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

The Japan Foundation and the UP Asian Center are calling for submissions of Japan-related research for the “Japanese Studies in the Philippines: The 2020 Nationwide Research Competition.” The competition is open to Filipino students enrolled in colleges and universities across the Philippines.

The international academic conference, “Rhetoric of Creative Partnership: Conversations on Cross-cultural Artistic Exchanges,” will be held on 14-15 November 2019 at the UP Asian Center, QC. The event is free and open to the public.

The Chinese Embassy in Manila is holding the “Hello, China: An International Photo Exhibition Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China” from 4-8 November 2019 at the UP Asian Center, QC. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The UP Asian Center will hold the public lecture, “Decolonization and the Changing Political Economy of Urban Land in Java (1930-1965),on 29 October 2019, 1 – 2:30 pm at the UP Asian Center, Quezon City.  The event is free and open to the public.

The UP Asian Center invites graduate students (MA and PhD students) to submit abstracts to "Asia 4.0: Changes and Challenges: The 2019 Graduate Students’ Conference @ UP Asian Center," which will be held on 23 November 2019, 8 am to 12 noon, Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman.