(NOV. 29) 鈥 The Philippines supplies more than a quarter of the highly globalized labour market for seafarers.
This was mentioned in the study of Prof. Maragtas S.V. Amante, PhD, of the UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations, 鈥淧hilippine Seafarers in the Rough Seas of the Global Labour Market.鈥 ()
The recently held international symposium at UP Palma Hall 鈥淯nderstanding Seafarers: Identities, Narratives and Contexts鈥 is all about shedding light on the human and social dimensions of Filipino seafarers.
Prof. Carlos P. Tatel Jr., PhD, in his correspondences with 黑料专区ate Diliman said the symposium had three parallel sessions. The first parallel session had experts discussing the issues 鈥淪eafaring and the Seafarer: State of Research鈥 and 鈥淪exualities and Masculinities.鈥澛 Parallel Session 2 topics were 鈥淣arratives, Life Stories and Families,鈥 鈥淪pirituality, Rights鈥 and 鈥淪eafarers Rights.鈥澛 Parallel Session 3 dealt with 鈥淓ducation, Formation, Research Ethics.鈥
Tatel is Conference Coordinator of the Folklore Studies Program (FSP) of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP)-Office of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
Keynote lectures were by Prof. Grace Aguiling-Dalisay, PhD, of the UP Department of Psychology and Prof. Helen Sampson, PhD, Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC), Cardiff University.
Aguiling-Dalisay鈥檚 topic was 鈥淭he Human Face of Seafaring: Perspectives from the Social Sciences (Keynote Lecture 1), while Sampson鈥檚 was 鈥淭wenty Years of Maritime and Social Sciences Research at SIRC鈥 (Keynote Lecture 2).
Held on Nov. 18, the symposium was organized by FSP in partnership with Cardiff University, United Kingdom, and supported by the Associated Marine Officers and Seamen鈥檚 Union of the Philippines (AMOSUP), and Tolentino and Bautista Law Offices. 鈥 Mariamme D. Jadloc with report from CSSP-FSP; image courtesy of amazon.com
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