SOSS Vault September 2022

This platform aims to collect and store our memories, stories, narratives, and photos, among others. It has a high ceiling or vast space. But also in the spirit of the University parcours - it also aims to vault - to place hands on an object to cross it or move ahead, to move, to connect spaces by leaping.

"University parcours" highlights the dynamic and processual nature of studying and working in the university (see Pfaff-Czarnecka and Prekodravac 2016). As a transformative social space, the School of Social Sciences (SOSS)---a community of faculty, professionals, support staff, and students---aims to enable one another as we embrace new schemes of engagement with our own self and others and as we strategize toward personal, professional, and collective aspirations in the future.

September 2022

The issue collates articles, accolades, and submissions from the SOSS community from August to September 2022.
In order to submit your stories for next month, please access this form.

Scenes from the 2022 Loyola Schools General Commencement Exercises.

Atty. Leni Robredo was the commencement speaker and was conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Honoris causa. Mr. Jamesun Wacnang Bejarin (AB Political Science 2022, Cum laude) was the Batch Valedictorian. Dr. Merimee Tampus-Siena, Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology, delivered a message on behalf of the graduate students.

Pag-ibig na Tahimik, Tunay, at Radikal

Read the full text of the commencement address of Atty Maria Leonor "Leni" Gerona-Robredo, the 14th Vice President of the Philippines (2016-2022), during the 2022 Loyola Schools General Commencement Exercises on Saturday, 27 August 2022.

Patuloy na Pagtatayâ: Pushing Back as a Way of Moving Forward

This is the full text of the valedictory address delivered by Jamesun Wacnang Bejarin (AB Political Science 2022) during the 2022 Commencement Exercises of the Ateneo de Manila University Loyola Schools on Saturday, 27 August 2022.

A Degree for Yourself, for Others, and for the Nation

Read the message on behalf of the 2022 graduate students delivered by Merimee Tampus-Siena, Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology, during the 2022 Loyola Schools General Commencement Exercises on Saturday, 27 August 2022.

 The Loyola Schools held Recognition Rites for Batch 2020 and 2021 on Sunday, August 28, 2022. Fr Jett Villarin presided over the Batch 2020 rites. Former Dean Nandy Aldaba welcomed the SOSS graduates.

Announcements

It is with great pleasure that the Office of the Dean, School of Social Sciences, and the SOSS Coordinator for Teaching and Learning announce the awarding of the SOSS Pedagogical Innovation Award to: Ms. Erica Kimberly King

Her pedagogical innovation entitled “All Aboard: Using the Gather.town Metaverse and Themed Modules to Teach Psychological Statistics” was implemented in PSY90.01 and PSY90.02: Psychological Statistics, Lecture and Laboratory, respectively.

Ms. King joins previous winners of the SOSS PIA:

Mr. Skilty C. Labastilla (SA) for "Local Portrait" Binhi Formation Team: "Online Kwentuhan"

Dr. Enrique Nino P. Leviste (SA) for "Deviance Day: A Sociological Inquiry into Cultural and Social Factors that Encourage Non-Conformity"

Dr. Regina H. Hechanova (Psych) and Team, "Mobile Games for Behavior Change"

Mr. Aaron S. Vicencio (Com) "Visual Communication: Images and Spaces of a Hybrid Classroom"

On the horizon

The Department of History of the School of Social Sciences, in cooperation with the Ateneo de Manila University Press, invites you to the lecture

TRANSIMPERIAL VIOLENCE AND THE MAKING OF THE MORO PROVINCE

Tuesday, 6 September 2022, Faura Audio Visual Room, 4:30 - 6:00 PM PHT

Speaker: DR. OLIVER CHARBONNEAU, Lecturer
University of Glasgow

As part of the university’s continuing commitment to ensuring your safety, and because Faura AVR has a limited capacity, kindly RVSP on or before September 5, 2022 (Monday) by filling in this short Google Form. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the History Department's graduate assistant Sasha Wong at sarah.wong@obf.ateneo.edu.

