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

  • Asia and Trump 2.0: Geopolitical Outlooks | A Panel Discussion

    The UP Asian Center will hold the panel discussion "Asia and Trump 2.0: Geopolitical Outlooks" on 12 February 2025, 2:00 PM, PHT (GMT+8), online 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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  • Book Talk and Signing Tour with Haenim Sunim

    The UP Asian Center in partnership with UP Korea Research Center and Fully Booked is organizing a Book Talk and Signing Tour Featuring Haenim Sunim on 24 January 2025, 10:00 AM (GMT+8), at the Seminar Room, GT-Toyota Asian Cultural Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman. The event is free and open to the public. The event is free and open to the public. Online pre-registration is recommended due to limited seating.

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  • CALL FOR ENTRIES: Youth-In-Charge: Environmental Action of the Youth as Champions of Sustainability | A Competition

    The UP Asian Center and UP CIFAL Philippines are now accepting entries for the 2025 competition, Youth-In-Charge: Environmental Action of the Youth as Champions of Sustainability.  The deadline for submission is on 17 February 2025, Monday. The competition is open only for high school and college student organizations based in the National Capital Region, Philippines.

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The UP Asian Center won third place in the University of the Philippines Diliman 2024 Lantern Parade with the theme, “Nilay at Sikhay,” held last 18 December 2024.

The UP Asian Center was honored to receive book donations from the Embassy of Brunei Darussalam in Manila in a ceremony held last 06 December 2024 at the UP Asian Center in time for the 40th anniversary celebration of the diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Brunei.

The UP Asian Center, in partnership with the Embassy of Malaysia in Manila, celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Philippines and Malaysia’s diplomatic relations through the forum “60 Years of Malaysia-Philippines Relations: Deepening Cooperation in a Dynamic World” last 5 December 2024 at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium.

The UP Asian Center and the DFA Office of Cultural Diplomacy successfully hosted Dialogo: Philippine Studies Goes Global, 2024 International Conference on Philippine Studies. The conference was held from 27 to 29 November 2024 at the Ramon Magsaysay Center, Diamond Hotel, and the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium. About 20 Philippine Studies programs and 250 participants spanning 15 countries from around the world attended the conference.

The UP Asian Center in collaboration with the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), the Global Diplomacy Network (GDN), and the Linnaeus University Center for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (LNUC) is now ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for the  International Summer School "Towards Inclusive Global Histories" on 7-9 September 2025 at Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden. The deadline for applications is on 31 January 2025