The Asian Center, in collaboration with Focus on the Global South, the Stop The War Coalition Philippines, The Office of Representative Walden Bello, the UP Department of Political Science, and the UP Third World Studies Center, will be holding a public lecture by Richard Falk, "Pope Francis, Charlie Hebdo, and Salman Rushdie: Thoughts on Religion, War, and Peace," on Tuesday, 24 February 2015, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium, Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Richard Anderson Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2001, he served on a three-person Human Rights Inquiry Commission for the Palestine Territories that was appointed by the United Nations, and previously, on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The Great Terror War [2003], Religion and Humane Global Governance; Human Rights Horizons; On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics; Explorations at the Edge of Time; Revolutionaries and Functionaries; The Promise of World Order; Indefensible Weapons; Human Rights and State Sovereignty; A Study of Future Worlds; and This Endangered Planet. He is coeditor of Crimes of War.

Professor Falk serves as Chair of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Board of Directors and as honourary vice president of the American Society of International Law. He also acted as counsel to Ethiopia and Liberia in the Southwest Africa Case before the International Court of Justice. He received his BS from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; his LLB from Yale Law School; and JSD from Harvard University. In March 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Falk to a six-year term as UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights. He initiated a blog, "Global Justice in the 21st Century" in celebration of his 80th birthday, richardfalk.wordpress.com.

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The Asian Center offers M.A. degrees in Asian and in Philippine Studies. The Center also has an M.A. program in Philippine Studies that allows students to major in Philippine society and culture, Philippine foreign relations, or Philippine development studies. The Center also offers a Ph.D. program in Philippine Studies in conjunction with the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy.