Geography Webbynar #2 (2022-2023): Ryan Alvin Pawilen discusses houses, emotions and folklore

Gaston Bachelard once said: "the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

For the second Geography Webbynar of the UP Department of Geography, for academic year 2022-2023, Assistant Professor Ryan Alvin Pawilen will deliver a talk entitled Housing Culture and Emotions: A Countermapping Exercise with the Laguna Historical Data Papers, 1950s on Thursday, 13 October 2022 at 5:00PM.

Drawing from cultural geography, social anthropology, and cultural history, the focus is on the cultural role of the house as a series of chambers echoing folklore and emotions. Utilizing the Historical Data Papers compiled during the 1950s, Prof Pawilen investigates house-related beliefs in Laguna. Emotions evoked by beliefs will be explored together with a (counter)mapping of interior rooms following theoretical inspirations from cultural and feminist geographers. By using folklore as source, this presentation depicts an intimate place that houses private experiences which connect them to the public sphere through shared cultural beliefs. By adding the aspect of emotions, the resulting maps support the idea that the house is not necessarily the home, and that the home is not a static and purely positive place. The house can also be a physical manifestation or mental image filled with frustration, disappointments, sadness, and even power struggles.

Prof Pawilen is an assistant professor of the Division of History, Department of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Baños. He completed his degrees in Social Sciences (Social Anthropology and Psychology) at the University of the Philippines Baguio. He also obtained his MA in Philippine Studies from the Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman and currently a PhD student in History with cognates in Geography from the same university. His research interests include social and cultural history, martial arts, intercultural interaction, and heritage.

To participate in this lecture, please register by clicking this link or through this link: https://tinyurl.com/3nzfbwf3

This Geography Webbynar is co-sponsored by the Philippine Geographical Society and the UP CSSP Folklore Studies Program. 

Geography Webbynar #6 (2021-2022) - Mylene T. De Guzman discusses how materialities expose unequal geographies during the pandemic

How can material implements during COVID-19 show unequal geographies through class, access to healthcare, and cultural responses to the pandemic? 

For the third Geography Webbynar this 2nd semester (and sixth for the 2021-2022 academic year) sponsored by the UP Department of Geography, Prof Mylene T. De Guzman will present Living in a Material (Covid-19) World on Friday, 6 May 2022 at 6:00PM. This presentation is based on a joint research undertaken during the height of the 2021 lockdown that focuses on the intersection of epidemiology, governance, structural violence and cultural response to Covid-19. In this context, material culture is defined as the various materialities engendered by the global response to the pandemic. The presentation also employs storying as mapping various personal assemblages to both individualise and situate narratives of researchers who participated in this research.

Prof De Guzman is assistant professor at the UP Department of Geography who specialises in health, gender, labor, emotional geographies, and in the curation of digital geographies that interface image, cultural politics, and relationalities.

To participate for this talk, register by using this link: https://tinyurl.com/ybb63j93 

This webinar is co-sponsored by the Philippine Geographical Society.

Geography Webbynar #5 (2021-2022) - Adem Yulu talks about the recreational potential of Mount Ararat

The UP Department of Geography proudly presents the second Geography Webbynar for the second semester 2021-2022, happening on Monday, 28 March 2022 at 4:30PM. Asst Prof Dr Adem Yulu from the Department of Geography at Iğdır Üniversitesi will give a talk entitled Mountain Tourism: The Case of Mount Ararat.

Located in the extreme eastern portion of Turkey, Mount Ararat not only has a Biblical reputation in the Old Testament, it also carries national and cultural significance in neighboring Armenia.

Subsequent to his PhD, Dr Yulu worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Iğdır University. In addition, he served as the provincial representative of a foundation that protects the natural environment which carries out various social responsibility projects in rural areas, including the protection of stray animals. He has many works published in different fields such as the city, urban conservation, and tourism. Dr Yulu recently co-authored an article entitled "Evaluation of the Recreational Potential of Mount Ağrı (Ararat) National Park" from the Ege Coğrafya Dergisi (Aegean Geographical Journal) where he and his colleagues utilised the “Gülez Method" to analyse the recreational potential of Mount Ararat.

To participate in the Geography Webbynar, click this link to register. Or go directly to this site: https://tinyurl.com/2p8z9e84

This colloquium lecture is co-sponsored by the Philippine Geographical Society.

