The UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies Decolonial Studies Program is hosting two roundtable discussions on decolonizing policymaking and legal studies in the Philippines!
Decolonizing Policymaking
2 December 2023
08:00 AM – 11:30 AM PHST
Register: https://tinyurl.com/UPDSPPolicy
From national legislations up to village-level ordinances, policymaking in the Philippines is primarily modeled from blueprints of Western democratic republics. While the Philippines is already an independent nation-state, its political system is still working within the logics and projects imposed by its colonizers in history.
In this upcoming roundtable discussion, the UP CIDS Decolonial Studies Program brings two policy experts from the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao who will share the policymaking challenges and issues faced by the region located within a modified political, legal, and institutional framework of autonomous governance adopted from a mixture of self-determination governance abroad.
Decolonizing Legal Studies
2 December 2023
01:00 PM – 03:00 PM PHST
Register: https://tinyurl.com/UPDSPLegal
In this upcoming roundtable discussion, the Decolonial Studies Program of the UP Center for Integrative Development Studies aims to explore various ways how to decolonize the knowledge production and practice of law in the Philippines that is attuned to Filipino norms, mores, customs, and culture and to sketch specific ways for the ontology of lawmaking and legal studies to address the contemporary societal needs of Filipinos and counter persisting social cancers and issues.
The roundtable discussions are open and free to the public. Interested participants must have access to Zoom to join the online webinar. Please note that registration for the two roundtables are separate.
