Updates on the UP Academic Congress

Thank you to all those who attended the Academic Congress sessions.


1. Presentation materials are available at the UP College of Law website.
Please visit law.upd.edu.ph to download them in PDF format.


2. Videos and podcasts of the sessions would be uploaded in the DILC website by the end of February.
Please go to their site dilc.upd.edu.ph for updates.


3. Copies of essays and papers presented by the panelists would also be available within the month. Please regularly check the UP Law website for updates. Please visit also the website of the Third World Studies Center uptwsc.blogspot.com for updates and other information.


4. Session 16 on Energy Security, convened by the UP College of Engineering is scheduled on February 16, 2010, Tuesday. Venue is also at Malcolm Theater. Other details to follow.


For other comments and inquiries, please email uplawdean@gmail.com.

Beyond 2010: A UP Academic Congress to Challenge our Next Leaders

This academic congress intends to identify the current issues, map the various approaches that have been tried in the past, provide some assessment of their gains and failures and draw out possible actions that must be done by the next administration. It is intended to empower the general public by making these issues transparent. It is not solely addressed to the candidates for the 2010 elections. At the end of the forum, the public should be able to draw their own measurable objectives and milestones that can be achieved within the next six years hence allowing them to craft questions which they can ask from their candidates and make wise choices. The forum should draw responses from the political candidates that will go beyond mere generalities or rhetoric.

CONGRESS SCHEDULE

(Please click the link for the speakers with available video recording.)

DAY 1 - February 1, 2010, Monday (Click here for abstracts of Day 1 sessions)

8:30–9:00  AM          Start of Registration Proper

9:00–9:30  AM          Opening Ceremonies

9:30 – 9:45 AM         Opening Remarks by Dean Marvic M.V.F. Leonen

9:45 – 10:00 AM       “The Imperatives for Philippine Society within the Next Generation" by UP President Emerlinda R. Roman

10:00–- 10:45 AM     “What Truly Matters to Filipinos?” by Prof. Randolf S. David

10:45 – 12:00 APM    Open Forum

12:00 – 1:30 PM         Lunch Break

1:30 – 3:30 PM           Session 1: Jobs and the Cost of Doing Business in the Philippines

3:45 – 5:45 PM           Session 2: Debt and Deficits

DAY 2 - February 2, 2010, Tuesday (Click here for abstracts of Day 2 sessions)

8:30–9:00 AM           Registration Proper
9:00–11:00 AM         Session 3: Backrooms, Battlefields, and Backhoes: The Mindanao Conundrum by Prof. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer 
11:00–1:00 PM         Lunch Break
1:00–3:00 PM           Session 4: Building Blocks to the Universal Enjoyment of the Right to
Health
3:00–5:00 PM           Session 5: Secularisms and Fundamentalisms
 
DAY 3 - February 3, 2010, Wednesday (Click here for abstracts of Day 3 sessions)

8:00–8:30 AM           Registration Proper
8:30–10:30 AM         Session 6: The Diaspora of Filipinos: Strategic Issues, Concerns, and Alternatives
10:30–12:30 PM       Session 7: Property Reform and Related Issues
12:30–1:30 PM          Lunch Break
1:30–3:30 PM            Session 8: Rethinking Urban Policy: Spatial, Economic, and Institutional Aspects
3:45–5:45 PM            Session 9: Science and Technology
 

DAY 4 - February 4, 2010, Thursday (Click here for abstracts of Day 4 sessions)

8:00–8:30 AM            Registration Proper
8:30–10:30 AM          Session 10: Confronting Trade, Markets, and Regulation
10:30–12:30 PM        Session 11: Philippine Foreign Relations
12:30–2:00 PM          Lunch Break
2:00–4:00 PM            Session 12: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: Trends,

Challenges, Lessons, and Response Options 

DAY 5 - February 5, 2010, Friday (Click here for abstracts of Day 5 sessions)

8:00–8:30 AM            Registration Proper
8:30–10:30 AM          Session 13: Addressing Impunity by Prof. Ibarra M. Gutierez III
10:30–12:30 PM        Session 14: Elections and How to Choose Leaders

12:30–1:30 PM          Lunch Break
1:30–3:30 PM            Session 15: Labor–Revisiting Constitutional Guarantees 
3:45–4:00 PM            Closing Remarks by UP Diliman Chancellor Sergio S. Cao

                                     Session 16: Energy Security (Third week of February)
                                     Synthesis by the Chief Rapporteurs

For the primer with panel abstracts, please click this link, for the speakers' abstracts including their brief bio, please click this link.For a matrix on the convenors and panelists, please click this link. For more details, please contact the UP College of Law Office of the Dean at 927-0518.

Media updates on the UP Acad Congress can also be found here.