The Institute of Philippine Culture, the Confucius Institute and the Graduate School of
Business at Ateneo de Manila University, and together with the Philippine Association for
Chinese Studies, cordially invite the community to a Conference on ?The Rise of China and
its Effects on East Asia and the Philippines,? to be held on Friday, 12 March 2010 at the
Ateneo Professional Schools Ampitheater, Rockwell Center, Makati City.

The conference will feature papers from Dr. Joseph Anthony Y. Lim, Dr. Ellen Palanca, Ms.
Elizabeth S. Tan and Prof. Benito O. Lim of the Ateneo?s Chinese Studies Program and the
Department of Economics. These papers are the outputs of a research project on the impact
of China?s economic growth on the region, particularly the Philippines. The project was
supported by the Merit Research Award program of the Institute of Philippine Culture.

It will be an occasion to discuss and gain more understanding of the issues of common
concerns between the Philippines, China and the rest of East Asia. In addition to the
four papers, Mr. Wu Zhengping, Commercial Counsellor of the Embassy of the People?s
Republic of China, will deliver the Keynote Address. Mr. Roel Landingin of the Financial
Times of London will present findings and insights from his investigative study on
China?s Overseas Development Assistance.

Please contact Ms. Joanna Blancaflor (Institute of Philippine Culture, 426-6067 local
213) or Ms. Richie de Guzman (Confucius Institute, 426-6001 local 5208/5280) for more
details.

In commemoration of the 24th anniversary of the EDSA I People Power Revolution, the Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC) invites  the community to the book launch of Cristina Jayme Montiel's "EDSA 1 in the Public Minds of Filipino Civilian and Military Groups: A Social Representations Approach to History."

The event will be held on March 5, 2010, Friday, 5:00 p.m. at the Social Science Conference Rooms 1 and 2, Ateneo Loyola Heights campus.

For inquiries, please call 4266001 local 4651 ext. 213 or e-mail ipc@admu.edu.ph.

About the Book
Is there a single EDSA 1 in the public minds of Filipino civilian and military groups? Or are there different and antagonistic memories of this event? This volume discusses the different stories of EDSA in the public minds of civilians and military personnel. Using a social
representations approach to history, the author surveyed 200 individuals from graduating classes 1986 and 2006, from both Ateneo de Manila University and the Philippine Military Academy.  Results indicate two different - even opposing - EDSA narratives in the collective minds of individuals belonging to the civilian and military sectors.  Findings are discussed in the light of how groups may represent their institutional histories of democratic shift in order to uplift their political positions during the unstable period of transition after the fall of an authoritarian regime.

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.