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Kabahar family donates collection to Cebuano Studies Center
The family of the late Cebuano playwright, journalist, composer and director, Pio Abelgas Kabahar, made a huge donation of his remaining manuscripts and musical score sheets of his plays to the University of San Carlos Cebuano Studies Center. This special collection donation, led by his grandson, Piux Llamoso Kabahar, his wife Viveca and their daughter […]
Digital Cebuano, NCCA project goes online
The USC Cebuano Studies Center under the sponsorship of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) will launch new materials for the Digital Cebuano: Enhancement of the Cebuano Studies Center Archive. The online archive is the product of the project with NCCA. The Digital Cebuano project is an envisioned cooperative project to digitize […]
NRCP Announces a New Division Chair for the Humanities
Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu, director of the University of San Carlos Cebuano Studies Center, has been named the new chair of the Division of the Humanities of the National Research Council of the Philippines. When she begins her two-year term this April, she will be replacing current division chair Dr. Adelaida F. Lucero, professor of comparative […]
Dr. Alburo receives the Gawad Paz Marquez Benitez Award
The Unyon ng Manunulat ng Pilipinas honors Dr. Erlinda Kintanar Alburo with the Gawad Paz Marquez Benitez for outstanding literature teacher. The awarding ceremony will cap UMPIL’s 41st National Congress on August 29, 2015 at the Escaler Hall of the Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City. The Gawad Paz Marquez Benitez is an annual award […]
Yu wins the NCCA Writers’ Prize 2014 for Essay in Cebuano Language
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) awarded the NCCA Writers’ Prize 2014 for Essay in Cebuano Language to Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu, USC Director of the Cebuano Studies Center and professor of the Department of Languages and Literature, for her entry Naglangoy sa Langit. The NCCA Writers’ Prize is a biennial award given […]
Center receives recognition during the Don Mariano Awards 2013
Last September 8, 2013 was the 136th birth anniversary of Mariano Avila Mercado, mayor of Carcar in the 1920s. During his administration, Mercado built the Carcar Dispensary, formerly health center before and after the war and is now a museum, the swimming pool just behind the dispensary which served as American soldiers’ recreation area, the […]
Professor Emeritus Mojares receives Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi Award
USC Professor Emeritus Resil B. Mojares will be conferred the prestigious Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi Award from the Ateneo de Manila University on July 16, 2013 at the Rev. Henry Lee Irwin Theatre. Ateneo de Manila University created the Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi Award in 1970 to single out those who have dedicated their life’s […]
Yu receives research grant from the Sumitomo Foundation
Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu, director of the USC Cebuano Studies Center, and a professor of the Department of Languages and Literature, was awarded a research grant by the Sumitomo Foundation. The grant is for the comparative study of maternal representations in both Japanese and Philippine literature. Out of the 305 applications received by the Foundation, only […]
Dr. Erlinda Kintanar-Alburo honored in the 79th NRCP Achievement Awards
Dr. Erlinda Kintanar-Alburo, former director of the USC Cebuano Studies Center, was honored in the 79th National Research Council of the Philippines Achievement Awards held at Hotel Sofitel Philippine Plaza, PICC Complex last March 7, 2012. Dr. Alburo was recognized for her significant contributions to the field of cultural research, specifically on Philippine literature and […]
Collection of Cebuano Materials (Ongoing Project)
The library accepts any donations from homes and places where Cebuano materials are merely neglected. In giving these valuable cultural materials to the library, the donors contribute to the development and preservation of Cebuano culture. The library also collects Cebuano materials and processes them where they could be very useful for students and other researchers’ […]