Binalot Talks

The Binalot Talks (formerly Brown Bag Talks) are held every Wednesday, 12pm to 1 pm at Albert Hall Seminar Room 2 of the UP School of Archaeology .

We tackle everything and anything archaeological, and then some!

We started the Binalot Talks at the then ASP (Archaeological Studies Program) in 2003 to regularize the informal talks organized for the benefit of the ASP community. We believe that this format of interaction is effective in allowing people from various backgrounds to communicate, and for research interests to be aired. We have managed to create better links with other disciplines in the university, provide a venue for visiting scholars, widen our horizon of interest and start collaborative research with people outside the UP School of Archaeology.

The talk is open to the public and because of its regularity, we have developed an audience of people who travel to Albert Hall from as far as Makati and Manila just to attend. The environment is a relaxed one and the audience is very diverse.

We post announcements of upcoming talks through our events page and Facebook page and weekly announcements are posted at the homepage: https://archaeology.upd.edu.ph

Title	Speakers	Date
The Commodification of Coffins in Sto Tomas, Pampanga	Rose Dizon	16-January
Buried in Style: A glimpse of Manila cemeteries	Tara Reyes. Jessica Peña and Charlene Manese	30-January
Too many species, so little time: Documenting the botanical riches of the Philippines	Leonard Co	06-February
The Archaeology of Pigs and People in Southeast Asia	Phil Piper	13-February
The Early Pleistocene of Europe Thru the Evidence from Atapuerca	Robert Sala	20-February
Indigenous Approaches Utilized by Parents and Educators in Addressing the Needs of Intellectually Superior Filipino Children Aged 4 to 9 years old	Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal	27-February
Possibilities and Challenges of Community Museums: The Case of Balay ni Tan Juan in Bago City, Negros Occidental	Cecille de la Paz	05-March
Laguna de Bay Precipitation Trends in the Last 4000 Years	Peter Zamora	12-March
Revisiting Maitum Pots: The Sagel Cave	Nida Cuevas and Sandy de Leon	18-June
Kapangyarihan ni Apo: A look into the Significance of Bones in Secondary Burial Practices of the Ifugao and Kankanay	Tara Reyes	25-June
Music Archaeology in Asia: Selected Topics and Perspectives	Arsenio Nicolas	02-July
The Kingdom of Sri Vijaya in the 9th Century: An Expanded View	Cynthia Valdes	09-July
Thoughts on the Materiality of History	Maris Diokno	16-July
The Potentials of Metal Detecting for the Practice of Philippine Archaeology	Douglas Wong	23-July
An Archaeology of Seas? A Graph Theoretic Analysis of Interaction in the Visayan Landscape	Cyril Calusay	30-July
The Quest of Early Man in the Philippines: Excavation and Exploration of Solana and Enrile Municipalities in Cagayan Valley	Sheldon Clyde Jago-on	06-August
Different Meanings of Calatagan	Grace Barretto-Tesoro	13-August
The Oriental and Occidental Concept of the Body	Naohiko Umekawa	03-September
Why We Need A Pinoy Ecological History	Benjamin Vallejo	17-September
Bead Type Collection in Philippine Archaeological Context	Rey Santiago and Pauline Basilia	24-September
Who's Afraid of Climate Change?	Perry Ong	08-October
The ancient giant clam shells from Balobok Rockshelter, Philippines as potential recorders of environmental changes: A diagenesis assessment and sclerochronology study	Pamela Faylona	19-November
Contextualizing the Banaue Trip	Michael James Herrera and Michelle Eusebio	25-November
Future Visions, Past Revisions: Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Philippines	Emil Flores	03-December
The Epistemology of Modern Filipino Revolts	Patricio Mangubat	09-December

