IFSU hosts international conference
- Published on Friday, 03 June 2011 17:52
- Category: Useful Information
By Vency D. Bulayungan
BANAUE, Ifugao, May 31(PIA)- - The Ifugao State University (IFSU) hosted recently the 6th Nakem (mindset) International Conference at the Banaue Hotel here.
This is jointly sponsored by IFSU, Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), University of Hawaii at Manoa, NAKEM Conference International-Philippines Chapter and NAKEM Conferences International.
With the theme "Sursuro: Mother Language Education and Cultural Nationalism", the said conference aims to provide a venue for committed and critical conversion on the nexus of education mediated by the first language of educands and the promotion of the sense of nation through the celebration of the experience of cultural diversity and pluralism.
Specifically, the conference has its end in view to: exchange ideas and action plans for the comprehensive and integrative implementation of mother language education in the Amianan regions, and other regions of the country similarly situated educationally; (2) specify the best practices for mother language education and evolve from these practices other alternative practices appropriate to specific cultures; and (3) engage in a critical and committed intellectual conversion relative to the connection between mother language education and cultural nationalism.
Convening the said conference are the NAKEM Conference International-Philippines Chapter, NAKEM Conferences International, the IFSU, and the University of Hawai’I Ilokano Language and Literature Program.
Other member academic institutions of the NAKEM Conferences consortium who are co-sponsoring the forthcoming 6th NAKEM International Conference includes Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), University of Northern Philippines (UNP), Abra State Institute of Sciences and Technology(ASIST), Apayao State College(ASC), St Mary’s University (SMU), Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University (DMMMSU), Cagayan State university (CSU), Quirino State College(QSC), Mountain Province State Polytechnic College (MPSPC), Pangasinan State University (PSU), Nueva Viscaya State University (NVSU), Benguet State University (BSU), Isabela State University (ISU), Kalinga-Apayao State College (KASC), Northern Luzon Philippines State College (NLPSC) and Batanes State College (BSC).
The NAKEM Conferences, under the auspices of the Ilokano and Philippines Drama and Film Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, is a collaborative program with other higher institutions of learning in the United States, the Philippines and other countries.
It commenced with the 2006 Nakem Centennial Conference participated in by hundreds of scholars, cultural workers, creative writers, academics, civic and political leaders from the state of Hawaii, the United States Mainland, the Philippines, Australia, Japan, Canada, and New Zealand.
Organizers say its is proper and fitting that the Nakem Conference goes back to its roots in consciousness, culture and creative potential--- the Ilocos and Amianan as both territorial and psychic spaces --- and its going back to the Philippines is a semiotic gesture demanded by the obligation to remembrance, memory and memory- making and their power to instill in our culture and communities--- virtual and physical---to keep the creative collaborative anito alive. *(VDB PIA-CAR, Ifugao)
