VERA Files is a nonstock, nonprofit media organization that takes a more in-depth look into contemporary Philippine issues. I was interviewed by their correspondent Nica Rhiana Hanopol on President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.'s doublespeak in the video feature "VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: Pangako o Pangarap? Marcos Jr.'s doublespeak". You may watch the feature in their official website (https://verafiles.org/articles/vera-files-fact-check-yearender-pangako-o-pangarap-marcos-jr-s-doublespeak) and Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBQ1sklRhlY). Read more about VERA Files Fact Check Yearender
I was invited to give a talk last November 10 2023 on Artificial Intelligence and its relations to human language at a seminar talk-show at the De Paul House, St. Vincent School of Theology, Tandang Sora, Quezon City. The talk was attended by seminarians in their 1st to 4th years of theology study and the academic coordinator Manuel Victor J. Sapitula, PhD.
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...
Advance.org published its interview with UP School of Archaeology's Dr. Armand Salvador Mijares, as part of its celebration of Global Australian Awards' 2023 GameChangers. Dr. Mijares was awarded the Indo-Pacific Impact Award, and was a finalist for Global Australian of the Year.
Listen to the motivations and challenges of Dr. Mijares here.
Dr. Armand Salvador Mijares receives the Indo-Pacific Impact Award for the 2023 Global Australian Awards.
The Global Australian Awards recognizes UP School of Archaeology's Dr. Armand Mijares' remarkable contribution to archaeology in the Indo-Pacific region and globally, specifically his role in the discovery of a new human-related species in the Philippines.
The 15th Philippine Linguistics Congress (15PLC) was held from 23-25 August 2023 at the NISMED Auditorium, University of the Philippines Diliman. Maria Kristina S. Gallego, Honeylet Dumoran, and myself gave a plenary lecture titled Philippine historical and comparative linguistics from below on the first day of the conference. More details on the conference can be found in the official website https://15plc.webflow.io/.
