2026 Graduate Student Conference | "Navigating a New World Order: Turbulence, and Transformation in Asia" - University of the Philippines Diliman

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8:00 AM - Training Course on Road Safety Audit

8:30 AM - Empowering Family Caregiving Research in the Philippines

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2:00 PM - Agap, Handa, Aksyon! Panahon Na!

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8:00 AM - Pagsisiyasat 2025: Public Bodies and Voices in Speech Communication and Theatre Research

9:00 AM - AI for Social Computing: Modelling Influence, Promoting Fairness, and Detecting Threats

9:00 AM - Evolutionary Diversity of Color Vision and Chemical Senses in Primates Including Humans

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10:00 AM - Balik Scientist Program: Exit Report Presentation of Dr. Arantxa Danielle Montallana

10:00 AM - Understanding and Modulating -1 Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting (-1 PRF): Structural Insights and Therapeutic Repurposing

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8:00 AM - Plant Chromosome Preparation Workshop

12:00 PM - Tropical Archaeobotany: An Introduction

1:00 PM - Challenges in the Road Crash Data Collection: Are We Getting the Full Picture?

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8:00 AM - 2025 Graduate Student Conference: The Philippines in a Multipolar World

9:00 AM - LaunchPad: Your Future in Tech Starts Here

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8:30 AM - 77th Japan-America Student Conference: Special Lecture and Exchange With UP Diliman Students

9:00 AM - When Crisis Brings You Leaders

12:00 PM - Osteobiographies From a Lakeshore Town in Batangas, Philippines

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5:00 PM - Bruha Party: Ecodragahan sa Kagubatan

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9:00 AM - AGHAMazing Talks Episode 3: 1, 2, Tree: Conserving Biodiversity Through Science-Based Solutions

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12:00 PM - Unearthing Gaps in History: The Case of Ranaw

2:00 PM - June Pride

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7:00 AM - Zumba Wellness para sa Gender Inclusivity

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2:00 PM - Taking Symbioses Apart and Putting Them Back Together: Exploring the Ecological Consequences of Microalgal Elemental Exchanges

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9:00 AM - Measuring the Effectiveness of Government Expenditures on Climate Change Adaptation: Evidence From the Philippines

10:00 AM - Public Administration and Governance in Indonesia: Emerging Trends and Persistent Challenges

11:00 AM - TSEK UP! Talakayan sa Edukasyong Pangkalusugan sa UP

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10:00 AM - Characterizing Watersheds Using Hydrologic Modeling

12:00 PM - Entropy-Driven Altruism and a Proposal for Memetics Revival as a Science

1:00 PM - Pre-retirement Orientation Program for UP Diliman Employees

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10:00 AM - Intergenerational Ties in Sustainability: What to Sustain, What to Revise, and What to Pass Across Generations

2:00 PM - Why Has DSP Caused by Dinophysis Occurred Mostly in Northern Japan?

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8:30 AM - Evidence to Action: Building Research Capacity in Public Health Policy and Law

2:00 PM - Rampa at Raket: The Drag Queen Hustle in the Philippines Creative Scene

2:00 PM - Central Asian Regionalism: Connecting, Balancing, and Buffering

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10:00 AM - TalaSalitaan Online: Talakayan sa Wikang Filipino, Akademya, at Bayan

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12:00 AM - BISAYA (Manticao) [ceb]: Sa Dagat at Bundok: Ilang Tala mula sa Isinagawang Fieldwork sa Komunidad na Nagsasalita ng Bisaya sa Manticao, Misamis Oriental

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2:00 PM - Drug Design Facilitated by AI, MD, Objective Facts, and Clinical Feedback

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9:00 AM - PAbaon Brown Bag Lecture No. 1: Enabled Collaborative Governance Platform Improving EDSA Busway Operations

2:00 PM - World Experts Lecture Series

2:00 PM - The Filipino Adolescents and Youth Context, Continuity, and Change: Book Launch

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1:00 PM - Speaking Out in the Stacks: Oral History of Filipino LGBTQIA+ Librarians

3:00 PM - World Experts Lecture Series

3:30 PM - Pride March 2025

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10:00 AM - Integrating Computational Thinking Into Science and Mathematics Lessons

1:30 PM - Mavka Film Screening and Photo Exhibit

6:00 PM - Mga Awit ng Lumipas: Rediscovering Songs From Post-War Philippines

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9:30 AM - UP Diliman Research Magazine Release

1:00 PM - Preserving Legacies: An Introduction of the MCM Santamaria Book Collection

2:30 PM - Faculty Grant Lecture Series 2025

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8:00 AM - Palette and Perspective: Staff-Led Creative Workshops

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10:00 AM - IMath Seminar: Optimization Models for Tensor Decompositions and Applications

1:00 PM - Long-time Behavior of Shape Optimization Problems for the Navier-Stokes Equations via a Phase-field Method

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1:00 PM - UPSE Job Fair 2025: Economists for the Future

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2026 Graduate Student Conference | “Navigating a New World Order: Turbulence, and Transformation in Asia”

Date: May 30 | 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

Join the “2026 Asian Center Graduate Student Conference” of the UP Diliman (UPD) Asian Center on Saturday, May 30, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., at the GT-Toyota Asian Cultural Center Auditorium, UPD.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Navigating a New World Order: Turmoil, Turbulence, and Transformation in Asia.”

The featured speakers are H.E. Ambassador Delia D. Albert, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and Filomeno Aguilar Jr., a professor of history at Ateneo de Manila University.

Know more and register at bit.ly/acgradcon26.

Image from the UP Diliman Asian Center Facebook page