Chancellor Fidel R. Nemenzo formally opened the UP Diliman (UPD) Arts and Culture Festival (ACF) 2022 on Feb. 17, coinciding with the 150th year of the martyrdom of Catholic priests Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora (collectively known as GomBurZa) who were executed by the Spanish government on charges of subversion.   Livestreamed on the UPD Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (UPD-OICA) Facebook page, Nemenzo enjoined everyone to take to heart the festival’s theme of “kaMALAYAn: Pamana ng GomBurZa.”   Nemenzo. Screenshot of…

The UP Resilience Institute (UPRI) virtually launched the disaster resilience board game, Sakunwari, on Feb. 11 via Zoom and livestreamed on its YouTube channel and Facebook page. The Sakunwari board game is one of the outputs of UPRI’s Woke4COVID Project. Woke4COVID Project aims to raise awareness, enhance disaster risk management, and help Filipinos arrive at informed and science-based decisions in dealing with COVID-19 and other disaster risks through the development of information, education, advocacy and training materials in multiple media, and in different languages.

Mayroong siyam na aktibong kaso ng COVID-19 sa UP Diliman at Barangay UP Campus ngayong Pebrero 17. Ang mga purok o komunidad sa UP Campus kung nasaan ang mga aktibong kaso ay nasa mapang kasama sa stat report na gawa ng Special Committee ng UP Diliman COVID-19 Task Force. Huwag kaligtaang sundin ang mga pangkalusugang protokol bilang proteksyon kontra COVID-19. Sa mga nakararamdam ng sintomas, manatili muna…

Bilang paglilinaw sa angkop na salitang gagamitin bilang pagtutol sa mga bumabago sa kasaysayan, hindi “revisionism” ang dapat gamitin kundi “negationism.” Ito ang binigyang linaw ni Professor Emeritus Maria Luisa T. Camagay, PhD ng UP Departamento ng Kasaysayan ng Kolehiyo ng Agham Panlipunan at Pilosopiya. Madalas na ginagamit ng publiko ang salitang “historical revisionism” at ang popular na opinyong naririnig ay ang pagtutol dito. Ayon kay Camagay sa kanyang panayam, “Ang Dapat Mabatid ng mga Pilipino sa Pag-aaral ng Kasaysayan,” ang “historical revisionism” ay normal na bahagi ng…

“The archaeology of the colonial landscape is very central to the trajectory of Philippine history and culture today,” said Prof. Victor J. Paz, PhD in his keynote lecture at the online conference, “Indigenous Responses to Colonial Incursions,” of the UP Archaeological Studies Program (ASP). In the second part of his lecture, entitled, “An Archaeology of the Native Response to Colonial Incursions,” Paz focused on the effect of the creation of the pueblos after the conversions of the Filipinos into Christianity and their communities into pueblos, the implementation of the reduccion, and the eventual creation…

Isang daan at limampung taon na ang nakalilipas nang hatulan ng kamatayan sa pamamagitan ng garote ang tatlong paring Filipino na sina Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, at Jacinto Zamora. Sila ay pinaratangan na naging mga tagapasimuno ng pag-aalsa sa Cavite noong Enero 20, 1872. Kahit na walang matibay na ebidensya laban sa tatlo, minadali ang paglilitis sa kanila, at sila ay hinatulan ng parusang kamatayan sa garote noong Pebrero 15, 1872. Ang mismong paggarote sa GomBurZa ay isinagawa noong Pebrero 17, 1872. Ang GomBurZa ay kilala bilang mga kritiko sa paghawak sa kapangyarihang relihiyoso…

UP’s pioneer sociologist Fe Rodriguez Arcinas passed away on Feb. 3. According to the announcement of the UP Department of Sociology on its Facebook page, Arcinas was the former department chair (1983-1986), director of the UP Office of Alumni Relations (1989-1993), and officer-in-charge of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies (1988). Arcinas. Image from the Department of Sociology Facebook page She “conducted research and published on pressing sociological issues such as Filipino migration in the Gulf region…

The UP Law Stetson Team is the champion of the 26th Stetson Annual International Environmental Moot Court Competition Southeast Asian Regional Rounds (SEARR) held virtually from Jan. 24 to 28. UP defeated the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law in the final round. This year’s theme is “Protected Areas and Armed Conflict.” The team was also the Best Memorial second runner-up. The UP Law Stetson Team (from left: Shappit, Lokin, Ecarma, Siscar, and Valencia). Image from the College of Law Facebook…

Ngayong Pebrero 10, mayroong anim na aktibong kaso ng COVID-19 sa UP Diliman at Barangay UP Campus. Ang mga purok o komunidad sa UP Campus kung nasaan ang mga aktibong kaso ay nasa mapang kasama sa stat report na gawa ng Special Committee ng UP Diliman COVID-19 Task Force. Panatilihin nating nakataas ang ating mga depensa at mahigpit na sundin ang mga pangkalusugang protokol upang maging ligtas…