Binalot Talks

The Binalot Talks (formerly Brown Bag Talks) are held every Wednesday, 12pm to 1 pm at Albert Hall Seminar Room 2 of the UP School of Archaeology .
We tackle everything and anything archaeological, and then some!
We started the Binalot Talks at the then ASP (Archaeological Studies Program) in 2003 to regularize the informal talks organized for the benefit of the ASP community. We believe that this format of interaction is effective in allowing people from various backgrounds to communicate, and for research interests to be aired. We have managed to create better links with other disciplines in the university, provide a venue for visiting scholars, widen our horizon of interest and start collaborative research with people outside the UP School of Archaeology.
The talk is open to the public and because of its regularity, we have developed an audience of people who travel to Albert Hall from as far as Makati and Manila just to attend. The environment is a relaxed one and the audience is very diverse.
We post announcements of upcoming talks through our events page and Facebook page  and weekly announcements are posted at the homepage: https://archaeology.upd.edu.ph
 
Some of our past talks are also available at youtube.

Binalot Talks

2008

Title Speaker Date
The Commodification of Coffins in Sto Tomas, Pampanga Rose Dizon January 16
Buried in Style: A glimpse of Manila cemeteries Tara Reyes. Jessica Peña and Charlene Manese January 30
Too many species, so little time: Documenting the botanical riches of the Philippines Leonard Co February 06
The Archaeology of Pigs and People in Southeast Asia Phil Piper February 13
The Early Pleistocene of Europe Thru the Evidence from Atapuerca Robert Sala February 20
Indigenous Approaches Utilized by Parents and Educators in Addressing the Needs of Intellectually Superior Filipino Children Aged 4 to 9 years old Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal February 27
Possibilities and Challenges of Community Museums: The Case of Balay ni Tan Juan in Bago City, Negros Occidental Cecille de la Paz March 05
Laguna de Bay Precipitation Trends in the Last 4000 Years Peter Zamora March 12
Revisiting Maitum Pots: The Sagel Cave Nida Cuevas and Sandy de Leon June 18
Kapangyarihan ni Apo: A look into the Significance of Bones in Secondary Burial Practices of the Ifugao and Kankanay Tara Reyes June 25
Music Archaeology in Asia: Selected Topics and Perspectives Arsenio Nicolas July 02
The Kingdom of Sri Vijaya in the 9th Century: An Expanded View Cynthia Valdes July 09
Thoughts on the Materiality of History Maris Diokno July 16
The Potentials of Metal Detecting for the Practice of Philippine Archaeology Douglas Wong July 23
An Archaeology of Seas? A Graph Theoretic Analysis of Interaction in the Visayan Landscape Cyril Calusay July 30
The Quest of Early Man in the Philippines: Excavation and Exploration of Solana and Enrile Municipalities in Cagayan Valley Sheldon Clyde Jago-on August 06
Different Meanings of Calatagan Grace Barretto-Tesoro August 13
The Oriental and Occidental Concept of the Body Naohiko Umekawa September 03
Why We Need A Pinoy Ecological History Benjamin Vallejo September 17
Bead Type Collection in Philippine Archaeological Context Rey Santiago and Pauline Basilia September 24
Who's Afraid of Climate Change? Perry Ong October 08
The ancient giant clam shells from Balobok Rockshelter, Philippines as potential recorders of environmental changes: A diagenesis assessment and sclerochronology study Pamela Faylona November 19
Contextualizing the Banaue Trip Michael James Herrera and Michelle Eusebio November 25
Future Visions, Past Revisions: Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Philippines Emil Flores December 03
The Epistemology of Modern Filipino Revolts Patricio Mangubat December 09

 

