Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts
University of the Philippines Diliman
Scholarship
The UP Diliman Speech Communication and Theatre Arts fulfills its mandate on research, extension, and collaboration by hosting international conferences and academic gatherings with the intention of engaging dialogue on the past, present, and future of speech communication, theatre, and performance studies.
List of recent publications from Sept 2023-Sept 2024
List of recent publications from Sept 2023-Sept 2024
IFTR MANILA 2024
Our States of Emergency: Theatres and Performances of Tragedy
The Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts hosted the 66th Annual Conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research 2024 (IFTR 2024) held in Manila. The IFTR 2024 is envisioned to reevaluate tragedy as an important performance form and theatrical theory in theatre and performance studies. IFTR 2024 opened on July 15 at the Manila Metropolitan Theater and closed on July 19, 2024.
FREEDOMS OF SPEECH IN ASIA:
SPEECH COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE 2023
Freedoms of Speech in Asia features keynote speeches, presentations, and panel discussions from academics, students, and practitioners from diverse disciplinary backgrounds that reckon with the situations of speech, the state of speakers and other kinds of communicators, and the textualities and ethnographies of speech communication within the social, political, academic, and cultural structures of Asia.
International Federation for Theatre Research
IFTR Asian Theatre Work Group 2018
BODIES IN/AND ASIAN THEATRES
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Along with UP Diliman Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (OICA), DSCTA hosted the IFTR Asian Theatre Working Group Regional Conference in February 2018.
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The conference attempted to answer the following questions: What do we mean when we talk about bodies in Asian theatres and performances? What do we mean when we talk about Asian bodies in different performances outside the region? How does theatre affect the way we think about the bodies of Asians?
ORALITY, THEATRICALITY, PERFORMATIVITY
International Conference 2019
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In honor of Professors Emeriti Leticia H. Tison and Antonio O. Mabesa and in celebration of the 60th Founding Anniversary of the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, DSCTA gathered academics, students and scholars to map the development of the disciplines of speech communication and theatre arts in the country.
Simultaneously, the conference was an endeavor to reflect how far the local contexts have engaged in meaningful conversations with the international academic communities. Finally, the academic gathering was intended to interrogate and problematize the future of the disciplines in the Philippines.
RHETORIC OF CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP:
Conversations of cross-cultural artistic exchanges 2019
A collaboration among the Japan Foundation, UP College of Arts and Letters Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, and Asian Center, Rhetoric of Creative Partnership aimed to provide a venue for a dialogue on creative and artistic collaboration in the performing arts. It was intended to be a space for art practitioners to discuss their works and creative processes, as well as to share and generate knowledge in the performing arts.
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An emphasis was placed on cross cultural exchanges and creative partnerships to shift the conversation to collaborative artistry, rather than individual processes. The academic gathering also enabled the assessment of current practices in collaboration and the identification of possibilities in future undertakings.
