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

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NATIONAL ANTHEM

UP Symphony Orchestra

OPENING REMARKS

Prof. Rolando G. Talampas
Officer-in-Charge, Asian Center
Head Secretariat, Tri-College PhD Philippine Studies Program

INTRODUCTION OF THE GUEST OF HONOR

Jimmuel C. Naval, PhD
Dean, College of Arts and Letters

ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATES: GUEST OF HONOR

Prof. Felipe M. De Leon, Jr.
Head, National Committee on Music of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts

RESPONSE FROM THE GRADUATES

Maria Patricia B. Silvestre

MESSAGES FROM THE COORDINATORS

Nancy A. Kimuell-Gabriel, PhD
Associate Professor
Coordinator, College of Arts and Letters
Lou Angeli A. Ocampo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Coordinator, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Noel Christian A. Moratilla, PhD
Assistant Professor
Coordinator, Asian Center

MESSAGES FROM THE GRADUATES OF 2021

Moreal N. Camba
“Mga Lente sa Likod ng Lente: Ang Ningning at Liwanag sa Ilang Piling Retrato ng Manila Carnival (1908-1917)”
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Mary Dorothy D.L Jose
“Kababaihan, Potograpiya, at Kasaysayan: Isang Pagsusuri sa Imahen ng Kababaihan sa Potograpiyang Kolonyal sa Harap ng Imperyalismong Amerikano”
———
Philip Michael I. Paje
“Governing Climate Change Adaptation towards Disaster Resilience in Selected Coastal Communities in the Philippines (2006-2020)”
———
Mary Jane B. Rodriguez
“Serepungan: Ang “Katutubo” sa Hugpungan ng mga Diskurso (Isang Pag-aaral sa mga Erumanen ne Menuvu at Teduray-Lambangian)”
———
Maria Socorro L. Romabiles
“Culture as Transformative Innovation: Paglingap in the Practice of Family Medicine in the Philippines”
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Maria Patricia B. Silvestre
“Becoming to Being Filipino: A Social History of Music in Manila 1860-1940 through Journalistic Print”

PANUNUMPA NG MGA ALUMNI

Grace Odal-Devora, PhD
Professor, University of the Philippines Manila

CLOSING REMARKS

Maria Bernadette L. Abrera, PhD
Dean, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Chair, Tri-College PhD Philippine Studies Program

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