CALL FOR PAPERS --- 15th Annual Conference of University Museum and Collections (UMAC)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The University Museum and Collections (UMAC), international committee of International Council on Museums (ICOM) and the University of Santo Tomas represented by UST Museum in cooperation with the Philippines National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) will hold the 15^th Annual Conference of University Museum and Collections (UMAC) to be held on May 11-14, 2015 at the University of Santo Tomas, España, Manila, Philippines. The conference theme is:

“Rethinking University Museums: Bridging Theory and Practice”

The conference in Manila aims to encourage discussion on the role of the university museum amidst evolving trends and persistent challenges. The goal of rethinking involves examining the place of the university museum within a larger network of relations and issues. The subthemes span the reexamination of the museum’s mandate and expanding its outreach beyond the academe, to exploring new paradigms and shifting practices in order to address urgent issues such as the increasingly apparent effects of climate change. The goal of this conference is to create a platform where interdisciplinary theories drawn from the disciplines of Museum Studies, Cultural and Heritage Studies, Tourism Studies, Art Studies, Anthropology, and Conservation Science could be expanded based on practical experience or various case studies offered by international colleagues. Rethinking University Museums hopes to flesh out critical perspectives and innovative approaches in affirming the significance of university museums today.

UMAC invites papers that expound (but not limited) to the following subthemes:

I.      Towards Responsive Museums: Examining the role of museums in education and public formation

1.     Engaging publics: Museum pedagogy and outreach programs

2.     Ways of telling: Exploring representation, narratives, and exhibition strategies

3.     Reflecting on the university museum’s institutional history and mandate through innovative programs

4.     Reassessing the roles of decision makers, donors, museum professionals, and audience as stakeholders 

5.     Going against the grain: Reinventing traditional museum practices

6.     Reassessing the mission/ vision of a university museum in line with the university per se mission/ vision

II.    Greening the Museums and the Environs: Challenges in preservation and conservation of cultural property

1.     Sustainable practices in preservation and conservation

2.     Collaborative conservation research projects by the various units of the university

3.     Utilizing cost-efficient and eco-friendly materials in aspects of collections management

III. Role of University Museums in Cultural Tourism: Enhancing tourism through museum experience

1.     Restoration and/or beautification projects of historical university museum buildings for tourism promotion 

2.     Partnerships with the local government and private organizations in promotional activities

3.     Going Viral: Museum publicity and online platforms

Papers may be presented in three forms:

a.)    20 minute formal talks(15 minutes talk + 5 minutes discussion)

b.)   10 minute informal ‘experiences’ or 5 minutes inform-all

c.)    Posters

All submitted abstracts should include:

·       Title of submitted paper

·       Type of paper: 20 minutes, 10 minutes or poster

·       Name of Author(s)

·       Affiliation(s)

·       Address(es)

·       Contact Email Address

·       Telephone Number

·       Fax Number

·       Abstract in English (not to exceed 300 words)

·       Support equipment required

·       Include a short biography highlighting main research interest (not more than 50 words)

Poster papers should be A1 (594mm x 841mm), portrait format.

Participate to UMAC ‘inform-all social’ event. To be selected, you must provide the following in one document:

·       Name, position and email

·       Your institution’s name and website specific to the museums, galleries or collections therein

·       Compose a short description of the proposed content of the 5 minute talk (max 100 words)

Abstracts will be accepted electronically until February 10, 2015.

All submitted abstracts will receive an acknowledgment notice by email.

All submissions (papers accounts and posters) will be considered by a Review Committee who will assess each abstract for relevance to the theme, museological importance and clarity of ideas and expression. The review committee will let proposers know their decision within two week.

It is our intention to publish the abstracts and the papers given on the UMAC’s website. Selected presentations (after further review) will be published and printed as part of the conference proceedings.

If you would like to submit a paper or poster, please send the abstract (in English) to:

UMAC 2015 Secretariat

umac2015manila@mnl.ust.edu.ph or umac2015manila@yahoo.com

copy furnish chair@umac.icom.museum

Immaculate Conception

Homily of Pope Benedict XVI

8 December 2011

 

Dear brothers and sisters!

The great feast of Mary Immaculate invites us every year to gather here, in one of Rome’s most beautiful piazzas, to offer homage to her, to the Mother of Christ and our Mother. With affection I greet all of you who are present here and those who are joining us via radio and television. And I thank you for your choral participation in my act of prayer.

At the top of the column that we crown Mary is represented by a statue that in part recalls the passage from the Book of Revelation that was just proclaimed: “A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and, upon her head, a crown of twelve stars” (Revelation 12:1). What is the meaning of this image? It represents both Our Lady and the Church.

