The UH Mānoa Center for Philippine Studies
is excited to commemorate 50 years of excellence in serving the Filipino community. As we honor the past, we look forward to mobilizing and transforming for a brighter future, inspiring new generations through education and cultural exchange. We’re proud to present a dynamic range of programs in the coming year that reflect our commitment to education, culture, and community engagement.
Highlights will include:
- An art and culture exhibit in collaboration with East-West Center
- iJeepney online K-12 curriculum empowering next gen youth
- A Philippine rare library collections workshop and tour
- Center for Philippine Studies Anthology
- Artist residency workshops featuring local and international talent
- The first-ever Filipino-centered Mainstage Cultural Production in the history of the University of Hawai‘i
We are dedicated to building on the proud legacy of the Center for Philippine Studies, and we hope to raise $100K in the coming year to strengthen the Philippine Studies Enrichment Fund. This will help us continue empowering learners to embrace their identity and give back to the community through partnerships, knowledge production, advocacy, and the arts. We hope you’ll consider making a gift!
Celebration Events | September to December 2025
UH Giving Day! April 9 “Honor the Past, Inspire the Future.”
CPS announces four scholarships/grants are now available for application by bonafide UH students. Deadline: First Monday after the Spring Break…
Link: Community Programs — The Filipino Community Center for more information, please contact Filcom Center for more details at -…
Please join us in an exciting lecture on the Philippine dynasty and why they are a threat to democracy. Dynasty…
Join us and watch the opening of an exhibit celebrating the anniversary of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.…
The public is invited by the Hawaii Filipinos for Truth, Justice & Democracy (HFTJD) and the Center for Philippine Studies (CPS)…
Patricia Halagao and Lorenzo Perillo, the new co-directors of the Center for Philippine Studies (CPS) at the University of Hawaiʻi at…
Dean Antonio Domingo, Recipient of Outstanding Faculty Award from Pamantasan Conference 2025
Congratulations to Dean Antonio Domingo for his award as Outstanding Faculty during the Pamantasan Conference 2025. Dean is the Coordinator and an Instructor in the Ilokano Program at UH Mānoa. Alongside those roles, he serves as an Academic Adviser for the BA in Philippine Language and Culture (Ilokano), Minor, and Certificate and faculty adviser for the Timpuyog Organization, a student run organization. In the community, he is the President for NAKEM (National Alliance for Knowledge, Empowerment and Meaning) Hawai’i and Secretary for HALT (Hawai’i Association of Language Teachers). He received the "2025 Dr. Ernest “Niki” Librarios, Jr. Outstanding Filipina/o Faculty…
Jake Atienza, MA Sociology 2023, conducted his fieldwork in Cebu to research the consequences of mining. His project was made possible by the Corky Trinidad Endowment Scholarship. The report is now available in Summary. He also published an article in the Victoria University of Wellington’s Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific, 2024. A video of his lecture is found Here. Jake is a PhD student majoring in Global Studies at the University of California-Irving.
Emmanuel Jones Mante, MFA student, obtained a Corky Trinidad scholarship grant for his research on Mactan, Cebu entitled “Kadaugan sa Mactan Reenactment: Performing History and the April 27, 1521 Memory of Resistance.”
The award will enable him to do fieldwork in Cebu to retrace the Battle of Mactan involving the local hero, Lapu-Lapu, pitted against the Spanish soldiers under Ferdinand Magellan.
Adrian Alarilla says: The Corky Trinidad Endowment Scholarship was a boon for me and my dissertation. I am fortunate that I received it at the right time (in between COVID-19 waves) and I was able to do my fieldwork with relative freedom.
From his research, Adrian published an article, “Unsettling Islands: Philippine Cinema, Migration and Settler Colonialism,” in the Journal of Philippine Cinema, Vol. 6 (2021).
Jensen Villaflor, who has a BA in American Studies and a minor in Filipino Language and Culture, is a member of the Honors Program. Her approved project is titled “Kain na Tayo: Food Memory and the Creation of the Filipino Self,” funded by the Corky Trinidad Scholarship.
Jensen had also received a scholarship grant from the Philippine Consulate General of Honolulu-Senator Loren Legarda donation.
Center for Philippine Studies
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall 414
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-5752/(808) 956-6086/Fax (808) 956-2682/Email: cps@hawaii.edu
URL: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/philippine-studies/