Come and listen to a lecture entitled “Kunyari,” by Justin Gerald Ocampo.
Date and time: September 19, 2023, 12pm-1:00pm HST
Description: Kunyari, written and directed by Justin Ocampo, is a Filipino American romantic comedy short film about two former lovers pretending to be together at a party in an act of self preservation against the expectations of their gossiping and intrusive Filipino families, encountering unresolved feelings along the way.
The University of Hawaii Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program, called Project Dunong at Kalinangan 2023, is now going on in Dasmarinas, Cavite with De La Salle University-Dasma as host. It started on June 5-6, 2023 with a pre-departure program via Zoom, and the main program launched on June 12, 2023 until July 6, 2023 on the DLSU Dasmarinas campus. This project is the second Fulbright-Hays GPA implemented by the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Center for Philippine Studies.
Project Dunong at Kalinangan will train 19 participants carefully selected from Hawaii and California (1 is from neighboring Yuma, Arizona) composed of K12 teachers, students and university faculty. It is managed by a UHM team consisting of three members (Dr. Federico Magdalena, Project Director, Dr. Pia Arboleda, Co-Project Director and the Center’s Director, and Dr. Jayson Parba, Project Administrator), with Dr. Christian George Francisco of DLSU-Dasma coordinating the FH project. MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology is also an institutional partner in this endeavor, with Prof. Jed Otano as coordinator.
The participants will undergo a month-long immersion training on basic Filipino language and Philippine cultural heritage.
Prof. Peth Amoncio, Filipino language instructor, kicking off the Fulbright training.
The public is invited to this exciting lecture by Dr. Raju Desai, formerly a faculty at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and now teaching at City College of San Francisco (Philippine Studies).
Good news for those desiring to learn basic Filipino language!
Applications are now accepted for a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad summer training in the Philippines from June 5 to July 10, 2023. Site of training is Dasmariñas, Cavite with De La Salle University as host. The FH-GPA (also called Dunong at Kalinangan: Fulbright 2023) is implemented by the Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
Details: Please click this Link for application materials and other details.
Contact: Federico V. Magdalena, PhD at fm@hawaii.edu.
The public is invited to this presentation about a lesser known historical figure, Enrique de Malacca. Federico V. Magdalena, PhD will discuss this man in the Vicente Sotto Lecture Series organized by the Cebuano Studies Center, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines.
DATE: January 28, 2023, Saturday, 10:00am (Philippine time)
The Vicente Sotto Lecture Series begins the new year with a lecture by Dr. Federico V. Magdalena from the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa. His lecture entitled “Enrique de Malacca: Malay or Cebuano?” will be held on January 28, 2023 (Saturday) from 10:00 – 11:30 AM via Zoom.
Zoom details will be sent to your email once registration closes.
ABSTRACT:
This webinar lecture re-visits the historical account about Enrique de Malacca and reviews available evidence regarding his identity – is he a Malay or a Cebuano? Enrique is a “captured slave” who worked as Ferdinand Magellan’s valuable interpreter in his voyage to the Philippines in 1521. He got into Magellan’s embrace in 1511 as a young boy shortly after the downfall of the Malaccan sultanate under the Portuguese forces.
Using linguistic data, there is a high probability that this mythical guy, who knew both Malay and Cebuano (aside from Portuguese and Spanish), was more of a Cebuano speaker. This line of thought is corroborated indirectly by primary historical sources, and by inference on contiguous events surrounding Enrique’s early life. This presentation will attempt to explain why.
Everybody is invited to the last of our webinar series on Martial Law. Dr. Mark J. Sanches, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies from Vandervilt University, will speak on “From Barefoot Lawyers to International Tribunals: Local and International Law against the Marcos Dictatorship.”
Content: In this webinar, the presentor will discuss the ways that legal aid organization like the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) challenged the Marcos dictatorship.
Date and Time: November 2, 2022, Wednesday, 2:00pm Hawaii Time (November 3, Thursday, 8:00am PH Time)
Registration: To attend, please register to this site – https://hawaii.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ucuGurzMpEt10qYpOJNGpz6UZmJE95H1n
You will receive a confirmation after registering.
Details: For details, see or download the flyer below –
Join us in this 1-hour webinar! Former PBA player and Alaska Aces head coach Alex Compton will share his experiences in learning Filipino as an additional language.
Date: October 11, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm (HST)
Register: https://bit.ly/3SkXXpl
Sponsors: Brought to you by UHM-FILIPINO in collaboration with the UHM Center for Philippine Studies, UHM Ilokano Program, the Filipino Program @University of Michigan Filipino Program, and the Filipino Program @ University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Come and join us in our webinar series this Fall 2022 on Martial Law.
Dr. Josen M. Diaz will talk on “The Crisis of Martial Law” in a different angle. Her presentation reconsiders martial law (in the Philippines) as both a political tactic for navigating a “a world [that] has grown more perilous” and where “problems have become more complex and critical” and as authoritarian historiography.
Date: October 5, 2022, Wednesday, at 4:00 pm Hawaii Standard Time
