Filipino as a Global Language Conference

March 17, 2008 - March 19, 2008
Manoa Campus, University of Hawaii at Manoa Campus Center Ballroom

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“An International Conference on Filipino as a Global Language” will be held on March 17-19 2008 at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa by the Filipino and Philippine Literature Program and the National Foreign Language Resource Center.

The establishment of a tradition of scholary sessions by educators and practitioners in all aspects of the Filipino language and culture is the main objective of the conference. Educators, students, writers, and agencies involved in the promotion and nurturing of the Filipino language are invited to join conference workshops, exchange ideas on practices in teaching, program administration, and language promotion. Another issue that will be discussed is the role of Filipino as a global language and the Filipino diaspora that has occurred in the past three decades all over the world and its effect on the Filipino national language.

Conference workshops include sessions on teaching and assessment, storytelling, translation, poetry writing, and literature and politics. Fifty students (25 college and 25 high school) are being sponsored to attend a Youth Track, which will include sessions on traditional folk and contemporary hip-hop dancing.

Two Philippine National Artists for Literature will come and speak at the plenary sessions of the conference: Virgilio S. Almario, who writes under the pseudonym Rio Alma, is a Filipino poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager. The other famous artist is Bienvenido Lumbera, who is a prizewinning poet, critic, and dramatist. Also invited as speakers are Dr. Ricardo Nolasco, chairman of the Commission on Filipino and Ambeth R. Ocampo, author, historian, and chairman of the National Historical Institute of the Philippines. The UH Manoa’s Filipino and Philippine Literature Program is recognized as the leading program in Filipino language teaching and curriculum development.

The conference is supported by the UH National Foreign Language Resource Center, a program that focuses on languages in Asia and the Pacific, the East-West Center, Philippines National Commission on the Culture and the Arts, Commission on Filipino, and other agencies and organizations.

Event Sponsor
Filipino & Philippine Literature Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa

More Information
Ruth Mabanglo, 956-6970, mabanglo@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/filipino/intlconf2008/

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