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What new types of activism are we seeing even while under quarantine? And how does today’s digital activism stack up to protests on the ground? In this episode, we listen to stories of individuals whose activism is ignited by their rage and frustration with the state of the nation, but it is also fueled by hope and love for our country and its people. We speak to actress Ria Atayde, whose career began with ABS-CBN, about the value of speaking up and influencing our circles to do the same, and then we talk to Katrina Stuart Santiago of @pagasa.ph about the necessary struggles of nation building. Between these interviews, you'll also hear briefly from political satirists and online personalities Macoy Dubs aka Auntie Julie and Dora Dorado about their stories of modern activism. You can stream the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or on Areté’s website. On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2i3BBeKVKeTny2NSBvYmfp?si=cAFVfR57Qd2LNh2ISVs7Hw Or Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aret%C3%A9-podcasts/id1477791702 For access to our show notes and links to people and referenced mentioned in this episode, visit: muni.com.ph/post/podcast_ep11 This episode is brought to you by Areté, the creativity and innovation hub of Ateneo De Manila University. It was co-produced by MUNI and Areté, hosted and written by Jen Horn and Ayen dela Torre, edited by Francesco Amante, with music by Diego Mapa of pulsewavestudio.com and album art by Lazir Caluya.

What does an infectious disease specialist have to say about the COVID-19 situation in the Philippines? Dr. Francisco Navarro, a medical doctor and a part-time lecturer in Ateneo De Manila University's Chinese Studies Program interviews Dr. Angeles T. Alora, a Consultant in Infectious Diseases USTH and former president, now adviser, for Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Notes: Dr. Alora published an article of the same title on our website on June 15, 2020. You can may read the piece here: https://arete.ateneo.edu/conne...The music used in the podcast is by Chris Haugen via YouTube Audio Library

Galvin Ngo, Assistant Director of Ateneo SALT Institute interviews Dr. H. Chad Lane and Dr. Jeff Ginger about the intersection of technology, makerspaces, and learner engagement. They talk about video game behavior, entertainment, exploration, playfulness, and how these can be utilized to strengthen learner engagement in formal and informal educational settings. Dr. Lane is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Informatics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Chad's research focuses on the design, use, and impacts of intelligent technologies for informal learning. He has over 70 publications in a variety of areas, including intelligent tutoring, educational games, immersive technologies, and narrative-based learning environments. Dr. Ginger is a program coordinator with the Illinois Informatics Institute and adjunct instructor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jeff’s dissertation focused on the investigation of how public libraries foster digital literacies through community engagement, which ultimately led him to his current work as the director of the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab. Here he continues to lend a critical but optimistic perspective to the study and implementation of makerspaces, particularly by tackling some of its most key challenges, such as cultivating and supporting diversity, a prerequisite to innovation, and sustainably establishing capacity-building technology education services in collaboration with underserved communities. This episode was made possible by the Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences. Pocket Lectures is a show on the Areté Podcasts Network, produced and recorded in Areté, Ateneo De Manila University.

Is our fear of saturated fat scientifically accurate? What misconceptions do we hold about healthy or unhealthy diets? Listen to Armand Guidote, Institute Director of the Philippine Institute for Pure and Applied Chemistry (PIPAC) interview Dr. Toby Dayrit, President of Integrated Chemists of the Philippines (ICP) on his extensive studies on coconut oil, its complicated exportation history in our country, and how the food industry can benefit from investing in this resource.

What is nanotechnology? What are its applications in our daily lives? Scientists are portrayed in media and pop culture a certain way -- how close is it to the real thing?Listen to Dr. David So, one of the Department of Science and Technology's (DOST) Balik Scientists talk about his specialization in Nanotech. Abby Favis, an Environmental Scientist from the Ateneo Institute of Sustainability (AIS) chats with Dr. So about becoming a scientist in the Philippines, and DOST's efforts to combat brain drain through the Balik Scientist program. Pocket Lectures is a show on the Areté Podcasts Network, produced and recorded in Areté, Ateneo De Manila University.This episode is brought to you by This episode is brought to you by CL Follosco Group – a multi-company organization involved in Agricultural Equipment, Steel and Metal Fabrication, Water Treatment, Finance, Natural Food Ingredient Processing, Real Estate, Business Process Outsourcing, Consultancy and other services.

What are the reasons we disagree? Is it possible for two conflicting positions to be equally “correct”? What behaviors on the part of participants can facilitate a solution? How can we disagree in ways that help us to achieve a better understanding of the world?Originally offered as a course under Ateneo De Manila University's Philosophy Department (PH 157: Heated Disagreement), Dr. Jacklyn A. Cleofas of Ateneo De Manila University, Philippines and Prof. Richard Walker of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland discuss persistent and seemingly intractable disagreement, the motivations driving such disagreements, the options open to participants, and the way such disagreements may or may not be resolved. This episode is brought to you by Garden Pavilion at The Cabanas, a premium event venue in Malolos, Bulacan. Pocket Lectures is a show on the Areté Podcasts Network, produced and recorded in Areté, Ateneo De Manila University.

