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Vicente Sotto Lecture 2024 June
“A Panorama of Fools in the Plays of Piux Kabahar” Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu ABSTRACT: Studies devoted solely to methods of characterization in Philippine dramatic plays have been relatively few. In addition to language, the playwright Piux Kabahar presents odd characters, those with offbeat thoughts and behaviors. A reading of Kabahar’s comic plays will yield a […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2024 May
“Tapping AI, Big Data Tools, and Archives to Track Missing Cebuano Heritage” Max T. Limpag ABSTRACT: New technologies such as AI augment the capabilities of journalists and researchers in processing huge amounts of documents and data and extract insights needed for reporting and writing. The recent issue on heritage allegedly stolen from parishes in Cebu […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2024 April
“The Forgotten Avila Paintings in the Convent of Boljoon: Reexamining the Stylistic and Formal Qualities of the Ceiling Paintings of the Convent of Boljoon and its Re-attribution as a Work by the Prewar Cebuano Painter, Canuto Avila” Jay Nathan T. Jore ABSTRACT: The talk will center around the prewar movement in Cebuano art of decorating […]
Buwan ng Pambansang Wika 2024
Ang Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), sa kooperasyon ng USC Cebuano Studies Center Sentro ng Wika at Kultura (CSC-SWK), ay magsasagawa ng isang tertulyang pangwika na pinamagatang “Sebwano: Wikang Mapagpalaya” para sa selebrasyon ng Buwan ng Pambansang Wika 2024. Layunin ng tertulyang ito na talakayin ang iba’t ibang konsepto ng kalayaan, kabilang na ang […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2024 March
“Balay sa Dios ug Ganghaan sa Langit: Spanish-era Church Construction in Cebu (1565-1898)” Mr. Trizer Dale Mansueto ABSTRACT The ancient Cebuanos didn’t have churches. They worshiped and built shrines wherever, especially in forests and close to bodies of water. When Miguel Lopez de Legazpi arrived in 1565, they eventually built the first Christian church made […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2024 February
“The Empty Root ‘kuan’ in Radio Conversations: Revisiting Its Versatile Functions and Syntactic Slots” Mr. Philip Donald Herrera ABSTRACT This study looked into the pragmatic functions as well as the syntactic slots of the empty root kuan in identified conversations. These pragmatic functions and syntactic slots were based on the frameworks first proposed by […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2024 January
“Bethlehem to Golgotha: Santo Niño de Cebu and Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno in Filipino collective memory and vision” Mr. Jason A. Baguia. ABSTRACT The Catholic Church in the Philippines has been unequivocal in catechizing its publics about the oneness of the Child Jesus and Jesus on the Way of the Cross although a comparative approach […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 December
“Manding Karya’s Advice to Young Women from Panid ni Manding Karya: The Advice Column of Maria A. Kabigon in the Bisaya Magazine” Ms. Joanalyn P. Gabales ABSTRACT Maria A. Kabigon, also known as Manding Karya, was considered the most popular Cebuano woman writer of the pre-World War II period. Throughout her writing career, she produced […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 November
“Mapping The Nation In Januar Yap’s Arkipelago” Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu ABSTRACT In Januar Yap’s recent novel, Arkipelago, the nation is being mapped and written by different characters who make sense of the nation from where they are situated in the archipelago, “claiming space” as if the capital did not matter. While the stories are conscious […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 October
“Modernizing the Bayot: The Bayot during the American Colonial Period” Mr. Francis Luis Torres ABSTRACT The arrival of the Americans in the Philippines introduced a relatively novel social order that modernized Cebuano culture and life. Emulating an American-centered ethos, Filipinos began to secularize and nationalize most of its social institutions, as reflected in the establishment […]