UGAT 36th Annual Conference - Book of Abstracts

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

36th Annual Conference
TRAJECTORIES OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL
IN THE PHILIPPINES 
23-25 October 2014
St. Louis University, Baguio City

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS 

UGAT 36th Annual Conference BOA - download here.

UGAT 36th Annual Conference Final Call for Papers

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)

Anthropological Association of the Philippines

and

Saint Louis University, Baguio City


Dear Colleagues, 

Please find below (and attached) the Final Call for Papers for the upcoming 36th UGAT Annual Conference in St. Louis University, Baguio City on Oct 23-25 2014, with the theme  “Trajectories of the “Anthropological” in the Philippines”.  We hope that you can share this information to your friends and colleagues who may be interested in participating.

Sincerely, 

The UGAT 2014 Conference Secretariat

36th Annual Conference

TRAJECTORIES OF THE "ANTHROPOLOGICAL" IN THE PHILIPPINES 

23-25 October 2014

Baguio City

This year’s annual conference shifts its attention from anthropology as a discipline to the “anthropological” as a stance.  The “anthropological” is invariably articulated in the problematics of “contextual analysis, mediations, and interventions,” broadly construed, in much of historical, social, economic, political, and cultural inquiries on the complexities of life across various times and places. In other words, the conference tries to locate the anthropological moment in the understanding and transformation of the vast lifeworld. It also acknowledges and assesses conceptual, methodological, and practical contributions of the “anthropological” deployed by practitioners in the fields of the natural and social sciences, law, philosophy, education, medicine, humanities, media studies, and so on, in the local and global contexts of the Philippines. 

We, therefore, invite individual paper, poster, short film/video, and panel proposals explicating how the “anthropological” is reflexively, ethically, and methodologically engaged in various fields of endeavour, for what purposes, and with what consequences.  Topical arenas include, but are not limited to, the following, with a particular inflection of the anthropological stance:

• Seminal Figures: Anthropological Stance in the Philippines
• Social Sciences
• Natural Sciences
• Philosophy
• Law 
• Arts and Humanities
• Media Studies
• Human Movement
• Education
• Social Work and Community Development
• Folklore Studies
• Philippine Studies
• Business
• Medicine
• Missiology
• Urban Planning

GUIDELINES ON ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

1. Abstracts should be 250 words and should be written in a style that is accessible to non-academic audiences. The topical arena(s) into which the abstract falls may also be indicated.
2. Submissions should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation and complete contact information (e-mail address, telephone number, and mailing address).
3. Please send abstracts to ugat.conference@gmail.com by August 25, 2014.
4. Students intending to join the Student Paper Competition must indicate this in their submission. The winning entry will automatically be considered for publication in the Aghamtao, the official journal of UGAT.

For other inquiries, please contact the UGAT Conference Secretariat at + 63 0920-9823179 (Eizel P. Hilario) or  + 0927-2081829  (Hector Guazon) or ugat.conference@gmail.com. 

UGAT 36th Annual Conference Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)

Anthropological Association of the Philippines

and

Saint Louis University, Baguio City


Dear Colleagues, 

Please find below the Call for Papers for the upcoming 36th UGAT Annual Conference in St. Louis University, Baguio City on Oct 23-25 2014, with the theme  “Trajectories of the “Anthropological” in the Philippines”.  We hope that you can share this information to your friends and colleagues who may be interested in participating.

Sincerely, 

The UGAT 2014 Conference Secretariat

36th Annual Conference

TRAJECTORIES OF THE "ANTHROPOLOGICAL" IN THE PHILIPPINES 

23-25 October 2014

Baguio City

This year’s annual conference shifts its attention from anthropology as a discipline to the “anthropological” as a stance.  The “anthropological” is invariably articulated in the problematics of “contextual analysis, mediations, and interventions,” broadly construed, in much of historical, social, economic, political, and cultural inquiries on the complexities of life across various times and places. In other words, the conference tries to locate the anthropological moment in the understanding and transformation of the vast lifeworld. It also acknowledges and assesses conceptual, methodological, and practical contributions of the “anthropological” deployed by practitioners in the fields of the natural and social sciences, law, philosophy, education, medicine, humanities, media studies, and so on, in the local and global contexts of the Philippines. 

