“澳门与海上丝绸之路”国际研讨会侧记

澳门中华拉丁基金会、澳门基金会、联合国教科文组织及澳门海上丝绸之路研究中心于１９９９年３月１２日至１４日在澳门联合举办了“澳门与海上丝绸之路”国际研讨会。来自中国内地、香港、澳门和台湾地区及日本、美国、法国、英国的近８０名专家、学者,就澳门在海上丝绸之路及中国近代史上的地位、葡萄牙人东来与海上丝绸之路、“妈祖”文化与澳门、东西方文化交流与澳门经济、社会及政治的发展和回归后澳门的对外关系等课题,展开了热烈的讨论。与会者认为,此次会议在即将回归祖国的澳门举行,又适逢葡萄牙人达·伽马环球航海５００周年…     

“世遗”美名为澳门带来新契机

7月15日上午10时,在南非德班举行的联合国教科文组织第29届世界遗产委员会上,仅仅十分钟,“澳门历史城区”就通过了审议,进入了世界遗产名录。不需要过多的讨论,也没有任何争议。当时在场的中国常驻联合国教科文组织代表张学忠大使告诉记者:“这是最快的一次表决过程。对澳门的审议,前后只用了十分钟。不仅在本次会议,在以前的会议中也是前所未有的。”     

“澳门历史文化遗产研究”学术讨论会综述

由澳门历史文化研究会主办的第5届年会暨“澳门历史文化遗产研究学术讨论会”①,于2006年10月下旬在澳门举行,来自广东、江西、北京、澳门等地的30余位专家学者出席了学术会议。会议由澳门历史文化研究会理事长胡根博士和名誉会长汤开建教授主持。会议从不同角度探讨了澳门历史     

忆游新马泰

1993年6月,我们从深圳经香港踏出国门,到新加坡、马来西亚和泰国考察观光,然后从香港、澳门返回,历时22天,收获颇多,其中有几件事印象很深。     

历史时刻

正1987年4月13日,中葡两国政府正式签署《关于澳门问题的联合声明》,宣布中国政府将于1999年12月20日对澳门恢复行使主权。澳门进入回归祖国的过渡期。1993年3月,八届全国人大一次会议审议通过《中华人民共和国澳门特别行政区基本法》,为"一国两制"构想在澳门的实践提供了法律保障。香港、澳门回归进程的启动,证明"一国两制"构想既体现了实现祖国统一、维护     

澳门回归祖国学术研讨会简述

１９９６年１０月２７日,在距祖国收回澳门主权仅５４天,全国人民迎接澳门回归的大喜日子里,中国社会科学院《世界历史》杂志社、中国人民大学清史研究所和历史系三家单位,联合发起“澳门回归祖国学术研讨会”。会议在中国人民大学举行,中国人民大学清史所所长成崇德教授主持了会议,研究生院院长周新城教授出席了会议。来自中国社会科学院世界历史所、近代史所、历史所、边疆史地中心、《世界历史》杂志社、《近代史研究》编辑部、《历史研究》编辑部、中国人民大学历史系、清史所、党史系、光明日报、北京日报等十几家单位的４０多位…     

“逐波泛海——十六至十七世纪中国陶瓷外销与物质文明扩散国际学术研讨会”纪要

2011年5月28日至30日,香港城市大学中国文化中心暨澳门民政总署、澳门艺术博物馆联合主办“逐波泛海——十六至十七世纪中国陶瓷外销与物质文明扩散国际学术研讨会”。来自中国两岸三地、东南亚、欧洲、美洲等10个国家和地区的19名专家学者出席了会议。此次研讨会在香港、澳门两地召开,包括在香港城市大学中国文化中心演讲厅进行的学术研讨活动（2813—29日上午）,以及在澳门艺术博物馆举行的“澳门北湾出土外销瓷片展”开幕式.     

第三届"东方外交史"国际学术研讨会纪要

由辽东学院主办,韩国檀国大学现代政治研究所、澳门大学历史系和辽东学院韩朝经济与文化学院协办的"鸭绿江论坛2010暨第三届东方外交史国际学术研讨会",于2010年7月8-10日在丹东辽东学院召开.来自日本、韩国、中国香港、中国澳门与内地20余所高校与科研机构的50余名专家学者参加了会议,收到论文逾40篇.会议围绕着如何推进东方外交史研究、加强学科建设与发展、培养人才以及争取国家社科规划立项等问题,进行了深入而富有成效的讨论.这次会议是在近年国内东方外交史研究有了初步发展,国际学界对东方历史、文化与经济的兴趣日益浓厚的形势下召开的一次学术盛会.     