Geography Webbynar #4 (2021-2022) - Carlos Ortiz discusses the multilayered ways Japan is imagined

Oscar Wilde once remarked: "The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people. The Japanese people are simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art."

While Wilde meant that Japan exists in the imagination, what is Japan to people: Myth or reality? Verity or artifice? Object or method?

The UP Department of Geography's Webbynar series presents geography alumnus Carlos Ortiz from The Japan Foundation, Manila, who will give a presentation entitled Japan as an Imagined Landscape and Reality: A Geographer's Checklist for Beginners on Saturday, 12 March 2022 at 2:00PM (GMT +8).

Carlos Ortiz works as the Program Coordinator for Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange. He is in charge of several projects to strengthen ties between Japan and the Philippines through cultural exchange and dialogues.

The Webbynar is co-sponsored by the Philippine Geographical Society.

To participate for this lecture, please register at the following link or simply paste this link: https://tinyurl.com/jy6frc74

Geography Webbynar #3 (2021-2022) – Jesus Federico Hernandez on place-based lexicon

How is language entrenched in places and landscapes?

The UP Department of Geography Webbynar Series is proud to present the final lecture for 2021 by Prof Jesus Federico Hernandez from the UP Department of Linguistics. The talk is via Zoom on Saturday, 4 December 2021 at 2:00PM.

The lecture entitled Reconstituting space: Exploring place lexicon in Philippine languages will focus on particular lexical items within the domain of place that are pan-Philippine or are shared across various Philippine ethnolinguistic groups. Lexical cognancy with non-Philippine languages within the Austronesian language family will also be explored. It is hoped that understanding how the concept of place is coded in the lexicon, markers, and affixes will provide insights into our indigenous place-making system.

Jesus Federico C. Hernandez is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and coordinator of the Folklore Studies Program of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of the Philippines. His research interest includes Philippine languages and culture history, the documentation of endangered languages in the Philippines, and Philippine folklore. He is a board member of the Asian Association for Lexicography and a member of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines. Outside of work, he is a part-time hermit.

To participate in the Geography Webbynar, click this link or paste this URL link to your browser https://bit.ly/3peIuKa

This webinar is co-sponsored by the Philippine Geographical Society and the UP Department of Linguistics.

Geography Webbynar #2 (2021-2022) - Lisa Marshall on the ever-evolving nuclear energy landscape

As we enter the second decade of the 21^st century, the nuclear energy landscape is ever evolving. Through technological advancement, and links to such immense projects as climate change mitigation and infrastructure revitalization, the industry is reproducing its space in real and discursive ways. This presentation will map this development and its importance.

For the 9th Geography Webbynar talk for 2021, the UP Department of Geography welcomes Lisa Marshall from North Carolina State University who will give a talk entitled The second modern nuclear renaissance in the making? Positioning nuclear, climate change, and infrastructure this Friday, 26 November at 7:00PM (PHT) | 6:00AM EST.

Lisa Marshall is the inaugural director of the Outreach, Retention & Engagement Program as well as Lecturer and Adviser at the Nuclear Engineering Department at NC State University. She is the chair of the NCSU Association of Women Faculty and the Associate Director of the China Engineering Study Abroad Program. Lisa holds a master’s degree in Geography with a specialization in Energy Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and is completing her PhD in Higher Education specializing in Engineering Education from North Carolina State University. She currently holds executive positions in the American Nuclear Society (ANS), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) & the American Association of Geographers (AAG). She is the recipient of 2020 ANS Young Members Advancement Award, 2020 NC State Engineering Champion for Women Award, 2019 NC State Outstanding Engagement Award, 2009 ANS Landis Public Communications & Education Award and was inducted into Sigma Xi, a scientific research society. 

The talk is co-sponsored by the Philippine Geographical Society. To register and participate in the webinar, click this link: or this https://tinyurl.com/75rmtw7t

PGS Lecture Series 2021-14: Pat Algura on geospatial innovations for safer infrastructures

In what ways can geotechnologies aid in the building and construction of efficient and safer infrastructures? 

For this month’s edition of the PGS Lecture Series, the Philippine Geographical Society is thrilled to welcome geography alumna Patricia Algura who will give a talk on 17 November (Wednesday) at 5:30PM. 

