Online Archive
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 May
“Ang Artistikanong Kagawasan Sa Mga Magsusulat” Omar Khalid In this installment of the Vicente Sotto Lectures, Omar Khalid will be talking about what gives rise to writers and their artistic vision and how this visions are shaped in the cultural milieu of their time in relation to history. Date: May 20, 2023
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 April
“On Language, Education & Culture: Views from the Young Visayan-Americans in Hawaii” Dr. Rodney Jubilado ABSTRACT: In 1909, the Visayans, who were mostly from Cebu and Siquijor, set sail to the Hawaiian Islands to fill in the labor gap in the sugar plantations under the employment of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association (HSPA). The hiring […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2023 March
“Motherless Tongue: To Be Bisaya in a Non-English Country” Jona Branzuela Bering ABSTRACT: Is it possible to write about the very people you want to write about when you are far away from them, when your everyday life is so far removed from the daily functions of the language you want to write in? —an […]
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2021 February
Main Lecture: “The Cebu Records in the Augustinian Archives” Dr. Jose Eleazar Bersales Opening Talk: “The Political Life of Vicente Sotto” Dr. Bea Yap Martinez Date: February 27, 2021
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2021 January
Main Lecture: “Researching Cebu in the British Archives” Dr. Maria Cristina Juan Opening Talk: “Vicente Sotto as a Writer” Charles Dominic Sanchez Date: January 30, 2021
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2021 March
Main Lecture: “Datu Lapulapu: A Cinematic Character Study” Denis M. Judilla Opening Talk: “The Maverick’s Final Years” Niño Loyola Date: March 27, 2021
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2021 April
Main Lecture: “What Could Have Been is a Paragraph” Lawrence Ypil Opening Talk: “Press Freedom in the time of a Pandemic” Speaker: Annie Fe Perez Date: April 24, 2021
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2021 May
“Vicente Sotto: The First Twenty-Nine Years: 1878-1907” Dr. Michael Cullinane Date: May 29, 2021
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2021 September
“Axed: How Cebu Island Lost Its Forest (1880-1920)” Trizer Dale Mansueto Date: September 25, 2021
Vicente Sotto Lecture 2021 August
“Worship and Cebu’s Colonial Churches” Ar. Melva Java Date: August 30, 2021