2009

Title Speaker Date
Gongs, Bells and Cymbals: The archaeological record in maritime Asia from the 10th to the 16th CE Arsenio Nicolas January 14
Trauma, everyday politics and the affective turn in the visual arts May Datuin January 21
Philosophy of Science and Bird-Watching Jerry Devilla January 28
Socially Engaged Songs in Asia Jess Santiago February 04
Some insight from the excavation of Dewil Valley, El Nido, Palawan Victor Paz February 11
Mathematics and Beauty Marian Roque February 18
Human Adaptation to Cold Climates: The Experience in Ancient Hokkaido, Japan Marc Oxenham February 25
Re-establishing the Military Museum of the Philippines Jose Custodio March 04
Inventions and Innovations Bonifacio Comandante March 11
Batangas. Again? New sites, new perspectives, new agenda Grace Barretto-Tesoro March 18
Views on the Mentality of 21st Century Island Southeast Asia Archaeology Practice Victor Paz June 10
Insights on Bikol Archaeology Through Bikol Museums Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio June 17
Creating Subjectivities: Tales from the Field Nelson Nava Turgo June 24
Recipes for an Archaeology of the Gastronomic Jack Medrana July 01
Excavation of a Jar Burial Site in the Bondoc Peninsula: Results of the Joint-Up Archaeological Studies Program and Australian National University 2008 Field School Victor Paz and Aya Ragragio July 08
Tom Harrisson: The Barefoot Anthropologist (BBC showing with commentaries) commentaries from Wilhelm Solheim II and Philip Piper July 15
Pottery Among the Dai and Wa People of Southwest China William Longacre July 22
Heritage, Historical Education and the Public Schools Lino Dizon July 29
All the Things We Cannot Articulate: Leprosy, Archives and Commemoration (cancelled) Ricardo Punzalan August 05
Limokon: The world and art of Boy Dominguez Federico "Boy" Dominguez August 12
The Flinders University Underwater Cultural Heritage Management Course: Experiences and Insights Gay Lacsina August 19
Up Against the Wall:Graffiti Writing as an Artistic Practice in UP, Diliman Antares Gomez B. August 26
Tomas Agulto at ang Hari ng Panulaang Tagalog Tomas Agulto September 02
Cory Aquino and her contributions to Philippine archaeology William Longacre September 09
Remnants: Collecting the Past Preliminary analysis of ceramic and metal artifacts found at Pinagbayanan, San Juan, Batangas Kristyn Maguire and Kat Manalo September 16
Scandals as objects of exchange and circulation in the Philippine context Maria Mangahas September 23
Pottery Production in Talalang, Kalinga Edwin Valientes September 30
Lake Hume Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Study: Archaeological Survey of the Goulburn-Murray River Armand Mijares November 11
Similar but different:An update on the Ille earthenware Yvette Balbaligo November 18
The Making of the Living Heritage of Philippine Indigenous Peoples Benjamin Abadiano November 25
Tonal Geography of the Provinces of Central Thailand Kritsana Athapanyawanit-Canilao December 02
Updates on Irish Archaeology Kim Rice December 09
Canarium in Terminal Pleistocene to Holocene Philippines: Implications of Ancient Plant Use Jane Carlos December 16

 

2010

Title Speaker Date

Amorsolo on Amorsolo: A personal view on the art of Fernando Amorsolo

Don Amorsolo

January 6

Baybayin Script on the Manunggul Jar?

Bonifacio Commandante

January 13

Obsidian and its Regional Distribution

Leee Neri

January 20

Briefing Presentation on the National Defense College of the Philippines

Chester Cabalza

January 27

The World of Patis Tesoro

Patis Tesoro

February 3

Mitigating Traffic Congestion and Accidents in an Intersection

Mark de Guzman

February 10

Change and Obsolescence in the Music of the Ifugao:
A work in progress

Fredeliza Campos

February 17

The Mind Museum in Taguig: The Philippines' first world-class science museum

Carol Pobre

February 24

Risks and Rewards in Research: Roaming Manila

Norma I. Alarcon

March 3

Reinterpreting Stone Boat Shaped Burial Markers

Victor Paz

March 10

Underwater Archaeology in Malaysia

Adi Haji Taha

March 17

Where is the Neolithic in Ille Cave, Palawan?

Vito Hernandez

March 24

Introduction to Preventive Conservation

Suzanna Edwards

June 16

The 67K Callao Foot bone:
Implications for Early dispersal in Southeast Asia

Armand Mijares

June 23

(no Binalot Talks)

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June 30

Taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: a widespread history of domestication?

Peter J. Matthews

July 9

Pag-Abyad sa Altaran: Maintaining the Rice Terraces in Tayabas, Quezon Province, Southern Tagalog Region, Philippines (cancelled)

Kate Tantuico

July 14

Results of the 2009-2010 UP ASP Fieldschool

Grace Barretto-Tesoro

July 21

Pag-Abyad sa Altaran: Maintaining the Rice Terraces in Tayabas, Quezon Province, Southern Tagalog Region, Philippines

Kate Tantuico

July 28

The Archaeology of Joey Ayala

Joey Ayala

August 4

A social life of protein: A political ecology of marine resources in a Bohol village

