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
The UP Asian Center will be holding via Zoom a Special Lecture on Philippines-Japan Relations on 5 October 2021, 1–5 pm, Philippine Standard Time. The event is free and welcome to the public, but signing in to a Zoom account is required.
The UP Asian Center will be hosting a webinar, “AfghaniSTUNNED: Making Sense of Afghanistan’s Realities and Relations" on 10 September 2021, 1 – 5 PM, Philippine Standard Time.
Associate Professor Dr. Henelito Sevilla, Jr. has been appointed Dean of the Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman. His appointment came through a Special Meeting held by the Board of Regents, the highest governing body of the university, on 20 August 2021,
The Search Committee for the Deanship of the Asian Center shall receive nominations from 8 am of 1 March 2021 to 5 pm of 19 March 2021. Please submit the following documents in electronic copies with signatures affixed.
The articles in this EDSA issue reflect on the events of 1986 and their legacy just a few years later, and offers contemporaneous views of how EDSA 1986 was perceived, and makes for interesting reflections on how such analyses, hopes, fears, and dreams have fared more than three decades years later.
The UP Asian Center supports efforts to foster dialogue between the government and the University, as evidenced by the meeting between UP President Danilo Concepcion and DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and by the mutual commitment of DILG and UP to review the DILG-UP accord.
The UP Asian Center will hold the “Japanese Studies in the Philippines: A Forum and Nationwide Research Competition Year 3” on 6 March 2021, 8 am – 3 pm, via Zoom.
HAINAN NORMAL University, China recently published the 2018 Philippine Development Report, which was edited by Dean Joefe B. Santarita and Dr. Noel Moratilla, and which features two chapters from Dr. Jocelyn Celero, Assistant Professor, and Professor Rolando Talampas.