Authors Eka Kurniawan and Dominic Sy sat down for a conversation in the Emmanuel S. Torres Literary Arts Room in the George SK Ty Learning Innovation Wing of Areté last October 4, 2019. Kurniawan discussed being a student during the fall of Suharto, writing scripts for television shows, enjoying “trashy novels,” and having readers discover Indonesian history through his writings.Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia. He is the author of novels, short stories, essays, movie scripts, and graphic novels. He was long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 for Man Tiger, and his work has been translated into 35 languages.Dominic Sy's A Natural History of Empire was selected as the winner of Kritika Kultura/Ateneo de Manila University Press First Book Prize and will be released in 2019.This conversation is part of a series recorded for Areté in collaboration with Kritika Kultura and the Ateneo Department of Fine Arts’s Creative Writing program. These are recorded in the room named in honor of the poet, critic, and literature professor who was also the first and longtime curator of the Ateneo Art Gallery.We thank the Office of the Dean of the School of Humanities and Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia (PAHA) for their support for the Kurniawan-Sy conversation. A transcript of the conversation will be published in an upcoming issue of PAHA.

How do you design experiences with technology? How do we create ways of interacting with technology that are fun, engaging, or thought-provoking? How do we use technologies in artistic and creative ways?Dr. Nick Bryan-Kinns's research explores new approaches to the creation of interactive technologies for media and arts through interaction design techniques. He converses with Francesco Amante, a sound designer for games and a lecturer for Game Audio and Sound Art in Ateneo De Manila University.Bryan-Kinns is a Reader in Interaction Design and Director of the EPSRC+AHRC Media and Arts Technology Center for Doctoral Training at Queen Mary, University of London.This episode of Pocket Lectures is sponsored by Gazebo Royale. Pocket Lectures is a show on the Areté Podcasts Network, produced and recorded in Areté, Ateneo De Manila University.

Gina Apostol's Insurrecto was released in 2018 to rave reviews. Dominic Sy's A Natural History of Empire was selected by Apostol as the winner of Kritika Kultura / Ateneo de Manila University Press First Book Prize and will be released in 2019. The two authors read from and discuss their work and their shared interests. Moderator Daryll Delgado’s first novel, Remains, was published in 2019 by Ateneo de Naga University Press.This episode was recorded live with an audience last August 15, 2019 at the Ben Chan ArtSuite in Areté. Brought to you by Ateneo Fine Arts Department's Creative Writing Program, Ateneo University Press, Kritika Kultura, and Areté.

Writers Anna Alves and Carl Javier recorded a conversation in the Emmanuel S. Torres Literary Arts Room in the George SK Ty Learning Innovation Wing of Areté last April 13, 2019. Alves read from her own works of fiction and discussed, among other things, studying under NVM Gonzalez, how hip-hop and sports influenced her storytelling, the place of Filipinos in American pop culture, and the structures and institutions that enable and thus affect cultural production. This conversation is part of a series recorded for Areté in collaboration with Kritika Kultura and the Ateneo Department of Fine Arts’s Creative Writing program. These are recorded in the room named in honor of the poet, critic, and literature professor who was also the first and longtime curator of the Ateneo Art Gallery.Anna Alves was born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, and raised in South Sacramento, California, though her heart’s home will always be Los Angeles. A past PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, she has attended writing residencies at Hedgebrook near Seattle, Voices of Our Nation‘s Arts (VONA) in San Francisco, and the Kundiman Asian American Literary Workshop in New York. A former philanthropy professional at the Ford Foundation in New York and the Asian Pacific Fund in San Francisco, she is also keen about cultural community development. She holds a BA in English and History and an MA. in Asian American Studies from the University of California at Los Angeles, and an MFA in Creative Writing and a pending PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University at Newark. Anna’s current research focuses on transpacific US/Philippines literary relations in Filipino fiction writing in English and its associated cultural politics of craft and aesthetics. She currently lives and creates in Quezon City, Manila, Philippines, while on a US Fulbright for 2018-19, stealing time to work on a novel while pursuing her intellectual passions and mindfully dissertating.Carl Javier has worked in a number of fields, including journalism, the academe, publishing, development, and social enterprise. He joined the Puma Public team in January 2019 to chase the dream of creating podcasts from and for Filipinos. Prior to that he spent three years at Smarter Good where he provided strategic thinking, writing, and editorial guidance to nonprofits and social enterprises making impact globally. He started writing professionally as a college freshman, and for almost two decades has contributed to various publications and outlets. His writing led to work in the publishing industry, as a Business Manager at the UST Publishing House, the Deputy Director of the University of the Philippines Press, and a number of initiatives in independent publishing. His most recent publishing accomplishments were through his work as Managing Editor of Anino Comics, which he helped to relaunch in 2014. Anino titles have won National Book Awards, Komikon Awards, and other distinctions. His comics work has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, first as co-editor of Abangan: The Best Filipino Comics and as writer of the comic book adaptation of Si Janus Silang at ang Tiyanak ng Tabon.