We, therefore, invite individual paper, poster, short film/video, and panel proposals explicating how the “anthropological” is reflexively, ethically, and methodologically engaged in various fields of endeavour, for what purposes, and with what consequences.  Topical arenas include, but are not limited to, the following, with a particular inflection of the anthropological stance:

• Seminal Figures: Anthropological Stance in the Philippines
• Social Sciences
• Natural Sciences
• Philosophy
• Law 
• Arts and Humanities
• Media Studies
• Human Movement
• Education
• Social Work and Community Development
• Folklore Studies
• Philippine Studies
• Business
• Medicine
• Missiology
• Urban Planning

GUIDELINES ON ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

1. Abstracts should be 250 words and should be written in a style that is accessible to non-academic audiences. The topical arena(s) into which the abstract falls may also be indicated.
2. Submissions should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation and complete contact information (e-mail address, telephone number, and mailing address).
3. Please send abstracts to ugat.conference@gmail.com by June 30, 2014.
4. Students intending to join the Student Paper Competition must indicate this in their submission. The winning entry will automatically be considered for publication in the Aghamtao, the official journal of UGAT.

For other inquiries, please contact the UGAT Conference Secretariat at + 63 0920-9823179 (Eizel P. Hilario) or  + 0927-2081829  (Hector Guazon) or ugat.conference@gmail.com. 

Aghamtao 23 - Call for Submissions

Aghamtao: Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) / Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Volume 23


Dear UGAT Conference Participants, fellow UGAT members, and others in the anthropology community,

Greetings of peace, good cheer, and our best wishes for 2014!

This is to invite you to submit an article for AghamTao, the official journal of the Ugnayang Pang-AghamTao, Inc.   

We encourage you to engage the theme of the issue (Forms of Knowledge:  the Critical Work of Anthropology).  Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words.  The minimum length for an article submission is 3,000 words.  For referencing style please consult previous issues of AghamTao (Vols. 16-22). 

The deadline is on or before February 28, 2014.   Please email submissions in MS Word .doc format to both the following addresses:   maria.mangahas@gmail.com, ugat.conference@gmail.com with “AghamTao Vol. 23 Submission” on the subject line.

AghamTao is a peer-reviewed journal with CHED accreditation.  The regular issue is launched in October during the annual conference and is also one of the benefits of membership in the UGAT.

Thank you and we are looking forward to your submissions!


Sincerely,


AghamTao Editorial Board

Aghamtao 23

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

A message from the AghamTao Editorial Board:

Dear UGAT Conference Participants, fellow UGAT members, and others in the anthropology community,

Greetings of peace, good cheer, and our best wishes for 2014!

This is to invite you to submit an article for AghamTao, the official journal of the Ugnayang Pang-AghamTao, Inc.

We encourage you to engage the theme of the issue (Forms of Knowledge: the Critical Work of Anthropology). Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words. The minimum length for an article submission is 3,000 words. For referencing style please consult previous issues of AghamTao (Vols. 16-22).

The deadline is on or before February 28, 2014. Please email submissions in MS Word .doc format to both the following addresses: , with “AghamTao Vol. 23 Submission” on the subject line.

AghamTao is a peer-reviewed journal with CHED accreditation. The regular issue is launched in October during the annual conference and is also one of the benefits of membership in the UGAT.

Thank you and we are looking forward to your submissions!

Emma Balmaceda

Thank you, Emma Balmaceda, for the friendship and memories you have shared with us. You will always remain dear to our hearts. Panalangin at pagmamahal sa para sa iyong paglalakbay.

