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

  • Pioneering Philippine Ethnography and Prehistory: The Digital Release of the Works of F. Landa Jocano | Online Launch and Roundtable
  • UP Asian Center and TriCollege Ph.D. Philippine Studies Program Information Session | A Webinar [for Second Semester, AY 24-25]
  • Meet the New Asian Center Dean: Associate Professor Noel Christian A. Moratilla, Ph.D.

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For the health, safety and well-being of our employees, faculty, students, and communities, the UP Asian Center will continue to enforce a Work-From-Home and a skeletal workforce arrangement. Please contact the respective offices via our Office Directory in our COVID-19 page (see "Contact Info" tab).

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This May, three Southeast Asia majors of the UP Asian Center present their theses online via Zoom, the first batch to do so in the 55-year-history of the college. 

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We've collected some of the relevant information regarding university policy in light of Covid-19.

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Compassion and academic excellence are twin values that our community upholds. The challenge now is how to uphold both values despite the constraints of our context.

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Dr. Renato S. Velasco, alumnus of the UP Asian Center, passed away last 4 April 2020, at the age of 66.