Fiesta of Tabogon, Cebu 1565 The image of the Santo Niño is formally enthroned. In a formal ceremony, it is taken to the house where it was found and then carried in a procession to a temporary chapel that was to evolve into the Santo Niño Church. 1872 Birth in Bogo, Cebu, of Celestino Rodriguez, […]
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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 […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 September
“Rediscovering Hermogenes M. Cantago: A Modernist Voice in Cebuano Literature” Dr. Bea Martinez-Lastimosa Dr. Lastimosa’s lecture will focus on Hermogenes M. Cantago, a prolific writer of Cebuano literature from the 1950s to the 1980s, who published over 40 short stories and several serialized novels. Although he was a well-known writer in his time, he has […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 August
“Sex, Sexuality and the City in Vicente Rama’s Novels” Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu Dr. Yu’s lecture will focus on the novels of Vicente Rama who was among the well-known novelists of his times. With their explicit critique of the emerging regimes of power/knowledge in the fields of sexuality, Rama’s novels “Ang Silot ni Bathala” and “Donya […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 July
“Old Versus New: Meditations on Modernity in Temistokles Adlawan’s Fiction” Niño Augustine Loyola Mr. Loyola’s lecture will explore selected works of fiction from Temistokles Adlawan to expand on the themes of modernity depicted in contemporary Cebuano Literature. It hopes to let the audience understand how important Adlawan’s works are in the collection of Cebuano literature […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 June
“The Biliran Religious Revolt (1765-1774)” Dr. Rolando O. Borrinaga ABSTRACT: Dr. Borrinaga will tackle a Filipino revolt that has yet to find its way into our national history textbooks—the decade-long Biliran Religious Revolt. He reconstructs its possible origin, its communal activities that can be inferred from documents, extant folklore, place-names, and monuments, its impact on […]