“Communicating Risks, Risking Miscommunication: Mass Media and the Science of Natural Disasters” is the first lecture of the 2014 UP TWSC Public Lecture Series on Natural Disasters. This lecture was held last 3 September 2014 (Wednesday), from 9:30 to 11:30 AM, at the Pulungang Claro M. Recto, Bulwagang Rizal (Faculty Center), University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. This lecture featured Prof. Garry Jay S. Montemayor, Chair of the Department of Science Communication, College of Development Communication, University of the Philippines-Los Baños. Nathaniel “Mang Tani” Cruz, GMA’s resident meteorologist, Shaira Panela, a freelance science journalist, and Professor Maria Luisa Bolinao of the Department of History, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman were reactors to Prof. Montemayor’s lecture.

“A Tradition of Resilience, The Resiliency of Tradition: Local Knowledges and Sense-Making of Natural Disasters” is the second lecture of the 2014 UP TWSC Public Lecture Series on Natural Disasters. This lecture was held on 25 September 2014 (Thursday), from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Room 400 Palma Hall, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. This lecture featured Dr. Soledad Natalia Dalisay, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP), University of the Philippines-Diliman. The reactors to Dr. Dalisay’s lecture were Dr. Jake Rom Cadag, Assistant Professor in the CSSP Department of Geography, and Dr. Emmanuel Luna, Professor and Director of the Doctor in Social Development Program of the College of Social Work and Community Development in UP Diliman.