School of Social Sciences
Philippines Australia Studies Centre
Events - 2005
Filipino Encounters with Education Australia - 31 January 2005
 The Philippines-Australia Studies Network (PASN) initiated its first roundtable discussion, “Filipino Encounters with Education Australia”, at the Pangilinan Hall, PLDT-CTC Building, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights Campus. The event brought together a select group of Filipinos who studied in Australia to reflect on their experiences as foreign students and the impact of those experiences on their lives and current engagements with Philippine society. The group was composed of Filipinos and Australians from the academe, the government, and the private sector.
The discussions centered on how personal experiences of Filipinos who studied in Australia had broadened their perspective of the world, the contextual differences of higher education in Australia and the Philippines, and how the system of sending scholars to study in Australia could be improved. Another roundtable exchange may be held next year. Among the notable attendees were Ruth Pearce, the Australian Ambassador, and Dr Fe Hidalgo, Undersecretary of the Department of Education. Dr. Antonette Palma-Angeles, Academic Vice-President of the Ateneo, gave the welcome remarks. Dr Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr, Director of PASN, served as moderator. Other presenters were from the Philippines-Australia Alumni Association, Inc., (PA3i), the University of the Philippines Department of Geography, and the Gaston Z. Ortigas Peace Institute.
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Meeting with Pinoy Postgraduates - 4 June 2005
Members of La Trobe’s Philippine-Australia Studies Centre (PASC) met with the organising committee of the local network of Pinoy Postgraduates from all Victorian Universities to explore areas for collaboration. One of the outcomes of the meeting was the setting up of a database which will be accessible by all interested parties. Another outcome was the establishment of a website: PASC has accepted the invitation to co-develop and host the website project.
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Launch of First PASN Publication - 13 to 17 June 2005
 There was a launch at Ateneo de Manila of the first PASN publication titled Australian Perspectives on the United States, Southeast Asia, and the World: the PASN Inaugural Week Lectures. This is a collection of lectures by visiting Australian academics, viz Professors Joe Camilleri and Joel Kahn, and Associate Professor Peter Murphy, held during the week of the PASN launch in February 2004.
Five years after La Trobe University and the Ateneo de Manila University formalized their partnership in education and research, the Philippines-Australia Studies Centre (PASC) and the Philippines-Australia Studies Network (PASN) hosted a celebration of their cooperation on 17 June 2005 which was highlighted by the ceremonial marking of the PASC-PASN book collection at the Pardo de Tavera Hall of the Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila Loyola Heights Campus. Dr Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr, PASN director, and Professor Charles Mott, PASC deputy director, welcomed the distinguished guests and representatives of the two universities, including Australian Ambassador Tony Hely, Fr Bienvenido F. Nebres, S.J., Ateneo President, Dr Anna Miren Gonzalez-Intal, Ateneo Vice-President for the Loyola Schools, and Dr Antonette Palma-Angeles, Ateneo Academic Vice President. The program started with Fr Nebres signing a renewal five-year Memorandum of Understanding. Professor Michael Osborne, Vice-Chancellor and President of La Trobe, already had a signing in Australia.
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Meeting of Philippines Students at La Trobe City Campus - 1 July 2005
IPO/PASC sponsored a meeting of Philippines students at the La Trobe City Campus, at which the students exchanged presentations on their various research projects. Professor Charles Mott attended on behalf of IPO/PASC and gave the opening remarks.
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Public Lecture Series at Ateneo -
13 to 17 June 2005
To mark the 9th Anniversary of Budhi: a journal of culture and Ideas edited by Luis David, SJ, three public lectures were given at Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights Campus:
- ‘South-east Asian Cities’, Dr Trevor Hogan (Sociology, La Trobe);
- ‘Asian cities – megapolis and technopolis’, Associate Professor Peter Murphy (Monash University);
- ‘North American critical theory post World War II – the last 50 years’, Professor Peter Beilharz (Sociology, La Trobe).
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