Aghamtao 22

Aghamtao: Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) / Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Volume 22 / 2013

“Culture” and “Well-Being”

Articles

Well Being and Caring:
The Alaga system among Filipino Catholics in Brussels, Belgium
Hector Guazon, CICM

“Positibo”” Achieving well-being among young people living with HIV in Cebu City
Maria Carinnes A. Gonzales

Understanding the Ilocano concept of ‘the good life’ in the agricultural landscape of Ilocos Sur
Joy Raquel Tadeo

One River, Diverse Lives:
Why the ‘one size fits all’ approach in intervention may not work
Enrique G. Oracion

“Yuta ang Kinabuhi”, Land is Life’:
The State and the Bagobo-Klata of Sitio Kahusayan
Julienne S. Baldonado

Report from the Field

Assessing IPRA Knowledge and participation in Ancestral Domain management of the Agusanon Manobo
Marvin Doods S. De Castro

Notes on the cosmology of contemporary Agusanon Manobo in San Andres, Bunawan, Agusan del Sur

Anthropology Day 2013 Philippines

Isabelo de los Reyes as Anthropologist-at-Large
Jose Rizal and Isabelo de los Reyes: Contending models of nationhood?

Source

http://www.css.pssc.org.ph/

ISSN: 0188-4857

My First Experience in Joining UGAT

Director's Corner
Mussolini Sinsuat Lidasan
Al Qualam
Ateneo de Davao University

27 October 2013


On October 24 – 26, 2013 the Ateneo de Davao University’s Institute of Anthropology hosted the 35th UGAT Conference. This conference was organized by Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao (UGAT) in cooperation with Ateneo de Davao University and Philippine Social Science Council.

The title of this year’s conference was Rethinking and Remaking Forms of Knowledge (The Critical Work of Anthropology). The conference was divided on two parts: plenary and parallel sessions. The plenary sessions had the distinguished lectures and visualizing knowledge. While the parallel sessions had the following themes: instrumentalizing knowledge, threatened knowledge systems, mining and water governance, faithful knowing and forms of life, museological tensions, cosmological turn, routes to knowing, subaltern knowledge in cities, affective knowledge, disaster and place names, and politics and poetics of knowing,

I was assigned as moderator on two parallel sessions. I will highlight only the first one, the Session B1 – Threatened Knowledge Systems. In that session, we had four presenters coming from different universities in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. There were different topics and focus of their study.

The first presenter discussed reviving kinutiyan. Ms. Analyn Salvador – Amores, from UP Baguio, was the presenter. She said, “The kinutiyan is a renowned funerary blanket used by the affluent class in the Cordillera region north of Luzon and one of the national cultural treasures of the Philippines, unfortunately scarce research and documentation have been made on the blanket and its use.” She also added that, “earlier woven by the Isinay of Nueva Vizcaya, the blanket had translocal connections through trade and ritual use among the different ethnolinguistic groups in the Cordillera region (“Igorots”) in the past, and in the contemporary period. However, a handful of women elders who are knowledgeable about the practice had died out, and the intricate process and ikat technique have not been passed on to young generation of weavers. From this funeral blanket, she then connect it to the IPRA saying that the law, as a modality of understanding the peculiarities of the indigenous people has become an enabling instrument for the ethnic communities to a renewed appreciation of their culture, and a strategy to re-signify their identity.

The second presenter was from University of San Carlos. She was Prof. Zona Hildegarde Amper and her paper was entitled “A Disappearing Tradition: Gapas as Textile and Medicine in Santander, Cebu. Her study seeks to document local knowledge on “gapas” as crop, textile and medicine in this town in order to determine its place in Santander culture and recommend steps for the revitalization of an important heritage of this town.

The third presenter was Robert Panguiton from Ateneo de Zamboanga University. His paper focused on the Bajaus in Maluso and Lantawan municipalities of Basilan.  Using a qualitative method, he tried to answer a basic question: how do the Bajau indigenous laws interplay with the formal laws of the Philippines? His paper showed that on recent times, “the panglima and the Bajau constituents in many areas of Maluso and Lantawan, Basilan, continue to maneuver within the local government politics.  Many of the state laws were adapted by the Bajaus, while trying to maintain their other customary laws”. He further added that the “Badjaos made some adjustments of allowing them for enculturation of local state politics and engender greater political participation therein because they know what modern time brings where there is cultural pluralism and globalization”.

