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

Conferences

The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman welcomes abstract submissions for an international conference, "Sabang: Early Southeast Asian-European Intercultural Encounters," which will be held—via Zoom—from 18 to 20 March 2021.

The UP Asian Center will hold the "Asia 4.0: The 2019 Graduate Students' Conference" on 23 November 2019, 8 am to 4 pm, at the UP Asian Center, QC. The event is free and open to the public.

Artists. Cultures. Conversations. This November 14-15, 2019, join us as we listen to the conversations of practitioners, scholars, and teachers of the performing arts about their narratives on cross-cultural artistic collaborations. We invite all artists, scholars, students, teachers interested in the performing arts.