First of all the “woman” of the Book of Revelation is Mary herself. She appears “clothed in the sun,” that is, clothed in God: the Virgin Mary is in fact surrounded by the light of God and lives in God. This symbol of the luminous garments expresses a condition that regards the whole of Mary’s being: she is the one who is “full of grace,” filled with the love of God. And “God is light” as St. John says (1 John 1:5). This is why she who is “full of grace,” the “Immaculate” reflects with her whole person the light of the “sun” that is God.

This woman has the moon beneath her feet, the symbol of death and mortality. Mary, in fact, is wholly associated with the victory of Jesus Christ, her Son, over sin and death; she is free from every shadow of death and is completely filled with life. As death no longer has any power over the risen Jesus (cf. Romans 6:9), thus, by a grace and a singular privilege of almighty God, Mary has left death behind, she has overcome it. And this is manifested in the two great mysteries of her life: at the beginning, being conceived without original sin, which is the mystery that we celebrate today; and, at the end, being assumed in soul and body into heaven, into God’s glory. But also her whole life on earth was a victory over death, because it was spent entirely in the service of God, in the complete offering of herself to God and neighbor. Because of this Mary is in herself a him to life: she is the creature in whom the word of Christ is already realized: “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it in abundance” (John 10:10).

 In the vision of the Book of Revelation there is another detail: upon the head of the woman clothed in the sun there is “a crown of twelve stars.” This sign represents the 12 tribes of Israel and means that the Virgin Mary is at the center of the People of God, of the whole communion of saints. And thus this image of the crown of twelve stars introduces us to the second great interpretation of the celestial sign of the “woman clothed in the sun”: besides representing our Lady, this sign personifies the Church, the Christian community of all times. She is pregnant, in the sense that she carries Christ in her womb and must bear him for the world: this is the suffering of the pilgrim Church on earth, who in the midst of God’s consolations and the world’s persecution must bring Jesus to men.

It is precisely for this, because she brings Jesus, that the Church meets the opposition of a ferocious adversary, represented in the Book of Revelation by the “great red dragon” (Revelation 12:3). This dragon sought in vain to devour Jesus – the “male child destined to govern all the nations” (12:5). The dragon tries in vain because Jesus, through his death and resurrection, has ascended to God and he has taken his seat upon his throne. This is why the dragon, defeated once and for all in heaven, turns his attacks toward to the woman – the Church – in the wilderness of the world. But in every age the Church is sustained by the light and by the power of God, which nourishes her in the wilderness with the bread of his Word and the Holy Eucharist. And so in every tribulation, through all of the trials that she meets in the course time and in different parts of the world, the Church suffers persecution but is always victorious in the end. And precisely in this way the Christian community is the presence, the guarantee of God’s love against every ideology of hatred and egoism.

The only threat the Church can and must fear is the sin of her members. While, in fact, Mary is the Immaculate, free from every stain of sin, the Church is holy, but at the same time she is stained by our sins. This is why the People of God, in pilgrimage through time, turns to its heavenly Mother and implores her help; it asks this so that she might accompany us on the journey of faith, that she might encourage the undertaking of a Christian life and support our hope. We need her above all in this very difficult moment for Italy, for Europe, for various parts of the world. Mary helps us to see that there is a light beyond the dark clouds that seems to envelop reality. For this reason we too, especially on this occasion, do not cease ask for her help with filial confidence: “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.” 

Ora pro nobis, intercede pro nobis ad Dominum Iesum Christum!

UST Paskuhan 2014

UST PASKUHAN 2014

As posted in the current Collegiate Calendar, the Paskuhan 2014 celebration will be held on Monday, 8 December 2014 at the UST Grandstand and open field.

The theme of this year’s festivities is “PAGDIRIWANG NG PAGMAMALASAKIT: Tomasino Kaisa ni Papa Francisco at ng Simbahan sa Pasko.”

As in the past, everyone is encouraged to wear RED, GREEN, or YELLOW/GOLD get-ups to heighten the whole-day Christmas festive mood. The festivities will go by following schedule:

Raffle Draw (minor prizes)
Main building canopy
10:00 a.m.

Paskuhan Fair
Campus grounds
12:00 noon

Panunuluyan
Grandstand and open Field
5:00 p.m.

