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

Pioneering Philippine Ethnography and Prehistory: The Digital Release of the Works of F. Landa Jocano | Online Launch and Roundtable

Details
The UP Asian Center will hold the online launch and roundtable "Pioneering Philippine Ethnography and Prehistory: The Digital Release of the Works of F. Landa Jocano" on 19 November 2024, 2:00 PM, PST (GMT+8), Online via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public but signing in to a (free) Zoom account is required.

ABOUT THE LAUNCH AND ROUNDTABLE

The Asian Center makes available for the first time the digital (pdf) version of some of the monographs of its late Professor Emeritus and pillar of Philippine anthropology, Felipe Landa Jocano (5 February 1930- 27 October 2013). In anticipation of the 70th anniversary, the Asian Center honors its illustrious professors by digitizing and making accessible to the public some of their key monographs and edited volumes that the center published. The series is launched by honoring  F. Landa Jocano, Professor at the Asian Center from 1973 until his death where he taught courses on Philippine ethnography, social organization, and prehistory. He served as Director of the Philippine Studies Program at the UP Asian Center (then Philippine Center for Advanced Studies), Dean of the UP Institute of Philippine Studies, and Head of the Asian Center Museum Laboratory. He was honored as Professor Emeritus of the UP Asian Center.
The following works will be made accessible to the public through the gracious permission of Prof. Felipe P. Jocano, son of Professor Emeritus F. Landa Jocano. 
•   1976. Filipino Prehistory: An Anthropological Overview of the Beginnings of the Filipino Society and Culture. Quezon City: Philippine Center for Advanced Studies.
•   1983. Filipino Muslims: Their Social Institutions and Cultural Achievements. Quezon City: Asian Center.
•   1983. Ilocano: An Ethnography of Family and Community Life in the Ilocos Region. Quezon City: Asian Center.
•   1983. Hiligaynon: An Ethnography of Family and Community Life in Western Visayas Region. Quezon City: Asian Center.
•   1994. Problems and Methods in the Study of Philippine Indigenous Ethnic Cultures: A Preliminary Overview. Quezon City: Asian Center.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Felipe P. Jocano Jr. is an assistant professor and current chairperson of the Department of Anthropology, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City. He has a master’s degree in anthropology. His research interests and specialization include Anthropological theory, anthropology of the body, anthropology of martial arts, cultural heritage, medical anthropology (psychiatry and anthropology), economic anthropology, and internet anthropology. Outside of office hours, he also teaches martial arts, focusing on Filipino, Chinese, and Indigenous (Mindanao) martial arts
Madilene B. Landicho is an Assistant Professor in the UP Department of Anthropology. She holds a BA and MA in Anthropology from both institutions. Her research interests focus on gender and sexuality, anthropology of the body, Southeast Asian studies, folklore, and ethnolinguistics. She also serves as an advisor to the UP Anthropology Society and LGBT San Nicolas. Some of the courses she teaches are Peoples of the Philippines, Introduction to Philippine Culture, Peoples of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Social Anthropology, and Field Methods in Social Anthropology, as well as the GE subjects Exploring Gender and Sexuality and Anthropology of the Body.
Dr. Shun Ohno is a retired professor of the Department of Global Citizenship Studies, Seisen University in Tokyo, and an affiliated professor of Kyoto University’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS). Currently, his research focuses on nursing and care migrants under the pandemic and the transformation of citizenship of Nikkeijin (persons descended from Japanese migrants) in Japan and the Philippines. He has published books written in Japanese and English. He obtained his M.A. in Philippine Studies at the UP Asian Center, and his Ph.D. in East Asian and Southeast Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He was awarded UPAA [University of the Philippines Alumni Association] Distinguished Alumnus Award in Migration Studies in 2016.
Dr. Noel Christian A. Moratilla is the current dean and associate professor at the UP Asian Center. He teaches courses on Philippine Studies such as, Theories and Perspectives in Philippine Studies (PS 202), Filipino Identities (PS 212), Seminar: Philippine Society and Culture (PS 219), and Perspectives in Philippine Studies (PS 301). Before he was appointed Dean, he served as the Deputy Director of the UP System Office of International Linkages. He earned his Ph.D. in Philippine Studies from UP Diliman and obtained his MA in Language Education. Dr. Moratilla specializes in resistance literature, Marxist studies, critical pedagogy,  testimonial writings, diaspora, and postcolonial theories. He has been actively publishing his works in various local and international journals. 
Dr. Maria Dulce F. Natividad is an Associate Professor at the UP Asian Center. She previously served as the College Secretary and the Head Secretariat of the Tri-College PhD Philippine Studies Program. She obtained her Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences/Anthropology at Columbia University. She handles courses in Asian and Philippine Studies at the UP Asian Center. Her research interests include Reproductive politics, Religion, Anthropology of Policy, and  Global and Public Health. View her full profile.

 

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The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The UP Asian 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. It 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. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. As an area studies institution, 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.