INTERDISCIPLINARY BOOK FORUM
The Interdisciplinary Book Forum (IBF), a collaboration of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and the University of the Philippines Press, is held every semester. As one of the projects of UP Likhaan’s Literature for Social Development, IBF aims to provide a venue and achieve the imperative for academic dialogue and intellectual engagement amongst various fields of academic research not limited to the literary.
The IBF has had seven successful cycles featuring the following books:
Session Overviews | Featured Book | Discussants | Text |
First Session | Tapping Ink, Tattooing Identities: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Kalinga Society, Northern Luzon, Philippines (2013) by Analyn Salvador-Amores |
| Dr. J. Neil C. Garcia, Department of English and Comparative Literature |
Second Session | Diaspora Ad Astra: An Anthology of Science Fiction (2013) by Emil M. Flores Joseph Frederic F. Nacino (eds) |
| Dr. J. Neil C. Garcia, Department of English and Comparative Literature |
Third Session | Traditional Medicine in the Colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th Century (2017) by Dr. Ma. Mercedes Planta |
| Dr. Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr., Department of English and Comparative Literature |
Fourth | The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century (2016) by Prof. Patrick F. Campos |
| Dr. Rolando Tolentino, UP Film Institute |
Fifth |
| Dr. Vladimeir Gonzales, Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikang Pilipino | |
Sixth | Green Entanglements: Nature Conservation and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Indonesia and the Philippines (2018) by Padmapani L. Perez |
| Prof. Louise Jashil Sonido, Department of English and Comparative Literature |
Seventh | 3 Baybayin Studies (2017) by Ramon Guillermo, Myfel Joseph D. Paluga, Maricor Soriano, and Vernon Totanes |
| Ms. Irish Joy G. Deocampo of Department of English and Comparative Literature |