The UP Asian Center will be hosting a public lecture on ASEAN-Timor Leste Relations on 4 May 2017, 2 pm to 4 pm, Seminar Room, UP Asian Center, Quezon City. The lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is first-come, first-served, and participants are encouraged to sign up.
ABOUT THE LECTURE
His Excellency Juvencio de Jesus Martins, Ambassador of Timor Leste to the Philippines, will discuss different facets of ASEAN-Timor Leste relations in May 4’s lecture. “Although Timor-Leste is not a member of ASEAN,” says Mr. Janus Nolasco, Information Officer of the UP Asian Center, “it would be interesting to explore the dynamic between them, especially with Timor Leste’s long-standing aspiration to join the current ten-member organization. Timor Leste is the only Southeast Asian country that is not part of ASEAN, and its case offers a unique perspective to understand the dynamics of the regional organization. We look forward to hearing Ambassador’s thoughts on this and other issues.”
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Juvencio de Jesus Martins is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to the Philippines. A graduate of the Universitas Timor-Timur-UNTIM in Indonesia, Ambassador de Jesus Martins played an active role during East Timor’s Liberation Struggle as an educational tutor, mass organizer, and a member of the Executive Committee of CNRM-National Council of Maubere People. He was imprisoned under the Suharto Regime before becoming the Co-Director of the National Council of Timorese Youth. Since then he has served in East Timor’s foreign service in several capacities: as the Minister Counselor to the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste in Jakarta, as Director of Region Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Timor-Leste, as Co-Director of the Commission of Truth and Friendship Timor-Leste-Indonesia, and as the Director General of External Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to serving as Ambassador to the Philippines, he also served as the Ambassador to Malaysia, Vietnam, and Myanmar.
ABOUT THE ASEAN AMBASSADOR LECTURE SERIES
The event is the second lecture in the ASEAN Ambassador Lecture Series of the UP Asian Center, which was launched last March 2017 with an inaugural lecture featuring Indonesia. The ASEAN Ambassador Lecture Series will run from March 2017 to November 2017. Ambassadors in Manila of various ASEAN member states (or their representatives) will be invited to deliver a public lecture where they will speak about their respective countries’ role and relations in and with ASEAN. The lecture series aims to help build public awareness of ASEAN within the Philippines, especially in light of the Philippines’ chairmanship of the organization and its 50th anniversary in 2017.
VENUE And VICINITY MAP
Vehicles entering the UP Asian Center (GT-Toyota Asian Cultural Center) grounds can only do so via the gate on Magsaysay Avenue that is near a UP guardhouse, a few meters away from Katipunan Avenue, and across Maynilad. A small gate for pedestrians on Guerrero St. lies across the College of Law parking lot and a few meters away from a waiting shed, where the Ikot jeepney, and jeepneys from Philcoa and SM North pass by. VIEW VICINITY MAP and GOOGLE STREET VIEW
INQUIRIES And ATTENDANCE
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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. Get an overview of these programs. The Asian Center also houses a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia. It has published several books and monographs, and hosts or organizes various lectures and conferences.