Fictionist Anna Cabe sat down with Carlo Flordeliza in the Emmanuel S. Torres Literary Arts Room in the George SK Ty Learning Innovation Wing of Areté last April 2, 2019. Cabe read from her novel-in-progress Balete Drive, and discussed getting to know about Martial Law through writing the novel, learning about the daily lives of activists, thinking about how histories are remembered, and writing for a Filipino diaspora audience.Anna Cabe is a Pinay-American writer from Memphis, Tennessee. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bitch Media, Terraform, The Toast, storySouth, Rappler, SmokeLong Quarterly, Joyland, and Fairy Tale Review, among others. She received her MFA in fiction from Indiana University and was formerly the nonfiction editor for Indiana Review. She is currently a Fulbright Fellow at Ateneo de Manila University, where she is completing a novel.Jose Carlo C. Flordeliza received his AB in Literature and MFA in Creative Writing from De La Salle University-Manila. His work has most recently been anthologized in The Best Asian Speculative Fiction 2018. He is a part-time faculty member of Ateneo’s Creative Writing program.This conversation is part of a series to be recorded for Areté in collaboration with Kritika Kultura and the Ateneo Department of Fine Arts’s Creative Writing program. These are recorded in the room named in honor of the poet, critic, and literature professor who was also the first and longtime curator of the Ateneo Art Gallery.

Boots Herrera, Director and Chief Curator of the Ateneo Art Gallery converses with Catalan artist Domènec, and MACBA (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art)curator Teresa Grandas on AAG's latest exhibition "Domènec. Not Here, Not Anywhere".

Peter Zaragoza Mayshle sat down with Cyan Abad-Jugo and Martin Villanueva in the Emmanuel S. Torres Literary Arts Room in the George SK Ty Learning Innovation Wing of Areté last August 8, 2018. Mayshle read from a novel-in-progress, Judas Republic, and discussed a story’s seed, a narrative’s structure, notions of time and timeliness in fiction, and the process of developing a work that creates a world and characters out of an actual news article about a body found in the Manila sewage system. Mayshle received a PhD in English, Composition, and Rhetoric from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. His stories have appeared in The Manila Times, The Philippines Free Press, Mandala Journal, Every Day Fiction, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, and Flash Fiction International. He currently teaches writing and rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University.Abad-Jugo teaches with the Departments of English, Fine Arts, and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Ateneo de Manila University where she also advises BFA Creative Writing seniors. Villanueva is Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, is Associate Editor for the Literary Section of Kritika Kultura, and helps coordinate programming for Areté.This conversation is the first of a series that will feature authors discussing their work, process, and practice. The series is produced by Areté in collaboration with Kritika Kultura and the Department of Fine Arts’s BFA Creative Writing program. The readings and conversations are recorded in the room named in honor of Emmanuel Torres, the poet, critic, and literature professor who was also the first and longtime curator of the Ateneo Art Gallery.

Luis H. Francia sat down for a conversation with Martin Villanueva in the Emmanuel S. Torres Literary Arts Room in the George SK Ty Learning Innovation Wing of Areté last July 26, 2018. Among the topics discussed were Francia’s experiences studying in the Ateneo under Torres, writing as a New York-based Filipino in a time of Duterte and Trump, and the differences of writing in different genres. Francia also recorded a reading of eight poems written in light of today’s political climate.Francia is a multi-genre writer whose latest volume, RE: Reflections, Reviews, and Recollections (University of the Philippines Press, 2015), won a National Book Award from the National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics’ Circle for Best Collection of Essays in English in 2016. He graduated cum laude from the Ateneo de Manila University with an AB in Humanities in 1964, and was most recently a visiting professor with the university’s Fine Arts and English departments.Martin Villanueva is Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, is Associate Editor for the Literary Section of Kritika Kultura, and helps coordinate programming for Areté. His conversation with Francia is the second of a series to be recorded for Areté in collaboration with Kritika Kultura and the Department of Fine Arts’s BFA Creative Writing program.