Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts
College of Arts and Letters
University of the Philippines Diliman
Speech Communication Conference 2025
October 9-10, 2025
CAS Auditorium,
University of the Philippines Los Baños
Registration opens at 7:00AM
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Keynote Speakers
Plenary Session Day 1:
Understanding Filipino Digital Engagements and Encounters
Educational Content Creator
Lyqa Maravilla
Lyqa Maravilla, widely known as Coach Lyqa, is an educational content creator, speaker, and a pioneer of online learning in the Philippines. A licensed professional teacher and registered psychometrician, she combines her knowledge in education and psychology with digital innovation to reach millions of learners. As the founder of Team Lyqa, she has built a library of thousands of free educational videos that have garnered more than 300 million views and reached over 8 million subscribers across social media platforms.
University of the Philippines Diliman
Samuel I. Cabbuag
Samuel I. Cabbuag is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. His research interests lie at the intersection of digital sociology, influencer cultures, platform studies, popular culture, and digital cultures. He is a Key Regional Leader for Southeast Asia at the TikTok Cultures Research Network. He has published in New Media and Society, Social Media + Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Philippine Sociological Review, Asian Politics & Policy, Plaridel, and Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal.
University of the Philippines Los Baños
Elizabeth S. Krueger
Elizabeth Segura-Krueger is an assistant professor with the Communication Division in the Department of Humanities under the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) of the University of the Philippines in Los Baños. Prof. Krueger currently handles English training courses for graduate Filipino and foreign students and individuals, as a member the Language Instruction for Teaching Excellence or LITE program, UPLB’s most outstanding extension program. She has advised several student organizations such as the UP Model United Nations student organization and the Rhetoricians, the only speech communication student organization in UPLB.
Plenary Session Day 2:
Researching and Engaging with Communities
University of the Philippines Diliman
Roselle V. Pineda, PhD
Roselle Pineda is a curator, dramaturge, educator, scholar, community worker, and artist-activist. She currently serves as the Associate Dean for Research, Creative Work, Extension, and Publication at the College of Arts and Letter, UP Diliman. She is the founder and artistic director of Aurora Artist Residency Program and Space (AARPS), a community-based art organization, and the Performance Curators Initiatives (PCI), a global network of performance curators based in the Philippines.
University of the Philippines Los Baños
Ma. Bernadeth-Laurelyn P. Pante
Biel Pante is an Assistant Professor at the Agricultural Systems Institute, College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). Currently, she handles undergraduate courses in Rural Sociology, Community Survey and Program Planning, and
Agricultural Extension. Aside from teaching, she has
professional experience in research and NGO work.
Art Relief Kitchen
Precious Leaño
Precious is a cultural worker, an independent creative, and a humanitarian food aid worker. She founded FILVADRO, the country’s first copyright organization for the visual arts and co-founded the Art Relief Mobile Kitchen (ARMK) in response to the devastation brought by Typhoon Yolanda. ARMK has set up community kitchens in ground zero of (to date) 112 disasters in various locations in the country.
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Conference Brief
How we communicate and interact within ever-evolving communities and societies is central to the study and practice of speech communication. These relations are deepened in time, engendered across contexts, and accomplished via multiple modes and means. While they can be smooth, easy, and generative of ties that bind and commitments that endure, they can also be tough, rough, and productive of either lasting or short-term tensions or conflicts.
To understand how we come together, communicate, and engage in all sorts of activities is at once a rich and enriching undertaking. After all, whether done by an individual or produced by a public, these communications and convergences almost always demand delicate, dedicated work. We have to constantly shape our language, consistently maintain our relations, painstakingly clarify our terms of engagement, diligently condition our communicative contexts, and persistently strive for mutual understanding.
In this path-setting collaboration, the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts (DSCTA) of UP Diliman and the Department of Humanities (DHum) of UP Los Baños join forces in mobilizing theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches from speech communication and other allied disciplines to better comprehend human relationships that take form and gain ground in a variety of social, political, expressive, and creative environments. Riding on the success of the 2023 Speech Communication Conference: Freedoms of Speech in Asia, the DSCTA and the DHum explore the changing configurations of communication in the present-day Philippines that significantly affect how Filipinos speak, behave in the company of others, forge partnerships or relationships, and negotiate with diverse publics.
Conference Sub-Themes
This academic conference calls for abstract submissions that respond to the following questions: How might we understand the factors, circumstances, and resources that enable us to be on speaking terms? How does speech—as a modality and an activity—serve as a crucial mechanism for people to locate if not establish and assert their own private identities and social circles? In what ways do we use our speech, voice, and other communicative instruments and repertoires to commence and sustain our communities of learning, practice, and engagement? What role might the conceptual and practical knowledges produced in and emanating from the disciplinary formation of speech communication play in the task of fostering encounters and connections as well as engaging and developing communities?
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Communication at the nexus of academic disciplines
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Pedagogical dynamics
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Artistic and creative industries
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Media and digital interfaces
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Political alliances and solidarities
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Socio-civic movements and assemblies
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Folk and indigenous kinships
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Queer convergences and connections
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Fan circuits and circles
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Dating and romantic explorations
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Familial relationships and intimacies
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Professional and organizational interactions
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Connective care practices
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Therapeutic cultures