Nineteen presentations from the conference, Sabang: Early Southeast Asian-European Intercultural Encounters, are now available in the UP Asian Center’s YouTube Channel. Only those who consented to have their videos uploaded are available for viewing.

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• An Orosipon ni Ina: A Case for the Syncretic Origin of the Peñafrancia Festival in Bicol, PH

• In the (re/un)ma(r)king: Batuk (Philippine traditional tattoos) in the diaspora

• Melchor de Avalos and the Political Status of Tagalog Muslims

• Chinos Indios as Sexual Deviants: Sodomy as Trope of Moral Panic in Early Spanish Philippines 

• Tensions of Hybridity:Native Officers as Intermediaries in Scripting Colonial Order in British Burma

• Traditional Medicine in the Philippines and Early Southeast Asian-European encounters

• The Extinct of Fortified Dwellings (Kotta/Kuta) in Southeast Kalimantan

• The Royal Artillery Foundry of Manila: Technical Labor and Global Circulation (1580–1676)

• Sayaw sa Ginunting: A Postcolonial Analysis of a Wedding Dance

• The Mingling of Asian and European Art Traditions in the Boxer Codex Illustrations

• Búyo in the Narratives of Early Spanish – Austronesian intercultural Encounters

• Religious Syncretism of Libad Apung Iru and the Kapampangan Pre-Colonial Beliefs

• The Hilot of the Philippines and the Dukun Bayi of Indonesia Compared

• MSS 2996: Curiosity to A Medicinal Chest?

• Addressing Southeast Asian Leadership: Diplomatic Narratives and the Ordering of Colonial Knowledge

• Friendship and Unity Among Us: The Dutch-Asian Elephant Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century

• Danes in the Manila Trade, XVII-XIX Centuries

• Revisiting the Boxer Codex: How the Filipino “indio” within Early Modern Colonial Encounters Uncovers the Construction of the Filipino Identity

"Sabang: Early Southeast Asian-European Intercultural Encounters," was held via Zoom from 18-20 March 2021. It was organized by the Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, and the Office for Initiatives of Culture and the Arts, UP Diliman.

To view abstracts, and speaker profiles, you may visit the conference page.

 The UP Asian Center offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. 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 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. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. The Asian Center also publishes Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, the latest issue of which can be downloaded at the journal's website. For other news and upcoming events at the Asian Center, click here.