Eucharistic Celebration
Grandstand and open Field
5:30 p.m.
-Main Celebrant:
Very Rev. Gerard Francisco P. Timoner III, O.P.
Vice Chancellor

-Homilist:
Very Rev. Fr. Herminio V. Dagohoy, O.P.
Rector

Agape (free–food booths)
Employees’ Parking Area
7:00 p.m.

Raffle Draw (major prizes)
Plaza Mayor

Paskuhan Concert
Grandstand

Fireworks Display (Campus Grounds)
9:00 p.m


Let us make Thomasian Christmas 2014 another special one by remembering to continue sending help to those who need it most, as our share in the Holy Father’s prayer for Mercy and Compassion for the Filipino nation.

For the Offertory procession, the various Faculties/Colleges and Departments are enjoined to contribute donations in cash, which will be used in the regular projects on the Tulong Tomasino Program of the Simbahayan Community Development Office.

A Blessed Christmas to all!

UAAP Season 22 Basketball Tournament High School Division First Round of Schedule

UAAP Season 22 Basketball Tournament

High School Division

First Round of Schedule

77 Seniors Volleyball Tournament (Men and Women) First Round Schedule

UAAP Season 77 Seniors Volleyball Tournament (Men and Women) First Round Schedule

ACY Peer Facilitators' Training Program

ACY PEER FACILITATORS’ TRAINING PROGRAM
GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING DEPARTMENT

The Guidance and Counselling Department is one with the Archdiocesan Commission on Youth in its steadfast mission of shepherding the young people of today. A joint project entitled “ACY Peer Facilitators’ Training Program” was designed through the initiative of Rev. Fr. Ramon Jade Licuanan of the Archdiocesan Commission on Youth and the UST-GCD Community Development Committee. The UST counselors will train volunteer youth leaders from different parishes of Manila. The youth leaders will undergo four sessions of basic training and four sessions of advance training to become full-pledge Peer Facilitators. As Peer Facilitators in their respective community, they will be guiding their fellow youth in making more responsible decisions in life and in always choosing the way of Christ.

Career Seminar Series 2014

Career Seminar Series 2014
UST Guidance and Counseling Department

The Guidance and Counseling Department proudly brings you the Career Seminar Series 2014 for graduating students with the theme “Exemplifying the Thomasian Identity for World-class Employability”. Come and be equipped with the essential job hunting skills to land on your dream job.  It aims to broaden your perspective in exploring possible employment, opportunities for graduate studies and to keep you abreast with the current trends and demands in your respective profession. Meanwhile, successful alumni will be there to inspire you to pursue excellence in your career and instil in you a heightened sense of Thomasian pride and confidence.

All graduating students of A.Y 2014-2015 are required to attend this activity. The class presidents of graduating sections are requested to coordinate with their respective Guidance Counselor. 

Four Papers for IUBMB and FAOBMB

SCIENCE NEWS!

Four papers from the UST College of Science were presented during the 15th International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) and the 24th Federation of Asian and Ocenian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB) International Conference at the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan last 21-26 October 2014.

* Asymptomatic Immunoglobulin Epsilon Sensitizations to Tropical Grass Pollen-Derived Carbohydrates (Cabauatan CR, Lupinek C, Weiss R, Focke-Tejkl M, Bhalla P, van Hage M, Ramos JDA, Valenta R.)

* Allergenicity of selected legumepollen extractsin a panel of Filipino atopic individuals (Velasco RUD, Garcia MCZ, Miranda CFL, Paas GRG, Bajao JEM, Yap JMG, Sabit MB, Ramos JDA)

* The -2978C/G single nucleotide polymorphism of ADAM33 gene in a selected Filipino asthmatic population (Yap JM, Ching MW, Cabanilla CQ, Ramos JDA)

* Genotype and allele frequencies of eotaxin -384 A>G and interleukin 5 -703 C>T SNPs in selected pediatric asthmatic population (Ching MW, Santos KCP, Ong CM, JDA Ramos)

The UST delegation composed of participants coming from both the College of Science and the UST Graduate School: John Donnie A. Ramos (faculty); Jennifer Maries Yap (faculty); Joshua Evans Bajao (former Bio student / GS Msc student); Rainier Ulrich Velasco (former Bio student / GS MSs student) and Marciar Ching (GS PhD alumna).

The group was a part of a 16-man delegation from the Philippines.

Dr. Ramos is the current president of the Philippine Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PSBMB), a member of IUBMB and FAOBMB.

 

 

UST documents in ancient ‘baybayin’ script declared a National Cultural Treasure

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer | Edgar Allan Sembrano

AERIAL shot the UST Miguel de Benavides Library Building, which houses UST Archives

REGALADO Trota Jose with the ancient documents on his desk at UST Archives.

