by Francis Paolo M. Quina and Bernice P. Varona
The Department of English and Comparative Literature (DECL), in cooperation with the Office of the UP President, Office of the Chancellor, and the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, successfully held the 12th Biennial Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region titled “Rewor(l)dings: Contestations and Reconfigurations in the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region” at the College of Business Administration Auditorium from November 22 to 24, 2007.
According to the organizers, the symposium of Asia-Pacific literary artists, scholars, and publishers sought to question the paradigms that have relegated the Asia-Pacific region to the margins. It explored possibilities of re-mapping culture “so that no center has single dominance, and every center retains a fidelity to its people’s history and culture without negating a colonial past or current global imperatives.”