The last presenter in that session was Aidel Paul G. Belamide from the Municipal Government of Silang, Cavite. He used the theories on Cultural Materialism by Marvin Harris and Social Negotiation by Elizabeth Brumfiel, to explore the changing notions and values of land in his locality.

I consider myself very fortunate to participate and be part of the UGAT Conference. I have learned a lot. It is very much related to my line of work in Al Qalam Institute of the Ateneo de Davao University. This institute is part of the university that focuses on research and formation, inter-religious and intra faith dialogue.

One of the leading anthropologists of our time is Brother Karl Gaspar. He had written a number of books pertaining to Mindanao and the indigenous peoples. Bro. Karl is one of the pioneer members of UGAT. During the conference, he provoke my mind and spirit to write on several things. Starting from day one, Brother Karl inspired to me to write the anthropology of Islam in Mindanao. Now, what do I mean by saying this? Well, anthropology has a different lens in looking at what Islam is and the theory of liberation in the eyes of mudjaheeden. Specially in the lens of the late Chairman Hassim Salamat. Also, what is folk Islam and how do the panditas cope up in changes of our time? What is the mapping of the different schools of thought of Islam in Mindanao and what are its implication in the peace and security in Mindanao? Thus, there were so many research agenda, so many interesting topics for Al Qalam and Al IQRA.

One thing I can never forget during the conference was when I witnessed how anthropologists really interpret and define culture. Is it the practice or the idea or concepts behind the reason why people do certain acts of their norms and traditions? I was “star struck”, like a child’s first experience of watching 3D or an IMAX… different theories about culture, language, nuances, and syncretism filled our minds while listening to the presentations and open forum. At one point, I forgot that I was the moderator of the session and not a participant.

I cannot wait for the next UGAT conference. The next conference is set on 2014 in Baguio. Hopefully, by that time I can also present a paper about Islam in Mindanao for non Muslims to understand that Islam in Mindanao is diverse and very colorful.

http://alqalam.addu.edu.ph/directors-corner/my-first-experience-in-joining-ugat/

UGAT 35th Annual Conference

UGAT 35th Annual Conference
Rethinking and Remaking Forms of Knowledge
The Critical Work of Anthropology

24-26 October 2013
Ateneo de Davao University

UGAT 35th Annual Conference - Book of Abstracts

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

35th Annual Conference
RETHINKING AND REMAKING FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE:
THE CRITICAL WORK OF ANTHROPOLOGY
24-26 October 2013
Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS 

UGAT 35th Annual Conference BOA - download here.

UGAT 35th Annual Conference Call for Papers

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below the Call for Papers for  upcoming 35th Annual Conference at the Ateneo de Davao University, Oct 24-26 2012, with the theme  “Rethinking and Remaking Forms of Knowledge: The Critical Work of Anthropology”.   We hope that you can share this information to any of your friends and colleagues who may be interested in participating.

The UGAT 2013 Conference Secretariat


CALL FOR PAPERS

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

35th Annual Conference
RETHINKING AND REMAKING FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE: THE CRITICAL WORK OF ANTHROPOLOGY
24-26 October 2013
Ateneo de Davao University
Davao City

What counts as "knowledge"? At once destabilizing the prevailing hegemony of "science" as the paramount legitimate knowledge, this question leads us to pay serious attention to other forms of knowledge, which, in the dominant scheme of knowledge production, have been "silenced." Other related issues come to the fore: For what purposes are forms of knowledge deployed? For whom? By whom? Against whom? And with what ramifications? These issues call our attention to the need to respond to myriad ways that different stakeholders advance forms of knowledge to achieve certain ends, and to their moral and ethical underpinnings. The task is to examine why such actions are often taken for granted, despite their far-reaching consequences for the well-being and sustainability of Planet Earth, including the diverse life forms (read biocultural diversity) that dwell in it.  

UGAT welcomes panel and paper submissions that are aligned with this year's conference theme.  It hopes to generate interdisciplinary submissions that follow the lead of the "critical practice" (read questioning and reflexive) of anthropologists in engaging issues that have profound effects on the diverse publics they serve, especially those that continue to grapple with the work of structural power (read political, economic, social, and cultural forces) that shape the development and course of (indivisible) culture-nature. 