Title	Speakers	Date
Gongs, Bells and Cymbals: The archaeological record in maritime Asia from the 10th to the 16th CE	Arsenio Nicolas	14-January
Trauma, everyday politics and the affective turn in the visual arts	May Datuin	21-January
Philosophy of Science and Bird-Watching	Jerry Devilla	28-January
Socially Engaged Songs in Asia	Jess Santiago	04-February
Some insight from the excavation of Dewil Valley, El Nido, Palawan	Victor Paz	11-February
Mathematics and Beauty	Marian Roque	18-February
Human Adaptation to Cold Climates: The Experience in Ancient Hokkaido, Japan	Marc Oxenham	25-February
Re-establishing the Military Museum of the Philippines	Jose Custodio	04-March
Inventions and Innovations	Bonifacio Comandante	11-March
Batangas. Again? New sites, new perspectives, new agenda	Grace Barretto-Tesoro	18-March
Views on the Mentality of 21st Century Island Southeast Asia Archaeology Practice	Victor Paz	10-June
Insights on Bikol Archaeology Through Bikol Museums	Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio	17-June
Creating Subjectivities: Tales from the Field	Nelson Nava Turgo	24-June
Recipes for an Archaeology of the Gastronomic	Jack Medrana	01-July
Excavation of a Jar Burial Site in the Bondoc Peninsula: Results of the Joint-Up Archaeological Studies Program and Australian National University 2008 Field School	Victor Paz and Aya Ragragio	08-July
Tom Harrisson: The Barefoot Anthropologist (BBC showing with commentaries)	commentaries from Wilhelm Solheim II and Philip Piper	15-July
Pottery Among the Dai and Wa People of Southwest China	William Longacre	22-July
Heritage, Historical Education and the Public Schools	Lino Dizon	29-July
All the Things We Cannot Articulate: Leprosy, Archives and Commemoration (cancelled)	Ricardo Punzalan	05-August
Limokon: The world and art of Boy Dominguez	Federico "Boy" Dominguez	12-August
The Flinders University Underwater Cultural Heritage Management Course: Experiences and Insights	Gay Lacsina	19-August
Up Against the Wall:Graffiti Writing as an Artistic Practice in UP, Diliman	Antares Gomez B.	26-August
Tomas Agulto at ang Hari ng Panulaang Tagalog	Tomas Agulto	02-September
Cory Aquino and her contributions to Philippine archaeology	William Longacre	09-September
Remnants: Collecting the Past Preliminary analysis of ceramic and metal artifacts found at Pinagbayanan, San Juan, Batangas	Kristyn Maguire and Kat Manalo	16-September
Scandals as objects of exchange and circulation in the Philippine context	Maria Mangahas	23-September
Pottery Production in Talalang, Kalinga	Edwin Valientes	30-September
Lake Hume Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Study: Archaeological Survey of the Goulburn-Murray River	Armand Mijares	11-November
Similar but different:An update on the Ille earthenware	Yvette Balbaligo	18-November
The Making of the Living Heritage of Philippine Indigenous Peoples	Benjamin Abadiano	25-November
Tonal Geography of the Provinces of Central Thailand	Kritsana Athapanyawanit-Canilao	02-December
Updates on Irish Archaeology	Kim Rice	09-December
Canarium in Terminal Pleistocene to Holocene Philippines: Implications of Ancient Plant Use	Jane Carlos	16-December

