1662 The Royal Audiencia (the Spanish superior court) sustains the claim of Cebuanos in Talisay that their lands had been unjustly seized from them by the Augustinians. The court orders that the land be returned to the Cebuanos. On March 8, 1662, however, the Court reversed itself and awarded the land to the Agustinian convent. […]
CSC Admin
CSC Admin's Latest Posts
Pagdakop sa Bulalakaw Launch
The USC Cebuano Studies Center will host the launch of Merlie M. Alunan’s latest poetry collection, Pagdakop sa Bulalakaw published by Ateneo de Manila University Press on March 15, 2014 at the Cebu Cathedral Museum at 3:00 p.m. The collection contains poems that Alunan wrote within ten years of finding her way back to Cebuano, […]
The Second Cebuano Cinema Conference
The USC Graduate School in Cinema Studies with the Cebuano Studies Center will conduct The Second Cebuano Cinema Conference : Developments in Cebuano Film Research, a two-day event that will take place on February 28 and March 1, 2014, at Casa Gorordo and the Eduardo Aboitiz Development Studies Center, Lopez Jaena Street. This year’s conference […]
Yu wins the NCCA Writers’ Prize 2014 for Essay in Cebuano Language
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) awarded the NCCA Writers’ Prize 2014 for Essay in Cebuano Language to Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu, USC Director of the Cebuano Studies Center and professor of the Department of Languages and Literature, for her entry Naglangoy sa Langit. The NCCA Writers’ Prize is a biennial award given […]
The roadmap for the K-12 learning with Dr. Isagani Cruz
About a hundred teachers, school owners, principals, administrators and other school personnel, coming from thirty private schools in Cebu City, attended the teacher training on the K-12 curriculum, last Friday, January 10, at the Josef Baumgartner Learning Center of the University of San Carlos Talamban campus with Dr. Isagani Cruz and facilitators from the University of […]
Brown Child: The Best of the Faigao Poetry and Fiction
Brown Child: The Best of the Faigao Poetry and Fiction Edited by Erlinda Alburo and Hope Sabanpan-Yu University of San Carlos Press and the Cebuano Studies Center, in cooperation with Ayala Center – Cebu, launched the book anthology Brown Child: The Best of the Faigao Poetry and Fiction last January 25, 2014 at the Activity […]
Call for Submissions to the 30th Cornelio Faigao Annual Writers Workshop
PLEASE NOTE: The Faigao Workshop Call for Submissions is now closed. The Drama and Performance Workshop call is extended The Cornelio Faigao Memorial Annual Writers Workshop is committed to promoting a community of committed writers and creative expression in the literary arts. The CFMAWW offers workshops to writers of different genres. NEW! The Drama and […]
29th Faigao Workshop Update
The 29th Cornelio Faigao Memorial Annual Writers Workshop organized by the USC Cebuano Studies Center was held at Hale Manna Beach Resort, Moalboal, Cebu last October 25-27, 2013. This year’s workshop panelists were Dr. Ralph Semino Galan, Dr. Victorio Sugbo, Mr. Harold Mercurio and Ms. Charmaine Carreon. The fellows […]
29th Cornelio Faigao Workshop Fellows Announced
The USC Cebuano Studies Center is pleased to announce the thirteen (13) fellows to the 29th Cornelio Faigao Memorial Annual Writers Workshop 2013 at Hale Manna Resort, Moalboal, Cebu from October 25-27, 2013. From Cebu, the fellows are Vitalino Aton Jr., Trizer Dale Mansueto, Lorenzo Niñal, Liean Jane Rama, […]
Center receives recognition during the Don Mariano Awards 2013
Last September 8, 2013 was the 136th birth anniversary of Mariano Avila Mercado, mayor of Carcar in the 1920s. During his administration, Mercado built the Carcar Dispensary, formerly health center before and after the war and is now a museum, the swimming pool just behind the dispensary which served as American soldiers’ recreation area, the […]