UP Manila Political Science Program

The Political Science Program proudly congratulates this year’s BA Political Science graduates.

As you successfully end your journey of being political science students with flying colors and begin a new chapter in your lives, may honor and excellence forever guide you in your future endeavors! We are proud of you, our newest batch of political scientists!

Padayon, Batch Bente-kwatro! Paglingkuran ang Sambayanan!🌻

The Political Science Program congratulates our students for their exemplary performance in the academic year 2023-2024 as awardees and participants of international and national delegations, exchange programs, competitions, scholarship grants, and honor societies.

Your dedication and perseverance continues to be a source of motivation for everyone around you. We are incredibly proud of your accomplishments and your commitment to contribute to the field. Padayon!

The Department of Social Sciences honors the remarkable life of Prof. Reginald S. Vallejos as a dedicated educator, academic union leader, community organizer, and consumer activist. Consistent with his vision of an alternative development order, Prof. Vallejos’ progressive ideas and ideals inform his incisive lectures in the university halls, compelling speeches in protest actions, and critical standpoints in media interviews. As a fulltime faculty member in the Development Studies Program, Prof. Vallejos handled courses in development planning and policy formulation, program administration and project management, and international political economy. He also served as practicum and thesis adviser of Development Studies junior and senior students, guided by the liberating framework of development research as committed research. Concurrently, he also acted as the coordinator of the Master of Management Program and taught graduate courses in public management. True to his pro-people, decolonial, and transformative praxis, Prof. Vallejos served as the president of the All UP Academic Employees Union – UP Manila Chapter and spokesperson of the SUKI Network, advocating for participatory governance, dignity of work, and consumer welfare. Those of us whom he has inspired, taught, and organized will carry forward his legacy of challenging the status quo and creating a better society for all. Maraming salamat at pinakamataas na pagpupugay, kasamang Reggie!

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His funeral services will be held at Church of the Risen Lord (CRL), UP Diliman, from July 28 at 4 PM until July 31, 2024.

Please be guided that tribute programs in his honor would be held in the evenings from Jul 28-31.

Jul 28 - High School friends
Jul 29 - UP Manila sectors
Jul 30 - Farmers organizations & advocates
Jul 31- Reserved for general program
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Cash donations can be sent to:
Ma. Josephine Therese Emily G. Teves
Head, Development Studies Program
GCASH 09951810468

Regular meeting of the UP Manila Political Science Committee, 25 June 2024

‼️ POSTPONED ‼️

The PACIFIC APOCALYPSE forum on the 25th anniversary of the PH-US Visiting Forces Agreement is rescheduled to another date. Please monitor P1nas Page for futher announcements on the rescheduling.

Thank you!

We invite you all to attend our annual BA Political Science Thesis Convocation on May 27, 2024 at GAB 303 from 8:00AM-12:00PM.

Witness the research presentations of our senior students as they vie for the best undergraduate thesis in political science.

See you there!

PACIFIC APOCALYPSE: Is US Involvement in the West Philippine Sea Conflict with China Serving our Interest? A forum on the 25th anniversary of the PH-US Visiting Forces Agreement on May 27, 2024, 8:30-11:00AM at the CAS Little Theatre, UP Manila.

The activity is in partnership with IBON Foundation, BAYAN - Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, All UP Academic Employees Union - Manila Chapter, Department of Social Sciences - U.P. Manila, UP Manila Political Science Program, and the UP Office of the Faculty Regent.

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PACIFIC APOCALYPSE: Is US Involvement in the West Philippine Sea Conflict with China Serving our Interest?
A forum on the 25th anniversary of the PH-US Visiting Forces Agreement

May 27, 2024, 8:30-11:00AM
📍 CAS Little Theatre, UP Manila

Speakers:
Antonio Tinio, P1NAS
Dr. Carol Araullo, BAYAN
Sonny Africa, IBON Foundation
and more

REGISTER HERE:
https://forms.gle/sJLkzpufZ62F1kA48

BAYAN - Bagong Alyansang Makabayan
IBON Foundation
AGHAM - Advocates of Science and Technology for the People
Department of Social Sciences - UP Manila
All UP Academic Employees Union - Manila Chapter
UP Manila Political Science Program
UP Office of the Faculty Regent

With the United States (US) maintaining its thrust to control countries in times of critical aggressions and conflicts, calls to end US imperialism were amplified in a forum organized by Political Science 182-WBD students of the University of the Philippines Manila.

