Ramon Guillermo

University of the Philippines | UPD · Center for International Studies

Joachim Heinrich Campe’s pedagogical work Robinson der Jüngere (1779/1780) represents one of the most important and popular educational works of the European Enlightenment. It is not widely known that this work was translated into Malay as Hikayat Robinson Crusoë (1875) and into Tagalog as Ang Bagong Robinson (1879) in the late nineteenth century....

Some reviews by U Z. Eliserio (Depto. ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas, UP Diliman) on most recent discussions: http://www.bagongkasaysayan.org/saliksik/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/16-Rebyu-Eliserio.pdf http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/djwf/article/view/4920/4433

The first comprehensive study of Jose Rizal’s 1886 Tagalog translation of Friedrich Schiller’s last and most famous play, Wilhelm Tell (1804). Introduces new computer-aided methods and techniques of discursive and textual analysis to the broad field of translation analysis. Attempts to answer how Schiller’s play, described as the “Agit-prop play of...

The use of computer-aided techniques in literary and cultural analysis has seen a surge in popularity in recent years due to the increasingly widespread availability of digitized textual and cultural materials. The Marxist literary scholar Franco Moretti (1950-) is an example of this trend. However, the actual utility of many of these methods has n...

Nakamit ng ekspedisyong Magellan-Elcano (1519-1522) ang makasaysayan at pinakaunang tuloy-tuloy na byaheng paikot sa daigdig. Maituturing ang sirkumnabigasyon na ito bilang pananda ng ganap na pagsilang ng Europeong modernidad. Sa unang planetaryong akto na ito ay nalampasan ng Europa ang "masamang kawalang-hangganan" (Hegel) ng espasyong heograpik...

Chapter Four, by Ramon Guillermo, Amado Mendoza, Dominic Sy (University of the Philippines, Diliman) and Teo Marasigan (independent activist and critic), presents a study of the Philippine translation, dissemination and multigenerational reception of the Lao wupian 老五 篇 (‘Five Old Articles’) or Five Constantly Read Articles of Mao Zedong. Although...

This essay is a primarily a demonstration of a software tool written in Python for the computer-assisted reading of the ambahan poetry of the Hanunoo Mangyan ethnolinguistic group on the island of Mindoro, Philippines. The software tool has been designed as a pedagogical aid for the human reading of ambahan texts as well as a research implement for...

The rise of of Post-colonialism (PC) in the Western academe and of Pantayong Pananaw (PP) in the Philippines occurred almost simultaneously in the ‘80s. These two intellectual phenomena also coincided with the general weakening of the Left after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Both PP and PC have complex relations with the Marxist tradition bu...

https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2022/05/13/walter-benjamins-relational-concepts-audible-signposts-beyond-european-man/

In 1878, Dr. Heinrich Rothdauscher, a German pharmacist working in Vigan, made a short expedition to the Cordilleras. He published his experiences as a memoir in 1932 (Lebenserinnerungen eines deutschen Apothekers). Although Rothdauscher, who described himself as having a highly developed musical sense, did not dwell at length upon matters of music...

The Magellan-Elcano (1519-1522) expedition was the first continuous voyage around the world. This circumnavigation arguably signaled the birth of European modernity. In this first planetary act, Europe transcended the "bad infinity" (Hegel) of geographical space and gave birth to the modern European subject. From this understanding, and building up...

Reaksyon sa sanaysay ni Jose Mario D. De Vega na "Ang Kakulangan ng Pantayong Pananaw at ang Panganib ng Kanan nitong Tendensiya at ang Pagpapalakas ng Kaliwa nitong Elemento Tungo sa Sosyalistang Lipunang Pilipino" (5 Agosto 2021). MLA CITATION: Guillermo, Ramon. "Ilang Repleksyon sa Pancasila ng Indonesia at Pantayong Pananaw ng Pilipinas." Pant...

Panimulang Salita para sa salin ni Herman Bognot ng tsapter na “Ang Dakilang Tagausig” mula sa nobelang “Ang Magkakapatid na Karamazov” ni Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2021).

Layunin ng kasalukuyang papel na magbigay ng pahapyaw na pagbaybay sa paglitaw, paglaganap at pagpapakahulugan sa idioma ng “sariling wika” sa wikang Tagalog / Pilipino / Filipino. Sisikapin ding maunawaan ang implikasyon nito sa pag-unlad at pagpapalaganap ng pambansang wika sa Pilipinas. Tumatampok sa diskusyon ang tulang sinasabing isinulat ni J...