The presentation entitled Geospatial Innovations for Efficient Infrastructures will be covering geospatial innovations in the engineering and construction industry, showing how these industries use Geospatial applications to transform and challenge their usual ways of working. Using ArcGIS and FME tools, organizations were able to analyze and understand the what, where, and why of infrastructures, collaborate across all stakeholders, and make better decisions critical to building efficient and safer infrastructures. See how 3D, spatial analysis, story maps, GIS dashboards, field applications, and automation are transforming engineering and construction industries.

Pat Algura is the Geospatial Consultant at Jacobs under Digital Solutions. A BS Geography graduate of UP Diliman, Pat is a creative and a solutions person who has always been passionate about maps and the vast applications of GIS. She has been involved in various projects in utilities, engineering, local government and national agencies across the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, enabling organizations digitally transform and innovate with Geospatial Solutions.

The PGS Lecture Series is a monthly knowledge-sharing talk and conversation among geography practitioners, alumni, and geography-adjacent allies with grounded work, research and practice focused on the Philippines. This 14th lecture series for 2021 is co-sponsored by the UP Department of Geography.

To register for the talk, click this link, or simply paste this link to your browser: https://tinyurl.com/ymhb7kj8

PGS Lecture Series 2021-13: TJ Cipriano on policy shift in more effective COVID-19 governance

The COVID-19 pandemic, like any disaster, is at a critical juncture that opens an opportunity to shift policy aimed to reduce disaster risks. The presence of the Delta variant necessitated this policy shift in pandemic response efforts given its high transmissibility compared to the previously reported COVID-19 variants. With the Philippine government admitting that widespread and sweeping lockdown measures do not work in this context, will the shift towards targeted curbs be effective in bringing down infections?

For the 13th lecture series organised by the Philippine Geographical Society, MS Geography student Timothy James Cipriano attempts to make sense of this policy shift and bring several points of reflection regarding its implementation in Metro Manila in relation to the bigger question on space and disaster governance. It underscores how the framing of public health crisis by the State is shaping its pandemic response, and whether it perpetuates everyday conditions of communities with a higher intensity.

TJ Cipriano currently works as a research assistant for a flood research project funded by the Water Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He previously worked as a researcher at the UP Resilience Institute and NOAH Center. Mr Cipriano's research interests relate to hazards and disasters, environmental studies, and disease geographies. He is also a member of the Advocates for Science and Technology for the People (AGHAM) and the Alliance of STEM Graduate Students and Workers – UP Diliman.

The talk is on Friday, 29 October 2021 at 5:30PM. To participate, register using this link.

This lecture series is co-sponsored by the UP Department of Geography.

PGS Lecture Series 2021-10: Jonathan Villasper on mapping birds

In the book Arctic Dreams (1986), written by nature writer Barry Lopez, he observed: “Birds tug at the mind and heart with a strange intensity.” This intense emotional pull of the avian species has, through the years, captivated poets and ornithologists, birdwatchers and cartographers. In ethno-ornithology literature, stories are told and narrated by local inhabitants of bird sightings and what they mean to environment, climate, community, and folklore. A new wave of interest in birds and birdwatching, spurred by availability of robust data and access to map technologies led to a renewed vigor to locate their habitats, migratory patterns and behavior and how these relate to the constantly changing environmental and geocultural landscapes.

 

For the 10^th Philippine Geographical Society Lecture Series (PGS LS) for 2021, geographer and longtime birder Jonathan Villasper will talk and share various mapping geovisualizations of birds in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia. The lecture – Mapping Bird Ecology and Conservation – uses cartographic visualizations that tell various bird stories. With a special focus on bird conservation efforts and initiatives, Jon Villasper’s lecture also touches on the identification and delineation of protected areas. Key to mapping efficacy is robust data.

Jon Villasper is a birdwatcher, founder and permanent Executive Committee member of the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines. He is also a geographer and a former instructor of Digital Cartography at the UP Dept of Geography where he taught GIS and cartography for several years in both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has used his skills and knowledge on geography, data, and cartography in a variety of fields including urban planning, transportation, reproductive health, conflict and development, education, history, and for the longest time, in biodiversity conservation where he had the opportunity to work on, among other things, the book Threatened Birds of the Philippines - an exhaustive resource listing and discussing Philippine birds that are in danger of disappearing from the country, their distribution, ecology, and threats. He also served as member, president and adviser of the UP Haring Ibon. 

 

The lecture happens on 7 August (Saturday) at 2:00PM. To register, please click this link https://bit.ly/2TOWe2y

 

The lecture is co-sponsored by the UP Department of Geography, Wild Bird Club of the Philippines, The UP Wild, and UP Haring Ibon. 

