1866 Birth in Pangil, Sta. Cruz, Laguna, of Anastacio Oclarino, one of the founders of the Katipunan in Cebu. 1896 Execution by Spanish musketery of Dr. Jose Rizal in Bagumbayan, Manila. 1941 The presidential inauguration of the Second Commonwealth takes place inside a Corregidor tunnel. Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmeña take their oath as president […]
Tag: Cebuano Studies Center

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*

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 […]

Dulaang Cebuano
Mojares, Resil B., EK Alburo and Don Pagusara Dulaang Cebuano. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1997. 502 p. (trilingual text in original Cebuano and in Filipino and English translations of Ismael Paras’ Asawa sa Sugarol, Vicente Sotto’s Gugma sa Yutang Natawhan, Buenaventura Rodriguez’ Mini, and Junne Cañizares’ Rajah Hamabar; with a critical introduction to […]

Kulokabildo: dialogues with Cebuano writers (with DVD)
Sabanpan-Yu, Hope.Kulokabildo: dialogues with Cebuano writers (with DVD)Cebu City: Cebuano Studies Center, University of San Carlos, 2009.(Published with the assistance of Sunflower Press)P775.00 in the Philippines

Cebuano Folktales 2
Alburo, Erlinda K. Cebuano Folktales 2 Cebu City: University of San Carlos Publications, 1977. 43p. (Booklet with English translation of some Cebuano folktales) P45.00 in the Philippines*

Cebuano Folksongs 1
Alburo, Erlinda K. Cebuano Folksongs 1. Cebu City: University of San Carlos Publications, 1978. 39p. (Booklet with musical notation and texts in Cebuano and English of some popular Cebuano folksongs) P 45.00 in the Philippines* With picture

Cebuano Poetry Sugboanong Balak
Alburo, Erlinda K., et al (trans-eds.) Cebuano Poetry/Sugbuanong Balak until 1940. Cebu City: Cebuano Studies Center, 1988. (with critical preface, bilingual texts and annotations) 232 p. P350.00 in the Philippines* (Out of print)

Tigmo ug Sanglitanan: Cebuano Riddles and Proverbs
Alburo, Erlinda K. Tigmo ug Sanglitanan: Cebuano Riddles and Proverbs. Cebu City: Cebuano Studies Center, University of San Carlos, 2002. 43 p. P100.00 in the Philippines