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
  • Encounters: Global and Diplomatic Histories of the Philippines | An Onsite Research Colloquium
  • M-uliʔ: The Asian Center Homecoming 2025

  • 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 Philippines" on 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 program aims to provide an opportunity to share Korea’s experiences on continuous economic growth as well as efforts on sustainable national development, which can help other countries avoid falling into what is commonly referred to as the middle-income trap.

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The title of the presentation was “Somewhere Between Area, Empire, and Transnation: The Transformation of Area Studies in the 21st Century" and given at the 2018 International Conference of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies, held from 11 to 12 May 2018 at the Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, Republic of Korea.   

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The forum-exhibit also features research posters by graduate students of the UP Asian Center taking up the course Asian Studies (AS) 255.1 (Social and Economic Development in Southeast Asia) under UP Asian Center Dean Joefe B. Santarita. 

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