Fellows talk is the DLSU version of the famous TED talks (Technology, Entertainment and Design; www.ted.com) that will happen on March 7, 2013 at 10:30 – 12:00 at the DLSU Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium. Directed by Jose Javier Reyes, four University Fellows will deliver inspiring great talks that will stir your curiosity.
Fellows Talk 1
Dark Cows: Why We Must See a Philippine Reef Now Wilfredo Licuanan, PhD University Fellow
Nowhere in the world is the splendor and magnificence of marine biodiversity most apparent than in healthy reefs of the Coral Triangle. The visual impact of this diversity is stunning and mind-boggling, inviting those who are able to inquire, explore, and discover the wonders of Creation. Unfortunately, the path to ruin of coral reefs has been set, and we have an inadvertent role in this, beginning with our low expectations and standards of what a Philippine reef should be.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Wilfredo Licuanan is a Full Professor of the Biology Department and University Fellow of De La Salle University. He is also the Director of the Br. Alfred Shields Marine Station, where he conducts research, educational and extension activities pertaining to marine ecosystems and their interface with coastal communities. He has been surveying reefs for over twenty-five years and has led research teams to many previously unstudied reefs from all around the country including the Kalayaan Islands (where he discovered a coral species new to science), and the Pacific Ocean coasts from Luzon to Mindanao. He is currently leading a reassessment of the status of reefs around Batangas Province, in preparation for a proposed remapping of the coral reefs of the Philippines.
Fellows Talk 2 The Global Energy Picture in a Climate-Constrained World Raymond R. Tan, PhD University Fellow
Energy use is closely linked to both economic growth and to greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, recent demographic trends, particularly the rising standards of living and booming population in the developing world, has led to a steady increase in the world’s energy demands, which now exceeds 500 exajoules per year. At the same time, there is a widespread consensus that the 30 gigatons per year of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities – particularly the use of fossil fuels – are driving potentially irreversible and disastrous anthropogenic climate change. Clearly, these two trends raise an important global issue: How should humanity reconcile the need for equitable development on one hand, and the need to stay within environmental constraints on the other?
This talk discusses some key trends in the global energy picture vis-à-vis constraints imposed by the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Prof. Tan discusses the pros and cons of various low- carbon technologies, including renewable, nuclear power and carbon capture and storage. He also delves into game-changing events – for example, the Fukushima disaster in 2011 and the recent breakthroughs in “fracking” technology – and talks about their implications for global, regional and national energy security. Finally, he discusses how his research team at DLSU is helping to address some of these energy issues through their process systems engineering approach.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Prof. Raymond R. Tan is a university fellow and full professor of chemical engineering at De La Salle University. He is also the current director of that institution’s Center for Engineering and Sustainable Development Research (CESDR). Prof. Tan is one of Asia’s leading researchers in the field of process systems engineering (PSE), being the author of more than 80 published and forthcoming articles various ISI-indexed journals in chemical, environmental and energy engineering. His listed in Scopus as having close to 100 publications, with an h-index of 21. He is member of the editorial board of the journal Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (Springer) and is co-editor of the book Recent Advances in Sustainable Process Design and Optimization (World Scientific). Prof. Tan is the recipient of multiple awards from the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) and the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP). He has also received commendations from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) for several highly-cited articles in IChemE journals. He may be contacted via e-mail ([email protected]).
Fellows Talk 3
The Art of Healing and Poetry Marjorie Evasco, PhD University Fellow
The talk explores the connection of the art of medicine and the art of empathic language, poetry. The framework used in this research is Denise Levertov's concept of art as transformative absorption rather than self-expression and makes use of the distinction between healing and medical cure. The research covered five Filipino doctors and their best practices: a neurosurgeon, two oncologists, an obstetrician- gynecologist, and an anesthesiologist. Three of them are writers and their creative works which focus on their insights on healing and cure in their fields will be presented. The two non-writers are known in the medical field for their compassionate and effective communication with their patients. The paper concludes that the art of healing depends on the communicative practice of doctors, particularly their use of precise and compassionate information, and their patient's imaginative participation in the healing process. On both counts, the reading of poetry, which contains "news that always remains news," is the best way of leaning the art of empathic language.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
S.E.A. Write Laureate 2010 for the Philippines and NCCA Ani ng Dangal 2011 awardee, Marjorie Evasco writes and publishes poetry and creative nonfiction on one hand, and teaches literature and creative writing on the other. She has published collections of poetry, namely, Dreamweavers: Selected Poems 1976-1986 (Aria Editions, Inc. 1986) and Ochre Tones: Poetry in English and Cebuano (Salimbayan Books, 1999). Both won National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle. In 2009, her book of selected poems in English and Spanish translations, Skin of Water, won for her the S.E.A.Write award. In 2013, the bilingual tanrenga she wrote with Cuban poet Alex Fleites, Fishes of Light/ Peces de luz, will be published (Sipat Publishing Workgroup).
