In the northernmost island of Luzon lies the community of Babuyan Claro. It is home to the Ibatans. In her dissertation, The Stratigraphy of a Community: 150 Years of Language Contact and Change in Babuyan Claro, Philippines, Maria Kristina Gallego, PhD said the Ibatans “… emerged from a century and a half of intense social […]

The latest issue of Humanities Diliman is now available online. The July–December 2022 issue (Vol. 19, No. 2) of the Scopus-indexed, peer-reviewed, open-access journal features six articles and one review. Remaking Against Removal: Protest Artmaking in Sitio San Roque Against the Neoliberal State’s Aesthetic Regime by Jose Monfred C. Sy is about the construction of […]

Why are bamboo musical instruments (BMIs) important? LaVerne David de la Peña, PhD, explained BMIs are very personal instruments. “Halimbawa ang nose flute, nilalagyan nila ng mga marka na parang tattoo na kapareha ng tattoo ng may-aring binata. It’s an extension of the self. Ginagamit din sa ligawan—tumutugtog ng mga plawta o tumutugtog ng kubing para mag-send ng message,” he said.  De La […]

Science Diliman Volume 34, No. 1 is now online. The latest issue contains three articles and a short communication. The articles are Phylogenetic Placement of the Philippine Cockatoo Cacatua haematuropygia (P.L.S. Muller 1776) based on the Mitochondrial Genome by Gerard Clinton L. Que, Peter Widmann, Indira Dayang L. Widmann, and Ian Kendrich C. Fontanilla; Chalcone […]

Archaeologists from UP Diliman (UPD) and the National Museum, and leaders and members of the indigenous Pala’wan community unearthed new discoveries dating back to the last glacial maximum (LGM) or at the height of the last ice age at Pilanduk Cave in Palawan. The research Tropical island adaptations in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial […]

The January to June 2022 issue of Humanities Diliman (Vol. 19, No. 1) is now available online (https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/issue/view/878). Humanities Diliman is a Scopus-indexed, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published semi-annually by the UP Diliman Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development. The journal’s first issue for the year contains four articles, a monograph, and two […]

Dinala ang palihan (writeshop) tungkol sa pananaliksik sa dunong katutubo (indigenous knowledge systems and practices o IKSP) sa “inged” (komunidad) mismo ng mga Erumanen ne Menuvu (vansa Derepuwanen at Pulangiyan/Ilyanen) ng Barangay Pangipasan, bayan ng Matalam, (North) Cotabato noong nakaraang Abril 26-27. Bahagi ito ng “’SÉRÉPUNGAN:’ Research Training and Partnership Program in Philippine Studies” na […]

At the recent international virtual conference, “Counter-Mapping the City,” that the UP Diliman (UPD) Department of Geography (DGeog) organized, a participatory three-dimensional mapping (P3DM) of Quezon City (QC) barangays was presented by geography professor Emmanuel Garcia. In his presentation “P3DM in the City,” Garcia found that P3DM facilitates dialogues among community stakeholders. However, he pointed […]

Researchers from the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Home Economics (CHE) have just finished a 3-day seminar on the use of a digital loom as part of a project to preserve and propagate existing traditional Cordilleran textiles, especially the weaving techniques that have been lost to time. A team of researchers from UPD and UP […]

To kick off the celebration of 100 years of broadcasting in the Philippines (100 YBP), the Department of Broadcast Communication (DBC) will feature an eight-part series of a Palawan folk epic on March 31, Thursday, 1 p.m. over DZUP 1602 khz. “Pag-uugat, Pagpapatuloy: Ang Epikong Dumaracol ng mga Tagbanua Kalamianen ng Hilagang Palawan” showcases never-before-heard […]