Events

Professor Ann Fajilan, Assistant Professor in the Theater and Dance Department at CSU East Bay, in conjunction with some of the original writers from the 2002 anthology "Seven Card Stud and Seven Manangs Wild" worked to produce a theatrical interpretation of this novel.  She and members from the Filipino American National Historical Society, East Bay will present this dramatic reading.  The stories in the novel are culled from memories of growing up in different regions of the United States: from the urban jungle of Manhattan to the dusty farmlands of California.
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The Spring 2012 Brown Bag Series feature lectures given by many of our accomplished Asian Studies and Philippine Studies faculty members.  Topics will include the various areas of research in which our faculty members are involved and interested.  This website will be updated as dates for the other brown bags become closer.  Check out our website for more detailed information about the upcoming lectures.  A full flyer with all scheduled lectures can be found here. Grab your lunch and come join us!

YPSP's own program specific advising session.  Professor Jay Gonzalez, Faculty Advisor for YPSP students, will discuss the requirements necessary to complete your degree and course lists for next semester will be distributed. A peer advisor will be available for one-on-one consultation and degree evaluation.

Learn more about the opportunities to dive into one of the dynamic countries of Asia while enjoying dim sum with other students and our faculty.  Gain a better understanding of what studying abroad has to offer from presentations by a panel of USF students who have first-hand experience in programs such as Casa Bayanihan and USF in the Philippines.  Take the first step in going abroad, come join us!

This event welcomes Melanie Newell, the coordinator for the Center for Global Studies and Center for Peace and Justice at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. While in Manila in 2010, she and a group of her colleagues had the opportunity to visit the 43 imprisoned community health workers known as the "Morong 43". After spending three hours eating, talking, laughing, and crying with those in Morong 43, Melanie realized that she needed to do something about the injustice. After returning to the US, Melanie set out to educate her campus and the surrounding community about the Morong 43. This campus movement, along with many others worldwide, helped contribute to the release of 41 of the 43 health workers on December 10, 2010.A roundtable discussion on human rights in the Philippines in the case of Marong 43.  Click here to download an event flyer.

YPSP's own program specific advising session.  Professor Jay Gonzalez, Faculty Advisor for  YPSP students, will discuss the requirements necessary to complete your degree and course lists for next semester will be distributed. Peer advisors Caroline Calderon and Erwin Sunga will be available for one-on-one consultation and degree evaluation.

In Her Mother's Image is the story of a mother and daughter who are entangled in a web of longing and antipathy set amidst the chaos of WWII in the Philippines and thirty years later in 1971.  The war is seen through the eyes of a headstrong eight-year-old child who bears witness to an act of betrayal committed by her formidable mother.  A betrayal that will be revisited thirty years later when the daughter goes back to the land of her birth to face the source of her lifelong torment - her own mother.  Join 'Artis Mundi', a multicultural theater arts group, and author Cecilia Gaerlan as they present a multi-media staged adaptation of her novel.  Contact Jessica Lemaux (415-422-6515 or jnlemaux@usfca.edu) for more information.  Click here for a copy of the press release.