1st INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF CHINESE AND PORTUGUESE LANGUAGES
17 – 20 October 2023, University of Macau

The University of Macau launches a call for papers for the 1st International Forum of Chinese and Portuguese Languages that aims to bring together specialists in Portuguese and Chinese, to carry out, in a descriptive or comparative perspective, the presentation and exchange of research results, namely in the areas of Linguistics, Literature, Culture, Didactics and Translation.

In the Forum, a debate, analysis and exchange will be carried out under the following topics:

Teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Studies in Linguistics, Literature, Culture and Translation in Portuguese and/or Chinese
Portuguese Language Resources Platform of the Academic Library Alliance

This call for papers is open to members of the "Academic Librarian Alliance for Portuguese Language Resources between the Macao Special Administrative Region and Mainland China" and the "Academic Librarian Alliance between the Macao Special Administrative Region (China) and the of Portuguese Language", which are higher education institutions from Mainland China or come from Portuguese-speaking countries.

The working languages ​​of the Forum will be Portuguese and Chinese, and articles must be written in one of these two languages ​​(regarding Chinese, authors can choose between Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese). The public presentation in the Forum of accepted articles, lasting 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion, must be carried out in Portuguese or Chinese.

Submission of abstracts and important dates:
Abstracts, with an approximate length of 1 A4 page (with the possibility of an additional page for images, graphics, charts and bibliographical references, if necessary), must be sent through this link. All articles accepted for communication in the Forum will subsequently be published in a volume of proceedings. Contact: Forum Secretariat: filcp@um.edu.mo

Deadline for abstract submission: April 15, 2023 (GMT+8)
Communication on acceptance of articles/abstracts: May 20, 2023
Forum registration: until June 30, 2023 (reduced registration fee: EUR150)
Until July 15, 2023 (regular registration fee: EUR200)