UP THIRD WORLD STUDIES CENTER: August 2016

Monday, August 22, 2016

An invitation to "Finding Our Heroes: Philippine Guerilla Files from the United States National Archives"

In celebration of the 55th Anniversary of the University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies (UP SLIS), the School invites you and your staff to the SLIS Lecture Series on 31 August 2016 (Wednesday) at 2:30 PM, at the University of the Philippines Main Library.

This year’s SLIS Lecture Series has the topic “The BGen. Francisco Licuanan Jr. Memorial Collection: Finding Our Heroes: Philippine Guerilla Files from the United States National Archives” with Ms. Marie Vallejo as speaker and lead researcher of the same project.

The lecture is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

For inquiries, please call the SLIS Office at (632) 981-8500 local 2869 and look for Ms. Rhina Franco.

Friday, August 12, 2016

SINELAYSAY: A Documentary Film Showcase feat. screenings of the documentary "Haw-as: Leaving the Sea"

SINELAYSAY: A DOCUMENTARY FILM SHOWCASE

17 - 18 August 2016

Room 207, Palma Hall, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy

University of the Philippines-Diliman

For five years now, the Third World Studies Center and the University of Montreal have produced documentaries that tell the stories of the lives and struggles of Filipinos at the unmarked margins of society. This showcase features films focusing on such people against the backdrop of access to land and its uncertain, if not diminishing resources—a community that lives on the back of an active volcano for want of a liveable space, women mining the dregs of what was once a gold country, a worker living in a packed urban space and cycling through poverty and the deadly streets of a metropolis, a tribal leader bequeathing to his son a future that is about to vanish, and of families whose life stories swirl and eddy with the sludge of the mines on a river.

Premiering in this showcase is the latest in this thematic series—a film about an aging couple who have lived off the sea that is now being gobbled up by a town’s hunger for land. This documentary is set in Brgy. Bang-Bang, Cordova, Cebu that has long been under threat by reclamation plans.

SCREENING SCHEDULE:

AUGUST 17, 2016 (Wednesday)

10:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Haw-as: Leaving the Sea (2016)

1:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. - Alas-as: Sitting on a Volcano (2013)

1:20 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. - Haw-as: Leaving the Sea (2016)

2:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. - Minera: The Women Miners of Benguet (2013)

2:50 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. - Haw-as: Leaving the Sea (2016)

AUGUST 18, 2016 (Thursday)

10:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Kadena (2014)

10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. - Haw-as: Leaving the Sea (2016)

1:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. - Sa Rio Tuba (2015)

1:20 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. - Haw-as: Leaving the Sea (2016)

2:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. - Naglalahong Pamana (2015)

2:50 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. - Haw-as: Leaving the Sea (2016)

To view more details about each film, go to http://tinyurl.com/gl8wun9. An open forum with the filmmakers of "Haw-as" follows every screening of that film. All screenings are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

PHOTOS FROM THE SCREENINGS

Monday, August 01, 2016

Seminar-Workshop on Land Access Issues in Southeast Asia

Seminar-Workshop on Land Access Issues in Southeast Asia

29 July 2016, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Third World Studies Center
College of Social Sciences and Philosophy
University of the Philippines-Diliman

Among the consistent results of the Consortium for the Asian Democracy Index (CADI) surveys conducted in selected Southeast Asian countries since 2011 is the dismal state of asset distribution—i.e., land ownership—in those countries. Meanwhile, the work of the International Research Network on Exploitation and Usage of Nature, Land, and Resources in Africa, Asia and Latin America, or REINVENTERRA, since 2014 has highlighted various issues on access to natural resources and the conditions under which they are exploited, e.g., various forms of (state-sanctioned) land-grabbing. This by-invitation seminar-workshop brings together researchers affiliated with either of these two networks, as well as other researchers working on land access issues, at the Third World Studies Center (TWSC) of the University of the Philippines, where access to critical resources is a constant concern; among other activities, in February 2015, the Center served as secretariat of the international conference entitled “Contested Access to Land in the Philippines and Indonesia: How Can the Rural Poor (Re)gain Control?”

Participants in this seminar-workshop shall have the freedom to discuss any contentious land access issue or issues particular to their country or the region—from how tourism conflicts with traditional land use, to how agrarian reform is progressing (if at all). Also among the participants of this workshop are a team of young video documentary filmmakers who will show their work-in-progress, a short documentary on land reclamation in the Philippine province of Cebu.

Among the aims of the workshop is to draw parallels in the land access/appropriation/transformation issues in different Southeast Asian countries. Questions to be tackled may be in the vein of “Who is benefitting from land grabbing, or the continued non-implementation of land reform?” or “Can the displacement of certain communities for particular massive infrastructure projects be justified?” The proceedings of the seminar-workshop may be transcribed and published in an issue of TWSC’s journal, Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies.

PROGRAM

8:30-9:00

Registration

9:00-9:10

Welcome remarks

9:10-9:45

Introduction of participants and overview of the seminar-workshop

9:45-10:00

Coffee break

10:00-12:00

Session 1: Senior researchers on land access issues in Southeast Asia

On the land reform movement in Thailand