UPD Department of European Languages

💡 The latest special issue of 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮 suggests a perspective for studying translating knowledge in, by, and for communities that is driven by the desire to uncover and understand power relationships, historically grown dependencies, functions, and effects of on the kinds of knowledge that obtain legitimacy; that are perceived as worthwhile to transmit from one generation to the next or from communities
to outsiders and vice versa; and that are relevant in local, national, and supranational fora of political, economic, or cultural decision-making.

🔓 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻, 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 is guest edited by Christina Korak, Edson Krenak & Rafael Schögler and is partly :
https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/tris.5.1

✒️ With further contributions by (DEL associate professor) Marlon James Sales, Melanie Strasser, Joshua M. Price, Antônio Fernandes Góes Neto, Artur Garcia Gonçalves & María Camila Montalvo.

📘 TRiS is edited by Luc van Doorslaer, Hélène Buzelin, Diana Roig Sanz, Rafael Schögler, Minhui Xu, Peter J Freeth, Paola Gentile & Giuseppe Palumbo.

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From UP Diliman:

“Studies made by historians, scholars, and researchers of the Spanish Pacific and the Galleon system, particularly from the 1400s to the 1800s, conclude that ‘the center of the world is not the Atlantic but Asia, particularly China.’

“This was revealed at the international conference, The Spanish Philippines: First International Conference of the Society for Early Transpacific Studies, which the UP Diliman (UPD) Department of European Languages (DEL) recently hosted.”

Read the article at https://upd.edu.ph/spanish-pacific-studies-conference-highlights-asias-historical-dominance/.

(SIXTH INSTALLMENT) Pictures from the parallel sessions of the 1st international conference of the Society for Early Transpacific Studies on the Spanish Pacific, hosted by UP Department of European Languages of the UP College of Arts and Letters.

10 and 11 June 2026
Child Development Center
UP College of Home Economics

(FIFTH INSTALLMENT) Pictures from the parallel sessions of the 1st international conference of the Society for Early Transpacific Studies on the Spanish Pacific, hosted by UP Department of European Languages of the UP College of Arts and Letters.

10 and 11 June 2026
Child Development Center
UP College of Home Economics

(FOURTH INSTALLMENT) Pictures from the parallel sessions of the 1st international conference of the Society for Early Transpacific Studies on the Spanish Pacific, hosted by UPD Department of European Languages of the UP College of Arts and Letters.

Our overseas guests were pleasantly surprised to see that Filipinos like posing on camera with their certificates. We're still trying to upload photos from our student volunteers. More photos to come!

10 and 11 June 2026
Child Development Center
UP College of Home Economics

(THIRD INSTALLMENT) Pictures from the opening program of the 1st international conference of the Society for Early Transpacific Studies on the Spanish Pacific, hosted by UPD Department of European Languages of the UP College of Arts and Letters.

9 June 2026
Child Development Center Auditorium
UP College of Home Economics

Photos by Jefferson Villacruz, UP Diliman Information Office.

(SECOND INSTALLMENT) Pictures from the opening program of the 1st international conference of the Society for Early Transpacific Studies on the Spanish Pacific, hosted by UPD Department of European Languages of the UP College of Arts and Letters.

9 June 2026
Child Development Center Auditorium
UP College of Home Economics

Photos by Jefferson Villacruz, UP Diliman Information Office.

(FIRST INSTALLMENT) Pictures from the opening program of the 1st international conference of the Society for Early Transpacific Studies on the Spanish Pacific, hosted by the UPD Department of European Languages of the UP College of Arts and Letters.

9 June 2026
Child Development Center Auditorium
UP College of Home Economics

Photos by Jefferson Villacruz, UP Diliman Information Office.

As the first international conference of the Society for Early Transpacific Studies (SETS) at the University of the Philippines, Diliman draws to a close this afternoon, the host institution, the UPD Department of European Languages, would like to thank everyone involved in making this conference a resounding success!

We'll share more photos and complete credits soon, but here's a before and after of the SETS from when it was founded at Princeton University in 2024 and its first international conference at UP Diliman in 2026.

UP College of Arts and Letters

The international conference of the Society for Early Transpacific Studies on the Spanish Pacific, hosted by the local organizer, the UP Department of European Languages, kicked off yesterday at the Child Development Center of the UP College of Home Economics. More than a hundred senior scholars and early-career researchers from Asia, America and Europe are currently on campus to present their papers.

We’ll share more pictures of the inaugural ceremony in the coming days, but for now, here are the members of the organizing committee in their Filipiniana.