PGS Lecture Series 2021-08: Juanito Berja on the prospects and potentials of food security in the Philippines

The issue of food security is as old as civil society itself. But is food security viable in the era of COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the Philippines?

Prof. Juanito Berja, Jr. will discuss the feasibility and workability of the food security situation in the Philippines as well as identify key issues and potentials. It will propose a course of action to alter the current food system and map strategies to lessen food insecurity in the country. Of particular interest is the focus on the blending of modern and traditional diets more suited to the Pacific island world.

The talk entitled Prospects and Challenges for Food Security in the Philippines is presented by the Philippine Geographical Society through the PGS-Lecture Series. It will take place on 26 June 2021 at 2:00PM. 

To register, click this link to participate.

Prof. Berja works at the World Food Programme and currently a doctoral student at the UP Public Administration and Governance. He also serves as a senior lecturer at the UP Department of Geography teaching a graduate course on food and agriculture.

This talk is co-sponsored by the UP Department of Geography.

PGS Lecture Series 2021-07: Soledad Dalisay on the role of cultural memory in disaster risk resilience

"Disaster memory is a strong political process: it modifies the perceptions of inhabitants ... in a powerful, emotional way," said Antoine le Blanc in 2012. Maria Kyriakidou extends this cultural logic by implicating the power of uncomfortable memory, or as she says "... there is a moral hierarchy in the way viewers remember distant suffering ... [and] constructed through the intertwined processes of remembering and forgetting" (2014, 1474).

In the latest Philippine Geographical Society's PGS Lecture Series, Dr Soledad Natalia Dalisay focuses on the functions of cultural memory in the context of disaster resilience. Entitled Cultural Memory for Disaster Risk Reduction, the talk delves into the importance of remembering disasters and the ways in which societies remember. In this lecture, cultural memory will be defined and expanded and some of the ways in which it is expressed in both built heritage and living heritage are presented. Emphasising living heritage, examples are provided in the domains of local knowledge and social practices. Lastly, issues in remembering are discussed and future directions for scholarly work on cultural memory and disasters are forwarded.

Dr Soledad Dalisay is Professor at the UP Department of Anthropology. Her research interests lie at the nexus of cultural ecologies of health, anthropologies of disaster, and gender and sexuality. She served as the first faculty coordinator of the UP Office of Anti-Sexual Harassment (OASH) for six years (2008-2014). Her latest publication is entitled Intangible Cultural Heritage which is part of the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia Pacific Region (IRCI) under the auspices of UNESCO.

The talk is on May 28 (Friday) at 6:00PM. Check this link to register for the lecture. https://bit.ly/3oB7wST

This talk is jointly sponsored by the UP Department of Geography and the UP Department of Anthropology.

PGS Lecture Series 2021-06: Lou Angeli Ocampo on hazardscape in a mining district in Benguet

Hazardscape has been understood variously as the “physical susceptibility of a place and the vulnerability of human life” (Khan & Crozier 2009) and a “way of seeing that asserts power and as a socio-environmental space where the gaze of power is contested and struggled against to produce the lived reality of hazardous places” (Mustafa 2005). What undergirds hazardscape as transdisciplinary in the social sciences is the broadening of the concept of riskscapes that include perception and the personal, cultural and societal responses and experiences. 

For the 6th iteration of the PGS Lecture Series for 2021, the Philippine Geographical Society welcomes Dr Lou Angeli Ocampo who will deliver her presentation entitled Mining Hazardscape and Risk Perception. The talk happens on May 14, 2021 (Friday) at 6:00PM. Focusing on Itogon, Benguet, the presentation spotlights the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) – a rural livelihood activity for this Philippine mineral district. 

Dr Ocampo will highlight the creation of vulnerable conditionalities in the said locale where contradictory and poorly implemented policies complexify the issue of resource access and where local miners were merely seen as sources of labor. Decades of large-scale underground and open-pit mining created a hazardscape due to the presence unrehabilitated abandoned mines. Hazardscape production is compounded by the continued limited access to these mineral lands, as abandoned mine sites are still largely corporate-owned. The lack of legal recognition of ASGM forces small-scale gold miners to make a living by informally occupying abandoned mine sites, conducting clandestine operations, and engaging in unsafe mining practices. The presentation gives extra weight to miners’ perception of risk by drawing on their local knowledges and experiences.

