(FEB. 22)—Four events focusing on the body comprised of an exhibit, symposium, book launch and film showing were held at the UP Diliman (UPD) GT-Toyota Asian Center on Feb. 13 as part of the 3-month celebration of the “Kat(h)awan: UPD Festival of Culture and the Arts 2018″ (UPDFOCA). The festival seeks to understand the Filipino […]

(FEB 23)—It is good night when the spoken word meets dazzling dance numbers and a multi-awarded artist is given tribute by UP Diliman’s highest official. The festival formally opened with a celebration of the body in Philippine pop culture in “Seremonya ng Pagbubukas: Karanasan ng Kat(h)awan,” staged Feb. 9, 6 p.m. at the UP Lagoon. […]

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(FEB 6)—Public performances were simultaneously staged at 3 p.m. on Feb. 1 in four different locations at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) to open this year’s 3-month Festival of Culture and of the Arts. Taludturan: Poetry of the Body is a series of performances inquiring into encounters of the body vis-à-vis several concepts […]

The UP Women’s Volleyball Team survived the gritty University of the East Lady Warriors, 25-19, 25-13, 21-25, 16-25, 15-8, in their opening game of the UAAP Season 80 Volleyball Tournament at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay on Sunday. The Lady Maroons, under new coach Godfrey Okumu, appeared to register a quick victory after […]

(FEB.2)—The Filipino body—what it is, how it is perceived and shaped by art, culture and society and manipulated by social engineering and advertising: these are the themes of Kat(h)awan, the 3-month Festival of Culture and the Arts at UP Diliman. The festival seeks to understand the Filipino body as a creative realm and a locus […]

2018 Gawad Tsanselor para sa Natatanging Kawani I. Call for Nominations II. Nomination Guidelines III. Criteria for Selection a. Category 1: SG 1-8 b. Category 2: SG 9 to below 18 c. Supervisory Administrative Personnel: SG 18 and above IV. Matrix of Criteria (Form) V. Full list of Nominees by category (as received by the […]

Riding on its research being cited by the world’s scholars, the University of the Philippines made a big jump in the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings or the THE ranking of the top 359 universities of the region. The Philippine national university leaped from the 201st-250thranked group in 2017 to the top 200, […]