PH Studies Program Launched at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain

MADRID 14 December 2019 — Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin Jr., together with House Deputy Speaker Antique Representative Loren Legarda, witnesses the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between Philippine Ambassador to Spain Philippe J. Lhuillier, and Professor Dr. Don Joaquin Goyache Goñi, Rector Magnifico of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, during the launching of the Cátedra Extraordinaria de Filipinas (Extraordinary Chair on 'Philippine Studies'), a Philippine Studies Program at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Madrid on 13 December 2019.

The program aims to "promote various aspects of Philippine studies—primarily focusing on the country's history, culture, and society—through a series of seminars with carefully selected topics, researches, and publications that would provide Spanish students with a more nuanced knowledge of the Philippines."

Likewise, the program would help create a network of Filipino-Spanish researchers and a database of their Philippine-centric research, as well as help curate and publish works on Philippines-Spain relations and history in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Spanish arrival in the Philippines. END

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