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UP Newsletter |
Volume xxxii Number 06
2011-06-01 |
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Writers’ union to hold literary conference on Rizal for teachers |
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The Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) will hold the Rizal Sesquicentennial Literary Conference for Teachers on August 25 and 26 at the Bulwagang Rizal in UP Diliman.
National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera will be guest of honor.
Scholars will deliver papers on the works of national hero Dr. Jose Rizal. Among those expected to speak are Dr. Soledad Reyes of Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) who will discuss Rizal’s novels, National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario of UP Diliman (UPD) who will analyze Rizal’s poems, Dr. Paul Dumol of the University of Asia and the Pacific who will talk about Rizal’s plays, and Dr. Ambeth Ocampo of AdMU and UPD who will discuss Rizal’s essays.
Prof. Danilo Francisco Reyes, Dr. Jerry Respeto and Dr. Corazon Lalu-Santos will demo-teach the works of Rizal to help educators find new methods of teaching the Rizal course.
UMPIL National Convention
The two-day literary conference will end with the annual UMPIL convention. The convention will feature the Panayam Adrian Cristobal, part of UMPIL’s public intellectual lecture series, a book launching, a literary forum and the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas.
The event is supported by the Adrian Cristobal Foundation, the UP Institute of Creative Writing, the UP College of Arts and Letters and the Office of the Chancellor-UP Diliman. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Department of Education (DepEd) have endorsed the conference.
UMPIL members, teachers and other interested parties are encouraged to participate in the conference as well the convention.
For details, please contact Eva Cadiz at (632) 922-1830 or send an email to Conference Director and UMPIL Secretary-General Michael Coroza at mcoroza@ateneo.edu.
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