Archipelagic Feasts, Tropical Disasters: 2011 Philippine PEN Congress on the Literature of Survival

Philippine PEN 2011 Conference
December 1-2, 2011 (Thursday-Friday)
Silangan Hall, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Pasay City, Metro Manila

Archipelagic Feasts, Tropical Disasters:
2011 Philippine PEN Congress on the Literature of Survival

Program

December 1: FIRST DAY OF CONFERENCE

7:45 – 8:30 am Registration

8:30 – 9:00 am Opening Ceremonies
Invocation
National Anthem
Reading of the PEN International Charter: Jose Victor Torres
Inspirational Remarks: Bienvenido Lumbera, PEN Chairman
Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Susan Lara
9:00-10:00 am Keynote Address: Rony Diaz

10:00-10:30 am Coffee Break

10:30 am – 12:00 nn First Literary Session
Panel on Apocalyptic Literature: Disaster and Imagination
Elmer Ordoñez (Chair), Antonio Enriquez, Gilda Cordero Fernando, John Iremil Teodoro

12:00 nn-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30- 3:00 pm Second Literary Session
Panel on Landscape and Personal Poetics
Nicolas Pichay (Chair), Marne Kilates, Dinah Roma-Sianturi, Marra Lanot, Joel Toledo

3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break

3:30 – 5:00 pm Third Literary Session
Panel on Surviving Calamities: History and Preservation
Malou Jacob (Chair), Rosario Cruz-Lucero, Victor Peñaranda, Luna Sicat-Cleto

Emcees/Convenors of the First Day:
Ronald Baytan, Jose Victor Torres, Karina Bolasco


December 2: SECOND DAY OF CONFERENCE

8:30 – 10:00 am Fourth Literary Session
Panel on Ecology in the Writings from the Regions
Juliet Mallari (Chair), Abdon Balde Jr., Glenn Sevilla Mas, Susan Evangelista, Frank Peñones

10:00-10:30 am Coffee Break

10:30 am – 12 nn Fifth Literary Session
Panel on Literature in Distress and Popular Media
Ramón Sunico (Chair), Charlie Veric, Rolando Tolentino, Gary Devilles, Leonard Ryan Cervantes

12:00 nn – 2:00 pm Lunch

Introduction of Speaker: Charlson Ong
The Jose Rizal Lecture
Madam Carmen Guerrero-Nakpil


2:00 – 3:30 pm Sixth Literary Session
Panel on Feasts and Famine
Carla Pacis (Chair), Ricardo Soler, Merlie Alunan, Alma Anonas-Carpio, Yvette Tan

3:30-4:00 pm Coffee Break

4:00-5:00 pm Closing Session
Presiding: Lito B. Zulueta, PEN National Secretary
Resolutions
Election of New Board Members (2012-2014)


Emcees/Convenors of the Second Day:
Hermie Beltran, Susie Tan, Marjorie Evasco


Overall Convenors: Bienvenido Lumbera, Joselito B. Zulueta

Secretariat: Shirley O. Lua, Cesar Quinagan

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Makata Issue No.10 is now available online featuring the poetry (in English, Tagalog, and Bikol) of our in-house and new poets Leo Fernandez Almero, Ana Ablaza Baluyut, Danny P. Barbare, Srinjay Chakravarti, Jose Jason L. Chancoco, Kristian S. Cordero, Lee de Guzman, Rosendo M. Makabali, Tony Mercado Peña, Alexander Martin Remollino, Bill Mitsuru T. Shimizu, Keli Stafford, and Nick Zegarac . Also included in this issue the literary column (in Bikol language) Vers Libre by Jose Jason L. Chancoco and Civil War! (Vox Pangasinense) by Fred Natividad. Kanit (anlong kabayaoasan) sakey a kabuasan mamaspasiar si kanit ed paritpit kapetek to'd mapalion a sukal atertera'y linaew say kuan ton manetetel agi! agay laya'y Linaew ay pinuter to'y salik! alioan siak! kuanen Linaew si Agew ta tutunaoen to ak! agi! agay laya'y Agew ay tutunaoen to'y Linaew kanian si Linaew pinuter to'y salik! alioan siak! kuanen Agew si Lurem ta sasanibsani
Read more

About | Santiago Villafania

Image
Santiago Villafania is a bilingual Filipino poet who writes in English and in his native language of Pangasinan. Born in Tuliao, Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan on 31 January 1971, Villafania graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Pangasinan in 1991. Villafania advocates for the resurgence of Pangasinan as a literary language. His works in the vernacular are some of the most representative, if not among the few that comprise that Pangasinan contemporary literary body. In his first book Balikas na Caboloan (Verses from Caboloan), the Pangasinan anlong resurfaces asserting its tradition amidst intersecting and pollinating genres and literary influences. His book of poems, Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles , is an attempt to open the propylaea of literary renaissance in Pangasinan. This second book by Pangasinan’s leading poet today is impressive in both form and substance. Villafania has created 300 sonnets and 50 villanelles in his own language that a
Read more

Gamal: A Collection of Pangasinan Short Stories

Dr. Linda R. Andaya released her first Pangasinan book entitled Gamal tan arum ni'ran antikey ya istorya . A collection of Pangasinan short stories. It's because of this book that I came out with the following sonnet: sonito 216 (ed libron Gamal tan arum ni'ran antikey ya istorya nen Dr. Linda R. Andaya) aliling to'y tanol na tambuyog ono hambayo'd gilig na dayat lalagyaten to'y kailalakan ed akualan na dilin salita sarayan antikey ya istorya so manliliing ed saray musia pian ombulaslas so panulatan dia ed Parnasu na Caboloan egpang irayan pakarukdukan na panangaro tan pangoliran tongtong irayan binmabalitok ed litiraturan Pangasinan parlasan mo'y matam kaluyagan isasalming tonia so kulturam
Read more