UPLB CAS Department of Humanities

24/12/2025

𝓜𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓪𝔂𝓪𝓷𝓰 𝓟𝓪𝓼𝓴𝓸!

Nawa'y palaging manaig ang dangal, kahusayan, at malasakit sa ating bawat hakbang!✨

18/12/2025

Congratulations to the 2025-2027 One UP Professorial Chair and Faculty Grant Awardees from the Department of Humanities! ✨️

16/12/2025

Celebrating the Holidays in festive spirits and with a 2nd Place win at the CASayahan 2025! 💙✨️

11/12/2025

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐚! 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝟔!
𝐃𝐇𝐔𝐌 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲

Guaranteed by the UN Declaration of Human Rights and enshrined in the Bill of Rights of the 1987 Philippine Constitution, it is the right of human beings to fight back against forces of oppression by an uncaring and brutal state.

In its celebration of International Human Rights Day, the Department of Humanities takes a stand against political persecution and to call for the release of all political prisoners.
We condemn the illegal arrest and detention of former BA Communication Arts undergraduate student and former UP Student Regent Charisse Bernardine Bañez.

Bañez, along with six peasant organizers, was arrested last June in Agusan del Sur, after a warrantless search in their vehicle. The arrested individuals were not given a copy of their warrant of arrest. Their bags were planted with fi****ms and explosives, leading to trumped up charges. Earlier, Bañez faced trumped up charges over a fabricated encounter between armed revolutionaries and the military in 2022. The charges were provisionally dismissed, belying the military's claims.

The detention of Chaba and her companions — known as Agusan 6 — reveals the extent to which state forces curtail political dissent through persecution, harassment, and deception.

Currently, there are over 600 political detainees in the country. They continue to suffer in jails, facing legally and factually baseless fabricated charges for their commitment to serve the marginalized. Their plight demonstrates the state’s violent response to those who seek to embody the ideals of social justice and human rights.

We firmly believe that dissent is warranted in a social order that cultivates and perpetuates brutality, especially in marginalized communities. At a time when individual triumphs are amply celebrated over collective ideals for social change, Chaba exemplifies the nobility of sacrificing a comfortable life to serve Filipino communities that have long been neglected by the state.

It is this kind of selfless service that cuts the institutions of oppression deep.

Free Chaba Bañez!
Free Agusan 6!
Free all political prisoners!

08/12/2025

Ngayong Biyernes na! ✨️

01/12/2025

It's Week 2 of the COMA 200 (Undergraduate Thesis) Presentations. Join our senior BA Communication Arts students as they present their research and creative thesis projects from December 2 to 5.

Below are the schedule of presentations and abstracts. Kitakits! 🤓

29/11/2025

The deadline for submission for the Makiling Review Special Issue on “Communities in Communication” has been extended to January 9, 2026.

For this special issue, we solicit scholarly articles that mobilize communication theories and methodologies to better understand how various kinds of human relations are formed, how terms of communicative and creative engagement are articulated, and how different conditions of existence and exchange are established and maintained.

We welcome works that explore the multifaceted significations of the phrase “communities in communication,” such as but not limited to: a) connections, interfaces, and entanglements of individuals and groups across societies, b) collectives, organizations, and institutions that generate communication-related knowledges and practices; and c) epistemic and embodied efforts enabling and are enabled by a range of initiatives within the broad spectrum of communication studies.

Furthermore, we are interested in submissions that problematize how humans use their bodies, voices, and other expressive/communicative capacities to explore numerous types of relationships (online and offline, live and mediated, anthropocentric and non-human), engage with varied ecologies, and imagine other ways of co-existing and co-sharing this world with others.

Submissions must be made through the following Google form: https://forms.gle/ARYHZJXyVdr2UoH4A

For queries, you may send an email to the special issue editors at 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞.𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦@𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦.

28/11/2025

Bitbit ang temang 𝙏𝘼𝙂𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂: 𝙈𝙖𝙡𝙖𝘾𝘼𝙎 𝙣𝙖 𝙏𝙪𝙣𝙤𝙜 𝙣𝙜 𝙉𝙖𝙜𝙠𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝘿𝙞𝙬𝙖, makilahok sa pagdiriwang ng ika-53 taong anibersaryo ng UPLB College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) na gaganapin sa ika-12 Disyember 2025.

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Ang 𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 ay isang malinaw at umuugong na tunog. Ito ay isang puwersang patuloy na nananatili at lumalawak sa pamamagitan ng pinagkaisang diwa ng sining at agham. Sa sama-samang pagsulong ng bawat yunit tungo sa hinaharap, nililikha ang isang taginting na tunay na nagpapahayag ng pagkakakilanlan at diwa ng Kolehiyo - maunlad, makahulugan, at nagkakaisa.

Bitbit ang temang 𝙏𝘼𝙂𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂: 𝙈𝙖𝙡𝙖𝘾𝘼𝙎 𝙣𝙖 𝙏𝙪𝙣𝙤𝙜 𝙣𝙜 𝙉𝙖𝙜𝙠𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝘿𝙞𝙬𝙖, makilahok sa pagdiriwang ng ika-53 taong anibersaryo ng UPLB College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) na gaganapin sa ika-12 Disyember 2025.

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27/11/2025

Starting 27 November 2025, our senior BA Communication Arts students will be sharing their research and creative projects for COMA 200 (Undergraduate Thesis) as part of the semestral Thesis Presentation Weeks.

Below is the schedule of the presentations and the abstracts for Week 1, as well as the list and abstracts for the creative thesis productions that were staged by our Theater Arts majors this semester.

26/11/2025

Two BA Communication Arts (BACA) teams brought honor to UPLB in the recently concluded Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP) Student Congress and Grand Prix, held November 6–7, 2025, at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Taft Campus. ✨️

Two BA Communication Arts (BACA) teams brought honor to UPLB in the recently concluded Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP) Student Congress

26/11/2025

DHum's Visual and Performing Arts Division successfully launched “Skuller ng Bayan,” an art exhibition featuring masks created by ARTS 1 students last Monday, 24 November 2025, at the Student Union Building Sunken Lobby.

Check out the original post and the Division's page for more details.