Beyond 2010: Leadership for the Next Generation - UP Academic Congress

Beyond 2010: Leadership for the Next Generation
A UP Academic’s Congress To Challenge our Next Leaders

February 1 to 5, 2010
Malcolm Hall, College of Law
University of the Philippines

This academic congress intends to identify the current issues, map the various approaches that have been tried in the past, provide some assessment of their gains and failures and draw out possible actions that must be done by the next administration. It is intended to empower the general public by making these issues transparent. It is not solely addressed to the candidates for the 2010 elections.

At the end of the forum, the public should be able to draw their own measurable objectives and milestones that can be achieved within the next six years hence allowing them to craft questions which they can ask from their candidates and make wise choices. The forum should draw responses from the political candidates that will go beyond mere generalities or rhetoric.

OPEN TO ALL! No registration fee required.To pre-register, please call the UP Law Dean's Office at 927-0518 or email academic.congress@gmail.com Please indicate your name, affiliation and the sessions you are attending.

DAY 1 - February 1, 2010, Monday
8:30–9:00 AM Registration Proper
9:00–9:30 AM Opening Ceremonies
9:30–9:45 AM Opening Remarks by Dean Marvic M.V.F. Leonen
9:45–10:00 AM “The Imperatives for Philippine Society within the Next Generation” by UP President Emerlinda R. Roman
10:00–10:45 AM “What Truly Matters to Filipinos?” by Prof. Randolf S. David
10:45–12:00 PM Open Forum
12:00–1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30–3:30 PM Session 1: Jobs and the Cost of Doing Business in the Philippines
3:45–5:45 PM Session 2: Debt and Deficits

DAY 2 - February 2, 2010, Tuesday
8:30–9:00 AM Registration Proper
9:00–11:00 AM Session 3: Backrooms, Battlefields, and Backhoes: The Mindanao Conundrum
11:00–1:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00–3:00 PM Session 4: Building Blocks to the Universal Enjoyment of the Right to Health
3:00–5:00 PM Session 5: Secularisms and Fundamentalisms

DAY 3 - February 3, 2010, Wednesday
8:00–8:30 AM Registration Proper
8:30–10:30 AM Session 6: The Diaspora of Filipinos: Strategic Issues, Concerns, and Alternatives
10:30–12:30 PM Session 7: Property Reform and Related Issues
12:30–1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30–3:30 PM Session 8: Rethinking Urban Policy: Spatial, Economic, and Institutional Aspects
3:45–5:45 PM Session 9: Science and Technology

DAY 4 - February 4, 2010, Thursday
8:00–8:30 AM Registration Proper
8:30–10:30 AM Session 10: Confronting Trade, Markets, and Regulation
10:30–12:30 PM Session 11: Philippine Foreign Relations
12:30–2:00 PM Lunch Break
2:00–4:00 PM Session 12: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: Trends, Challenges, Lessons, and Response Options

DAY 5 - February 5, 2010, Friday
8:00–8:30 AM Registration Proper
8:30–10:30 AM Session 13: Addressing Impunity
10:30–12:30 PM Session 14: Elections and How to Choose Leaders
12:30–1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30–3:30 PM Session 15: Labor–Revisiting Constitutional Guarantees
3:45–4:00 PM Closing Remarks by UP Diliman Chancellor Sergio S. Cao

Third Week of February
Session 16: Energy Security
Synthesis by the Chief Rapporteurs
(Details to follow)

SESSIONS MAY ALSO BE VIEWED VIA LIVE WEB STREAMING at: dilc.upd.edu.ph


This event is brought to you by the:

Office of the President, University of the Philippines | Office of the Chancellor, University of the Philippines, Diliman | College of Law | College of Engineering | College of Science | College of Social Sciences and Philosophy | College of Social Work and Community Development | National College of Public Administration and Governance | School of Economics | Asian Center | Center for Integrative and Development Studies | Center for Women’s Studies | Diliman Interactive Learning Center | Institute of Islamic Studies | Third World Studies Center