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

News @ UP Asian Center

  • ANNYEONG! Free Online Intermediate Korean Language Class @ UP Asian Center
  • Job Opportunity: Graduate Assistant @ UP Asian Center (Second Semester, AY 2025–2026)
  • Guidelines for the Second Semester, AY 25-26, are OUT now!

  • ANNYEONG! Free Online Intermediate Korean Language Class @ UP Asian Center

    The UP Asian Center in partnership with the Asia Center, Seoul National University through the generous support of the Korea Foundation, will offer a free INTERMEDIATE Korean Language classes to be held every Wednesday starting 31 January 2026, Online via Zoom. Applications for limited slots are open to AC Korea Majors, Asian Center students, and UP students. The deadline for registration for AC and UP Students is on 26 January 2026, 11:59 PM, PHT. 

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  • Job Opportunity: Graduate Assistant @ UP Asian Center (Second Semester, AY 2025–2026)

    The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman is looking for graduate assistants for the Office of the Dean, External Affairs, and the Research and Publications Office for the Second Semester, AY 2025–2026. The deadline for applications is 20 January 2026. This is open to all UP Diliman graduate students. AC graduate students are highly encouraged to apply.

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  • Guidelines for the Second Semester, AY 25-26, are OUT now!

    The UP Asian Center is releasing its guidelines for the Second Semester, Academic Year 2025-2026. We are currently implementing Phase 3 of the curriculum revisions for our Asian Studies and Philippine Studies programs. Click on the button below.  

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The UP Asian Center, in partnership with K. Matsushita Foundation, will be hosting a special lecture, Comparing Religion in the Philippines and Japan: A Viewpoint from the "Majority Religion" and Debriefing Seminar with the 2022 K. Matsushita Japan Study Tour Participants on 9 March 2023, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, PHT, via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public but signing in to a (free) Zoom account is required.

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The UP Asian Center will be hosting a hybrid roundtable discussion, The Rise of the “Indo-Pacific”: Entanglements with China and Southeast Asia on 7 March 2023, 2:00 PM (Philippine Standard Time, GMT+8). The event is free and open only to the guests and students of the UP Asian Center. Online registration (on-site) and signing in to a Zoom account (online) are required. 

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The Tri-College Ph.D. Philippines Studies Program, University of the Philippines Diliman will hold the conference and exhibit, PAKARADYAAN: Women Weaving Mëranaw Culture on 28 March to 1 April 2023, at the UP Asian Center and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. The event is on-site, free, and open to the public.

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The UP Diliman Asian Center alumni held atheir first General Assembly on 28 January 2023, its first since the pandemic.

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The UP Asian Center, in partnership with the UP Center for International Studies, will be holding an on-site lecture on 21-22 February 2023, 10:00 am to 12:30 pm (PST) for Day 1 and 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm (PST) for Day 2, at the GT-Toyota Asian Cultural Center. The event is free and open to the public. Online registration is required.