Title	Speakers	Date
Amorsolo on Amorsolo: A Personal View on the Art of Fernando Amorsolo	Don Amorsolo	06-January
Baybayin Script on the Manunggul Jar?	Bonifacio Comandante	13-January
Obsidian and its Regional Distribution	Leee Neri	20-January
Briefing Presentation on the National Defense College of the Philippines	Chester Cabalza	27-January
The World of Patis Tesoro	Patis Tesoro	03-January
Mitigating Traffic Congestion and Accidents in an Intersection	Mark de Guzman	10-February
Change and Obsolescence in the Music of the Ifugao: A work in progress	Fredeliza Campos	17-February
The Mind Museum in Taguig: The Philippines' first world-class science museum	Carol Pobre	24-February
Risks and Rewards in Research: Roaming Manila	Norma I. Alarcon	03-March
Reinterpreting Stone Boat Shaped Burial Markers	Victor Paz	10-March
Underwater Archaeology in Malaysia	Adi Haji Taha	17-March
Where is the Neolithic in Ille Cave, Palawan?	Vito Hernandez	24-March
Introduction to Preventive Conservation	Suzanna Edwards	16-June
The 67K Callao Foot bone: Implications for Early dispersal in Southeast Asia	Armand Salvador Mijares	23-June
Taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: a widespread history of domestication?	Peter J. Matthews	07-July
Results of the 2009-2010 UP ASP Fieldschool	Grace Barretto-Tesoro	21-July
Pag-Abyad sa Altaran: Maintaining the Rice Terraces in Tayabas, Quezon Province, Southern Tagalog Region, Philippines	Kathleen Tantuico	28-July
The Archaeology of Joey Ayala	Joey Ayala	04-August
Turbulence and Some Philosophy of Science	Amador Muriel	11-August
Lost and Found: The Story of Palawan	Rolando E. Peña	18-August
Sherds, Shards and Fragments: An Analysis of the Artifacts Collected from Pinagbayanan, San Juan, Batangas, 2010	Omar Choa, Natasha Kintanar and Kate Lim	25-August
Building in the Past: Building Construction and Material of Structure A in Pinagbayanan, San Juan, Batangas, 2010	Angel Sales, Noel Amano and Riczar Fuentes	01-September
Ang Kagandahan ng Tunggalian	Rommel Rodriguez	08-September
ASP goes Europe - On old rocks and new acquaintances	Alfred Pawlik	15-September
A social life of protein: A political ecology of marine resources in a Bohol village	Eulalio R. Guieb, III	22-September
Cultural Perceptions of Self and Other: Intercultural Contact in Long-Distance Travel. The German Culture as reflected in its image in Vietnam	Natalie Lange	29-September
Architecture, Anthropology, Archaeology	Rene Mata	06-October
Zooarchaeology of Pinagbayanan: A Preliminary Analysis on the Bones and Shells from Structure A, Site I	Marie Louise Antoinette Sioco	13-October
Pamilang Pilipino Base 20?	Bonifacio Comandante	20-October
Greater Angkor Project: The GAP 2010 Angkor Wat Excavation	Marie Louise Antoinette Sioco	24-November
Study of Ata in Canggohob, Mabinay, Negros Oriental	Larissa Smith	01-December
The Mindoro Bioarchaeological Project	Armand Salvador Mijares	08-December
Making Histories in Jars: An approach to object biography of the Maitum anthropomorphic jars	Mark Mabanag	15-December

Title	Speakers	Date
The Catanauan Archaeological and Heritage Project: What's New?	Victor Paz	05-January
Xin Chao Vietnam!	Mindy Ceron	12-January
The Palawan Island Road Transect 2011	Danny Galang	19-January
Taking Fantasy Literature Seriously	Frances Jane Abao	26-January
Shipwreck, remora and no air:Underwater archaeological training with the National Museum	Kat Manalo, Kate Lim, and Kate Tantuico	02-February
Presenting Heritage Lessons from the Cultural Attractions of France	Jack Medrana	09-February
Tambobong (Malabon and Navotas) and its heritage	Richard Tuason-Sanchez Bautista	16-February
Astronomy in the Biblical Tradition: Prophetic Sky Readers	Rafael Dy-Tiacco	23-February
Cast of Billion: Web video and its mainstream applications	Data Canlas	02-March
Historical Ethnomusicology and Philippine National Compositions	Neal Matherne	09-March
Play on Gopas Ritual in Kalinga Province, Philippines	Tomoko Onoe	16-March
The Cold Case of the Peking Man Fossils	Johann Kamminga	22-June
The University of Guam Archaeological Field Schoolin San Remigio, Cebu	Students of Stephen Acabado	29-June
Mammoth and Metaphor: The early upper paleolithic art of central Europe	Martin Porr	06-July
The Dusan Jar and Changsha Ware: Tracking the 9th to 10th century maritime trade thru the ceramic evidence	Cynthia Valdes	13-Juky
Old Maps, New Technologies: H. Otley Beyer's Rizal-Bulacan archaeological survey	Emil Robles	20-July
3D Geometric Metamorphics of the Callao MT-3	Florent Détroit	27-July
Homeless at Home: Lost Geographies and Philippine Diasporic Cinema	Joseph Palis	03-August
Baybayin Script, It's History and Relationships: What Insights from Linguistics Can Tell Us	Christopher Ray Miller	10-August
On Archaeological Human Bones	Marc Oxenham	17-August
Pots & Rice and All That's Nice: More Results from the Kalinga Project	William A. Longacre	24-August
The Construction Technology of Structure B: Avant Garde Architecture in Colonial Philippines	Ena Luga	31-August
	Nico Unay and Melodina Cruz	07-September
The Story of Bones and Shells of Structure B	Kate Tantuico and Marian Reyes	14-September
The Di Chỉ, Loc Giang Neolithic Mound: Field Collection of Soil Micromorphology Samples	Armand Salvador B. Mijares	05-October
Heritage Archaeology in Manila	Victor Paz	16-November
Lithic Technology of Song Terus Cave (East Jave, Indonesia) at Middle Pleistocene and the Early Pleistocene	Archie Tiauzon	23-November
Scottish Island Archaeology: Mummies and Sacrifices	Jacqui Mulville	07-December
	Cyril Calugay	14-December

