BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ned LEGASPI | Author • Educator • Speaker - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Ned LEGASPI | Author • Educator • Speaker X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nedlegaspi.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Ned LEGASPI | Author • Educator • Speaker REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Manila BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Tokyo BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0900 TZOFFSETTO:+0900 TZNAME:JST DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260819T153000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260819T170000 DTSTAMP:20260822T200250Z CREATED:20260822T190035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T200250Z UID:39063-1787153400-1787158800@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Lead and Work Across Cultures Without Losing Yourself at LSEG Manila DESCRIPTION:The LSEG Manila talk was called “Lead and work across cultures without losing yourself.” Then the weather moved the room. \nOn 19 August 2026 I spoke to the team at LSEG Manila\, from 3:30 to 5:00 in the afternoon. LSEG is the London Stock Exchange Group. Its Manila office sits in Citi Plaza in Bonifacio Global City\, Taguig\, and runs across four and a half floors. \nThe session was booked as a face to face talk in that office. Bad weather changed that. So we ran it online instead. \n\nEvent Details \nTalk: “Lead and work across cultures without losing yourself” \nTheme: Cultural intelligence and global dexterity in the workplace \nHost: LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)\, Manila office \nDate: Wednesday\, 19 August 2026 \nTime: 3:30 to 5:00 PM \nOriginal venue: 9F to 14F\, Citi Plaza\, W. North\, 34th Street\, Bonifacio Global City\, Taguig City \nFormat: Moved online because of bad weather \n \nWhat I brought to LSEG Manila\nMy subject was cultural intelligence and global dexterity at work. \nCultural intelligence\, or CQ\, is the ability to work well across different cultural settings. That includes national\, ethnic\, organisational\, and even generational cultures. The research started in the late 1990s with Soon Ang and her team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. They were studying the Y2K crisis and found that the harder problem was not the technology. It was people who could not work well with each other across cultures. \nCQ has four capabilities. First\, drive is the motivation to engage. Knowledge is understanding where cultures are similar and where they differ. Strategy is planning before and during the encounter. Finally\, action is adjusting your behaviour without faking it. \nThen there are ten cultural value dimensions. I picked three\, because these are the three that cause most of the friction in an ordinary work call. \nFirst\, identity asks how people define themselves\, as individuals or as part of a group. Second\, authority asks whether the boss is questioned or deferred to. Finally\, communication asks whether a message is stated plainly or implied. \nSo those three are where I spent most of my time at LSEG Manila. \nGlobal dexterity\, and the question about being fake\nAndy Molinsky calls the second half of this global dexterity. It means adjusting how you behave in another cultural setting while staying true to who you are. \nHe names six behaviours where people usually need to adjust: directness\, enthusiasm\, formality\, assertiveness\, self-promotion\, and personal disclosure. Then his method runs in four steps. Diagnose the local expectations\, customise your behaviour\, rehearse it\, and then integrate it until it feels normal. \nSomeone always asks whether adapting is fake. However\, it is not\, as long as you are clear about your core identity. The harder question is why Asian professionals are so often the ones expected to adjust. Adaptation starts with awareness\, but it should run both ways. \nThere is a lesson in how the LSEG Manila session actually happened. A talk about adapting had to adapt before it even began. \nCultural intelligence is not a workshop topic you file away. Instead\, it is what you reach for on the day the plan breaks. I made a similar case to healthcare leaders at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. \n\nThe Road Here \nFifteen months from a graduate conference in Diliman to a data and trading company in Bonifacio Global City. LSEG Manila is the furthest the work has travelled from where it started\, and the first room where the subject was not storytelling at all. It was how people work together across cultures. \nBefore this: the Ateneo masterclass\, July 2026.  ·  Next stop: the Media Associates International webinar\, November 2026. \nRelated reading: What Filipino Storytelling Can Teach Workplace Safety and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n \n\nIf you want the whole method rather than one talk\, start with the C3 Bamboo Framework. It is set out in full in the book. \n Become a Nedizen \nNed speaks to universities\, newsrooms\, and companies. See Speaking\, or get in touch. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/lseg-manila-cultural-intelligence-and-global-dexterity/ LOCATION:Online Session (LSEG Manila)\, Taguig City\, Metro Manila\, Philippines CATEGORIES:Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/lseg-manila-cultural-intelligence-global-dexterity.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260730T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260730T170000 DTSTAMP:20260822T223816Z CREATED:20260719T142518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T223816Z UID:38052-1785398400-1785430800@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:A Masterclass on Culturally Intelligent Storytelling DESCRIPTION:Share This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAteneo Masterclass · Culturally Intelligent Storytelling \n\n Cultivating Culturally Intelligent Storytellers\n \n\n A full-day learning experience for communication students and early-career professionals who wanted to create narratives that are\n authentic\, respectful\, socially grounded\, and capable of connecting\n with audiences across cultures.\n \n\n Selected participants explored the principles and practice of culturally intelligent storytelling with Ned Legaspi.\n \n \n Get the Book\n \n \n Follow Ateneo Communication\n \n\n \n \n \n Official information sheet outlining the program\, participant\n eligibility\, inclusions\, and application process. Artcard courtesy of\n the Ateneo de Manila University Department of Communication.\n \n\n \n\n Applications Closed \n\n Applications closed on July 25\, 2026. Participation was free\, and places were limited to twenty-five.\n \n \n Explore Programs\n \n \n \n\nWhy This Masterclass \n\n Storytelling in a Diverse and Interconnected World\n \n\n Media now travels across countries and platforms every day. So storytelling is no longer only about creativity. It also requires\n cultural awareness\, sensitivity\, and responsibility.\n \n\n As audiences become more diverse and socially conscious\,\n communicators are increasingly expected to create narratives that\n are compelling and culturally intelligent.\n \n\n Culturally intelligent storytelling recognizes the importance of\n context\, representation\, and ethical engagement with different\n communities. It challenges creators to move beyond stereotypes and\n superficial inclusivity toward narratives that are authentic\,\n respectful\, and socially grounded.\n \n\n The challenge is not simply to tell a good story\, but to understand\n how culture shapes the way a story is created\, interpreted\, and\n received.\n \n\n \n The book served as the masterclass course text.\n \n\n \n\nLearning Focus \nWhat Participants Explored\n\n The masterclass combined conceptual understanding with practical tools that participants can apply across communication\, education\,\n advocacy\, media\, the creative industries\, and community engagement.\n \n 01\n Cultural Context\n Examine the values\, identities\, histories\, expectations\, and\n unspoken assumptions that shape a story and its audience.\n 02\n Representation\n Move beyond stereotypes and token inclusion toward characters\,\n communities\, and narratives grounded in lived cultural realities.\n 03\n Ethical Engagement\n Consider responsibility\, respect\, and the consequences of telling\n stories about people and communities across cultural differences.\n 04\n Cross-Cultural Narrative Design\n Apply the CIS Bamboo Framework to help stories connect across\n cultures without erasing their roots.\n \n \n\nWho Took Part \n\n Who Joined the Ateneo Masterclass\n \n\n The masterclass was open to the public and designed for twenty-five selected participants.\n \n\n 10 Participants \n\n Communication and Media Students\n \n\n Advanced students who want to strengthen their understanding of\n culture\, storytelling\, representation\, and cross-cultural audience\n connection.\n \n\n\n 15 Participants \n\n Early-Career Professionals\n \n\n Faculty members\, journalists\, media practitioners\, development\n communicators\, marketing professionals\, government and NGO workers\,\n content creators\, and influencers.\n \n\n\n The program was built for practitioners and advanced students who wanted specialized skills in cross-cultural narrative design.