Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
Research & Creative Work Updates
[Ateneo Press Review Crew] The Worthwhile Trance of Mark Anthony Cayanan’s Narcissus
I would like to believe that I read this book in the best of conditions: October rain slightly introducing itself to me just outside my...
JGSOM's Dr Emerald Jay D Ilac voted Chair-Elect of ILA's Leadership Scholarship Member Interest Community
The John Gokongwei School of Management (JGSOM) proudly congratulates Dr Emerald Jay D Ilac, Program Director of the PhD in Leadership Studies, on his election...
UGDO Bulletin - June to December 2025
University Gender and Development (GAD) Focal Point Committee The Office of the President has appointed Dr. Socorro Perpetual F Esguerra-Escarez as a member of the...
Newly discovered Philippine pitcher plant already in danger from climate change, poaching
A new species of pitcher plant found only on Palawan Island, but experts warn that it is already at risk of extinction due to frequent severe weather conditions and human encroachment.
From cult experiment to award-winning phenomenon: Si Faust (After Goethe) at the 38th Aliw Awards
Si Faust (After Goethe) — co-created by Artadi and director Nelsito Gomez, and produced and staged by Areté at the Doreen Black Box Theater — culminated its remarkable run with a major win at the 38th Aliw Awards on 15 December 2025, receiving the Breakthrough Performer/Performance Award.
Philosophy of the City: An International Colloquium and Master Class
Organized by the Philosophy of the City Research Group and led by Dr. Remmon E. Barbaza, the Philosophy of the City International Colloquium was held...
Features, Analysis, and Opinion
14 Feb 2022
NEW FROM THE PRESS: The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte by Vicente L. Rafael
Framing Rodrigo Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Vicente Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extrajudicial killings to neoliberal citizenship, intimacy, and photojournalism
11 Feb 2022
[Tinig] Feast Failure: Reflections on the Global Food System in the Time of the Pandemic
"In the end, the response to the food crisis should not be simply an issue of increased agricultural productivity."
08 Feb 2022
[Blueboard] Protecting the Overseas Filipino Right to Vote
"In choosing candidates who truly support the OFWs agenda, must be knowledgeable about the facts and realities of the life of the Filipino overseas to truly care about their plight"
21 Jan 2022
[Tinig] A Friend Told Me Not To Post My Political Opinions Online
"Educators must speak out loudly and boldly against people and structures that are unjust for them to show moral integrity."
Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
AVP for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
Areté: Our Creativity and Innovation Hub
As the creativity and innovation hub of the Ateneo de Manila University, Areté provides the space and freedom for groups from different fields and persuasions to create, collaborate on, and share knowledge, skills, and practices.
Areté's complex features theaters, art galleries, studios, laboratories, a makerspace, teaching and meeting rooms, and several open areas. These facilities enable the University to host, support, and connect academics, artists, professionals, and leaders of different talents and interests whose exchanges, we hope, will spur the kind of creativity and innovation that creates unforeseen paths and betters our communities.
Areté is thus betting on the desire of a growing many, coming together to impart and to learn, to be inspired and to be challenged, to focus but still to wander in all that could be done as a collective concerned with what is possible.
Ateneo Art Gallery
Widely recognized today as the first museum of Philippine modern art, the Ateneo Art Gallery was established in 1960 through Fernando Zóbel’s bequest to the Ateneo of his collection of works by key Filipino post war artists.
