Partido Partida: Isang Dekada ng Sistemang Party List sa
Pilipinas
A
forum on “Partida Partida: One Decade of the Philippines’
Party List System” will be held at the University of the Philippines’
(Manila) Little Theater, Padre Faura, Manila, 9 a.m. – 12
noon on Nov. 28, 2008. The three-hour forum is organized by the
UP Political Science Society (Polis) to mark its seventh anniversary.
Invited
speakers are Rep. Luz Ilagan of Gabriela Women’s Party, Ateneo
Prof. Danton Remoto of Ang Ladlad, and UP Prof. Bobby Tuazon.
Polis
is headed by Cherry Kerr Aguilar, with Prof. Carl Ramota as adviser.
National
conference on cultural innovation for good governance
A national conference on “Cultural Innovation for Good Governance”
is being organized by the Center for People Empowerment in Governance
(CenPEG) on Dec. 8-9, 2008. The conference’s take-off point
is the book, Corruptionary@, a lexicon of 447 corruption-related words.
The national conference will be held at the University Hotel, University
of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. It will be held in partnership
with the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA).
The two-day conference has invited Prof. Alice Guillermo and Prof.
Roland Tolentino as plenary speakers. Six workshops will be organized
to tackle issues of corruption affecting the schools, religious sector,
business, media, and government.
More details to be announced later.
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