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Anthropology as science
• Cultures of science 
• Anthropology as advocacy, activist research, cultural critique
• The production and deployment of “expert knowledge” in public policy: education, diplomacy, heritage and nation-building, law and order, health, population, food security, and communication, and so forth. 
• Religious Frameworks, Political Engagement, and Public Agendas
• Appropriations of Indigenous knowledge and practices (IKSPs), Free and Prior Informed Consent (FPIC), and Intellectual Property Rights
• Local knowledges and moral worlds
• The cultural politics of “evidence”
• Ethics in propriety research and corporate social responsibility
• Queering knowledge
• Knowledge and cyberethnography
• Communicating or transmitting knowledge: Proxies and Processess
• Replicas and reproduction of knowledge:  the role of the museum
• Issues in the ‘revival’ or revitalization of vanishing knowledge systems

GUIDELINES ON ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

1. Abstracts should be 250 words and should be written in a style that is accessible to non-academic audiences. The topical area into which the abstract falls may also be indicated.
2. Submissions should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation and complete contact information (e-mail address, telephone number, and mailing address).
3. Please send abstracts to ugat.conference@gmail.com by 15 July 2013.
4. Students intending to join the Student Paper Competition must indicate this in their submission. The winning entry will automatically be considered for publication in the Aghamtao, the official journal of UGAT.

For other inquiries, please contact the UGAT Conference Secretariat at +63 920 9823179 (Eizel Hilario) or + 63 0906 2285977 (Lauren Villarama) or ugat.conference@gmail.com.

Aghamtao 22 - Call for Submissions

Dear Paper Presentors at the 34th UGAT National Conference on "Culture" and "Wellbeing"

The Editorial Board of AghamTao invites you to submit your paper for consideration in the official journal of the Ugnayang Pang-AghamTao, Inc.  AghamTao is a peer-reviewed journal; all submissions are screened by the Editorial Board, and then undergo a double-blind review process.  The regular issue is launched in October and is one of the benefits of membership in the UGAT.

We would encourage you to first revise your papers especially in light of any feedback or new insights that may have been derived from the conference presentation.  Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words.  The minimum length for article submissions is 3,000 words.  For referencing style please consult previous issues of AghamTao (Vols. 16-21). 

Please send article submissions in MS Word .doc format to both the following emails: maria.mangahas@gmail.com, ugat.conference@gmail.com. Please write "AghamTao Vol. 22 Submission" on the subject line.

The deadline is February 20, 2013 or sooner. Authors will be informed about the evaluations from the reviewers by March-April 2013. 

Aghamtao 21

Aghamtao: Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) / Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Volume 21 / 2012

Agham Taong Kaagapay:
Anthropology Cares for its Publics

Articles 

Engaging with the OFW’s in Hongkong: How was it public anthropology?
Enrique G. Oracion

Playing with money, gambling with life: Mahjong and cardgames in the “Looban” Mlang North Cotabato
Maria Stella R. Salazar

The Appropriation of Anthropology in Market Research: Dilemmas and possibilities of an Asian practitioner
Pamela Gloria Cajilig

Training Iraya Mangyan community working groups in ethnography: Anthropology and the CADT process
Diana Josefa O. San Jose

Tungo sa kultura ng pakikisangkot Isang Pagninilay sa Pagpapalakas ng Katutubong Lente ng Antropolohiya
Jane DC. Austria-Young

Reflections on the recently concluded peace accord among the Banwaons of Agusan del Sur
Maria Easterluna S. Canoy

Source

http://www.css.pssc.org.ph/

ISSN: 0188-4857

Agta Cimaron Agta Tabangnon of Donsol

September  8, 2012

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAM TAO, INC.

To whom it may concern,

Good day!