Title	Speakers	Date
"Taming" of Space: Rock art as sites of knowledge transmission?	Mark Mabanag	04-January
Friend and Food: Dogs in Southeast Asian Archaeology	Noel Amano	11-January
The Ilocos Sur Archaeological Project	Michael Armand Canilao	18-January
Sendong: Nature's Revenge	Nanette Roa	25-January
Stalking Ecomuseums: From Washington to Oaxaca...to Palawan?	Lace Thornberg	01-February
Digging Perspectives: Khao Toh Chong, Krabi Province, Thailand	Kate Lim	08-February
Rethinking Stone Markers in the Landscape	Victor Paz	15-February
From Real to Reel: The Archaeologist in Anime	Melodina Cruz	22-February
Until They Come Home: Historians and the U.S. Military's Search for the Missing	Greg Kupsky	29-February
Computing the Ineffable: Synchronization, attractors, archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the limits of archaeological explanation	Rafael Dy-Liacco	07-March
Introducing Lumang Bayan Quingua	Jack Medrana	14-March
Art of the North: A collaborative rock art survey on the King George River (Oombulgurri Aboriginal Reserve, Shire of Wyndham, East Kimberley, Australia)	Martin Porr	21-March
Entertainment Reporting as History	Boy Villasante	13-June
40 Years After the Martial Law: Remembering the Filipino's Struggle Against the Marcos Dictatorship	Max de Mesa	20-June
The Philippines' Human Rights Commitment under Review: Discussions on the 2nd Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (cancelled)	Rosemarie Trajano	27-June
Early Kingdoms in the Philippines	Cynthia Valdes	04-July
The Tale of an Abandoned Church and the Overused Cemetery: Excavating the Spanish Colonial ruins in Talisay, Batangas	Taj Vitales	11-July
A Regional Approach to Iron Age Mortuary Analysis in Highland Pang Mapha, a Borderland between Thailand and Myanmar	Rasmi Shoocongdej	18-July
The Old Kiyyangan Village: Archaeology of an Early Ifugao Settlement	Stephen Acabado	25-July
Envisioning an Ecomuseum on Palawan: Steps in the Process in Sibaltan	Lace Thornberg	01-August
Pottery at 20,000 years ago: New views on hunter-gatherers, the Neolithic, and the origins of agriculture in China	David Cohen	10-August (originally 08-August)
Paleographic Baybayin	Bonifacio Comandante	15-August
Lessons from the 1st Nalanda-Sriwijaya Field School for Southeast Asian Archaeology	Kathleen Tantuico	22-August
Insights on Atapuerca: Excavation Methods, Research, and Heritage Management	Ma. Kathryn Ann Manalo	29-August
The Burial Coffin Traditions of Upland Ilocos Sur and Surface Archaeology of an Ancient Gold Mining Settlement in Quirino, Ilocos Sur	Michael Armand Canilao	05-September
Investigating Prehistoric Plant Use Through Stone Tool Analysis	Hermine Xhauflair	12-September
PREHSEA: Managing Prehistoric Heritage in Southeast Asia	Archie Tiauzon	19-September
An Introduction to Kulitan, an Indigenous Kapampangan Script	Mike Pangilinan	26-September
Early Human Occupation of the northern coastal lowlands of Manila Bay	Vito Hernandez	03-October
Palaeolithic Art: View from Central and Eastern Europe	Jiri Svoboda	14-November
Ecotourism Initiatives in Sibuyan Island	Kate Lim	21-November