Owing to their outstanding cultural value, two 17th-century baybayin documents from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Archives were recently declared National Cultural Treasure (NCT) by the National Archives of the Philippines (NAP). Baybayin is the ancient Filipino syllabary in use during the Spanish contact in the 16th century.

The declaration was made during the Second Baybayin Conference on Aug. 22 at National Museum of the Filipino People at Agrifina Circle in Manila. The conference was held in conjunction with the Buwan ng Wika (National Language Month) celebration.

“This is the first declaration made by the National Archives and the first paper document to be declared as NCT,” said UST professor Regalado Trota Jose, director of the UST Archives and a former commissioner of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. The formal declaration was made by National Archivist Ino Manalo.

Cover sheet of 1613 document

Jose said the recognition highlighted the age of UST and its status as Asia’s oldest university and an historic institution.

He explained the ancient scripts should assist in the understanding of the history of the university and the Philippine nation, and highlighted the importance of the collection of ancient documents in the UST Archives.

Significance

The UST Baybayin Documents, said Jose, represent the longest and most complete documents handwritten entirely in baybayin, a Philippine script in use since pre-colonial times up to the present.

The two records are also the oldest of their kind, both as being written in baybayin and as examples of early deeds of sale, showing insights into the use of baybayin by different individuals living in and around Manila in the early 17th century and in the legal affairs of early Spanish colonization.

1635 deed of sale

These documents, Jose explained, also provide insights into a particular stage of the orthographical and paleographical development of baybayin scripts and are very rare examples of 17th-century records in a fair state of preservation. The deeds of sale also highlight the role of women in ancient Philippine society as landowners and entrepreneurs. Jose said ancient women apparently had the same power as men to own and sell land. They provide insights on how much more prevalent was the use of baybayin then, since it was generally thought previously that baybayin was just limited to writing poems, accounting and signing of documents.

Deeds of Sale

“These two documents are deeds of sale of lands. The first one is 1613 (Document A); the second one is 1635 (Document B),” said Jose.

COVER sheet of 1635 document written in Spanish and baybayin.

He said Don Andres Capiit bought the land in Document A; married Doña Francisca Longar, who bought the land in Document B. Longar remarried after Capiit died sometime between 1613 and 1625. She married Don Luis Castilla, who sold some lands to UST in 1629. A contestation ensued, and Castilla had to show Documents A and B as proofs of ownership. The documents were passed on to the university archives after the acquisition of the land from Castilla. These deeds of sale were actually part of a book with baybayin documents, said Jose.

During the UST tricentenary in 1911 (the university was founded by the Dominicans in 1611), among the “treasures” exhibited by UST to the public were the baybayin documents. The two documents were first published in 1911 on Libertas, the daily newspaper published by UST.

Conservation

1613 document. The discoloration is water-damage from particularly heavy floods in the 1930s.

“We are recognized as custodians of the NCT, but there’s the responsibility for these to be taken care of,” said Jose about the declaration. “So we have to have good (environment) to take care of these. Not only these but all other documents [in the collection]. These are to be kept for posterity, for the next generations, for other people and other countries to use and study later on.”

“So we have to train our staff to know how to handle the documents,” added Jose, who also teaches in the Cultural Heritage Studies program of the UST Graduate School. The actual copies are not available for public viewing due to their fragile state. Replicas have been made and may be viewed at UST Archives bulletin board (5/F, Central Library). These will eventually be uploaded on the UST website along with important data.

‘Tagalog ABC’

The baybayin is a pre-Islamic, pre-Spanish Philippine script with 14 consonants and three vowels. It is wrongly referred to as an alibata or alphabet.

Baybayin, explained Jose, “is the term used in the alphabet. If we are going to refer to the old Tagalog dictionaries, baybayin is the ABC of the Tagalogs. So ’di tamang gamitin ang alibata (So alibata is not the correct word). Alibata is a term invented in 1914. So it is not a traditional word. It was just invented to refer to this.”

The baybayin is still being used today by the Palaw’an and Tagbanua ethnic groups of Palawan and the Hanunuo and Buhid Mangyan of Mindoro.

A number of baybayin artifacts have been recovered through archaeological diggings or by accident all over the country. These are the Laguna Copperplate Inscription (Laguna); Calatagan Ritual Pot (Batangas); Intramuros Potsherd (Manila); Monreal Stone (Masbate); Butuan Tin Paleograph and Butuan Ivory Seal (Agusan del Norte).

