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Binalot Talks is a series of lectures held every Wednesday, lunchtime (11:30pm - 1pm), in the ASP lecture room (Palma Hall Basement). The topics are varied, ranging from the archaeology, to art, to mathematics, and even politics. Proposed researches and finished papers are welcome. The participants are encouraged to bring their own lunch or share with others.

Commentaries on the Binalot Talks are featured in the Test Pit Bulletin under the Binalot Talk Series.

If you want to be included in the mailing list of people who are given weekly reminders on the Binalot Talks, please email Aya Ragragio.

March 17, 2010

This week's talk will be "Underwater Archaeology in Malaysia" by Dr. Adi Haji Taha.

Dr. Adi Haji Taha is the Director General of the Department of Museums and Antiquities, Malaysia.

See you there!

Past Binalot Talks

Clicking on titles will open a window, showing the poster for that particular Binalot Talk.

School Year 2009-2010

Title	Speakers	Date
Reinterpreting Stone Boat Shaped Burial Markers	Victor Paz	March 10
Risks and Rewards in Research: Roaming Manila	Norma I. Alarcon	March 3
The Mind Museum in Taguig: The Philippines' first world-class science museum	Carol Pobre	February 24
Change and Obsolescence in the Music of the Ifugao: A work in progress	Fredeliza Campos	February 17
Mitigating Traffic Congestion and Accidents in an Intersection	Mark de Guzman	February 10
The World of Patis Tesoro	Patis Tesoro	February 3
Briefing Presentation on the National Defense College of the Philippines	Chester Cabalza	January 27
Obsidian and its Regional Distribution	Leee Neri	January 20
Baybayin Script on the Manunggul Jar?	Bonifacio Commandante	January 13
Amorsolo on Amorsolo: A personal view on the art of Fernando Amorsolo	Don Amorsolo	January 6
Canarium in Terminal Pleistocene to Holocene Philippines: Implications of Ancient Plant Use	Jane Carlos	December 16
Updates on Irish Archaeology	Kim Rice	December 9
Tonal Geography of the Provinces of Central Thailand	Kritsana Athapanyawanit-Canilao	December 2
The Making of the Living Heritage of Philippine Indigenous Peoples	Benjamin Abadiano	November 25
Similar but different: An update on the Ille earthenware	Yvette Balbaligo	November 18
Lake Hume Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Study: Archaeological Survey of the Goulburn-Murray River	Armand Mijares	November 11
Pottery Production in Talalang, Kalinga	Edwin Valientes	September 30
Scandals as objects of exchange and circulation in the Philippine context	Maria Mangahas	September 23
Remnants: Collecting the Past Preliminary analysis of ceramic and metal artifacts found at Pinagbayanan, San Juan, Batangas	Kristyn Maguire and Kat Manalo	September 16
Cory Aquino and her contributions to Philippine archaeology	William Longacre	September 9
Tomas Agulto at ang Hari ng Panulaang Tagalog	Tomas Agulto	September 2
Up Against the Wall: Graffiti Writing as an Artistic Practice in UP, Diliman	Antares Gomez B.	August 26
The Flinders University Underwater Cultural Heritage Management Course: Experiences and Insights	Gay Lacsina	August 19
Limokon: The world and art of Boy Dominguez	Federico "Boy" Dominguez	August 12
All the Things We Cannot Articulate: Leprosy, Archives and Commemoration (cancelled)	Ricardo Punzalan	August 5
Heritage, Historical Education and the Public Schools	Lino Dizon	July 29
Pottery Among the Dai and Wa People of Southwest China	William Longacre	July 22
Tom Harrisson: The Barefoot Anthropologist (BBC showing with commentaries)	commentaries from Dr. Wilhelm Solheim II and Dr. Philip Piper	July 15
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 8
Recipes for an Archaeology of the Gastronomic	Jack Medrana	July 1
Creating Subjectivities: Tales from the Field	Nelson Nava Turgo	June 24
Insights on Bikol Archaeology Through Bikol Museums	Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio	June 17
Views on the Mentality of 21st Century Island Southeast Asia Archaeology Practice	Victor Paz	June 10

School Year 2008-2009

Title	Speakers	Date
Batangas. Again?!? New sites, new perspectives, new agenda	Grace Barretto-Tesoro	March 18
Inventions and Innovations	Bonifacio Comandante	March 11
Re-establishing the Military Museum of the Philippines	Jose Custodio	March 4
Human Adaptation to Cold Climates: The Experience in Ancient Hokkaido, Japan	Marc Oxenham	February 25
Mathematics and Beauty	Marian Roque	February 18
Some insight from the excavation of Dewil Valley, El Nido, Palawan	Victor Paz	February 11
Socially Engaged Songs in Asia	Jess Santiago	February 4
Philosophy of Science and Bird-Watching	Jerry Devilla	January 28
Trauma, everyday politics and the affective turn in the visual arts	May Datuin	January 21
Gongs, Bells and Cymbals: The archaeological record in maritime Asia from the 10th to the 16th CE	Arsenio Nicolas	January 14
The Epistemology of Modern Filipino Revolts	Patricio Mangubat	December 10
Future Visions, Past Revisions: Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Philippines	Emil Flores	December 3
Contextualizing the Banaue Trip	Michael James Herrera and Michelle Eusebio	November 25
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
Who's Afraid of Climate Change?	Perry Ong	September 30
Bead Type Collection in Philipine Archaeological Context	Rey Santiago and Pauline Basilia	September 24
Biodiversity, Geography, People, and the Past: Why We Need a Pinoy Ecological History	Benjamin Vallejo	September 17
Who is the Culprit? The Origins of Disaster Management	Jean Christophe Gaillard	September 10
The Oriental and Occidental Concepts of the Body	Naohiko Umewaka	September 3
		August 27
		August 20
Different Meanings of Calatagan	Grace Barretto-Tesoro	August 13
The Quest for Early Man in the Philippines: Excavation and Exploration of Solana and Enrile Municipality in Cagayan Valley	Sheldon Cylde Jago-on	August 6
An Archaeology of Seas? A Graph Theoretic Analysis of Interaction in the Visayas Landscape	Cyril Calugay	July 30
The Potentials of Metal Detecting for the Practice of Philippine Archaeology	Douglas Wong	July 23
Thoughts on the Materiality of History	Maris Diokno	July 16
The Kingdom of Sri Vijaya in the 9th Century	Cynthia O. Valdes	July 9
Music Archaeology in Asia: Selected Topics and Perspectives	Arsenio Nicolas	July 2
Kapangyarihan ni Apo: A Look into the Significance of Bones in Secondary Burial Practices of the Ifugao and Kankanay	Tara Reyes	June 25
Revisiting Maitum Pots: The Sagel Cave	Nida Cuevas and Sandy de Leon	June 18

School Year 2007-2008