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Title	Speakers	Date
The Form and Shape of Marikina: A Discussion on Architecture and Heritage	Ferdinand Isidro de la Paz	06-February
K-Fest: Looking at Korean Festivities	Taj Vitales	13-February
What We Did Last Summer in Plaridel, Bulacan	Jack Medrana	20-February
Exceptional or Conventional? Social Identity Within the Chamber Tomb of Quanterness, Orkney	Rebecca Crozier	27-February
The materiality of grave goods in Calatagan, Batangas	Kathleen Tantuico	06-March
Beads and Burials: The Significance of Beads in the Metal Age Jar Burials of Catanauan, Quezon	Ena Luga	13-March
Aesthetics and Materiality: Captivating Gold in Philippine Prehistory	Victor Estrella	27-March
A Preliminary Proposal: Museum(s) for the Negritos of the Philippines	D.J. Mello	27-March
Perspectives on Communicative Silences in Asia: Philippines & Japan	Erika Ann Sumilang	19-June
Beyer: The Exploits of an Anthropologist in Space Science. A Semicentennial Update on Tektites	Aubrey Whymark	26-June
Artefacts that travel: Changing contexts and meaning of South African archaeological objects collected by E.J. Dunn	Isabelle Parsons	03-July
Those who became us & those who did not: In search of human origins in Asia	Yousuke Kaifu	10-July
Maritime Trade in the Philippines during the 15th century C.E.	Bobby Orillaneda	17-July
Rach Nui and the Neolithic of Southern Vietnam	Phil Piper	24-July
Oases of Horror in Deserts of Boredom: The Fictional World of Robert Bolano	Noel Amano	31-July
Philippine Earthenware within Southeast Asian Context	Cynthia Valdes	07-August
Looking for the Homo Erectus - Homo Sapiens Transition	Thomas Ingicco	14-August
The Adoption and Continuity of Technological Traditions: An Ethnoarchaeology of Burnay Pottery in Vigan, Ilocos Sur	Jenny Cano	28-August
The Environment of the Student: Peñablanca & its Archaeological Resources & Heritage	Mylene Lising	04-September
Isla Fuga: Sacred Scapes	Ronel P. Dela Cruz	11-September
Of Caracoas, Junks and Galleons: An Enumeration of Possible Types of Submerged Ships in Philippine Waters	Francis N. Claravall	18-September
Coastlines, Hinterlands & Highlands: The Neolithic & Early Metal Age of the Baram Valley, North Borneo	Lindsay Lloyd Smith	25-September
ILIHAN: The Concept of Natural Forts in Archaeology, Epics & Written Accounts	Ma. Elena Wright	02-October
Chinese Merchants in the Philippines (Late 19th – early 20th century)	Elle Lim	02-October
Evolution of Man in a Historical Perspective	John De Vos	13-November
Why are mining sites also the biodiversity hotspots? Tectonics & biodiversity in the Philippines	Benjamin Vallejo	20-November
Birding in the Philippines	Reuel Aguila	27-November
BINALOT: 3 PACKED LaUNCH	Louie Talents	04-December
Entheseal Changes in Adult Human Remains From Ille Cave, El Nido, Palawan: A Preliminary Study	Sarah Agatha Villaluz	11-December

