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

  • Putin’s Russia and Southeast Asia: The Kremlin’s Pivot to Asia and the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War | An Onsite Book Talk
  • Japanese Studies in the Philippines Year 8: Research Writing Workshop
  • CALL FOR STUDENT PRESENTERS | Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue 2025

  • Putin’s Russia and Southeast Asia: The Kremlin’s Pivot to Asia and the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War | An Onsite Book Talk

    The UP Asian Center and the UP Department of Political Science will host the onsite book talk, "Putin’s Russia and Southeast Asia: The Kremlin’s Pivot to Asia and the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War," on 4 November 2025, 10 to 11:30 AM (GMT+8), at the Seminar Room, Second Floor of the Hall of Wisdom, Asian Center, UP Diliman. The event is open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to register online.

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  • Japanese Studies in the Philippines Year 8: Research Writing Workshop

    The UP Asian Center and the Japan Foundation Manila will hold a Research Writing Workshop on  17 - 18 October 2024, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (GMT+8), ONSITE at the Seminar Room, GT-Toyota Asian Center, UP Diliman. The event is free and open to the public.

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  • CALL FOR STUDENT PRESENTERS | Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue 2025

    The UP Asian Center is now accepting applications (abstracts) for student presenters to the Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue 2025 co-organized with UP CIFAL Philippines, the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center of Stanford University (APARC), and the Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future (BKMF). The deadline for applications is 13 October 2025, 12 PM (Manila Time). The call is open only to senior-level undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in any university in the Philippines.

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The UP Asian Center will hold the online roundtable "Asia Under Pressure: Trump’s Economic Policies on Asian Economies" on 24 April 2025, 3:00 PM, PHT (GMT+8), online via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public but signing in to a (free) Zoom account is required. 

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Asia’s Queen of Song, Ms. Pilita Corrales, passed away on 12 April 2025. Ms. Corrales was 85. During the 2023 Asia Concert: “Rasa Asia”, she was awarded the UP Asian Center’s 1st Asia Culture Award. Her daughter, Jackielou Blanco, received the award on her behalf on 26 November 2023 at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium.

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UP Asian Center student, Marie Beatriz D. Gulinao, has been awarded the 2025 COOPERATE Grant of the UP Office of International Linkages. Gulinao is an MA in Asian Studies candidate specializing in Northeast Asia - Japan.

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The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman is looking for one (1) Junior Research Assistant. The deadline for applications is on 18 April 2025. This is open to the public. Requirements must be submitted to the UP Asian Center Research and Publications Office.

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The Seventh Japan Studies Research and Development Competition (JSRDC) showcased the brightest minds among Filipino undergraduate and graduate students across the country. The competition, organized by the UP Asian Center and Japan Foundation Manila (JFM), was held on 15 March for the undergraduate and 22 March for the graduate category at the Asian Center, UP Diliman.