安徽省钱币学会第三次会员代表大会开幕辞

安徽省钱币学会第三次会员代表大会,今天开幕了!这次大会,是一次换届的会议,是总结过去、展望未来的会议。形势发展,今年的大会不同凡响。欣逢世纪之交,迎来了干禧年,又是祖国五十周年华诞,加上澳门的回归,真是三星高照,喜上加喜!     

第12届亚洲新人文联网会议暨“海上丝绸之路:回顾与前瞻”国际学术研讨会综述

<正>2015年3月21~23日,第12届亚洲新人文联网会议暨"海上丝绸之路:回顾与前瞻"国际学术研讨会在厦门大学召开。此次会议由厦门大学人文学院和嘉庚学院联合主办。亚洲新人文联网会议是一个旨在促进跨学科、跨地域学术研究的平台。本次大会围绕当下人文学科的热门议题"海上丝绸之路",来自中国大陆、台湾、香港、澳门以及美国、日本、德国、新加坡和以色列的学者,提交了27篇论文,主要讨论了以下几个方面的问题。     

Telling small stories: spaces of knowledge and the practice of geography

This article examines how the practice of learning geography, and the arenas in which knowledge-making takes place, can be usefully positioned within changing histories of the discipline. It contends that networks of action – understood through the intersection of social sites, subjects and sources – present a conceptual framework and narrative focus for the re-consideration of specific episodes from geography's past. The interventions made here are informed and illustrated by a 'small story' about the doing of geography. Based on different personal accounts, the story revives a series of events, encounters, dialogues and images dating back to the winter of 1951 at Glenmore Lodge, Scotland. This educational institution in the Cairngorm mountains offered children from urban areas the opportunity to learn field studies and the skills of 'outdoor citizenship'. Initially, the focus falls on Margaret Jack, a 14-year-old field-course participant. Her learning experiences are traced through personal letters, a diary and a field journal dating from that time, and her recent recollections of this event. Margaret's account dovetails with the story of her field studies instructor, Robin Murray. Robin's role is traced through his learning experiences as a geography undergraduate at Aberdeen University, and the recent recollections of Catriona Murray, his wife.     

Das Wissen der Schulden. Recht,Kulturtechnik und Alltagserfahrung im liberalen Kapitalismus

The Knowledge of Debt: Law, Media Technique, and Everyday Experience in Liberal Capitalism. Performing an object such as ‘the economy’ hinges on practices of formatting knowledge. The article proposes to look at such instituting moments in connection with social conflicts over the legitimate rules of exchange. This is exemplified by way of recounting the story of the codification of Swiss bankruptcy law in 1889. In order to homogenize the legal procedures of debt collection and bankruptcy, two subject categories were instituted: ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. These different categories were thought to account for the diverging temporalities and spaces of credit exchange in everyday economic life. The introduction of the commercial register, a media-technical apparatus, enabled a formal distinction between ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. However, this boundary was contested and proved to be porose.     

Two radiocarbon dates for freshwater shells from hierakonpolis: Archaeological and geological interpretations

Shells of two species of freshwater bivalve (Unio willcocksi Bullen Newton and Etheria elliptica Lamarck) from the predynastic Gerzean (Nagada II) Decorated Tomb at Hierakonpolis, Egypt have given dates of 5000±90 bp for the tomb, and 12,900±120 bp for an episode of Nile terrace accumulation (correlated here with the Sahaba-Darau aggradation event). The archaeological and geological significance of these results is discussed, together with an outline of problems associated with radiocarbon dating of shell. Comparisons are made with the few other radiocarbon dates available for the Predynastic period in Egypt and possible reasons for the presence of shells in the tomb are considered.     

Some chronological implications of a fossil molluscan assemblage from a neolithic site at Brook,Kent, England

The later post-glacial history of a valley in the chalk escarpment near Brook, Kent, is described, based on molluscan stratigraphy, archaeological evidence and radio-carbon dating. Differences in size and colour banding, respectively, of fossil and living representatives of two species of land snails, Pomatias elegans (Müller) and Cepaea nemoralis (L.), are correlated with climatic change during the post-glacial period. The problems of the use of fossil shells of these species as samples for radiocarbon dating are discussed.     

