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 recording of Araw ng Pagkilala 2020—The Recognition Day for graduates of the UP Asian Center—will be shown as an embedded video on this page at 1 pm, 26 July 2020. See you then. The theme for this year's university recognition day ceremonies is "Maglingkod, Magmalasakit, Manindigan."
NATIONAL ANTHEM
AUDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATION
This three-minute video looks back on the activities of the UP Asian Center over the last few years.
OPENING REMARKS
Prof. Joefe B. Santarita, PhD Dean, Asian Center
INTRODUCTION OF THE GUEST OF HONOR
Prof. Antoinette R. Raquiza, PhD Associate Professor, Asian Center
GUEST OF HONOR
Caroline S. Hau, PhD Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Caroline S. Hau is Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. She received her BA in English Studies from the University of the Philippines and her MA and PhD in English Language and Literature from Cornell.
She is the author of six books and editor of seven anthologies including Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation, 1946–1980; The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation and Region in and beyond the Philippines; Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture; and (with Kasian Tejapira) Traveling Nation-Makers: Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia. She has also published a novel, Tiempo Muerto, and two collections of short fiction, Recuerdos de Patay and Other Stories and Demigods and Monsters: Stories.
INTERMISSION: "KANLUNGAN"
Noel Cabangon
Pana-panahon ang pagkakataon Maibabalik ba ang kahapon?
Natatandaan mo pa ba Nang tayong dal'wa ang unang nagkita? Panahon ng kamusmusan Sa piling ng mga bulaklak at halaman Doon tayong nagsimulang Mangarap at tumula
Natatandaan mo pa ba Inukit kong puso sa punong mangga At ang inalay kong gumamela Magkahawak-kamay sa dalampasigan Malayang tulad ng mga ibon Ang gunita ng ating kahapon
Ang mga puno't halaman Ay kabiyak ng ating gunita Sa paglipas ng panahon Bakit kailangan ding lumisan?
Pana-panahon ang pagkakataon Maibabalik ba ang kahapon?
Natatandaan mo pa ba Nang tayong dal'wa ang unang nagkita? Panahon ng kamusmusan Sa piling ng mga bulaklak at halaman Doon tayong nagsimulang Mangarap at tumula
Natatandaan mo pa ba Inukit kong puso sa punong mangga At ang inalay…
VIDEO MESSAGES of the GRADUATES
Master of Arts in Asian Studies
Grutas, Sarah Jean B. (Southeast Asia) “Lustful Lords, Dead Deities: Female Sexuality in Indonesian Folk Literature”
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Panganting, Abdulwahid G. (Southeast Asia) "The Converging Role if Traditional Leaders and Non-Traditional Leaders in Conflict Resolution: The Case of Mindanao, Philippines and Maluku, Indonesia."
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Umali, Marie Bernardine A. (Southeast Asia) "Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet: Literature as Counter-Hegemony and Site of Contestation in Indonesia's New Order"
Master in Asian Studies
Mendez, Jefferson R. (Northeast Asia, Japan)
Sarmiento, Denzel G. (South Asia)
Tam, Zhandra C. (Northeast Asia - Korea)
Master in Philippine Studies
Serona, May Haydee Fatima M. (Philippine Foreign Relations)
PANUNUMPA NG MGA ALUMNI
Prof. Grace Odal-Devora, PhD President, Asian Center Alumni Association
CLOSING REMARKS
Prof. Rolando G. Talampas College Secretary, Asian Center
UP NAMING MAHAL
UP naming mahal, pamantasang hirang Ang tinig namin, sana’y inyong dinggin Malayong lupain, amin mang marating Di rin magbabago ang damdamin Di rin magbabago ang damdamin.
Luntian at pula, Sagisag magpakailanman Ating pagdiwang, bulwagan ng dangal Humayo’t itanghal, giting at tapang Mabuhay ang pag-asa ng bayan Mabuhay ang pag-asa ng bayan.
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