Activities

• 2017 Annual 3-day PHISO International Conference and Workshop, click here
• 2018 Annual 3-day PHISO International Conference and Workshop, click here
• 2019 Annual 3-day PHISO International Conference and Workshop, click here

By 2020, PHISO will have two regular activities, the biennial workshop and biennial conference. The flow of activities will look like this:

• 2020 Biennial 2-day PHISO Exploratory Workshop (PEW)
• 2021 Biennial 2-day PHISO International Conference (PIC)
• 2022 PEW
• 2023 PIC
• 2024 PEW
• 2025 PIC
• onwards

PEW is focused on the presentations of completed research papers by scholars and advanced students aimed for publications, particularly for PHISO flagship academic journal and book series. No parallel, plenary or keynote sessions, only author’s presentation being discussed by all workshop participants at a given time and in one workshop room. Thus, papers have to be submitted one month ahead of the event to give time for participants to read each others’ works. Participants must follow the “instructions for authors” before submitting their manuscripts.

PIC is the conventional gathering of people, from undergraduate students, academics to practitioners, who wanted to network and share their ideas, thoughts and initial research works that are not yet completed. Some may also present completed papers or research findings. The idea is to help novice scholars, early career academics, and students elicit helpful feedback and constructive criticism through paper presentations, academic panels, roundtable discussions, plenary and parallel sessions. PIC’s intent is to nurture a collegial environment that foster cooperation and research collaborations. It abhors gatekeeping of scholarship and university/school turfing by means of so-called “prestige,” “hierarchy,” and “seniority.”

Welcome message from the first president of PHISO:

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you all to the inaugural conference of the Philippine International Studies Organization. Since PHISO’s inception, it has been one of our primary goals to link young students with professors, researchers, practitioners and scholars of International Relations and we are delighted by the sheer amount of participation from these sectors in our activities. In line with the selected theme of this conference, Disciplining the discipline, we hope to be able to interrogate the history and development of IR and IS in the Philippines as well as discuss ways of moving forward in terms of research agenda and scope. Theorizing in IR has undergone rapid changes in the last few decades, not only within the dominant schools of realism and liberalism but also in terms of reflexivist scholarship. In particular, much work has been devoted in recent years to the re-examination of IR’s foundations to allow the field to be more cognizant of marginalized groups, pre-colonial histories, and people-to-people relations. It is within this very framework that we would like to examine Philippine contributions to IR. Indeed, these are exciting times for the field and we invite you all to participate with us, engage with these developments and collaborate with scholars and future leaders in the spirit of scholarly exchange.

I wish you all the best for the conference ahead and welcome you to join our organization.

Asst. Prof. Frances Antoinette Cruz
The President
01 March 2017, Manila