The first book printed in the Philippines, “Doctrina Christiana,” published by the Dominicans in 1593, was also in  baybayin, as well as in Spanish and Tagalog Roman scripts.

The new declaration may be the sixth recognition from the Philippine government for UST.

In 2011, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines declared UST a National Historical Landmark. In 2010, in the run-up to the 400th anniversary of UST in 2011, the National Museum declared four sites on campus as NCT: UST Main Building, UST Central Seminary, UST Arch of the Centuries and  UST Open Grounds.

Even much earlier, around the 1940s, the National Historical Institute installed a marker at the  UST Press (now the UST Publishing House), naming it a National Historical Site. The UST Press is the second-oldest press in the world, after the Cambridge University Press of England.

Source: http://bit.ly/ustbaybayin

UST Baybayin Documents as National Treasure

ANOTHER "FIRST" FROM UST

The National Museum has already declared the UST Main Building, the Central Seminary, the Arch of the Centuries, and UST’s open spaces (parade grounds) as “National Cultural Treasures” in 2010.


This is the first time for an educational institution to join the roster of National Cultural Treasures, with the majority of such structures being churches, and the rest being terrestrial landmarks, intangible cultural property, and movable objects.


Another first from UST is the formal declaration of Baybayin Documents of the University of Santo Tomas as a National Treasure held this morning ,13 November 2014 | 9:00 AM at the Miguel de Benavides Library (Ground Floor). It is the first archival document  declared as a national treasure. 


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MAFBEX 2014: JUNE 11 – 13, 2014

                  COOKING DEMONSTRATION: GOLD

ELENA FAITH CARIÑO

                  BEST COFFEE CONCOCTION: SILVER

JEROME PAUL MISA, PATRICIA FAYE CANA

                  MOCKTAIL PUNCH: BRONZE

JAEMI ELEAZAR, NIKKA YABAO, GABRIEL PETERSON

                  TABLE SETTINGS: BEST NAPKIN FOLD

LARRY VENTURA, ANGELICA TONGOL, MIEL JOHN CAMPOMANES,

 JHON LAREVE PARRABA, JOHN PAUL CAPARAS

 

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2014 PHILIPPINE CULINARY CUP: AUGUST 6 – 9, 2014

                  YOUNG CHEFS TEAM CHALLENGE: BRONZE

                                    MARTIN ANTONIO TIOSECO, FRANCES CHARISSA ROXAS

 

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25^TH TRAVEL MART COMPETITION: SEPT 7, 2014

                  PATIMPALAK NG KASUOTANG FILIPINO: GRAND WINNER

                                    JUSTINE NAVATO – DESIGNER

                                    MIYA MORELOS – MODEL

                  HIMIG NG KUNDIMAN: 1^ST PLACE

                                    SHARLENE (FROM CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC)

                  QUIZ BEE: 3^RD PLACE

                                    CAMILA DE GUZMAN

NATIONAL FOOD SHOWDOWN 2014: SEPTEMBER 23 – 24, 2014

                  AMUSE BOUCHE DISPLAY: GOLD WITH DISTINCTION

                                    FRANCES CHARISSE ROXAS

                  THE SOUP KITCHEN: GOLD

                                    CARLO VENTURA AND PAOLO SALTING

                  KLASIKA KULINARYA: SILVER

                                    CAMILLE GERONA AND JOMER LACHICA

                  MAIN COURSE DISPLAY: SILVER

                                    MARTIN ANTONIO TIOSECO

                  DIPS AND CHIPS: BRONZE

                                    JOHN PAUL CAPARAS

                  CUPCAKES: BRONZE

                                    KARREN FAYE YBAÑES

                  PLATED DESSERTS: DIPLOMA

                                    JENNINE BOADA AND MIKAELA TUAZON

                  COFFEE CONCOCTION: DIPLOMA

                                    PATRICIA FAYE CANA

                  MOCKTAIL MIXING: DIPLOMA

                                    JHON LAREVE PARRABA

                  EDIBLE ART: DIPLOMA

                                    SHANDALICA CARPIO

 

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Salting

GRAND CULINARY CHALLENGE: AUGUST 29 – 30, 2014

                  FOODCART BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION: 1^ST PLACE

                                    HYACINTH JEANED BARROS

                  CREATIVE BAR CHOW COMPETITION: 3^RD PLACE

                                    KEVIN JOSEPH DE LOS SANTOS

                 

THE AMERICAN HOSPITALITY ACADEMY: AUGUST 27, 2014

                  AMERICAN HOSPITALITY ATTITUDE: STAR OF “AHA”

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