Literacy Cities
- Public Lecture | Winnow: Revolutionizing Sustainable Food Waste Management with AI
- Public Lecture | Imago Mundi: Transnational Filmmaking and American Jesuit Missions in Early Cold War China
- Primum Concilium Sinense (Shanghai Council): History and Significance | International Symposium on the Centenary of the First Council for China (1924-2024)
July
AY2022/2023
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September
October
November
February
- Environmental research: from Hong Kong to polar regions, from harmful algal blooms to beneficial microalgae industry
- “Journalists and Scientists – A kind of Love Story?”
- Beach plastics and art
- The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI (1927-2022): “Benedict XVI: Relevance and Need of Hope Today”
- ‘Grammar, Gender, and Sex: an unruly threesome.’
- Plate tectonics, big earthquakes, and tsunamis (examples of Portugal and South China)
March
April
- Directing Notes: A Methodology of Breaking Down a Film
- Macau and East Asia Military Architecture: Context, Networks and Influence
- Research in Psychology 2023
- Nudging students into heutagogy through the creative use of entangled pedagogy
- Review of Passive Acoustics Monitoring Results in the Coastal Waters of Western Taiwan
- Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Urban Development
- Statistics and Census Service and the Monetary Authority of Macao
- How effective communication is vital for students
- Seminário Híbrido – “Português como Língua Pluricêntrica: conceitos e implicações em sala de aula”
May
- Gambling Urbanism, Tourism and Early Modernization in Macau (1900-1930)
- Environmental and Ecological Characterization of Seagrass Halophila beccarii in Zhuhai, China
- Start getting closer with the visually impaired students
- Science and Patience: Practices and challenges in the conservation of cultural artifacts
- Unravelling the Language Paradigm: When Language meets Culture and Religion (A case study in social pragmatics)
- The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI (1927-2022): “A Glimpse of Joseph Ratzinger’s Theology of Creation, Sin, and Redemption: Reviewing His Canonical Interpretation of Genesis 1–3”
June
- Patient Information Leaflets – Language, Sociocultural context and the consumer
- The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI (1927-2022): “Josef Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) on Culture & Music”
- MRI Public Forum | Responsible Management Education in the Post-Pandemic Era
- USJ Hosts Public Lecture on Catholic Identity in Modern European Culture
- Modern culture and the Catholic Church – European perspective
- Public Lecture | Modern culture and the Catholic Church – European perspective
- Matteo Ricci’s Teaching on the Goodness of Human Nature: Its Thomistic and Neo-Confucian Sources
- A Series of Academic Events on Christianity, Modern Culture and Society