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)	-	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

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