Kritika Kultura revisits Phil. historical figures

SOCIAL DISTINCTIONS from two historical decades can be dissected by looking back at the embodiment of Philippine artists and languages.

This was the main theme of the Kritika Kultura (KK) Lecture Series in the Social Sciences Building on August 16.

The series featured the lecture of University of California-Irvine Associate Professor Bliss Cua Lim who analyzed the popularity of Nora Aunor and Sharon Cuneta, the two most notable female stars of Filipino cinema during the 1960s and 1980s respectively, to explore the change in values of beauty and prestige and the country’s language.

An electronic journal of language and literary or cultural studies in the Philippines, KK is also lecture series that presents latest research of scholars from Ateneo’s international network.

Jam D. Paclibar

English dept. co-hosts conference on multilingual education

THE LINGUISTIC Society of the Philippines (LSP), in cooperation with the Ateneo English Department, tackled mother tongue-based multilingual education issues for its annual conference and general assembly in Leong Hall on August 19 to 20.

Themed “First Languages First: Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education in the Philippines”, the two-day conference aimed to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas on the use of the mother tongue in education.

Speakers and lecturers came from both international and local institutions.

Henry I. Oh