\n \n\n \n\nParticipation and Inclusions \n\n How the Ateneo Masterclass Was Made Possible\n \n\n Participation was free through the support of the Jose “Totoy” V.\n Avellana Professorial Chair for Communication Arts. The Department of Communication sponsored the masterclass for a limited number of participants.\n \n\n 01 \nMasterclass Kit\n\n Learning materials and resources prepared for the full-day\n masterclass.\n \n\n\n 02 \nMeals and Snacks\n\n Lunch\, morning snacks\, and afternoon snacks were included.\n \n\n\n 03 \nCertificate\n\n Participants who completed the program received a certificate of participation.\n \n\n\n 04 \nComplimentary Book\n\n Each selected participant received a copy of\n Culturally Intelligent Storytelling for Southeast Asian\n Creators as the course text.\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n Ned Legaspi\, author\, educator\, speaker\, and creator of the CIS Bamboo\n Framework.\n \nMasterclass Facilitator \nNed Legaspi\n\n Ned Legaspi is an author\, educator\, and speaker whose work explores\n how culture shapes communication\, storytelling\, identity\, and\n connection.\n \n\n For thirty years\, he worked with global Filipino communities\n through The Filipino Channel\, where he served in senior content and\n creative leadership roles. He now teaches at the Department of\n Communication of Ateneo de Manila University.\n \n\n His book and CIS Bamboo Framework bring together professional\n practice\, cross-cultural experience\, teaching\, and continuing\n research into a practical approach for creators and communicators.\n \n \n Explore the C3 Framework\n \n \n About Ned\n \n \n \n\nAfter the Masterclass \n\n Where This Goes Next\n \n\n Applications closed on July 25\, 2026. The framework taught that day is set out in full in the book.\n \n \n 01\n Get the Book\n ↗\n \n \n 02\n Follow Ateneo Communication\n ↗\n \n\nQuestions About the Program \n\n Contact the Department of Communication\n \n\n For masterclass inquiries\, email\n \n communication.soss@ateneo.edu\n \n using the subject line CIS Masterclass.\n \n \n Email the Department\n \n \n\n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Road Here \nA week after the book launched in Manila\, the Ateneo Masterclass turned the argument into a day of practice. Everything before this was a talk. This was the first time the framework was taught rather than presented. \nBefore this: the Philippine book launch at Areté\, 23 July 2026.  ·  Next stop: LSEG Manila\, August 2026. \nRelated reading: From CIS Bamboo to C3 and Philippine Book Launch at Ateneo. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/a-masterclass-on-culturally-intelligent-storytelling/ LOCATION:Ateneo de Manila University\, Quezon City\, Metro Manila\, Philippines CATEGORIES:Workshops & Masterclasses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/masterclass-culturally-intelligent-storytelling-ned-legaspi-ateneo-2026.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260723T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260723T113000 DTSTAMP:20260822T224020Z CREATED:20260719T053704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T224020Z UID:37933-1784800800-1784806200@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Philippine Launch of Culturally Intelligent Storytelling DESCRIPTION:The Culturally Intelligent Storytelling Launch · More Than a Book Launch \n\n \n A Conversation on Filipino Stories in a Global World\n \n\n \n The Philippine launch of Culturally Intelligent Storytelling for\n Southeast Asian Creators brought together creators\, media practitioners\, educators\, and institutional leaders to explore how\n Filipino stories can remain culturally rooted while connecting with\n audiences across cultures.\n \n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n •••\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n The gathering also marked the formal donation of the book to the Ateneo\n de Manila University Rizal Library\, the first library to receive a\n copy under Ned Legaspi’s planned library donation initiative.\n \n\n \n \n Get the Book\n \n\n \n Ateneo YouTube Channel\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Culturally Intelligent Storytelling for Southeast Asian\n Creators introduces the CIS Bamboo Framework.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Livestream and Recording\n\n \n The program was carried live through the official Ateneo de Manila University YouTube channel.\n \n\n \n Visit the Channel\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n About the Launch \n\n \n From Santa Monica to the Philippines\n \n\n \n \n First launched internationally in Santa Monica\, California\, in\n November 2025\, the book introduces the CIS Bamboo Framework\, a\n culturally grounded approach to helping stories travel across\n cultures without losing their roots.