Title	Speaker	Date
Cold Case: The General Antonio Luna Assassination	Emmanuel Encarnacion	20-January
Excavating a Pre-Angkorian Site in Koh Ker, Cambodia: Field Notes & Experience on the Nalanda Sriwijaya Center Field School 2015	Reynaldo R. Avellana	27-January
3D High Definition Surveying for Digital Preservation of Archaeological Sites	Conrad Alampay	03-February
The Contemporary Significance and Future of Sulawesi's Ancient Rock Art	Paul Taçon	10-February
Development of Maritime Archaeology in Southeast Asia: International Capacity Building in Indonesia (2012-2015)	Bobby Orillaneda	17-February
Circulation and Exchange of Pottery in the South China Sea (500 BC - AD 500)	Aude Favereau	24-February
Reclaiming Racial Dignity: Prehistory as Propaganda in the 19th Century	Joan Tara Reyes-Hernandez	02-March
Solar Nation: Public Acceptance of Emerging Green Technology	Kyle Mina	09-March
The Afterlife: Interactive Books as a Medium for Archaeology Education	Liam Andrew Cura	16-March
Diskursibong Pagninilay sa Ilang Bagay Ukol sa Hukay sa Palawan, Ibang Sayt, Buhay, Patay, Atbp	Myra Lara	30-March
Milagro ng Makati: Pagsasakasaysayan sa Ekonomikong Pag-unlad Noong 1940's	Ma.Kathryn Ann Manalo	06-April
Non-Heteronorm Conforming Older Adults and Their Experience of Family Support	Charm Guevarra	13-April
Why Houses are Good to Think Within Batanes	Edwin A. Valientes	20-April
Methods for Pollen Extraction from Sediments	Catherine May P. King	27-April
Out-of-Office, In The Field: A Researcher's FMNH Visit	Marian Reyes	04-May
A Day in the Life: An Osteobiography of an Individual from Ille Archaeological Site, El Nido Palawan	Sarah Agatha Villaluz	11-May
Obsidian Sourcing and Characterization in the Celebes Region: An Intial Interpretation on the "Celebes Seafaring People"	Leee Neri	18-May
Bagong Luma: the Early Development of Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar (Cancelled)	Joel Rico	10-August
Building A Filipino Osteological Reference Collection	Amanda Lee and Matthew Go	12-August
First Humans Out of Africa: The Case of Dmanisi	Mylene Lising	17-August
Homo Erectus & Modern Humans in Southeast Asia-Lifestyle and Habitats	Christine Hertler	24-August
Beyond Dracula: Archaeology in Transylvania	Eleanor Lim	31-August
Music and Temporality in Philippine Festivals: Preliminary Analysis	Iza Campos Piper	07-September
The Philippine Co-Curation Project at the Field Museum - Chicago Filipinos & their Collection	Neal Matherne	14-September
Bagong Luma: the Early Development of Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar	Joel Rico	21-September
Ceramic Petrology at the British School of Athens: Possible Applications in Philippine Archaeology	Rhayan Melendres	28-September
The Kamestisuhan District of Malolos: Heritage Houses as Symbols of Power	Jana Santos	05-October
Animal Translocation and the Transition to the Neolithic in Vietnam	Phil Piper	12-October
Don Ignacio Villamor and his La Antigua Escritura Filipina	Maria Anna Catherine Villamor	19-October
Kultura ng Kusina:An Alternative Architectural Historiography of Filipino Kitchen	Katherine Anne G. Correa	26-October
Understanding World and Underwater Heritage: A Report on the UNESCO Cultural Trainings in Germany and Vietnam	Kate Lim	02-November
Inspeccion General de Obras Publicas de Filipinas	Ros Costelo	09-November
Heritage in the Law: A Review of the Supreme Court Decision on the Marcos Burial at LNMB	Kathleen Tantuico	16-November
What Are We Doing? : A Small Museum a Lot of Storytelling and our Adventures in the Dewil Valley	Llenel de Castro	23-November