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

  • Ambassador Lecture Series | Timor Leste's Path to ASEAN Membership: Opportunities and Challenges
  • UP Asian Center Hosts Former SG Ban Ki-moon and the 2025 Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue
  • UP Asian Center and TriCollege Ph.D. Philippine Studies Program Information Session | A Webinar [for the Second Semester, AY 25-26]

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The UP Asian Center will be holding a webinar, “Decolonizing International Relations: Conversations on Asian (Non-Western) Connections" on 13 August 2021, 2 pm–5 pm, Philippine Standard Time.

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As part of our/your preparations for the coming semester, we have compiled a few things-to-know-and-do for new students. 

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Twelve M.A. students of the UP Asian Center and six from the Tri-College PhD Philippine Studies Program comprised the graduating class of 2021 and were honored in two separate virtual recognition ceremonies.

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The UP Asian Center joins the university and the art community in mourning the passing of Professor Leonilo Doloricon (1957–2021), artist, teacher and former dean of the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines Diliman, and alumnus of the UP Asian Center.

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The UP Asian Center invites everyone to the second webinar of the series, “Saving Gaza, Fighting for Peace: Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," which will be held via Zoom on 9 July 2021, 3:00 pm—6:00 pm, Philippine Standard Time (GMT + 8).