\n \n\n \n Organized by the Ateneo de Manila University Rizal Library in\n partnership with Areté\, the Philippine launch placed the book in conversation with the creative industries\, media\, and the academe.\n \n\n \n The program moved beyond a conventional book presentation. It asked how storytellers can remain accountable to identity\, history\, and\n community while speaking to audiences whose cultural assumptions\n may be different from their own.\n \n \n\n \n What happens when a story leaves the culture that created it and\n enters another?\n \n \n\n \n \n \n The book explores how culturally grounded stories can connect with\n audiences across borders.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Program Focus \n What the Culturally Intelligent Storytelling Launch Brought Together\n \n\n \n A book launch\, a library donation\, and a cross-sector conversation on\n the future of culturally grounded Filipino storytelling.\n \n \n\n \n \n 01\n Philippine Book Launch\n \n The formal Philippine introduction of Ned Legaspi’s book following\n its international launch in California.\n \n \n\n \n 02\n Library Donation\n \n The formal turnover of the book to the Rizal Library as the first\n recipient under a planned library donation initiative.\n \n \n\n \n 03\n Featured Perspectives\n \n Short reflections from voices in television\, film\, broadcasting\,\n education\, and the social sciences.\n \n \n\n \n 04\n Author’s Synthesis\n \n Ned Legaspi connected the perspectives raised during the conversation with the book and its framework.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Hosts and Featured Voices \n\n \n Voices at the Culturally Intelligent Storytelling Launch\n \n\n \n The conversation brought together practitioners and educators whose work\n shapes storytelling\, media\, culture\, and public life in the Philippines.\n \n\n \n \n Host\n \n Jervi Wrightson (KaladKaren)\n \n \n Media personality\, television host\, and UP Diliman Broadcast\n Communication graduate.\n \n \n\n \n Host\n Galvin Radley Ngo\n \n Director\, Ateneo Institute for the Science and Art of Learning and\n Teaching.\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Mark Nepomuceno\n ABS-CBN. \n \n\n \n John Kenneth “Ken” De Leon\n Head Writer\, GMA Network. \n \n\n \n Direk Ruel S. Bayani\n \n Director\, producer\, creative executive\, and board member of the\n Directors Guild of the Philippines.\n \n \n\n \n Noel Ferrer\n \n Producer\, talent manager\, broadcaster\, educator\, and MMFF Executive\n Committee member.\n \n \n\n \n Dr. Christine Cox\n \n Chair\, Department of Communication\, Ateneo de Manila University.\n \n \n\n \n Dr. Maria Regina Hechanova-Alampay\n \n Dean\, Dr. Rosita G. Leong School of Social Sciences\, Ateneo de\n Manila University.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n The Framework in the Book \n\n \n Stories That Travel Without Losing Their Roots\n \n\n \n The CIS Bamboo Framework guides creators from cultural grounding to\n creative development\, audience response\, and the deeper connection a\n story produces.\n \n\n \n \n Discover the Book\n \n\n \n Explore the C3 Framework\n \n \n \n\n \n \n 01\n StoryRoot\n Ground the story in culture\, identity\, context\, and community. \n \n\n \n 02\n StoryCraft\n \n Shape the narrative with intention\, clarity\, and cultural\n awareness.\n \n \n\n \n 03\n StoryPulse\n \n Listen to audiences\, observe response\, and adapt without erasure.\n \n \n\n \n 04\n StoryLeaf\n \n Examine the understanding\, resonance\, and connection that emerged.\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n After the Launch \n\n \n Coverage of the Culturally Intelligent Storytelling Launch\n \n\n \n In-person attendance was by invitation. The program was carried on the official Ateneo channels. Coverage and updates stay available through the links below.\n \n\n \n \n 01\n Get the Book\n ↗\n \n\n \n 02\n \n Ateneo YouTube Channel\n \n ↗\n \n\n \n 03\n Rizal Library Updates\n ↗\n \n\n \n 04\n \n The Manila Times Coverage\n \n ↗\n \n \n \n\n \n For Media \n\n \n Media Resources\n \n\n \n Access the press release\, event brief\, program\, author background\,\n book information\, official photographs\, and downloadable materials.\n \n\n \n \n Open Media Pack\n \n\n \n Email Ned\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n Share This Story \n \n in\n f\n @\n \n •••\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Road Here \nThe book came home. It launched internationally in Santa Monica in November 2025\, but the Culturally Intelligent Storytelling launch in Manila is the one that mattered most\, because these are the readers the framework was written for. Fourteen months after the first room in Diliman. \nBefore this: Patok na Patok at Ateneo de Manila\, April 2026.  ·  Next stop: the Ateneo masterclass\, a week later. \nRelated reading: Philippine Book Launch at Ateneo and Ateneo Book Launch: Bringing CIS Home. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/culturally-intelligent-storytelling-philippine-launch/ CATEGORIES:Book Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Events-Featured-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260429T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260429T170000 DTSTAMP:20260822T232849Z CREATED:20260719T162120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T232849Z UID:38112-1777449600-1777482000@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Patok na Patok! A Conference on Popular Culture and Media Studies DESCRIPTION:Past Event \n\n Patok na Patok · Popular Culture and Media Studies\n \n\n Patok Kanino? Reframing Popularity\, Resonance\, and Cultural Translation in Philippine Media\n \n\n Ned Legaspi presented this paper at Patok na Patok!\, a\n two-day conference hosted by the Department of Communication of\n Ateneo de Manila University. So the gathering examined how media\,\n fandom\, identity\, platforms\, and cultural flows shape what becomes\n widely popular and widely shared.\n \n\n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n\n Popularity may tell us that something has traveled. But cultural\n translation asks where it traveled\, who recognized themselves in it\,\n and what may have changed along the way.\n \n Conference\n Patok na Patok!\n A Conference on Popular Culture and Media Studies\n Conference Dates\n April 29-30\, 2026\n Ned Legaspi’s Session\n Wednesday\, April 29\, 2026\n 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.\n Venue\n Escaler Hall\n Ateneo de Manila University\, Loyola Heights\, Quezon City\n Organizer\n Department of Communication\n Ateneo de Manila University\n Role\n Panel Presenter\n Breakout Session 1\, Panel 1B\n \n \n\nConference Context \n\n Examining the Cultural Power of What Becomes “Patok”\n \n\n Because it was hosted by Ateneo’s Department of Communication\, the conference explored what it means for a media text\, trend\, personality\, or\n platform to become in demand and widely shared.\n \n\n Then its sessions brought together scholars\, researchers\, students\, and\n professionals to examine fandom\, participatory culture\, identity\,\n representation\, digital storytelling\, platform cultures\,\n journalism\, activism\, and transnational media.\n \n\n However\, the wider conference framed popularity as more than audience size.\n Instead it treated popularity as a site of cultural power that can shape\n identities\, mobilize communities\, and influence public discourse.\n \n\n So what becomes popular is never only a question of numbers. It is also a\n question of access\, cultural recognition\, framing\, and power.\n \n\nConference Keynotes \n Robert Kozinets\n USC Annenberg\n Henry Jenkins\n USC Annenberg\n Patrick F. Campos\n UP Film Institute\n \n\n \n\nPanel Spotlight \n\n Panel 1B at Patok na Patok: Views\, Frames\, and Positions from the Outside\n \n\nPanel Information \n\n Patok Kanino\, Patok Paano?\n \n\nBreakout Session\nBreakout Session 1\, Panel 1B\nDate and Time\nWednesday\, April 29\, 2026\, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.\nVenue\nEscaler Hall\, Ateneo de Manila University\nModerator\nSerena M. Vaswani\, Ateneo de Manila University\n\n\n\nNed Legaspi’s Presentation \n\n Patok Kanino? Reframing Popularity\, Resonance\, and Cultural\n Translation in Philippine Media\n \n\n Second\, the presentation placed the idea of “patok” beside questions of\n audience\, cultural location\, and translation. Rather than treating\n reach as proof of universal appeal\, it invited a closer look at\n whose values\, references\, and lived experiences make a story feel\n meaningful.\n \n\n Therefore this line of inquiry connects directly with Ned Legaspi’s wider work\n on culturally intelligent storytelling and how Filipino narratives\n can travel across communities without losing their cultural roots.\n \n\n\n \n Breakout Session 1 program showing Panel 1B at Escaler Hall and Ned\n Legaspi’s paper on popularity\, resonance\, and cultural translation.\n Program image courtesy of the Ateneo de Manila University Department\n of Communication.\n \n\n \n\nPanel 1B Program \n\n Five Perspectives on Philippine Popular Culture\n \n\n Finally\, the panel brought together questions of ownership\, cinema\, cultural\n translation\, dubbed media\, and the continuing importance of studying\n Philippine popular culture.