The UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies (website: https://cids.up.edu.ph/; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/upcids/), through the UP CIDS Program on Social and Political Change, and the UP Department of Political Science (website: https://polisci.upd.edu.ph/; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/upd.polisci/) invite everyone to Mga Pahayag at Sabi-Sabi sa SONA 2019, a UP roundtable discussion happening on 17 July 2019, 1:00–5:00 PM, at the UP CIDS Conference Hall, Lower Ground Floor, Ang Bahay ng Alumni, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City.
This event is organized in partnership with the UP CIDS Program on Alternative Development, Decolonial Studies Program, Program on Data Science for Public Policy, Program on Escaping the Middle-Income Trap: Chains for Change, Islamic Studies Program, Political Economy Program, and Strategic Studies Program.
About the Event
President Rodrigo Duterte’s fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) comes in the wake of the May midterm elections which saw the defeat (or unequivocal rout) of the more liberally- and democratically-minded opposition in both chambers of Congress. In three years, the Duterte administration continues to enjoy high levels of public satisfaction amid its bloody campaign against illegal drugs, the Marawi siege and martial law in Mindanao, and territorial disputes with China, among many others.
In this roundtable discussion, we invite the public to join us and a group of academics and experts on political science, Islamic studies, foreign relations, constitutional law, and economics to discuss and review the achievements and challenges that the current administration face as we reach the midpoint of the Duterte presidency.
Speakers
PANEL ONE
- Themes in the Presidential Policy Rhetoric
Jalton G. Taguibao, Ph.D.
Co-convenor, Program on Data Science for Public Policy, UP CIDS
Assistant Professor, UP Department of Political Science
- Labor and Social Justice Initiatives
Rogelio Alicor L. Panao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, UP Department of Political Science
- Constitutional Change
Dante B. Gatmaytan, LLM
Project Leader, Decolonial Studies Program, UP CIDS
Professor, UP College of Law
- Foreign Policy/Relations Issues
Aileen S.P. Baviera, Ph.D.
President & CEO, Asia Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation, Inc.
PANEL TWO
- Local Governance and Decentralization in the SONAs
Maria Ela L. Atienza, Ph.D.
Co-convenor, Program on Social and Political Change, UP CIDS
Chair & Professor, UP Department of Political Science
- National Defense and Security
Herman Joseph S. Kraft
Convenor, Strategic Studies Program, UP CIDS
Associate Professor, UP Department of Political Science
- Threats and Challenges on the Duterte Administration in Mindanao and Sulu Archipelago
Julkipli M. Wadi
Project Leader, Islamic Studies Program, UP CIDS
Professor, UP Institute of Islamic Studies
- Midway Under Duterte
Emmanuel S. de Dios, Ph.D.
Fellow, Program on Escaping the Middle-Income Trap: Chains for Change, UP CIDS
Professor, UP School of Economics
Register
The roundtable discussion is free and open to the public, but registration is highly encouraged. Please register at pspc.cids@up.edu.ph.