Prof. Sarah Raymundo from the UP Center of International Studies and Prof. Bobby Tuazon from the UPM Political Science Committee and the Center for People Empowerment in Governance emphasized the unrelenting US imperialism and its hand in global conflict such as Israel’s genocide against Palestinians and the maritime territorial disputes between the Philippines and China in the said forum entitled “From the River to the Sea: America’s Role in Middle East and Southeast Asian Geopolitical Dynamics” held last May 15 at the UPM Little Theater.

With the United States (US) maintaining its thrust to control countries in times of critical aggressions and conflicts, calls to end US imperialism were amplified in a forum organized by Political Science 182-WBD students of the University of the Philippines Manila.

READ: https://tinyurl.com/42aa3ttm

Guest speakers, Prof. Bobby Tuazon of the UP Manila Political Science Committee and the Center for People Empowerment in Governance discussed the “South China Sea Row: War or Political Deal? and Middle East Under Fire: Israel vs. HAMAS, Palestine” and Professor Sarah Raymundo of the UP Center for International Studies on “Modalities of U.S. Imperialism” (Settler colonialism and Neocolonialism). The event was also attended by Venezuelan Chargé d’Affaires Richard Gregorio Espinoza Lobo.

Prof. Bobby Tuazon of the UP Manila Political Science Committee and the Center for People Empowerment in Governance, and Prof. Sarah Raymundo of the UP Center for International Studies gave thought-provoking lectures during the forum, “From the River to the Sea: America’s Role in Middle East and Southeast Asian Geopolitical Dynamics” on May 15, 2024 at the CAS Little Theater.

The activity was organized by the Political Science 182 - WBD, International Politics class under the supervision of Faculty Regent Carl Marc Ramota, in partnership with the All UP Academic Employees Union - Manila Chapter, Office of the Faculty Regent, with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, UP Manila, UP Polis, Organization of Area Studies Majors, and The Manila Collegian. It’s part of the continuing celebration of the 51st anniversary of the Department of Social Sciences - U.P. Manila.

WATCH it here: https://tinyurl.com/nhzxxzjt

The UP Manila Political Science Program and Political Science 182 WBD class will hold a forum, “From the River to the Sea: America’s Role in Middle East and Southeast Asian Geopolitical Dynamics” on May 15, 2024, Wednesday, 9:00 AM to 12:00 NN at the Little Theater in College of Arts and Sciences, UP Manila.

Speakers include Prof. Bobby Tuazon of the UP Manila Political Science Committee and the Center for People Empowerment in Governance, and Prof. Sarah Raymundo of the UP Center for International Studies. Discussions will focus on the rising tensions and new geopolitical alignments in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and the future of United States’ foreign policy in these regions.

The activity is in partnership with the All UP Academic Employees Union - Manila Chapter, and the Office of the Faculty Regent, with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, Organization of Area Studies Majors, and UP Polis, in celebration of the 51st anniversary of the Department of Social Sciences - U.P. Manila.

The Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA) held its international conference in Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology on May 2-4, 2024.

Among concurrent sessions was a roundtable discussion on democratic backsliding and academic freedom with Professors Sol Iglesias and Melania Flores of UP Diliman, Dr. Arnold Alamon of MSU-IIT, Faculty Regent Shim Lester de Pio of West Visayas State University, and UP Manila Political Science Program’s very own, UP Faculty Regent Carl Marc Ramota, as panelists.

PPSA’s current President, Dr. Jan Robert Go, is also an alumnus of the UP Manila Political Science Program.

In this roundtable discussion for the UP FORUM, Faculty Regent Carl Marc Ramota, Union Leader and Professor Rommel Rodriguez, and UP Mindanao Food Tech student and former UPMin Student Council Chair Fauzhea Alexandra Guiani, share their thoughts on activism in the University of the People.

In this roundtable discussion for the UP FORUM, Faculty Regent Carl Marc Ramota, Union Leader and Professor Rommel Rodriguez, and UP Mindanao Food Tech student and former UPMin Student Council Chair Fauzhea Alexandra Guiani, share their thoughts on activism in the University of the People.

