News @ UP Asian Center
- Slavery, Bondage, and Metaphysics: A Critique of Paradigms in Southeast Asian Studies | A Public Lecture
- Culture of Solidarity and Resistance: Bangladesh and the July Uprising - A Conversation and Special Musical Performance | Solidarity with Bangladesh: A Special Concert featuring Samageet
- Pre-/Post-colonial Southern Philippines: Japanese and Filipino Perspectives | An Onsite International Symposium
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Slavery, Bondage, and Metaphysics: A Critique of Paradigms in Southeast Asian Studies | A Public Lecture
The UP Asian Center will host the public lecture on "Slavery, Bondage, and Metaphysics: A Critique of Paradigms in Southeast Asian Studies" on 3 October 2025, 2 PM, PHT, at the Seminar Room, Asian Center, UP Diliman. The lecture is free and open to the public. Online registration is encouraged because of limited slots.
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Culture of Solidarity and Resistance: Bangladesh and the July Uprising - A Conversation and Special Musical Performance | Solidarity with Bangladesh: A Special Concert featuring Samageet
The UP Asian Center in collaboration with Focus on the Global South and the Asian Music for People’s Peace and Progress will conduct "Culture of Solidarity and Resistance: Bangladesh and the July Uprising," A Conversation and Concert with Samageet, on 30 September 2025, 2 PM (GMT+8) to 9 PM, PHT, at the ASEAN and Japan Halls, Asian Center, UP Diliman. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged due to limited seating.
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Pre-/Post-colonial Southern Philippines: Japanese and Filipino Perspectives | An Onsite International Symposium
The UP Asian Center, in collaboration with Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) and the Japan Foundation Manila, will host the onsite international symposium, “Pre-/Post-colonial Southern Philippines: Japanese and Filipino Perspectives” on 01 October 2025, 1 PM (GMT+8), at the Seminar Room, UP Asian Center. The event is free and open to the public. Walk-ins are welcome but, attendees are encouraged to register online because of limited slots.
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For the health, safety and well-being of our employees, faculty, students, and communities, the UP Asian Center will continue to enforce a Work-From-Home and a skeletal workforce arrangement. Please contact the respective offices via our Office Directory in our COVID-19 page (see "Contact Info" tab).
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This May, three Southeast Asia majors of the UP Asian Center present their theses online via Zoom, the first batch to do so in the 55-year-history of the college.
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We've collected some of the relevant information regarding university policy in light of Covid-19.
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Compassion and academic excellence are twin values that our community upholds. The challenge now is how to uphold both values despite the constraints of our context.
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Dr. Renato S. Velasco, alumnus of the UP Asian Center, passed away last 4 April 2020, at the age of 66.