Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

List of Official Visits to the UP Asian Center: January 2015 to March 2015

Details

Visiting Institution

Nature of Visit

Head of Delegation

Date

Staff of Southern Philippines Methodist College, Inc

Tour of UP Diliman

Framer Mella

29 January 2015

Officers of the House of Representatives of the Kingdom of Thailand

Part of study visit to the Philippines

Pornphith Petcharoen, Advisor on Foreign Affairs of the Secretariat of the House of Representatives

4 March 2015

Political Science Class 178

Lecture on Asian Politics

Rene Alvin Oquendo

11 March 2015

For the Political Science Class 178 (Governance and Politics of Asia), two Asian Center faculty delivered lectures for the students. Dr. Santarita discussed Act East Policy: India's Contemporary Initiatives to its Extended Neighbors while Dr. Marina Durano examined "State and Policy Making for Industrialization in Asia."