1944 The Osmeña family (including the president’s wife and Sergio Osmeña Jr.), fearing imminent Japanese arrest, flees from Manila in a plan to cross over to guerilla territory and seek sanctuary with Col. Russell W. Volckmann’s until in Northern Luzon. The family finally crosses over to safety on October 30. 1972 President Ferdinand E. Marcos […]
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Because Love Is Not Blind
Adlawan, Temistokles M. Because Love Is Not Blind. Translated by Merlie Alunan. Edited by Hope Sabanpan-Yu. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2009. P 500.00 in the Philippines*

Hunger in Nayawak
Ceballos, Lamberto Hunger in Nayawak and other stories. Translated by Hope Sabanpan-Yu and Trizer Dale Mansueto Cebu City: University of San Carlos Press, 2013. P 500.00 in the Philippines* Review essay of Hunger in Nayawak by Maria Ima Carmela Ariate in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia Issue 13 (March 2013)

Canto Voice
Faigao, Cornelio Canto Voice. Edited by Hope Sabanpan-Yu Cebu City: University of San Carlos Press, 2010. P 500.00 in the Philippines*

Brown Child: The Best of the Faigao Poetry and Fiction
Brown Child: The Best of the Faigao Poetry and Fiction. Edited by Hope Sabanpan-Yu and Erlinda K. Alburo Cebu City: University of San Carlos Press, 2014. P 500.00 in the Philippines*

Nasudnong Kongreso sa Pinulongang Sugbuanon
From May 23- 24, 2014, the USC Cebuano Studies Center in cooperation with the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Department of Education (DEP-Ed) will host the much-awaited Nasudnong Kongreso sa Pinulongang Sugbuanon: Mga Hagit ug Kaugmaon. The activity will bring together stakeholders, scholars, experts and educators from diverse backgrounds in facing the challenges […]
30th Cornelio Faigao Workshop Fellows Announced
The USC Cebuano Studies Center with the support of the National Commission for Culture and Arts is pleased to announce the fifteen (15) fellows to the 30th Cornelio Faigao Memorial Annual Writers Workshop on June 6-8, 2014. Coming from Manila are Stefanie Lim and Francis Luis Torres (short story in English and Cebuano, respectively). Fellows […]

Pagdakop sa Bulalakaw Launch
The USC Cebuano Studies Center will host the launch of Merlie M. Alunan’s latest poetry collection, Pagdakop sa Bulalakaw published by Ateneo de Manila University Press on March 15, 2014 at the Cebu Cathedral Museum at 3:00 p.m. The collection contains poems that Alunan wrote within ten years of finding her way back to Cebuano, […]

The Second Cebuano Cinema Conference
The USC Graduate School in Cinema Studies with the Cebuano Studies Center will conduct The Second Cebuano Cinema Conference : Developments in Cebuano Film Research, a two-day event that will take place on February 28 and March 1, 2014, at Casa Gorordo and the Eduardo Aboitiz Development Studies Center, Lopez Jaena Street. This year’s conference […]