Dr Ocampo is an assistant professor of the Department of Geography at the University of the Philippines-Diliman who specializes in political ecologies and rural geographies with a particular focus on risk perception, socio-natural hazards and disasters. Her research also touches on the link between indigenous knowledge and resource management. Dr Ocampo currently sits as coordinator for the social sciences for the Tri-College Philippine Studies Program. She is also part of the team for the Laboratory for the Analysis of Places, Landscapes and European Countryside (LAPLEC) at the Université de Liège. She is currently in the steering committee of the International Geographical Union-Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems (IGU-CSRS). 

This talk is co-sponsored by the UP Department of Geography. 

To register for this talk, click this link: https://bit.ly/3emsjGb

Geography Webbynar #7 (2020-2021) - Linda Quiquivix on geopolitical mapping of Palestine

How can a group of displaced Palestinians overcome cartographic erasures in their homeland amidst the Israel-Palestine conflict? How can willful and determined mapping aid in the refugees' quest to assert their historical presence onto the disputed land? Finally, how can the geoweb (through Google Earth) serve as a battlefield in the conflict?

For the 7th Geography Webbynar Lecture Series for 2020-2021 academic year, the UP Department of Geography presents a lecture entitled Palestine Mapping by Dr Linda Quiquivix. Based on her dissertation field research in Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Dr Quiquivix will discuss how cartographically placing Israel’s founding and perpetual violence at the fore, as the Palestinian refugees’ counter-cartography does, can help to move forward the refugees’ demands for justice.

Dr Quiquivix obtained her PhD in Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a postdoc at the Critical Global Humanities at Brown University's Cogut Center, and has a certificate at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Fluent in Arabic, she has given several talks on the Israel-Palestine conflict from the lenses of cartography to critically examine various liberation struggles. Of particular interest are two articles she wrote that frame the role of radical cartography in the Israel-Palestine conflict: Art of War, Art of Resistance: Palestinian Counter-Cartography on Google Earth (Annals of the American Geographers, 2014), and When the Carob Tree Was the Border: On Autonomy and Palestinian Practices of Figuring it Out (Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2013).

This talk is co-sponsored by the graduate seminar class in Cultures of Mapping and Countercartographies (Geography 292), the Geonarratives Mapping Project, and the Philippine Geographical Society through its Lecture Series.

To register for this talk, click this link: https://bit.ly/3gKIE9n

Geography Webbynar #6 (2020-2021) - Pavithra Vasudevan on environmental racism and racial capitalism

How does race intersect with environmental toxicities? What forms of resistance coalesce in an environment peopled with "unruly natures"? How is nature weaponised for anti-Blackness?

For the second Geography Webbynar (formerly the Geography Brownbag Lecture Series) of the Second Semester A.Y. 2020-2021, the UP Department of Geography welcomes Dr Pavithra Vasudevan who will talk on An Intimate Inventory of Race and Waste on April 28 (Wednesday) 2021 at 9:30 AM Philippine Standard Time (April 27, Tuesday at 8:30 PM Central Time).

Dr Vasudevan sees intimacy as a crucial analytic for understanding racial capitalism as a political and ecological project in multiple spheres including the workplace, the home, the community and the landscape. Using the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in Badin, North Carolina as case study, she argues that industrial toxicity produces an intimate monstrosity that complicates Black subjects’ relationship to racial oppression.

Dr. Pavithra Vasudevan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies and Center for Women's and Gender Studies. She has a PhD in Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Dr. Vasudevan has received the Glenda Laws Award given by the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in 2021. The annual award recognizes outstanding contributions to geographic research on social issues. She was awarded for her feminist-inspired, participatory action research that is bringing attention to environmental racism among Black communities in North Carolina.

Her latest publication is entitled "The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism" with Sara Smith (Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space), 2020. She also made a short film on environmental racism called Remembering Kearneytown (2016).

To register, please go to this link: https://bit.ly/3tzls1y

This talk is co-sponsored by the Philippine Geographical Society through the PGS Lecture Series.

PGS Lecture Series 2021-05: Michael Hawkins on the spatial politics of waiting among Port Area truck drivers

We have had various experiences of waiting: in restaurants, for a friend or relative, for a love to blossom, to get vaccinated, for the pandemic to end, for social justice to happen for real. But what emotional labor and spatial politics are involved among truck drivers who are waiting in the Port Area?  

