In case you missed them, you may now watch—via our YouTube Channel— all webinars organized by the UP Asian Center since July 2020.

2021 Webinars (So Far)

• Special Lecture on Philippines-Japan Relations: A Webinar

• AfghaniSTUNNED: Making Sense of Afghanistan’s Realities and Relations

• Engaging with China: Views from Southeast Asia | A Forum via Zoom

• Saving Gaza, Fighting for Peace: The Second Webinar

• Decolonizing IR: Conversations on Asian Connections

• Sabang: Early Southeast Asian-European Encounters | Online Conference

• Scripts in Asia, c. 1500–2000' Conference

2020 Webinars

• • Inclusive Education for Filipino Children on the Move: Making the Invisible Visible

  • ASEAN Centrality: Up Close and Personal

  • Wikang Filipino at Iba pang Rehiyunal na Wika at Gamit Nito sa Panahon ng mga Hamon at Krisis

  • Taiwan vs. COVID-19: Standing Up to the Challenge

  • Beyond Pessimism towards Marginalized Communities: Multiple Local Communities in Rural Japan

  • Border-Crossing Dilemmas under COVID-19: Filipino and Southeast Asian Workers Residing in and Heading for Japan*

  • Trapped in the 19th Century: The Endless Reproduction of Colonial Stereotypes and Images in the Postcolonial Present

  • Pagkalalaki at Maka-Diyos: A Dialogical Look at Masculinity and Religiosity among Filipino Males

  • Finding Intimacy in Asian History: Notes on Pain and Pleasure and Dr. Peter Boomgaard Southeast Asia Collection Launch

  • Recent Developments in Inter-Korea Relations

  • Bap Meogeureo Gaja! Tara, Kain Tayo!: A Korean and Filipino (Fusion) Cuisine Demonstration

* Only the PowerPoint presentation is available for this webinar.

 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.