PROGRAMS.
 

Conference format  Literature Teachers Conference   Lectures and video/film showings on the history and cultures of Mindanao. Plenary sessions.  The LTCM will hold parallel sessions with the 5th INWW. To qualify as a teacher-fellow, an applicant should submit a one-page paper on the topic "My approach in reading Philippine Literature" using any work by contemporary (1960's to present) writers and attach a photo-copy of the writer's work: one poem, or one short story, or one-act play. Teacher fellows will be given a transportation allowance and free board and lodging for the two-day literature conference. Other participants who will be teaching Philippine Literature courses are accepted for a fee of P1,000.00 on a first-come-first-served basis. This year, the conference will focus on how to read literature. Lectures include:  Critical Reading (Prof. Ricardo M. de Ungria), Approaches in reading Literautre (Prof. Merlie M. Alunan), The genesis of a poem (Dr. Anthony Tan), Reading Cebuano Literature (Dr. Erlinda Kintanar Alburo), Reading Mindanao Literature (Prof. Christine Godinez-Ortega), and Contemporary Literary Theories (Dr. Rosario Cruz Lucero).

10 Writing Fellows and 10 teacher-fellows have been selected by a screening committee Workshop will be in April 27-30, Literature Teachers Conference in April 27-28

REQUIREMENTS FOR WRITING FELLOWSHIPS  application form 2X2 photo and bio-data manuscript (one-act play, or 10 poems, or one short story in English, Filipino or Cebuano)

contact  Christine F. Godinez-Ortega   LTCM Project Coordinator   OVCRE, MSU-IIT, Iligan City   tels: (063) 516131 2214050 to 55  (063) 221-7484  fax: (063) 2214056   E-MAIL

 

1998 Panelists-Lecturers
Cirilo Bautista, Bienvenido Lumbera, Gemino Abad, Ric Ungria, Leo Deriada, Anthony Tan, Jaime An Lim, Christine Godinez-Ortega, Steven P.C. Fernandez, Erlinda Alburo, and Merlie Alunan