Her poems are also included in The World Record: Poetry Parnassus (London: Southbank Centre & Bloodaxe Books, 2012. Eds. Anna Selby & Neil Astley), and in the Language for a New Century: Contemporary Voices in the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (New York: Norton Anthology, 2008. Eds. Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar and Nathalie Handal). Her other books include Six Women Poets: Inter/Views (with Edna Manlapaz, Aria Editions, Inc., 1996) and A Life Shaped by Music: Andrea O. Veneracion and the Philippine Madrigal Singers (Bookmark, Inc., 2001). The former won the National Book Award for Oral History while the latter won the National Book Award for Biography. In 2006 her biography on a Boholano painter entitled Ani: The Life and Art of Hermogena Borja Lungay (UST Publishing House, Inc.) won the Alfredo Ongpin National Book on Art award from the Manila Critics’ Circle.
She has also received major prizes from the Philippines Free Press annual poetry awards, as well as the Carlos Palanca Memorial awards for the essay. She was regional writing fellow for poetry of the University of the Philippines Likhaan Center for Creative Writing in 1985-86. Her other writing awards were the honorary fellowship in the International Writing Program fellowship at the University of Iowa in 2002, the Gawad Alagad Balagtas for Poetry from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas in 2004, the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan from the City of Manila in 2005, the Outstanding Silliman University alumna for creative writing in 2008, the Carlos P. Garcia award for education from the province of Bohol in 2011, and the Ulirang Mandaleño award for education from the City of Mandaluyong in 2012. This year, she is the Taboan Literature Festival awardee for her achievements as a writer, promotion of the literature of the Central Visayas region, and for mentoring young writers.
She has received bursaries, travel and writing residency grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Studies and Conference Center in Italy, the Hawthornden International Writers’ Retreat in Scotland, the British Council Cambridge University Literature Conference. In 2012, she represented the Philippines in the cultural Olympics in London at the Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus festival. In October 2013, she will be serving as Visiting Writer in the Hong Kong Baptist University Creative Writing Workshop. She has represented the country in the international poetry festivals in Medellin (Colombia), Granada (Nicaragua), Sydney (Australia), Vancouver (Canada), Ha Long & Hanoi (Vietnam), Ubud (Bali), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Siem Reap (Cambodia), Hong Kong & Singapore. Her poems have been translated into several languages namely German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Kannada (South India), Romanian, Estonian, Vietnamese, Cebuano and Filipino.
In 1999, she was awarded Metrobank’s Most Outstanding Teacher for the Tertiary Level of the National Capital Region, as well as the Metrobank ACES and Exemplars awards. At present, she serves in the faculty of the Literature Department of De La Salle University, Manila as Full Professor and University Fellow. She has directed several outstanding undergraduate and graduate theses, thus earning the Outstanding thesis mentor award from the College of Liberal Arts. She has held several professorial chairs in Literature and the Humanities, and has served as administrator in various capacities as Director of the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center, Director of the University Research Coordinating Office, as Director of the DLSU PRESS, as Graduate Programs Coordinator for Literature, and as Chair of the Literature Department. She will be completing 30 years of teaching service in the university on December 31, 2013 and hopes to devote her time to writing and publishing, and training young writers of the country, Southeast Asia and Asia.
Fellows Talk 4
Damn if You Do; Damn if You Don’t: The Dilemma and Economic Effects of Migration and Remittances Tereso S. Tullao, Jr., PhD University Fellow
Although migration and sending remittances are individual and household decisions, the impact of migration and remittances extend beyond the OFW-dependent households. The presentation seeks to show three major effects of migration and remittances that extends to the macro-economy. In the labor market migration and remittances have an impact on unemployment and the supply of labor. In the external sector of the economy, it has an effect on the competitiveness of our exports with the appreciation of the exchange rate and the possible Dutch disease. Lastly, we will explore the impact of migration and remittances on economic growth particularly on the formation of human capital and the establishment of enterprises.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
TERESO S. TULLAO, JR. is a University Fellow since 1988, a professor of economics, former Dean of the College of Business and Economics and currently the Director at the Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies at De La Salle University-Manila (DLSU) and the editor in chief of the DLSU Business and Economics Review. He has been teaching for more than three decades at DLSU. He was a visiting professor and scholar at various academic institutions in Japan, USA, China, Thailand, France, and Laos. He has published several articles, monographs and books in Filipino and English on various topics including globalization, trade in services, movement of natural persons migration and remittances.