International Conference of Filipino Language - Registration Extension

February 7, 2008 - February 15, 2008
Manoa Campus, University of Hawaii at Manoa Campus Center Ballroom

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The registration for the conference has been extended to February 15, 2008. “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 conference will be a venue for bringing together scholars, writers, language teachers, researchers and other practitioners from around the world to discuss issues pertaining the role of Filipino as a global language. Participants can be teachers, researchers, program administrators/coordinators and other practitioners who are directly involved in the promotion and nurturing of the Filipino language, literature and culture. This first conference is geared towards establishing a tradition of scholarly meetings of this kind among practitioners in the field of Filipino language, literature and culture studies.

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.

For registration information, go to www. hawaii.edu/Filipino/intlconf2008/, or contact Ruth Mabanglo, (808) 956-6970. Registration fees are $150 and a special $50 student registration fee

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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