University Welcome Assembly 2025 - University of the Philippines Diliman

Calendar of Events

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8:00 AM - UP COE Student Research Colloquium 2025 - Thesis Support Grant

8:00 AM - 10th Philippine Korean Studies Symposium

8:30 AM - Acclimate: A Landscape Architecture Exposition

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9:30 AM - A Forum Exploring the Interplay Between Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights

12:00 PM - Kasarian Framework: Our Bridge to Queer Utopia

2:00 PM - Kaagap-AI ng Hukuman: Tungo sa Hustisyang Makateknolohiya at Teknolohiyang Para sa Hustisya

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5:30 PM - Jamming on an Old Saya

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9:00 AM - Seeping Through, Shaping Truth: Contesting the Politics of Language, Identity, and Representation

10:00 AM - Macromolecular Structure Prediction to Guide Studies of RNA Virus Proteins

1:30 PM - Exploring Rare-Earth-free Permanent Magnets for Electric Motors

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8:00 AM - Tatak Kyusi: Weaving Tourism, Local Enterprise and Artisans Fair

2:00 PM - Parangal sa Mag-aaral 2025

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12:00 PM - Lalaking Matapang: Revisiting the Big Man Theory of Cavite

1:30 PM - From Awareness to Action: Driving Behavior Change for Sustainable Waste Solutions - A Hybrid Seminar for the Launch of the Breaking the Plastic Habit in ASEAN Countries: Pilot Project for Sustainable Vending in UP Diliman Phase II

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8:00 AM - Parangal at Pagkilala para sa mga Kawani at Retirado ng UP Diliman 2025

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9:00 AM - AGHAMazing Talks: Philippine Climate Foresight: Collaborative Insights for a Climate-Resilient Future

11:30 AM - Decolonial Feminisms, Power and Place: Sentipensando (Feeling-Thinking) With Rural Women in Colombia

1:00 PM - Bodies of Knowledge: The Development of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Philippines 1900s–Present

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10:00 AM - Connecting Play Culture and Curriculum: Teaching Mathematics Through Toys

1:00 PM - Beyond the Ballot: Empowering Voters for the 2025 Midterm Elections

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5:00 PM - Paintelle: Telling Stories Beyond Canvas

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11:45 AM - Artificial Intelligence and Ethics Review

2:30 PM - The Story of an Escape: Prisoners’ Resistance in the San Ramon Penal Colony in 19th Century Mindanao

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1:00 PM - Labor is a Woman: Short Films About the Lives of Working Women

1:00 PM - What Hafen, Vella? — A Post-mortem Forum on the 2025 Midterm Elections

1:00 PM - What Light It Can Hold: The Philippine Short Story in the Twenty-First Century

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8:30 AM - La Historia Olvidada: Filipinas-México 2025

10:00 AM - Ethnomathematics: Interplay of Mathematics and Culture

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9:00 AM - Clarinet Masterclass

9:00 AM - Science, Shared and Spoken: Towards Effective Science Communication

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1:00 PM - Shaping Data Parameters to Maximize Public Benefit

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12:00 PM - Patria de Cebu: Native and Non-native Animal Exploitation During Late Spanish Colonial Times

2:00 PM - Coral Reef Biodiversity—What We Know and Don’t Know: The Inside Story

2:30 PM - Mga Hamong Post-eleksyon sa Sektor ng Paggawa at Edukasyon

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1:30 PM - The Challenges and Promises of Governance in the Philippines, 1912–1925

2:00 PM - Harnessing AI to Strengthen Business Continuity and Resilience in MSMEs

6:00 PM - Summer Sunset Serenade

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1:00 PM - Six-string Conversations: A Guitar Ensemble Recital

2:00 PM - On Exploring the Hyper-Diversity of Marine Gastropods

5:30 PM - Land, Livelihood, and Liminality: Interrogating Informal Settlement on the UP Diliman Campus

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2:30 PM - Examining Language Curricula and Language-in-Education Policies: A Language Education Research Colloquium

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4:30 PM - Kaibuturan, Sounding the Core: Instalasyon ni Dayang Yraola

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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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University Welcome Assembly 2025

Date: Oct 27 | 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

The UP Diliman (UPD) Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs (OVCSA) announced that the “University Welcome Assembly 2025” will now be held on Oct. 27, Monday, 2 p.m., at the UP Theater, UPD.

For updates, follow the OVCSA social media channels.

Image from the UP Diliman Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Facebook page