Read here: https://up.edu.ph/activism-in-the-academe-up-as-the-university-of-the-people/

Panelists include Sol Iglesias of the Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines-Diliman; Arnold Alamon of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology; Melania Flores of the Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas, University of the Philippines-Diliman; Shim de Pio, of the College of Arts and Sciences, West Visayas State University, and UP Manila Political Science Program’s very own Faculty Regent Carl Marc Ramota of the University of the Philippines.

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦, 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐱𝐲𝐠𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲.

The Network in Defense of Historical Truth and Academic Freedom, in partnership with the Philippine Political Science Association and supported by the Mellon/Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Fellowship, will be hosting a roundtable exploring the impact of declining democracy on academic freedom and how scholars are resisting.

Join us for a critical discussion on academic freedom and democratic backsliding in the Philippines on 02 May 2024, from 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM at Prism Conference Hall A, Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan City, Philippines, during the 2024 PPSA Conference: Reimagining Margins, Reclaiming Borders.

Panelists:
• Sol Iglesias, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines-Diliman
• Arnold Alamon, Associate Professor, Sociology, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology
• Melania Flores, Associate Professor, Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas, University of the Philippines-Diliman
• Shim de Pio, Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, West Visayas State University
• Carl Marc Ramota, Faculty Regent, University of the Philippines

Moderator:
• Gerald John C. Guillermo, College of Law, University of the Philippines

See you there!

The UP Manila Political Science Program and Political Science 182 WBD class will hold a forum, “From the River to the Sea: America’s Role in Middle East and Southeast Asian Geopolitical Dynamics” on May 15, 2024, Wednesday, 9:00 AM to 12:00 NN at the Little Theater in CAS, UP Manila.

Speakers include Prof. Bobby Tuazon of the UP Manila Political Science Committee and the Center for People Empowerment in Governance, and Prof. Sarah Raymundo of the UP Center for International Studies. Discussions will focus on the rising tensions and new geopolitical alignments in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and the future of United States’ foreign policy in these regions.

The activity is in partnership with the All UP Academic Employees Union - Manila Chapter, and the Office of the Faculty Regent, with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, in celebration of the 51st anniversary of the UP Manila Department of Social Sciences.

Kitakits bukas para sa taunang variety show tuwing DSS Week!

Bukas na ang pinaka-aabangang taunang variety show ng DSS! 🤩🤩🤩

Gaganapin ang SocSciYaw face-to-face sa UPM Little Theater sa ika-26 ng Abril 2024, 1:00-4:00 nang hapon.

Kitakits bukas!

Congratulations to our alumna, Denise Hyacinth Joy B. Musni (BA Political Science, 2016) for winning the 3rd Loretta Makasiar Sicat Prize for the Social Sciences of the Philippine Social Science Council!

You can watch the video of her lecture on the link below: https://web.facebook.com/psscouncil/videos/809208440541911/?rdid=KMYRKBO9TAxgMXEs

Your UPM Political Science family is proud of you!

Congratulations to our very own Assistant Professor Jose Mari Lanuza for being selected as one of the 45 recipients of the 2024 Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships!

Assistant Professor Lanuza is currently a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Due to the sudden suspension of face-to-face classes in Manila tomorrow, our special lectures will shift online via Zoom. To those who registered, please expect an email from us on the Zoom link.

To those who are still interested to participate in the lecture, you may still register at https://tinyurl.com/yv4yun5y or by scanning the QR code below in order to receive the Zoom link.

See you tomorrow!

The UP Manila Political Science Program, Department of Social Sciences in collaboration with the UPM CAS Office of the Associate Dean for Research and Public Service is proud to share its upcoming event, "Special Lectures in Political Science: The Political and Economic Implications of Charter Change" on April 24, 2024 (9:00AM-12:00PM), with Dr. Aries Arugay (UP Department of Political Science) and Sonny Africa (IBON Foundation) as our speakers.

This event is in line with Department of Social Sciences - U.P. Manila's 51st anniversary.

Interested participants can register at https://tinyurl.com/yv4yun5y

Opening program of the Department of Social Sciences (DSS) Week in the University of the Philippines Manila. DSS Chairperson Ruth Legaspi, Faculty Regent Carl Marc Ramota, and CAS Dean Maria Constancia Carillo delivered messages at the Little Theater while Senators Risa Hontiveros and Francis Pangilinan sent recorded messages greeting the faculty, staff, students, and alumni on the Department’s golden jubilee year.

