Public Lectures

“Constitution Rewriting: Theory and Practice,” is a public lecture by Dr. Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher, Program Manager of the Democracy, Conflict, and Security Unit of International IDEA. it was held last 21 October 2016 at the Ambion Room, College of Law, Malcolm Hall...

Benedict Anderson’s public lecture, “The Age of Globalization: Anarchists and the Anticolonial Imagination,” is drawn from his own similarly titled book. The Age of Globalization’s focus (is) on the final decades of the nineteenth century. The near simultaneity of the...

“Star Meat, Cebu Siopao, and the Anti-Muslim Ilaga: The Rat in Philippine Politics,” a public lecture by Dr. Patricio N. Abinales was held last 25 July 2014 (Friday), from 3:00 to 5:00 PM, at the Seminar Room of the GT-Toyota Asian Cultural Center, University of the...

Dr. Kevin Hewison’s public lecture, “Thailand: The Lessons of Protest,” was held on 14 July 2014 (Monday), from 10:00 AM to 12:00 NN at the Seminar Room 206-207 of the GT Toyota Asian Center, University of the Philippines-Diliman. Dr. Hewison, Sir Walter Murdoch...

“From Migrant to Worker: New Forms of Migrant Labor Activism in Asia,” a public lecture by Dr. Michele Ford, Director of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney, was held last 27 May 2014 at the GT-Toyota Asian Cultural Center Seminar Room, Asian...

The Origins of South China Sea’s Claim Organized by the UP Asian Center and co-sponsored by the UP Third World Studies Center, this lecture is the first of two lectures by Bill Hayton of the BBC, “Cartography and Psychological Warfare: China and the South China Sea”...

A Seminar on Ethnic Conflict and Democratization in Myanmar The invitational seminar, “Ethnic Conflict and Myanmar’s Problematic Democratization”, which is part of the 2014 UP ASEAN Lecture Series, was  held last 20 February 2014 (Thursday), from 9:00 AM to 12:00 NN...

This public lecture was held last 13 January 2014 at the Diliman Interactive Learning Center in UP Diliman. Featured lecturers were Dr. Maria Makabenta Ikeda and Dr. Aysun Uyar Makibayashi, both of the Afrasian Research Center of Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan....

“A Roadmap for A Sustainable Peace?: Peace Processes and the Inclusive Resilient Political Settlement” is a lecture by Dr. Jan Pospisil, lecturer at the University of Vienna and Senior Fellow at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs. Dr. Pospisil’s lecture...

The lecture “Global Financial Crisis: A Turning Point in World History?” by Dr. Paul Cammack was held last 26 September 2013 (Thursday), from 2:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon at the Third World Studies Center, Lower Ground Floor, Palma Hall, University of the...

“Autonomy and Expectations: The Evolution of University Social Research Centers” is a public lecture by Leland Joseph R. Dela Cruz Director and Assistant Professor, Development Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University and PhD Student, Department of Sociology,...

“Reform Performed: Aquino, Corruption, and Change in the Philippines” is a public lecture by Dr. Mark R. Thompson, Director of the Southeast Asia Research Center and professor of politics at the City University of Hong Kong. This lecture was held last 15 April 2013,...

“South Africa’s Foreign Policy: A Vision For South–South Cooperation” is a public lecture held last 25 September 2012 from 10:00 to 11.30 AM at the Department of Political Science Audio Visual Room, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Faculty Center, University...

This lecture entitled, “Repression and Toleration of Political Dissent in Contemporary Vietnam,” was delivered by Dr. Benedict Kerkvliet, Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University and a prominent scholar in Southeast Asian studies. The lecture was held...

Co-sponsored by the Focus on the Global South-Philippines, the UP Third World Studies Center (TWSC), and the UP Diliman Department of Political Science, the lecture, “The Right to Self-Determination in ASEAN and the Philippines” was held last November 16, 2011 from 1...

Organized by the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation and the Third World Studies Center and co-sponsored by the University of the Philippines (UP) Office of the Vice President for Public Affairs, the College of Arts and Letters’ Office of the Dean, the UP Department of...

The Promise of Tahrir Square Lecture 1 Entitled, “Social Movements and Democracy: The Clash of Old and New Social Movements in Egypt,” this is lecture one of ” The Promise of Tahrir Square,” this year’s Social Movements in the South Lecture Tour sponsored by SEPHIS...