China's Dynamic Industrial Sector: The Internet Industry

A Singapore-based economic geographer explores and analyzes the spatially uneven evolution of the Internet industry in China, arguing that the country's immense regional disparity in the provision of Internet services is best explained by the interplay of place- and path-dependence. The author demonstrates how the highly uneven regional endowments in relevant industrial and entrepreneurial resources have led to the substantial and persistent regional imbalance within China's emerging "new economy." His initial survey of the country's 100 leading Internet content providers (firms), identified from a listing of ca. 11,700 commercial websites, is selectively augmented to reflect an increase of over 70 million Internet users in 2007, reaching a total of 253 million in June 2008, and thus overtaking the United States as the world's largest Internet market. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: L10, L86, O30. 6 figures, 1 table, 53 references.     

The 1911 International Exposition in Rome: architecture, archaeology, and national identity

This paper discusses the 1911 International Exposition in Rome and illustrates how this patriotic celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Sate utilized symbolic landscapes of architecture and archaeology to promote nationalist sentiments of italianità and romanità centered on the young capital of Rome. Through modern art exhibitions at the Valle Giulia, scientific conferences at the Castel Sant’Angelo, archaeological exhibits on the Roman Empire in the Baths of Diocletian, and regional Italian pavilions in the Piazza d’Armi, exposition officials offered a complex representation of Italian national identity that was modern yet ancient, cosmopolitan yet bucolic, European yet regional, and imperial yet developing.     

The Rise and Fall of Alexander the Great – The Need for Medical Analysis: Reply to Commentaries

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. By elucidating the nature of his death, we can better interpret various aspects of Alexandrian history. Alexander’s death may have ensued from the sequelae of a congenital scoliotic syndrome. It would therefore be of significance to note that one of the greatest leaders in history who conquered much of the then known world may have been suffering from a physical disability.     

The Chemists' Style of Thinking

Der Denkstil der Chemiker. Der Aufsatz diskutiert die Tragfähigkeit des Begriffes “Denkstil”, wie er von Alistair Crombie eingeführt und Ian Hacking aufgegriffen wurde, für das Verständnis dessen, wie das Fach Chemie historisch seine Identität ausgeprägt hat. Obwohl weder Crombie noch Hacking den Begriff “Denkstil” in Bezug auf einzelne Disziplinen verwendet haben, erscheint im Fall der Chemie seine Anwendung besonders vielversprechend, weil er hier hilft, ein zentrales Problem zu thematisieren – nämlich die Frage, wie es Chemikern trotz wechselnder Gegenstandsbereiche und theoretischer Umbrüche gelang, eine eigenständige und stabile Identität auszubilden. Nach einer Einführung in den Begriff “Denkstil”, argumentiert der Aufsatz, dass die Beständigkeit der Chemie als eines Faches wesentlich in ihren Laborpraktiken gründet, die ihrerseits wiederum die spezifische Art der Fragen bestimmten, die Chemiker in ihren Forschungen stellten bzw. die Form der Antworten, nach denen sie suchten. Folgende Merkmale kennzeichnen diesen “chemischen Denkstil” (1) eine spezifische, im Herstellen begründete Form des Wissens, (2) die Befassung mit einzelnen Stoffen und Materialien statt mit Materie im Allgemeinen und (3) eine Beobachtung von Natur besonders im Hinblick auf Transformationsprozesse. The Chemists' Style of Thinking. This paper discusses the relevance of the notion of “styles of scientific thinking” introduced by Alistair Crombie and revisited by Ian Hacking, for understanding how chemistry shaped its identity. Although neither Crombie nor Hacking applied this notion to individual disciplines, it seems appropriate to use it in the case of chemistry because it helps to address a puzzling issue: how did chemists manage to shape an identity of their own, despite shifting territories and theoretical transformations? Following a presentation of the notion of style, I will argue that the stable identity of chemistry is rooted in laboratory practices, which determined the specific questions that chemists put to nature as well as the answers to their questions. The “chemical style of thinking” is characterized by i) a specific way of knowing through making, ii) the concern with individual materials rather than matter in general and iii) a specific commitment to nature.