Don Belong Lectures “Isabelo’s Folklore”

Don Belong Lectures

The UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) Folklore Studies Program warmly invites everyone to the Don Belong Lectures on 07 May 2025 at Pilar Herrera Lecture Hall, Palma Hall, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

Named after the foremost Filipino folklorist, Isabelo de los Reyes, this year’s Don Belong Lectures include papers that examined and expanded on De los Reyes’ works on Philippine folklore. The event will also serve as the formal launch of the special issue of Banwaan: The Philippine Journal of Folklore, “Isabelo’s Folklore,” edited by Emmanuel Jayson V. Bolata at Vincent Christopher A. Santiago.

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Lectures

Anna Melinda Testa – De Ocampo, “Humor and Satire in Isabelo de los Reyes’s El Diablo en Filipinas”

Kerby C. Alvarez, “Isabelo’s Nature and Weather: Exploring Isabelo de los Reyes’ Notes on the Physical Environment in the El Folk-Lore Filipino (1889)”

Joseph Adrian D. Afundar, “Recording Maladies and Remedies: Isabelo de los Reyes and Folk Medicine in Late Nineteenth – Century Philippines”

Athena Charanne R. Presto and Emmanuel Reed Horton B. Viceral, “Folklore as a Decolonial Tool: Examining Isabelo de los Reyes’ El Folk-Lore Filipino”

Lorenz Timothy Barco Ranera, “Legal Codification of Family-Related Filipino Proverbs (Salawikain) in the Civil Code of the Philippines, 1947-1949”

Micah Jeiel R. Perez, “Is Sungka a Wargame? An Investigation into Conflict and Strategy within the Ludic Culture of the Pre-Colonial Philippines”

Source: UP CSSP Folklore Studies Program Facebook