Our program chair, Assistant Professor Jose Mikhail Perez, will be delivering a lecture on the DSS Week Brown Bag Session on April 22, 2024, 1:00-4:00PM at the UP Manila Theater.

Join us again for the brown bag sessions of our newly tenured faculty members, Assistant Professor Jose Mikhail Perez and Associate Professor Wensley Reyes, this coming April 22, 2024, at the UP Manila Theater from 1:00-4:00PM.

See you all there!

Catch our Political Science majors showcasing their talents in our annual PolSciyahan variety show on April 16 at the UP Manila Theater!

The UP Manila Political Science Program, Department of Social Sciences in collaboration with the UPM CAS Office of the Associate Dean for Research and Public Service is proud to share its upcoming event, "Special Lectures in Political Science: The Political and Economic Implications of Charter Change" on April 24, 2024 (9:00AM-12:00PM), with Dr. Aries Arugay (UP Department of Political Science) and Sonny Africa (IBON Foundation) as our speakers.

This event is in line with Department of Social Sciences - U.P. Manila's 51st anniversary.

Interested participants can register at https://tinyurl.com/yv4yun5y

Join us in celebrating UPM Political Science Week on April 11-16!

𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐢𝐲𝐨 𝐧𝐚 𝐛𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐡𝐨𝐧? 🌤

Kung ganoon, ihanda niyo na lalo ang inyong mga sarili para sa mas mag-iinit at magsisiklab ninyong Abril sa pagsisimula ng 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒌𝒍𝒂𝒃: 𝑷𝒂𝒈𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒐𝒍 𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑼𝒌𝒐𝒍 𝒔𝒂 𝑷𝒂𝒈-𝒂𝒍𝒑𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒂 𝑩𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒈 𝒏𝒈 𝑲𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒌𝒖𝒚𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒉𝒐𝒏. 💥🔥

Kabalikat ang Organization of Area Studies Major, ipagdiriwang sa ilalim ng temang ito ang ika-23 na taon ng UP Polis at ang taunang linggo ng dalubbanwahan sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Manila. 🎉🎈

Narito ang gabay para sa mga kaganapan ngayong linggo:
📌 Ika-11 ng Abril (Huwebes)
PolSciklaban: Panimulang Palatuntunan (1:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
UPM Little Theater

📌 Ika-12 ng Abril (Biyernes)
Pampublikong Porum (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
UPM Little Theater

📌 Ika-13 ng Abril (Sabado)
Paglabas ng mga opisyal na poster para sa PolSciYAHAN’24 (online)

📌 Ika-14 ng Abril (Linggo)
Paglabas ng mga infographics at opisyal na mga pahayag ng organisasyon (online)

📌 Ika-16 ng Abril (Martes)
PolSciYAHAN'24 ( 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
UPM Little Theater

Isang taos-pusong pasasalamat para sa UP Association of Political Science Majors at sa Society of Applied Mathematics of UPLB para sa kanilang tulong na magpapatagumpay sa pagdaraos ng pagdiriwang na ito. 💛

Iniimbitahan at hinihikayat namin ang lahat na makiisa, makilahok, at makisaya sa aming pagdiriwang!❤️‍🔥

Halina’t magkita-kita tayo sa darating na Huwebes sa UP Manila Little Theater para sa pagbubukas ng PolSciklab ngayong linggo! 🎉💥🔥

In Partnership With:
UPM Organization of Area Studies Majors

Special Thanks to:
Society of Applied Mathematics of UPLB
UP Association of Political Science Majors

DSS WEEK 2024
“Kabuluhan ng Agham Panlipunan sa Panahon ng Makabagong Teknolohiya”

Join us in a weeklong celebration of the Department of Social Sciences’ 51st year!

Congratulations to our students
Clem Arcilla
Adrian Arda
Aaron Bernaldo
Meagan Coronel
Fitz Delos Santos
Psalm Dorado
MJ Ducut
Sab Leuenberger
Pauline Magsino
Shannen Santiago
Adelle Tapia

Your UP Manila Pol Sci Family is so proud of you! Padayon! 🫶 Lagi't lagi para sa bayan!❤️