Michael Hawkins' talk entitled Truck Bans and Truck Beds: The Politics of Waiting in the Port of Manila is based on ongoing historical and ethnographic dissertation research on Manila’s port area. This presentation first interrogates the spatial politics of the city’s waterfront. It asks how land reclamation schemes can be understood as state-led projects that, in part, produce dockside space to secure the uneven relations of capitalist circulation. The project then draws on interviews with truck drivers conducted during their idle times of waiting outside the entrance gates to the city’s piers. Truckers’ experiences reveal how Metropolitan Manila’s local municipalities, port contractors, and labor unions regulate the daily rhythms and abstract times of port work. The presentation concludes by considering how drivers who labor under these circumstances individually and collectively reclaim and leverage control over the concrete times of their daily work.

The talk happens on Wednesday, April 21 at 7:30PM (Philippines Time | 7:30AM EST) through the Philippine Geographical Society (PGS) Lecture Series. This is co-sponsored by the UP Department of Geography. 

Michael Hawkins is a PhD candidate in Geography at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a Fulbright dissertation grant that allowed him to conduct his field research in Port Area, Manila from 2019-2020. Fluent in Filipino, Michael currently teaches a class called Society and Environment in Southeast Asia (Geography 266) at UNC-Chapel Hill. 

To register for this talk, click this link: https://bit.ly/3uYZdlZ

Geography Webbynar #5 (2020-2021) - Reidan Pawilen on cycling and safe spaces in the era of Covid19

For the first Geography Webbynar (formerly the Geography Brownbag Lecture Series) of the second semester 2020-2021, the UP Department of Geography welcomes back Reidan Pawilen who will give a lecture entitled Pedalling through the Pandemic: Rethinking Safe Spaces for the Cycling Community in the New Normal on March 24 (Wednesday) 2021 at 5:00PM.

Reidan Pawilen is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Sciences at UP-Los Baños. Trained in history and geography, his talk centers on his own experience as an individual cyclist and as part of a cycling collective in search of safe spaces in the era of the Covid19 pandemic. 

To register, go to this link, or click https://bit.ly/3cySWWr

This talk is co-sponsored and part of the Philippine Geographical Society through the PGS Lecture Series. 

Geography Webbynar #4 (2020-2021): Mylene de Guzman on aggression towards lesbians in precarious labor

For this semester's fourth Geography webbynar, Prof Mylene De Guzman from UPD-Geography will share her findings based on her research on labor geographies focused on lesbian work in BPOs and the everyday violence brought by micro aggressive language and behavior. 

The talk, entitled Microaggressions Toward Lesbians in Call Centers in Quezon City, Philippines, will take place on Wednesday, 25 November at 6:00PM. 

Geography Webbynar 05: Prof Mylene De Guzman

Time: Nov 25, 2020 06:00 PM Singapore

https://up-edu.zoom.us/j/88407965685

Meeting ID: 884 0796 5685

Passcode: Porpoise

Geography Webbynar #4 (2020-2021): Laura Brewington on Pacific ecology and climate change

We regret to inform the public that Dr Brewington's webinar talk on 23 Nov (Monday) will not take place. She is in Norfolk Island now and her internet connection is very unstable and cannot support a webinar talk. Our apologies. We will schedule a new date for her talk next year 2021. 

The new schedule of Dr Laura Brewington's talk entitled Climate Change and Ecological Stability in the Pacific Islands is on Monday, 23 November 2020 at 3:00PM (Manila) |  7:00PM (Norfolk Island). 

Geography Webbynar #3 (2020-2021): Jessica Jacobs on film for research and practice in geography

For the third Geography Webbynar / Geography Colloquium, the UP Department of Geography and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) present Jessica Jacobs from QMUL-School of Geography for a webinar talk entitled Filming a Different Sense of Place: Working with Film for Geographic Research and Pedagogy. 

Dr Jacobs who is the founder of filmgeographies.com and convener/coordinator of the Film Geography Specialty Group at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) has done funded research among the Bedouins in the Sinai Peninsula, particularly in southern Jordan. She is completing a book for Sage Publishers called Film as a Research Method: A Practice-based Guide. 

The Zoom details are as follows: 

Geography Webbynar #3 Jessica Jacobs 10/23

Time: Oct 23, 2020 06:00 PM Asia/Manila

https://up-edu.zoom.us/j/85274469506

Meeting ID: 852 7446 9506

Passcode: Porpoise