Collecting Public Facebook Data in a post-API (Application Programming Interface) Age : The Python code allows the scraping of a HAR file downloaded using a browser from an FB post. The formatted output is a csv file. It must be used in conjunction with the Expand All Bookmarklet as well as Chrome or Firefox. The method used is close to Mancosu &...

Ang "Anak" ni Freddie Aguilar (1953-) ay isa sa mga pinakakilalang awitin mula sa Pilipinas. Sinasabing naisalin na ito sa mahigit 29 na wika at ni-release sa 53 bansa (Senate Resolution No. 658 (2018)). Dito sa Timog Silangang Asya ay masasabing naging labis na popular din ito sa Dunia Melayu (Daigdig na Malay) dulot ng iba't ibang bersyon at sali...

PUBLISHED ONLINE: https://forsea.co/an-unprecedented-attach-on-academic-freedom-in-the-philippines/?fbclid=IwAR03rytHExStrB_0YbMEBU6orBXxI0lJPHbuN1Vf6OOFINzo6Sj-fxAzd5Q

https://revoltmagazineph.wordpress.com/2020/11/25/the-educational-encounter-in-the-digital-sphere/

Fifteen years ago, I wrote an article on the marginalisation of Southeast Asian Studies in Germany. This piece was meant to engage in stocktaking at a moment when major budget cuts were being imposed on the Institute of Asian and African studies at Humboldt University, only shortly after I started working there. Referring to the contradiction betwe...

https://forsea.co/on-court-poetry-during-the-marcos-dictatorship-and-a-note-on-dutertes-anti-poetry/?fbclid=IwAR3omuSg98Qi0SH1Jbn7r2Kmhwi-f9kaDzh9Jq035I3r-8pGVxhFqvoq-uE

Ang borador na salin na ito ay walang anumang komersyal na layunin at inihahandog lamang dito para sa mga layuning pang-edukasyon at para sa pananaliksik.

Opinion piece published online at: https://forsea.co/taking-on-the-virus-talking-with-his-fists-dutertes-unique-approach-to-the-covid-19-crisis/

Guillermo, Ramon. “Andres Bonifacio: Proletarian hero of the Philippines and Indonesia.” Revisiting Malaya: Uncovering Historical and Political Thoughts in Nusantara, edited by Ying Xin Show & G. Ngoi, Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2020, pp. 415-428.

In the past months, a spate of selections for Deanship seems to have been undertaken by the UP Board of Regents (BOR) with an apparent disregard for Search Committee reports and the recommendations of the Chancellor. This galvanized a dismayed UP Diliman University Council to issue a resolution “Urging the UP President and the Board of Regents To R...

Buku di hadapan pembaca ini menyajikan dua tulisan yang disusun oleh Coen Husain Pontoh dan Ramon Guillermo, yang masing-masing menyoroti penerjemahan Das Kapital ke dalam bahasa Indonesia. Meskipun Coen dan Ramon bersama membahas Das Kapital, namun keduanya mengulas dari sudut berbeda. Pada bagian pertama, Coen secara khusus membahas konteks seja...

Para sa pagpapatuloy sa nasimulan nang eksplorasyon ng mga "pinakagalit" na mga maka-Duterte na FB page (Guillermo, 2018), gagamiting materyales ang humigit-kumulang na dalawang taon ng mga status, comment at reply sa FB Group na "OFW Global Movement for Empowerment Supports President Duterte" (o "OFW GME") mula Enero 1, 2016 hanggang Enero 26, 201...

Facebook data was gathered for the first two years since the introduction of the Angry Reaction (February 2016 to January 2018). Pro-Duterte FB pages were ranked according to their total number of page likes and the highest ten were then sorted according to the number of Angry Reactions received. Top posts in terms of Angry Reactions were discussed...

This paper discusses the significant role of the Indonesian Communist movement in the formation of Jose Maria Sison as a leading Filipino Marxist radical and its possible influence on the founding of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in 1968. After a study fellowship in Indonesia in 1962, Sison published pioneering translations of Chairi...

Ce projet a été initié à l’occasion du 150e anniversaire en 2017 de la première édition du Livre I du Capital de Marx (Das Kapital, chez Otto Meissner à Hambourg en septembre 1867). C’est un projet ambitieux, mobilisant un grand nombre d’auteurs dans de nombreux pays. Cela explique que le livre ne sortira que fin mars 2018. Structurellement, le liv...

