The Institute of Philippine Culture invites researchers, advocates and the interested public to visit wwww.haligui.net, the website of IPC 297, "The Architectural Heritage of Manila/Metro Manila Project". This website contains a compendium of heritage architecture-related literature, research, legislation, and models from other countries. A work in progress, the project welcomes suggestions on materials and initiatives to be included in the compendium. The database of the architectural inventory of Manila will be available online in October 2009. IPC Project 297 is supported with a grant from the Society for the Preservation of Philippine Culture, Inc. (formerly Museo ng Malacanang Foundation).

Dr. Fernando Zialcita and Mr. Erik Akpedonu of the IPC Project 297 (Documenting the Architectural Heritage of Manila/Metro Manila Project) presented "R. Hidalgo St., Quiapo: A Blueprint for Urban Renewal" at the Clean Development Mechanism Workshop of the High Level Dialogue on Climate Change at the Asian Development Bank on 16 July 2009.

With TFS Green London, a carbon financing company, the Manuel Luis Quezon University, and other units in the Ateneo de Manila University, the Institute of Philippine Culture is developing a proposal to revitalize a historic city using clean energy. The proposed project is viewed as one of the ways of utlizing the data and insights generated by the IPC Project 297.

The Institute of Philippine Culture
School of Social Sciences

cordially invites you to

The 2009 IPC Visiting Research Associates (VRA) Lecture Series
 

Congratulations to the IPC Merit Research Award Recipients for SY 2009-2010!

Mr. Rene Raymond R. Raneses, Jr. (Department of Political Science), The Politics of Charity: Religious Autonomy and the Challenges of State Discipline and Regulation

Ms. Rosa Ladrido (Chinese Studies Progran), Beyond Barquillos: The Transformation and Indigenization of Iloilo’s Baking Tradition

Isabel Melgar, PhD (Department of Psychology), Risk Behaviors for HIV and STI among Young Call Center Employees in the Philippines

The  Institute of Philippine Cutlure join the Research Committee of the Second National Rural Congress (NRC). The Congress, organized by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, through bishops Antonio Ledesma and Broderick Pabillo, is a review of the continuing issues confronting the majority of our people living in rural areas since the first National Rural Congress held in 1967. In the first Congress,  the Church highlighted the call that "the Church must go to the barrios." The involvement of the Church in rural issues was concretized in the formation of diocesan social action centres, rural cooperatives, advocacy groups for agrarian reform, and others.
 

IPC Training Room, Rm. 203
Frank Lynch Hall Social Development Complex
4:30pm - 5:30pm

23 July 2008 Pinoy by Day, Kano by Night : Exploring the Impact of Global Outsourcing on the Cultural Identity and Well-Being of Filipino Call Center Workers Ma. Regina M. Hechanova Department of Psychology and Ateneo Center for Organization Research and Development (CORD), School of Social Sciences

24 July 2008 IPC Panel at the International Conference on Philippine Studies
Leong Hall Auditorium, 3:30 pm
Vintage Houses in a Changing Environment: Meanings, Practices, Issues
Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu Department of Sociology and Anthropology, School of Social Sciences

The Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC) welcomes two new research projects in April 2008. The first, Preserving and Protecting Philippine Architectural Heritage, is a three year project that encompasses a systematic strategy to preserve outstanding architectural achievements of Philippine society, particularly in Manila and the rest of Metro Manila. The project is directed by Dr. Fernando Zialcita and Dr. Czarina Saloma of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Ateneo de Manila University, with Mr. Erik Akpedonu, an architect, as the Project Research Associate (for the project's architectural inventory component) and Ms. Patricia Gonzalez, who is working on her M.A. in Anthropology, as the Project Research Assistant (for the compendium component). The project is being supported by the Society for the Preservation of Philippine Culture, Inc.

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Henry T. Lewis
Department of Anthropology, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2H4
Persistence and change in Ilocano rice agriculture, Northern Luzon, Philippines
1 Dec. 1975 to 31 Mar.1976
Canada

The fulfillment of the IPC’s goals is anchored on research, the major focus of its activities. From this knowledge base emanate two other principal areas of competence-capability building and knowledge dissemination. With the interrelated pursuit of these activities within multidisciplinary perspectives, the IPC is able to meet academic and development needs.

Research

IPC research follows two tracks. The first focuses on its regular programs, namely, agrarian reform, environment and natural resource management, children and youth, community health, poverty, and women’s studies. Over the years, the IPC has produced research reports and papers analyzing the situation of groups and communities; helped build the capacity of government and civil society partners for understanding and serving their partner or clientele population; and played key roles in networks active in advocacy.

The second centers around issues or themes aimed at offering solutions to persistent problems while building theory on the dynamics of Philippine society and culture. They have been grouped into five substantial clusters:

1. social justice, poverty, and resilience;
2. civil society, social change, and cultural and faith-based values;
3. asset building and social capital formation in community-based health, education, shelter, and natural resource management;
4. cultures of work, conflict, and peace;
5. the impact of globalization. ; and
6. preservation and promotion of cultural heritage.

Capability Building

The IPC’s capability-building activities take place in two related arenas: