On the Occasion of the 49th Founding Anniversary of the Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC), four books were launched  on Tuesday, September 15, 2009,  4:30pm at the MVP Center for Student Leadership basement lobby (in front of the Loyola Schools Bookstore). The books are:

The Myth of Recovery: The Asian Crisis More than a Decade Later
by Edsel L. Beja, Jr.

OFWs Turned Entrepreneurs: Breaking Stereotypes, Redefining Paradigms
by Joseph Sedfrey Santiago, Manuel Ricardo Sacramento and Jose
Atanacio Estuar

Southeast Asia Today: Development Paradigms, Reflexive Engagements
Edited by Angela Desiree M. Aguirre, Emmanuel C. de Guzman, Jon
Michael R. Villaseñor

Capability Building for Urban Slum Upgrading: Views from Five Communities in Quezon City
By Cynthia C. Veneracion

Arch. Ramil B. Tibayan (B.S. Architecture, University of Santo Tomas) ranked number 1 in the 2009 Philippine Architects Licensure Examination conducted by Philippine Regulation Commission (PRC). He is a member, since September 2009, of the IPC Research Team which is conducting an on-going inventory of heritage structures in Manila and other parts of Metro Manila.

We congratulate Arch. Tibayan!

The Ateneo School of Government and the Institute of Philippine Culture, in collaboration with the Centre for Biocultural Diversity (University of Kent) and with the support of the Christensen Fund, hosted a conference on “Peruvian-Philippine Encounters: Building Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity on Traditional Rights and Biocultural Diversity” in the morning of 28th July 2009. It was be held at the Escaler Hall of Ateneo de Manila University in Loyola Heights, Quezon City.

Dr. Fernando Zialcita and Mr. Erik Akpedonu of IPC Project 297 (The Architectural Heritage of Manila Project) will be the guest lecturers at the Third Architectural Conservation Lecture of The Heritage Conservation Society. They will speak about "Manila's Disappearing Heritage". The lecture will be held on 18 July (Saturday) at the Bukod Tanging Bulwagan, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Manila, Intramuros. Registration will start at 8:00 a.m., with the program starting at 9:00 am.

The lecture is a joint undertaking of The Heritage Conservation Society and the Manila Historical and Heritage Commission. 

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