UNITAS, the University’s official scholarly journal for the humanities, arts, and the social sciences, is commemorating its centenary this year.
Established in 1922, Unitas is the oldest extant university-based academic journal in the country.
Since last year, Unitas has been holding a series of international online lectures on contemporary literary and cultural studies titled “UNITAS 100.”
The journal’s year-long celebration will continue with the Authors International Lecture series from February to April and will feature authors who have been published in Unitas.
Among the slated sessions are lectures from:
- Former United Nations official David O’Connor who will lecture on “The Sustainable Development Goals and the Importance of Cultural Change.”
- Juan Miguel Leandro L. Quizon of the Chinese University of Hong Kong on “Dictatorship’s Temporal Edifice.”
- Jesus Cyril Conde of Ateneo de Naga University on the “Metonymies of Ethnobotany and the Fellowship Discourse of Sagrada Familia Healers in Irosin, Sorsogon, Philippine.”
- Vincenz Serrano from the Ateneo de Manila University on the historiography and poetics of Nick Joaquin’s “A Question of Heroes.”
The journal will also cap off its hundredth anniversary with the completion of its digitalization project, which will make available online Unitas issues from 1922 to 2022.
“This project will include abstracts and keywords which will be the journal’s gift to its loyal readers worldwide by way of providing them the convenience of a scholar-friendly archival research on various aspects of the 100 years of the intellectual history of the Filipino intellectuals in its pages,” Prof. Maria Luisa Reyes, Unitas editor in chief, told the Varstiarian.
Unitas will also host the Asian Journals Network colloquium, which will be attended by editors and staff members of various journals in Asia, Reyes added.
The UNITAS 100 lectures can be viewed by the public via Unitas’ official Facebook page.
