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

  • Champions of Change and Innovation: UP Youth Summit on Sustainable Development Goals

    The UP Asian Center together with the University of the Philippines (UP) Office of the President, through the UP Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs—Office of Student Development Services (OVPAA-OSDS), and UP CIFAL Philippines will host the two-day capacity-building event, "Champions of Change and Innovation: UP Youth Summit on Sustainable Development Goals." The event is open to all Constituent Units of the University of the Philippines.

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  • Encounters: Global and Diplomatic Histories of the Philippines | An Onsite Research Colloquium

    The UP Asian Center will be holding the onsite research colloquium "Encounters: Global and Diplomatic Histories of the Philippineson 10 December 2025, 2:00 PM, PST (GMT+8), at the Seminar Room, UP Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman. The event is free and open to the public. Snacks will be served. Online pre-registration is recommended due to limited seating. 

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  • M-uliʔ: The Asian Center Homecoming 2025

     The UP Asian Center its first-ever Alumni Homecoming, "M-uliʔ: The Asian Center Homecoming" on 29 November 2025, 6:00 PM (GMT+8), at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium, Asian Center, UP Diliman. The event is BY INVITATION ONLY.

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The UP Asian Center will hold a public lecture, "The Possible Worlds of Rafael Daniel: An Indian-Armenian Merchant in Manila" on 25 November 2019, 1:30 – 4 pm at the UP Asian Center, QC.

The UP Asian Center will hold a public lecture, "Changing Organizational Culture: Developing Creativity in a Government Workplace," on 25 November 2019, 1:30 – 4 pm at the UP Asian Center, QC.

A lecture-exhibit, “Alas ng Bayan: Women, Heroism and Memory” will open on 25 November, 10 am, and will run until 27 November 2019, at the UP Asian Center, QC. The event is free and open to the public.

The UP Asian Center will be organizing a lecture and tea tasting, Blue Tea in Southeast Asia, on 19 November 2019, 3:00 pm–4:30 pm, at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is first-come, first-served. Participants are encouraged to sign up.

The UP Asian Center will hold the "Asia 4.0: The 2019 Graduate Students' Conference" on 23 November 2019 at the UP Asian Center, QC. The event is free and open to the public.