Tuko Chronicles is the official podcast of the UP CSSP Folklore Studies Program. The latest episode titled "Hop-On Hop-Off Linguistics Caravan: Snippets of Life as Told Through Various Philippine Languages" was produced in collaboration with the UP Department of Linguistics. It features narratives told by individual speakers of the languages Ibatan, Itneg Inlaud, Kapampangan Mabatang, Porohanon, Bagobo-Klata, and graduate students and faculty members of the department providing introductory remarks to each recording. I served as the host of the episode.
Published in Antiquity, this paper reports that Greenlandic settlers during the early medieval period had a mix of British, Irish, and Scandinavian ancestries. This finding is based on 3D-shape analyses of human crania from Scandinavia, Britain, Ireland, and a Norse colony in Greenland.
Can small vertebrates tell us something about Palaeolithic rock art?
To know the answer, you have to read the contribution of Juan Rofes (Associate professor of UPSA) to this fantastic paper published in Scientific Reports, the “younger sibling” of Nature. Besides, you will learn about the complexity of the artistic production inside caves during the Upper Palaeolithic. There is...
I attended the Third Critical Island Studies Conference with the theme "Islands and Commodities" last 2 October 2023 at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada at Yogyakarta, Indonesia. More information on the conference may be found in their official website: https://cis.fib.ugm.ac.id/ugmcon/.
It was held back to back with the 11th Literary Studies Conference with the theme "Geopolitics & Literature: Reimagining The Past, Present, & Future" from 3-4 October 2023 at Universitas Sanata Dharma in the same city. In this conference, I presented my paper...
