April 2024 accomplishment

April 5             MSC Boac Lit Fest x Book Fair

April 11           Book Nook Marinduque Lit Fest x Book Fair

April 13           The Indie Publishers meeting 3

April 15-17     Kain Conference

April 18           UP Baguio focus group discussion

April 19           Kamayan Green Convergence

April 20           SEACHA cha time

April 22-25     Pathways to Publication

April 23-25     Festival of Ideas

April 28           TAAP Webinar

April 30           Kolukyum x Tertulyang Pampanitikan

april litera x filipino month

April In Focus

Pagpapatuloy ng Creative Expo: Book Fair at Literary Festival sa Buwan ng Panitikan april 4

Buwan ng Panitikan, Kapayapaan at nagsasariling araling filipino: Litera Club April 10

“Creative Expo Podcast, Livestream para sa Buwan ng Panitikan at Kalutong Filipino” april 18

ThesisIt Sta Cruz, Festival of Ideas x Pathways to Publication ngayong Abril hanggang Mayo april 25

Pre-sabbatical report

January 8-9, 18-19      BA ELS panelist

January 11, 16-19       BAC panelist

Jan 19                          kamayan para sa kalikasan

January 21                  TAAP webinar

January 23                  pitching 102

January 24                  islamic governance

January 25                  pantayong pananaw

Jan. 30,  Feb 20,          seameo spafa

 

Feb 1                           climate education exchange

Feb 2                           mtg re.bn x swk internship

Feb 8                           purita kalaw

Feb 10, march 9          indie publishing

Feb 17                         sta cruz history

Feb 19                         interns mtg

Feb 21                         creative Marinduque mtg

Feb 22-24                    paschr 10

Feb 26                         pwc best practices

Feb 28                         rightselling

 

March 7                       tuklas dunong

March 8                       hibla lokal orientation

March 12                    digital goods

March 13                    james warren

March 30                 spafa ethics

march 20-22          phil studies conference

march 18-31         marinduque expo

 

MSC@70 Building an Institutional Museum and Site of Memory among MSCians

Abstract

The Marinduque State College (MSC) Library and Learning Resource Center has inaugurated a museum in commemoration of the 70th foundation in June 12, 2022. Based on the deliberation of its Historical Collection and Preservation Committee composed of Sentro ng Wika at Kultura, Business Affairs Office, LRC, Office of Media and Internationalization Affairs with the respective campuses of Santa Cruz, Gasan and Torrijos in coordination with the campus Land Use Development and Infrastructure Plan (LUDIP) committee. Considering two themes, museum and gallery studies and cultural roles of public libraries, this preliminary investigations seeks to document certain innovation and outcomes for building further the collection of MSC for the succeeding milestones of the institution. Borrowing and distilling some salient features of the TIPPING Guide: The Innovation Program’s Perspective for the New Governance of Islands, MSC LRC would be documenting both existing innovation and new innovation ecosystems. To date, since the platinum anniversary of MSC it has produced a microsite and a heritage collection catalogue. The MSC Heritage Collection Microsites constitute the existing innovation system along with the MSC Heritage Collection Catalogue. This would serve as a guide for selecting the most appropriate strategies from the TIPPING guide from working with the creative sector, long-term cooperation with Small-Medium Enterprise and Non-Government Organizations, stimulating the network of young entrepreneurs, foster the import and export of knowledge, community involvement, crowd co-design, special institutional arrangements or innovation policy fitness. Meanwhile, there are some more new innovation since the opening of the museum, there was a screening of vlog series about the MSC Heritage Museum vis-à-vis the Regional Science Centrum which was the renovated Research and Extension Building.

 

Keywords: heritage, institutional museum, curatorial, memory, tipping

Bro. Karl Gaspar and Mindanawon Studies: Philippine Post coloniality and Decoloniality in local studies in Mindanao

On the other end of the spectrum, Bro. Karl Gaspar as a longstanding Mindanawon NGO and cultural worker has helped build indigenous communities. From the period of social unrest and militant protest actions during the 1970s, the political climate has paved way for alternatives in particular in Mindanao. His initial engagement, as part of the Mindanao Sulu Pastoral Conference and setting-up Social Action Centers has culminated in a consortium of Mary Knoll priests, Third World Studies Centre researchers and other passionate individuals brought about the inception of Alternative Resource Centre which would later become Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao. Among the issues of the day were human rights violations, dislocation, militarisation and enforced disappearances.

 

Given the context, all must come to an end even the dictatorship and there was a restoration of democratic institutions. There was a period of development aid boon in the country. The results of such flurry is the establishment of more NGOs especially in Mindanao. After a decade of agrarian reform, the development issue has remained an issue. Other factors affecting Mindanao peace and conflict situation were given attention but the emergent cause was structural. Despite of past development decades, after the Second World War, there was a shift among NGOs from needs based to rights based approach. From the prior to a more contemporary approach, Mindanao was asserted to have the right to development. The key to development are policies however it also demanded a basis. Through research, one can influence policy formulation, one could also determine if a policy could favour a particular sector or the greater number of members of the community.

 

Meanwhile, as a Philipinologist who was brought up in Mindanao, there are a number of attempts Bro. Karl Gaspar tried to conceptualize Mindanao Studies. From his yet to be published collection of speeches, conference papers and informal remarks, there are at least three articles dealing with the said issue. In his paper read during the first workshop of the “study group” with Fr Bert, he provided an overview of the state of the art of Local Studies in Mindanao. Bro. Karl summed up his ideas in a paper entitled “Mindanao Studies’ state of Theorizing and its Theorizing of Mindanao” in 2002. In a similar attempt during a National Conference of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines in 2002 at the island garden city of Samal, “The state of Contemporary Anthropological research in and about Mindanao.” Finally, the third paper on Mindanao Studies which he shared during the Mindanawon symposium in 2007,  “the lives and works and anthropologists doing Mindanao studies.”

 

list of studies done on/ about Mindanao (Gaspar 2007)

  1. ancestral domain
  2. conflict and conflict resolutions
  3. peace and development
  4. social movements (resistance movement, revolutionary struggles) tri-people movement, leadership)
  5. social development programs, community development programs
  6. gender, women studies
  7. ethnohistory, ethnography
  8. various aspects of the history, life and culture of muslim
  9. traditional healing and belief systems interaction between xtianity and IP belief system
  10. cultural change
  11. folklore
  12. children
  13. sama dilaut studies
  14. others