Curated by Marian Pastor Roces, who is assisted by artwork development lead Karl Castro, the exhibit is part of a larger project titled "Surfacing Narratives Towards Transitional Justice in the North and South: Weaving Women’s Voices – A Memory Project" led by Dr. Ma. Lourdes Veneracion-Rallonza, feminist and political scientist; and human rights advocate Robert Francis Garcia. Apart from this exhibition, the project also includes field research in all six areas, publication of a book, policy recommendations, and a capacity-building program on transitional justice with focus on women. Dr. Meynardo Mendoza, historian, leads the research, and anthropologist Maricel P. Hilario-Patiño is project officer.

Paul Dawnson Formaran is the exhibition team's lead, with Maria Fe Quiroga serving as both curatorial assistant and graphic designer. The team has been assisted by contemporary artist-curators Katya Guerrero and Sara Rivera.

The exhibition will run from August 22 to October 1, 2022.

Weaving Women’s Words on Wounds of War: An exhibition of artworks collectively made with communities of women who endured the punishing impact of impunity during the Martial Law regime.

August 22 to October 1, 2022, Ateneo Art Gallery, Fredesvinda Almeda Consunji Gallery, Ambeth R Ocampo Gallery, Elizabeth Gokongwei Gallery, Alicia P Lorenzo Gallery,
3F Soledad V Pangilinan Arts Wing, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University

Open from Mon-Sat, 9am to 5pm. For campus access, visit https://bit.ly/VisitAAG

Marian Pastor Roces, curator; Karl Castro, lead artwork developer.
Exhibition team: Maria Fe P. Quiroga, Paul Formaran, Maricel P. Hilario-Patiño, Katya Guerrero, Sara Rivera, Miguel Lorenzo Uy, D Cortezano

Enrollment is now ongoing for Cycle 3- Basic Conversational Cantonese!!!

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 1st TOPIK-IBT TRIAL TEST IN THE PHILIPPINES
The application for the 1st TOPIK-IBT Trial Test is now open!

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Econ-tuhan Session 1: A Webinar-Workshop on Teaching Economics in Philippine High Schools

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Celebrations

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SOSS Breakout Session and Fellowship Night

The SOSS Breakout Session was held at the Leong Hall Auditorium and was also attended by online participants.

“We both need and deserve this.” Dean Bopeep said when she opened the SOSS Fellowship Night during First Semester Faculty Day, September 2, 2022.

After working on department-, program-, and center-level Initiatives and Measures for the Lux in Domino 2030 Strategic Plan, some faculty members and staff gathered at the Leong Hall Roofdeck for the post-Faculty Day socials with food, drinks, and an open mic. The event was hosted by Dr. Inez Ponce de Leon (Department of Communication), with Mr. Oliver Quintana (Department of Political Science and Korean Studies Program) on the musical keyboard.

This platform aims to collect and store our memories, stories, narratives, and photos, among others. It has a high ceiling or vast space. But also in the spirit of the University parcours - it also aims to vault - to place hands on an object to cross it or move ahead, to move, to connect spaces by leaping.

"University parcours" highlights the dynamic and processual nature of studying and working in the university (see Pfaff-Czarnecka and Prekodravac 2016). As a transformative social space, the School of Social Sciences (SOSS)---a community of faculty, professionals, support staff, and students---aims to enable one another as we embrace new schemes of engagement with our own self and others and as we strategize toward personal, professional, and collective aspirations in the future.

September 2022

The issue collates articles, accolades, and submissions from the SOSS community from August to September 2022.
In order to submit your stories for next month, please access this form.

Scenes from the 2022 Loyola Schools General Commencement Exercises.

In case you missed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbkTaZ6F6EY&feature=youtu.be

In this episode of Talakayan, Andrew Ty, Serena Vaswani, and AJ Elicaño discuss their respective fandoms, and how the pleasure of consuming music, movies, television shows, books, etc can create tensions when it comes to researching the very objects they love.

Talakayan is a series that presents how scholarship merges with practice by highlighting innovations, creative solutions, or responses to the complexities, ambiguities, and vulnerabilities we collectively face today. It is produced and shared for the benefit of learners everywhere.

Talakayan is available on Arete’s YouTube channel for free. Talakayan is an Areté Production done in partnership with Loyola Schools Department of Communication and the Eugenio Lopez Jr. Center for Multimedia Communication.