Renowned economist and UP School of Economics Dean Professor Emmanuel S. De Dios will talk on Secular Morality and the University on May 7, Wednesday at 2 PM at the UP-National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (UP-NISMED) Auditorium.
De Dios will lecture on the need to institute secular morality in UP and how UP can be instrumental in the promotion of the non-sectarian principles of social justice and equality in Philippine society. Citing concepts from economics philosophers Adam Smith and David Hume, De Dios will discuss the need for UP to inculcate in its students a value system based on the principles of social responsibility, social contract, and nationalism.
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Listed below are the tentative schedules for the UP Centennial Lecture Series (EDITED: April 30, 2008).
UP: The Insider’s View
| Date |
Venue |
Centennial Fellow |
Lecture |
February 15, Friday
2 - 4 p.m. |
UP NISMED |
Prof. Francisco Nemenzo |
Beyond the Clasroom: Rebuilding a Damaged Nation |
February 29, Friday
2 - 4 p.m. |
UP Mindanao |
Prof. Gemino H. Abad |
As Imagined, As Lived: Sense for Language, Sense of Country |
March 27, Thursday
2 - 4 p.m. |
UP NISMED |
Prof. Edgardo D. Gomez |
Changing Attitudes as a Key to Success for UP’s Second
Century |
May 7, Wednesday
2 - 4 p.m. |
UP NISMED |
Prof. Emmanuel S. de Dios |
Secular Morality and the University |
June 19, Thursday
2 - 4 p.m. |
UP NISMED |
Prof. Cecilia A. Florencio |
UP Naming Mahal, Isang Komunidad ng Iskolars |
July 22, Tuesday
2 - 4 p.m. |
UP NISMED |
Prof. Jose V. Abueva |
Learning for Leadership and Social Transformation: The
Role of UP as the National University |
August 29, Friday
2 - 4 p.m. |
UP Baguio |
Prof. Randolf S. David |
UP: Between Reflection and Performance |
September 18, Thursday
2 - 4 p.m. |
UP Manila |
Prof. Ernesto O. Domingo |
UP Manila: Created out of a vision, is it fulfilling its
mission? |
September 26, Friday
2 - 4 p.m. |
UP Los Baños |
Prof. Wilfredo P. David |
Reassessing UPLB’s commitment to excellence, academic freedom and social responsibility |
October 2, Thursday
2 - 4 p.m. |
UP NISMED |
Prof. Maria Serena I. Diokno |
Living in Old Glory and Other Comfort Zones, But What of the Future? |
November 28, Friday
2- 4 p.m. |
UP Iloilo |
Prof. Jose M. Magpantay |
Is UP the Cause or Consequence of the Country’s Weak
Industry? |
December 5, Friday
4 - 6 p.m. |
UP NISMED |
Prof. Ramon P. Santos |
The University and the Cultivate Filipino: Constructing a Culture of Humanism and Aesthetic Judgement, and Identity in the First 100 Years of the University of the Philippines |
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The Oblation: The University of the Philippines Centennial Newsletter has just released its latest issue focused on the Centennial Kick Off Celebrations held last January.
Click here to go to the Oblation page where you can download the latest edition as well as past issues of the quarterly newsletter.
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Go to the UP System site to download the order form.
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On February 22, 2008, UP President Emerlinda R. Roman lights the Centennial Flame of UP Mindanao during a testimonial dinner for donors and prime movers of the constituent university in Mintal, Davao City. The lighting marks the Centennial kick-off in UP Mindanao where Roman was the 100th flame-bearer at the end of a line of 100 UP alumni, friends, and officials who included the CU’s Prof. Miguel Soledad, Vice Chancellors Sylvia Concepcion and Emma Ruth Bayogan, and Chancellor Gilda Rivero.
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Video: Click here to view Dr. Eduardo Gomez’s Centennial lecture, “Attitude Change As a Key to Success in UP’s 2nd Century” at the Diliman Interactive Learning Center website.
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The deadline for submission of entries to Gawad Likhaan: The University of the Philippines Centennial Literary Prize has been extended to April 30, 2008, Wednesday, at 5 p.m.
Gawad Likhaan was created by the UP Centennial Commission to celebrate the University’s 100th year. It is administered by Likhaan: The UP Institute of Creative Writing (UP-ICW).
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Another Nobel Laureate will deliver the sixth of the UP Centennial Lecture on March 15, 2008 at the UP School of Economics (UPSE) Auditorium at 2 p.m. Dr. Douglass C. North, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics, will speak of the role of institutions in economic development.
UPSE Dean Dr. Raul V. Fabella says the Northian viewpoint on economic development is extremely relevant to the Philippine setting today. If there is a war between “good” and “evil” at the heart of our current crisis, it is a war between “good institutions” and “evil” ones, says Fabella.
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Video: Click here to view recent thematic Centennial lecture, convened by Dr. Carolyn Sobritchea, on the Diliman Interactive Learning Center website.
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