Buellah May P. Convento, News, Communication Management Office
The Polytechnic University of the Philippines Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Office of the Vice President for Research, Planning and Development through Center for Creative Writing under Institute of Cultural Studies, in partnership with the College of Arts and Letters conducted a Professorial Chairholder Lecture Series on January 27, 2017 at the Bulwagang Bonifacio of Ninoy Aquino Library Learning and Resource Center.
The event featured the lecture of Dr. Epifanio San Juan Jr. titled “Kontra Modernidad: Ang Tadhana ng Panahon sa Pilipinas Pagkaraan ng Isang Siglo” where he highlighted the national-popular culture in the Philippines in the last four decades.
Some faculty members, students and guests who attended the event asked the speaker with a variety of questions to clarify major concepts discussed in the lecture, which Dr. E. San Juan Jr. answered.
Meanwhile, Dr. E. San Juan Jr. launched his very own book “WALA: Akda at mga Tula”.
Dr. E. San Juan Jr. is a Harvard University-trained International scholar. As an author of books on race and cultural studies, he was a “major influence on the academic world”. He was the director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center in Storrs, Connecticut in the United States. In 1999, San Juan received the Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines because of his contributions to Filipino and Filipino American Studies.
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