The use of computer-aided techniques in literary and cultural analysis has seen a surge in popularity in recent years due to the increasingly widespread availability of digitized textual and cultural materials. The Marxist literary scholar Franco Moretti (1950-) is an example of this trend. However, the actual utility of many of these methods has n...

Ramón Guillermo's enthusiasm has kindled the interest of the other scholars (Myfel Joseph D. Paluga, Maricor Soriano, and Vernon R. Totanes) who have contributed to this volume. The general approach of this invisible faculty contrasts greatly with the amateurish interpretations tinged with superstitions that have plagued Baybáyin studies in the cou...

The concluding chapter of Tan Malaka’s (1897–1949) large philosophical work entitled Madilog: Materialisme, Dialektika, Logika contains interesting reflections on the extent and scope of the future liberated and sovereign Indonesian nation and on the concept of “Indonesian” heroism and nationality. However, most striking of all is the uppermost pos...

The first novel in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s (1925-2006) Buru Tetralogy, entitled Bumi Manusia (This Earth of Mankind, 1980), is set in late nineteenth century Indonesia and is mostly about the rise and emergence of the notions of the modern world (dunia modern) and of the nation (bangsa) and nationalism in the young hero Minke. The study proposes th...

The case of Mary Jane Veloso who was sentenced to death in Indonesia for having allegedly attempted to smuggle in 2.6 kilos of heroin created a massive international outpouring of support. On the eve of her execution on 28 April 2015, the hashtags #SaveMaryJane and #BiarkanHidup, posted by increasingly frantic netizens, became the top trending topi...

http://pendidikan-diy.go.id/dikti/berita-683-reviving-benedict-anderson-imagined-cosmopolitan-communities.html Lembaga Studi Realino (LSR) dan Universitas Sanata Dharma (USD) bekerjasama mengadakan international conference yang bertajuk Reviving Benedict Anderson Imagined (Cosmopolitan) Communities. Kegiatan bertaraf internasional ini berlangsung...

Proyektong crowdsourcing ito ng pagwawasto at pagpapabuti ng salin mula German patungong wikang Filipino ng "Unang Bahagi: Kalakal at Salapi" ng Das Kapital Tomo 1 ni Karl Marx na maida-download dito. Umaasa ang tagasalin na makatanggap ng mga puna at komento na maipapadala ng mambabasa sa potopotfs@yahoo.com (na may subject heading na "DasKapital2...

The essay "The Languages of Indonesian Politics" (1966) was one of the first published works in Benedict Anderson's long and distinguished career. In that seminal work, he introduced the concept of "revolutionary Malay" which he asserted was the basis for the construction of Bahasa Indonesia as a national language. According to him, the prerequisit...

This paper discusses the possibility of a Philippine Studies “community” (or interconnected “communities”) of researchers working within “communication communities”. From a general overview, an examination will be made regarding the application of this concept with respect to issues of institutionalization, discourse, research, publication, circula...

Tatangkain sa papel na ito ang isang preliminaryong kumparatibong analisis ng dalawang pangkasaysayang salaysay nina Mabini, La revolución filipina (sinulat 1901-1902), at Isabelo de los Reyes, La sensacional memoria de Isabelo de los Reyes sobre la revolución Filipina de 1896-97 (1899). Sisikaping palitawin sa ganitong paraan ang maaaring magkakai...

SOURCE: http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/socialsciencediliman/article/view/5233/4703

Personal reflections on Martial Law experiences. Related essay: http://highchair.com.ph/issue_22/22_guillermo_gutom.htm

A Primer by UP Kilos Na Co-written by Ramon Guillermo and Gerardo Lanuza to address a specific time period (2011-2015), it describes how the University of the Philippines has been transformed and undermined by a corporate managerial model of leadership which is driven by business imperatives and alienated from actual academic life. As the global cr...

The unusual orthography of the earliest document of the Katipunan, entitled “Casaysayan; Pinagcasundoan; Manga daquilang cautosan” (narration; Covenant; Principal orders), dated January 1892, raises some puzzling questions regarding its authorship and provenance. This document widely uses the letter “j” in lieu of the “h,” which had become the stan...

