LABOR DAY 1521 The remnants of the Magellan expedition hurriedly leave Cebu in the wake of the death of Ferdinand Magellan in Mactan and the attempted massacre of Spanish crew members by Cebuanos. 1913 The first issue of Kauswagan (1913-1915), a Cebu newspaper published and edited by J.R. Flynn Anderson, hits the streets.
Tag: 2022 November
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2022 November
“WRITING ‘ARKIPELAGO’: A novel’s claim at complexity” Januar Yap ABSTRACT: Philippine literary canon had for the most part insufficiently if not misrepresented a highly archipelagic nation of over 7,100 islands by its “landlocked” and centripetal imaginaries. The islands and their complex connectivities should have been the rule rather than the exception. Deeply embedded in Philippine […]