Public Humanities
Overview
This cluster seeks to design and implement projects and programs that will enhance the humanities’ engagement with the public audience and extend the classroom and research work to the public sphere (e.g., engaged teaching, engaged scholarship, public programming). Significant questions that we shall initially ruminate on include: What contemporary socio-political issues, and humanistic and cultural concerns shall we address (e.g., ML injustices, ableism, medical humanities)? What radical modes of engaged research and knowledge production can we adopt? What communities can we involve in our programs and projects? This cluster hopes to create more avenues for community conversation, participation, and collaboration. Possible outputs: community dialogue, workshop, public art exhibit, curriculum design, teaching modules, website.
Program 1: Training Workshop on Social Justice and Civic Engagement
Partner/Community: Bantayog ng Bayani
Description: Engaged research. DLSU faculty and students partner with Bantayog ng Bayani resource persons to investigate issues on social justice in the Philippine contexts and to experience training in civic engagement activities.
Program 2: Mini Conference and Workshop on Contemporary Issues
Proposed topics: Disability studies in the Philippines; Asian Pop
Partner/Community: National Council on Disability Affairs, Chulalongkorn University
Description: Engaged research and scholarship. Mini conference and workshop on selected research papers that examine two significant topics in the Philippine and Asian settings: disability studies in the Philippines and Asian popular cultures. Participation in the conference workshop will be selective. Community dialogues and cultural immersion can be integrated into the conference workshop. Output will be book publication or website.
Program III: Dialogue on Art & Public Engagement Curriculum Design
Partner/Community: Humanities departments; DLSU Integrated School Arts & Design Track Coordinators and Faculty
Description: Engaged instruction, research and public programming. The team will initially engage in a series of conversations. They will propose a curriculum design on art and public engagement with project-based learning that benefits both the school and target communities.
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Open Cluster
De La Salle University
Manila Campus
De La Salle University has been listed in the prestigious Times Higher Education Subject Rankings 2024 for Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences. This is the first time that DLSU entered the Arts & Humanities ranking, securing a place in the 600+ bracket and making it as the leading private university in the Philippines in this category. This is indeed a remarkable milestone for the College of Liberal Arts as this is an affirmation of its pursuit to produce outstanding publications and creative works that enrich our culture, define our identity, and embrace our humanity.
For 5 consecutive years, DLSU has been recognized as one of the best universities in the field of Social Sciences and has recently been placed within the 800+ bracket. Congratulations to all the faculty, students, and fellow administrators for their exceptional contributions and commitment in realizing this goal.
Animo La Salle!
