Research, Creative Work, and Innovation
Research & Creative Work Updates
[Ateneo Press Review Crew] Tracing the Fragile Trail: A Review of Jim Pascual Agustin's Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight
The snail's metaphor, which is a fragile and glistening trail across surfaces, becomes a powerful symbol of poetic witness. While Agustin's language is accessible, the...
Sandali bilang Kontra-Naratibo: Pagbakas sa Kasaysayan ng Dagling Andergrawnd sa Panahon ng Diktadurang Marcos
Idinaos noong ika-15 ng Setyembre 2025 ang panayam ni Jomar Gonzales Adaya ng Polytechnic University of the Philippines na pinamagatang “Sandali bilang Kontra-Naratibo: Pagbakas sa...
Prof Rex Hou explores tidal poetics and archipelagic joy in Kritika Kultura lecture
On 8 September 2025, Kritika Kultura, in collaboration with the Literary and Cultural Studies Program, the Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices (AILAP), and...
ALLS participates in ACM Global Computing Education Conference in Gaborone, Botswana
The Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences (ALLS) participated in the ACM Global Computing Education Conference (CompEd 2025) organized by SIGCSE in Gaborone, Botswana, from...
[Ateneo Press Review Crew] Lives Beyond the Labels: Reading Michael Beltran’s The Singing Detainee and the Librarian with One Book
It’s strange, reading about people you’ve only ever heard through other people’s fear. That was my first thought opening Michael Beltran’s The Singing Detainee and...
A Feast for the Senses and the Soul: "SARAP AND PALAYOK" Celebrates the Enduring Legacy of Doreen G Fernandez
More than just a book launch—it was a reunion. On 28 October 2025, the Doreen Black Box Theater and Salvador Bernal Lobby at Areté were...
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.
