PANL conducts 18th Annual Conference Online

PANL, in association with the SLU School of Teacher Education and Liberal Arts (STELA) Philosophy Department, conducted its 18th Annual Conference on October 22-23, 2021. Themed Philosophy and the Task of Decoloniality, plenary speakers and panel presenters from all over the world shared their thoughts on the topic via the Zoom online conferencing platform.

Plenary speakers were composed of Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University, USA), Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of Bayreuth, Germany), Angela Roothaan (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands), Christopher Ryan B. Maboloc (Ateneo de Davao University, Philippines), Lovelyn C. Paclibar (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines), and Fr. Shierwin A. Cabunilas (San Pablo Seminary, Philippines). The two-day conference covered six plenary lectures and seven panel presentations in total.

Being a country whose history and civilization were mostly influenced by colonialism and colonial thinking, the Philippines is but an appropriate audience to this emerging school of thought or intellectual movement. It was emphasized, though, that decoloniality does not exactly mean severance from our (epistemic and cultural) bonds with the dominant (Western) mentality but rather extrication and reactivation of what is destitute and divested from our own ways of understanding the world. Decoloniality, therefore, aims to heal our deeply-rooted colonial wounds.

PANL holds an International Conference in October 2021

Despite the ongoing global pandemic, PANL takes the challenge on hosting an international forum on one of the recently developed topics in philosophy: DECOLONIALITY. The conference will be held on October 22-23, 2021 via the online Zoom platform. Themed Philosophy and the Task of Decoloniality, this two-day event will involve six plenary lectures and seven panel discussions. Likewise, the annual general assembly and election of officers will be held.

Online Registration is still ongoing until October 19 (5:00 pm).

More updates can be accessed thru PANL's Facebook Group.

PANL holds its 16th Regional Conference on Culture and the Environment

On October 18 to 20, 2019, PANL held its 16th Regional Philosophy Conference at the Benguet State University which was participated by several personel in the academe within and outside Northern Luzon. Inspired by CHED Memorandum Order No. 2 of 2019, the theme of the annually held conference was “Philosophy, Indigenous Cultures and Earth Studies.” Numerous speakers and presenters shared ideas and prompted philosophical discourses that zeroed in on our efforts in protecting the indigenous people's culture and the environment.

In this conference, the participants were given the opportunity to an intellectual discussion/exchange in a more multi-cultural and multi-disciplinal approach on the issues concerning cultural and earth studies of today.  The conference hoped to bring the participants closer to dealing with issues and activities from an indigenous philosophy viewpoint, and pave a way to collective actions thereof.

A debate on Philosophy of Easter is organized by PAP, MCJS, PANL, and Pagarubangan, in cooperation with the CBCP,
on 27 April 2019 at the
Mary Cause of our Joy Seminary, Bacarra, Ilocos Norte.

One of PANL's Board Members, Fides Bernardo Bitanga, joins the panel of discussant-debaters.
With him in the negating side are Rex Belli Alejandro and Zachree Damo as coordinator-coach.

More about this in our Facebook Page Post

1st USAPP Summit & 40th PHAVISMINDA Anniversary

On May 30 to June 1, 2019, Silliman University will be hosting the very first summit of the Union of Societies and Associations of Philosophy in the Philippines (USAPP) and PHAVISMINDA's 40th Anniversary. The event's theme is "Philosophy and the Filipino: An Assessment of the Direction of Philosophizing in the Philippines." Interested participants are now being called for registration and paper submissions. Instructions and details are given further stated in the attached photo.

Further details could be accessed through PHAVISMINDA Official Facebook Group Post.