TARLAC CITY – Dr. Lino L. Dizon, director of the Tarlac State University Center for Tarlaqueño Studies, will launch his 10th book titled Nascent Philippine Studies in the Life and Labor of Jose Felipe Del-Pan 1821-1891 at 4 p.m. on November 24 at the TSU audio-visual room.
The book, according to Dizon, deals with “embryonic Philippines Studies as reflected in the life and labor of Jose Felipe Del Pan.”
“It examines the nascent state of scholarship related to the Philippines prior to the cultural agenda of the Propaganda Movement of 1880s,” he said.
Del-Pan was a Spaniard who lived and died in mid-19th-century Philippines.
Dizon, a prolific historian who also teaches at the TSU College of
Arts and Social Sciences, said “Del-Pan’s pioneering outputs concerning the Philippines were bountiful and varied.”
“They paved the way for many diverse intellectual disciplines resulting in the multiplication of scholars both from the native population and outsiders, in the thriving Spanish colony of his time,” he added.
He said Del-Pan “had engaged himself in the production of materials that dealt with themes or topics, perspectives, and methods of investigation of what he deemed were the suitable categories for nascent Philippine Studies, categories that were also to be suggested by Jose Rizal more than a decade later in the cultivation of such scholarly pursuits.”
Dizon holds a Ph.D. in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines and has authored numerous books on local and regional history.
The book is based on the author’s doctoral dissertation at UP.
The book, according to Dizon, deals with “embryonic Philippines Studies as reflected in the life and labor of Jose Felipe Del Pan.”
“It examines the nascent state of scholarship related to the Philippines prior to the cultural agenda of the Propaganda Movement of 1880s,” he said.
Del-Pan was a Spaniard who lived and died in mid-19th-century Philippines.
Dizon, a prolific historian who also teaches at the TSU College of
Arts and Social Sciences, said “Del-Pan’s pioneering outputs concerning the Philippines were bountiful and varied.”
“They paved the way for many diverse intellectual disciplines resulting in the multiplication of scholars both from the native population and outsiders, in the thriving Spanish colony of his time,” he added.
He said Del-Pan “had engaged himself in the production of materials that dealt with themes or topics, perspectives, and methods of investigation of what he deemed were the suitable categories for nascent Philippine Studies, categories that were also to be suggested by Jose Rizal more than a decade later in the cultivation of such scholarly pursuits.”
Dizon holds a Ph.D. in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines and has authored numerous books on local and regional history.
The book is based on the author’s doctoral dissertation at UP.