I am a nephew of Milagros Tonga Musa or "lola lagring" (as many addressed her) from Dancalan, Donsol, Sorsogon one of the members of your respected association way back 1980's according to her. She became one of the researchers during her time when she was with your association. I am glad and proud when I have learned that she also contributed her studies and researches that was sponsored by your association here in Bicol. She authored the book "Agta Cimaron Agta Tabangnon of Donsol" in 80's respectively ( my apology if I don't give the exact title). At present, she is still an active chieftain here in Bicol. Since her personal copy of her book was lost many years ago by a certain agta member here in Bicol, she was really upset and dissapointed of its lost. I saw her eagerness and willingness to have a copy again of her book that is why I don't waste a time writing you about this. I would like to help my "auntie" have a copy of the book again. Now that she was around 60 years old I want her to be happy and this is the only way I believe would make her really happy.

With full of hope that my wish would be granted with the help of this e-mail, it is our pleasure if you give us another copy and recognize her as a member whom once gave a big contribution to your association and to the agta community as well.

God bless and more power!

Respectfully yours,


Hilda T. Nacion
nephew

UGAT 34th Annual Conference CFP and Registration & Accommodation Details

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

in partnership with

University of San Carlos (USC), Cebu City
Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC)

34th Annual Conference
"CULTURE" AND "WELL-BEING": CONCEPTUALIZATIONS, APPROPRIATIONS, IMPLICATIONS
25-27 October 2012
University of San Carlos, Cebu City


Dear UGAT Community,

We are pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for our 34th Conference, along with registration details and a list of hotels in close proximity to our conference host for this year, The University of San Carlos.  We would appreciate if you could pass this information along to your own relevant circles.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in October!


The UGAT Secretariat

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6 July 2012

Dear friends and colleagues,

The attainment and promotion of “well-being,” couched in various terms, has always been the default goal in a range of initiatives focused on human amelioration and social transformation.  Over the years, there has been a proliferation of culturally constituted constructions and indices of “well-being” propounded by certain public, private, and religious institutions.  This engenders the question of how responsive and responsible these conceptualizations and appropriations are in relation to the sensibilities and needs of communities in whose lives these entities intervene. As well, this question provokes ethical and practical concerns that anthropologists and related practitioners must address.

This year’s conference will have paper and panel proposals that will generate analyses and insights that critically engage processes and outcomes associated with the multiple ways by which “well-being” is construed and deployed in actual initiatives, keeping in mind the tensions and contradictions that these inevitably generate.  Of interest to this conference would be ethnographic contributions, that flesh out actual engagements with the different sectors in Philippine society, such as the fisher folks, organized labor, women, indigenous peoples, informal settlers, differently-abled persons, senior citizens, youth, LGBT, among others.   It should be noted that this conference fundamentally negates the false dichotomy between academic and applied orientation of ethically engaged anthropological practice.

In view of this, we would like to invite you to this year’s conference with the theme “Culture” and “Well-Being”: Conceptualizations, Appropriations, Implications on October 25-27, 2012, at the University of San Carlos (Main Campus), Cebu City. 

REGISTRATION DETAILS 

The registration for the conference will be on-site (specific venue to be announced), at the Main Campus of the University of San Carlos,  P. del Rosario St., Cebu City.

• The registration fee is PhP 2,500 (PhP 2,250 for non-presenting students) to cover the conference kit and meals (lunch and snacks).
• Graduate and undergraduate students who are presenting papers are given a reduced fee of 50% (PhP 1,250).
• Non-student presenters and regular participants may also register early and avail of the “early bird” fee of PhP 1,800 (until 12 October 2011). Please deposit the amount to the “Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc.” CA 00-275-830432-1 at the Philippine National Bank (PNB) (UP Campus Branch). Make sure to bring and present the deposit slip during conference registration.

Travel and accommodation expenses will not be covered by the conference organizers, and interested participants are advised to make their own reservations.  We have included a list of accommodation options with this letter.

Should you have queries, please do not hesitate to contact the UGAT Secretariat at 0906-2285977 (Ms. Lauren Villarama)/0917-6321706 (Ms. Pamela Cajilig) or e-mail address ugat.conference@gmail.com.

Thank you very much and we hope to see you in Cebu City.


Sincerely,(signed)


Eufracio C. Abaya, Ph.D.
President


Rozanno E. Rufino
Executive Director
Ugnayang Pang-AghamTao, Inc.