Eulalio R. Guieb, III

September 22

Turbulence and Some Philosophy of Science

Amador Muriel

August 11

Lost and Found: The Story of Palawan

Rolando E. Peña

August 18

Sherds, Shards and Fragments: An Analysis of the Artifacts Collected from Pinagbayanan, San Juan, Batangas, 2010

Omar Choa, Natasha Kintanar and Kate Lim

August 25

Building in the Past: Building Construction and Material of Structure A in Pinagbayanan, San Juan, Batangas, 2010

Angel Sales, Noel Amano and Riczar Fuentes

September 1

Ang Kagandahan ng Tunggalian

Rommel Rodriguez

September 8

ASP goes Europe - On old rocks and new acquaintances

Alfred Pawlik

September 15

Cultural Perceptions of Self and Other: Intercultural Contact in Long-Distance Travel. The German Culture as reflected in its image in Vietnam

Natalie Lange

September 29

Architecture, Anthropology, Archaeology

Rene Mata

October 6

Zooarchaeology of Pinagbayanan: A Preliminary Analysis on the Bones and Shells from Structure A, Site I

Ma. Antoinette "Lala" Sioco

October 13

Pamilang Pilipino Base 20?

Bonifacio Comandante

October 20

Greater Angkor Project: The GAP 2010 Angkor Wat Excavation

Marie Louise Antoinette Sioco

November 24

Study of Ata in Canggohob, Mabinay, Negros Oriental

Larissa Smith

December 1

The Mindoro Bioarchaeological Project

Armand Salvador Mijares

December 8

Making Histories in Jars: An approach to object biography of the Maitum anthropomorphic jars

Mark Mabanag

December 15

2011

Title Speaker Date

The Catanauan Archaeological and Heritage Project: What's New?

Victor Paz

January 5

Xin Chao Vietnam!

Mindy Ceron

January 12

The Palawan Island Road Transect 2011

Danny Galang

January 19

Taking Fantasy Literature Seriously

Frances Jane Abao

January 26

Shipwreck, remora and no air:
Underwater archaeological training with
the National Museum

Kat Manalo, Kate Lim, and Kate Tantuico

February 2

Presenting Heritage Lessons from the Cultural Attractions of France

Jack Medrana

February 9

Tambobong (Malabon and Navotas) and its heritage

Richard Tuason-Sanchez Bautista

February 16

Astronomy in the Biblical Tradition: Prophetic Sky Readers

Rafael Dy-Tiacco

February 23

Cast of Billion: Web video and its mainstream applications

Data Canlas

March 2

Historical Ethnomusicology and Philippine National Compositions

Neal Matherne

March 9

Play on Gopas Ritual in Kalinga Province, Philippines

Tomoko Onoe

March 16

The Cold Case of the Peking Man Fossils

Johann Kamminga

June 22

The University of Guam Archaeological Field School
in San Remigio, Cebu

Students of Stephen Acabado

June 29

Mammoth and Metaphor:
The early upper paleolithic art of central Europe

Martin Porr

July 6

The Dusan Jar and Changsha Ware: Tracking the 9th to 10th century maritime trade thru the ceramic evidence

Cynthia Valdes

July 13

Old Maps, New Technologies: H. Otley Beyer's Rizal-Bulacan archaeological survey

Emil Robles

July 20

3D Geometric Metamorphics of the Callao MT-3

Florent Détroit

July 27

Homeless at Home: Lost Geographies and Philippine Diasporic Cinema

Joseph Palis

August 3

Baybayin Script, It's History and Relationships: What Insights from Linguistics Can Tell Us

Christopher Ray Miller

August 10

On Archaeological Human Bones

Marc Oxenham

August 17

Pots & Rice and All That's Nice: More Results from the Kalinga Project

William A. Longacre

August 24

The Construction Technology of Structure B: Avant Garde Architecture in Colonial Philippines

Ena Luga

August 31

 

Nico Unay and Melodina Cruz

September 7

The Story of Bones and Shells of Structure B

Kate Tantuico and Marian Reyes

September 14

The Di Chỉ, Loc Giang Neolithic Mound: Field Collection of Soil Micromorphology Samples

Armand Salvador B. Mijares

October 5

Heritage Archaeology in Manila

Victor Paz

November 16

Lithic Technology of Song Terus Cave (East Jave, Indonesia) at Middle Pleistocene and the Early Pleistocene

Archie Tiauzon

November 23

Scottish Island Archaeology: Mummies and Sacrifices

Jacqui Mulville

December 7

 

Cyril Calugay

December 14