I participated at a virtual round-table discussion on doing language documentation in multilingual communities. The main speaker was Bradley McDonell from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. I served as a discussant, together with Diane Manzano of University of the Philippines Los Banos. This event was organized by the Department of Linguistics UP Diliman. Access the recording here.
The Philippine Institute of Chemical Engineers - Bataan Chapter (PIChE-BC) hosted a webinar on "Developing Pathways to Sustainable Energy: an En-ROADS Climate Workshop" last April 17, 2021 with resource speaker, Dr Jhud Mikhail Aberilla.
This webinar provides workshop to address climate change via the interactive testing of the cutting-edge simulation model En-ROADS, created by Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan. In this workshop, participants propose climate solutions such as energy efficiency, carbon pricing, fossil fuel taxes, reducing...
One of the SPaRC's papers “An integrated sustainability assessment of synergistic supply of energy and water in remote communities” was chosen as a finalist for the 2021 NAST Talent Search for Young Scientists hosted by the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology. This competition is a project of NAST PHL to encourage young people to pursue a career in science.
Jhud Aberilla joins the panel of speakers for the Study UK webinar "Exploring the paths into green careers: accounts from East Asia" hosted by the British Council. Over 2,000 participants registered to learn more about the different opportunities for the youth to get involved in a green career. It forms part of a global webinar series called Green Careers that the British Council is holding in 2021 in the run up to COP26. The series will explore the different careers that exist within the green sector and some of the routes into them, with a particular focus on the UK's higher education...
I participated in a round-table discussion on small-scale multilingualism in the Pacific, together with Christian Döhler, Alexandre François, and Jill Vaughan, convened by Friederike Lüpke and Ruth Singer, and hosted by l'Institut des langues rares (Institute for Linguistic Heritage and Diversity). Access the recording...
Our paper entitled Is Malayo-Polynesian a primary branch of Austronesian? A reappraisal was presented at the New Zealand Linguistics Society Language and Society Conference 2020. This was co-authored with Victoria Chen, Chen-Chuen Kuo, and Isaac Stead.
I was invited to speak at the online edition of the Binalot Talks, a series of lectures held every Wednesday, lunchtime and hosted by the Archaeological Studies Program (ASP) of the University of the Philippines. I talked about my current research on Porohanon (ISO 639-3 prh), its linguistic features and community profile.
This was also posted on the UP Dept. of Linguistics Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/UPLinguistics/posts/3945039448882176.
I gave a presentation on the current status of the languages of the Philippines, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic based on our experiences from Language Warriors PH. The online forum is organized by the Department of English, Foreign Languages and Linguistics Guild of English Majors Extension Student Corps of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. The event can be accessed through this link.
