Switzerland
Kuwentuhang Sabado
Since 2016, a small group of Filipina mothers organize regular gatherings for families with children up to the age of 10. They meet up to read Filipino children’s books and celebrate their identity through games and other child-appropriate activities.
Noi-P. - Network of Integrated Pin@ys
In 2010, a group of friends informally got together in Zurich, aiming to explore their Filipino roots together. Over the years, their network and activities have expanded beyond the Swiss borders: apart from film showings and dance workshops that they organized locally, they have also offered courses for intercultural awareness to different communities in cities across Europe. The conferences launched by Noi-P. are considered the forerunners of the studiyo filipino symposium.
pawikan@LoRa
The community radio LoRa in Zurich hosts the magazine “pawikan” in Filipino and English. It is created by a group of Filipin@as interested in political and socio-cultural issues in the Philippines. (97.5 MHz – DAB)
SEG Interface
The Interface Commission of the Swiss Anthropological Association (SEG-IFC) promotes the engagement and visibility of anthropology in the public sphere. In collaboration with studiyo filipino, it offers students a forum at the intersection of their research and the wider community.
University of Lucerne - Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lucerne has had a regional research focus in the Philippines since 2008. During their excursions and research trips to the Philippines, master and doctoral students have explored topics such as transnational migration. A recent research project by Prof. Bettina Beer examines divorce in the Philippines and in transnational contexts.
International
Advancing Philippine Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin
The program forges contacts and collaborations between researchers, students and artists in Germany and beyond, it builds up library content, offers academic seminars at the HU Institute of Asian and African Studies and organizes public events including the Philippine Studies Series Berlin.
Halo-Halo.de
During the lockdown, a small group with a shared interest in the Philippines decided to set up a website in order to connect people from the D-A-CH region who also identify as persons with a Philippine background. Ever since, they organize regular “Ugat” meetings via Zoom, providing a safe space where peers can exchange ideas and everyday experiences with one another. The meetings are non-binding and open to anyone.
Island Tides Initiative
This research program – launched by the Department of Artistic Strategies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna – aims to survey artistic strategies in South East Asia and the Pacific, with an emphasis on the Philippines. The program offers a site to explore different artistic expressions and its inaugural year (2024) includes various formats with workshops, film screemings and panels, highlighting the Island Tides Initiative as a site to nurture polyphonic ecologies of existence and resilience. The project is supported by the Philippine Embassy in Austria.
Litprom – Literaturen der Welt
This association of professionals in the fields of publishing, journalism, literary studies and criticism serves as a literary agency based in Frankfurt. It offers information about literature from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Arab World and promotes writing from these regions in Germany, Switzerland and Austria by encouraging contacts between authors, translators and publishers.
Philippine Studies at SOAS
This forum for Philippine-related teaching, research and cultural production is an important hub of Philippine Studies. It is based at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. Its digital projects, newsletter and conferences reach out to all «Filipinistas» in Europe – both within and outside of academia.
Ruhr University Bochum:
The Philippines Initiative
The Philippines Initiative
This interdisciplinary joint initiative has its origins at the faculty for philology and aims to intensify exchanges among researchers and students with the Philippines at the heart of their research, even beyond the RUB. In partnership with the Philippine Consulate, they have organized – among other things – the Bochum Summer School of 2023 called “Philippines: Perspektives”.
Sentro - Center for Austrian and Philippine Culture and Language
In 2010, Arlene D. Castañeda founded the non-profit center – a.k.a. “Sentro” (short for Filipino “Sentro ng Kultura at Wika ng Austria at Pilipinas”) in Vienna. They impart the Philippine culture and language to children and youths in active cooperation with parents, guardians, associations, schools as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations.
