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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Dr. Francis M. Navarro is a graduate of the University of the Philippines at Diliman where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in History. He pursued higher studies at the Universidad de Salamanca as a scholar of the Spanish government where he took his Doctorate in Archival Studies and Documentation. Aside from being a Professor of History at the Ateneo de Manila University, he is also the Director of the University Archives. He gives classes at the Loyola School of Theology, the School of Library and Information Studies at UP Diliman, and the Center for Conservation of Cultural Property and Environment at the Universidad de Santo Tomas. In 2018, he was awarded by San Beda College, where he finished his elementary and high school education, as the Most Outstanding Bedan in the field of Arts and Culture. He was part of a government commission to study and investigate the First Easter Mass Celebration in the Philippines celebrated in 1521. His areas of specialization and research includes Philippine Colonial History, Colonial and Modern South East Asia, Hispanic Studies, Paleography, and Heritage Conservation. Dr. Navarro is currently serving as the Vice-President of the Society of Filipino Archivists, President of the Philippine Historical Association, and as a Commissioner of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.