Layunin ng papel na itong palitawin ang ilang tampok ng katangian ng matatawag na “lohika” ng debateng patula na tinatawag na “balagtasan” sa pamamagitan ng pagsusuri sa mismong wika at mga kategorya na ginagamit sa balagtasan. Upang maisagawa ito, magsisilbing pangunahing batis ng kasalukuyang pag-aaral ang Jose Corazon De Jesus at Amado V. Hernan...

: This article discusses Ileto’s nontranslation of the Tagalog concept of loob as integral to the argument and rhetorical persuasiveness of his seminal work, . The meaning of loob that readers gather is a deeply religious and mystical one. However, the idiom of loob has multifarious and varied usages, and in the vast majority of cases loob is a pro...

Salin na may mga tala ng tagasalin.

Annotated translation from Spanish to English with original Tagalog version included.

Ang konsepto ng " Bildung " ng Alemang linggwista, pilosoper at edukador na si Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) ang isa sa pinaka-impluwensiyal na konsepto sa larangan ng pedagohiya. Ayon sa kanya, " Ang tunay na layunin ng tao ay ang pinakamataas at balanseng paghubog [Bildung] ng kanyang mga lakas sa iisang kabuuan " (Der wahre Zweck des Menschen...

After finishing his education at the University of Munich, the German pharmacist Dr. Heinrich Rothdauscher (1851–1937) spent the years 1873 to 1883 working in drugstores in Manila, Cebu, and Vigan. He eventually finished writing an account of his experiences in a work entitled “Memoirs of a German Pharmacist” in 1932. Presented here is a translatio...

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Due to the recent global crises, Karl Marx's fundamental work, Das Kapital (1867), has seen a resurgent interest. This renewed interest has also resulted in the production of several new translations of this work into various languages. It was quite a coincidence therefore that the first complete translation into Bahasa Indonesia was published as K...

On an international plane, Contracting Colonialism by Vicente Rafael is probably one of the most successful historical works written by a Filipino. Since its publication, it has been widely cited in various disciplines such as Philippine studies, Southeast Asian studies, translation studies, Latin American studies, and various other fields. This pa...

http://kyotoreview.org/book-review/ang-makina-ni-mang-turing/ REVIEW: Ang Makina ni Mang Turing Guillermo, Ramon. 2013. Ang Makina ni Mang Turing [Mr. Turing’s Machine] Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press. The narrator of scholar-activist Ramon Guillermo’s rousing first novel Ang Makina ni Mang Turing is a nineteenth-century “ilustr...

ERRATA: (1) "'Ang miserableng limang libong taon ng homo sapiens,' sabi ng isang modernong biologist.." ay dapat maging "Ang miserableng limampung libong taon ng homo sapiens." (p. 81)

This article attempts to reconstruct an aspect of José Rizal’s interpretation of history from some fragmentary remarks in the important essay “The Philippines a Century Hence” (1889–1890). It argues that previous efforts to arrive at such an understanding have been hampered by a lack of attention to the categories that Rizal himself used i...

This essay seeks to correct an earlier effort by the author to identify the sources of certain textual problems with the existing printed editions of José Rizal's pioneering study on Tagalog poetry. That previous work conjectured that the reason why two sections of the aforementioned text seemed to repeat in a redundant way was because of an insert...

The so-called 'Ticao Stones' that were announced to the public last 2011 were the first stone inscriptions in the baybayin script to have been discovered in the Philippines. This article is a report of the transcription of the inscription which was collectively produced by the interdisciplinary University of the Philippines (U.P.) Ticao, Masbate An...

The Calatagan pot, with an inscription around its rim, is one of the very few existing archeological evidences of ancient writing in the Philippines. It was discovered in Calatagan, Batangas and bought by the Philippine National Museum in 1961. Having since eluded decipherment, the present paper proposes a strategy which combines traditional palaeo...

: This article discusses chapter 13, "The Physics Class," of José Rizal's El filibusterismo and the problems posed there regarding racist notions of the incapacity (poco capacidad) of indios to imbibe scientific thought and reasoning. It is argued that Rizal attempted to dispel such conceptions by focusing his satirical polemic on the faulty system...

This short piece was written on the occasion of the publication of the new edition of "Marxism in the Philippines" originally published by the UP Third World Studies Center (TWSC) in 1988 and reprinted by Anvil Press under the editorship of Patricio Abinales in 2010.

Zeus A. Salazar's approach in writing the history of political concepts in the Philippines represents one of the most challenging and insightful directions within his complex body of work. However, despite its positive contribution to this area of study, it seems that further advances towards a more productive and empirical direction is hampered by...