\n \n 01\n Hindi Kami Batibot (Cultural Belonging\, Legal Ownership and Copyright)\n Navarro\, JL\n 02\n Paano Naging Patok ang Sine?\n Martinez\, MLJ\n 03\n Patok Kanino? Reframing Popularity\, Resonance\, and Cultural\n Translation in Philippine Media\n Legaspi\, EN\n 04\n Decoding the Dub: Analyzing Filipino Audience Reception through a\n Postcolonial Lens\n Cello\, RLM\n 05\n Revisiting the Foundational Argument for Studying Philippine\n Popular Culture\n Ofilada\, EJ\n \n \n\nConnection to Ned’s Work \n\n What Patok na Patok Asked About Popularity and Cultural Translation\n \n\n The conference paper sits at the intersection of three recurring\n questions in Ned Legaspi’s work: who a story speaks to\, how culture\n shapes interpretation\, and what connection remains after a story moves\n between audiences.\n \n\nPopularity\n\n Then reach\, visibility\, circulation\, and the conditions that allow a\n media text to become widely recognized.\n \n\n\nResonance\n\n Second\, the emotional and cultural recognition that makes a story feel\n relevant to a particular audience.\n \n\n\nCultural Translation\n\n The negotiation of meaning when stories cross communities\,\n languages\, histories\, and cultural assumptions.\n \n\n \n Explore the C3 Framework\n \n \n Explore Speaking\n \n \n \n\nEvent Archive \n\n Documenting an Ongoing Practice of Public Scholarship\n \n\n Finally\, this archival entry records Ned Legaspi’s participation in an\n academic conference that brought together research\, professional\n practice\, and public discussion on media and popular culture.\n \n\n Also\, events such as this form part of his continuing work as an author\,\n educator\, and speaker\, connecting cultural inquiry with the\n practical questions faced by creators\, communicators\, and\n institutions.\n \n\nConference Organizer \n\n Ateneo Department of Communication\n \n\n Department of Communication\, Ateneo de Manila University\n Loyola Heights\, Quezon City\n \n\n Conference email:\n patok@ateneo.edu\n \n \n Visit Ateneo Communication\n \n \n Contact Ned\n \n \n\n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Road Here \nHome ground\, and the most Filipino room on the list. Patok na Patok asked what makes something popular here\, which is the same question the framework asks from the other side. Three months later the book would launch in the same university. \nBefore this: the PACMRI General Assembly masterclass\, March 2026.  ·  Next stop: the Philippine book launch at Ateneo\, July 2026. \nRelated reading: Why Money Heist Resonated Worldwide and CQ at the Movies: Bamboo Framework Meets Thai Cinema. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/patok-na-patok-a-conference-on-popular-culture-and-media-studies/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/patok-na-patok-conference-popular-culture-media-studies-ateneo-2026.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260321T130000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260321T140000 DTSTAMP:20260822T223346Z CREATED:20260719T173433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T223346Z UID:38133-1774098000-1774101600@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:PACMRI General Assembly Masterclass on Culturally Intelligent Storytelling DESCRIPTION:Past Event \nPACMRI General Assembly · Masterclass \nCrafting Culturally Intelligent Storytelling in Communication and Media Research in and of the Philippines\n\n At the PACMRI General Assembly\, Ned Legaspi was invited by the Philippine Association for Communication and Media Research\, Inc. to lead a masterclass during its General Assembly and Elections. The session connected storytelling practice with academic inquiry and examined how Filipino communication and media research can reach wider audiences without losing the truth of participants’ stories and their Filipinoness.\n \n\n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n\n The invitation marked a full-circle moment for Ned\, who studied Communication Research at UP Diliman before building a three-decade career in global Filipino media.\n \n Date\n Saturday\, March 21\, 2026\n General Assembly Schedule\n 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.\n Philippine Standard Time\, GMT+8\n Masterclass Schedule\n Opening Hour\n Followed by a short open forum\n Final Format\n Online via Zoom\n Free and open to the public\n Original Venue\n Plaridel Hall Auditorium\n UP College of Media and Communication\, UP Diliman\n Organizer\n PACMRI\n Philippine Association for Communication and Media Research\, Inc.\n Role\n Masterclass Speaker\n\n\n\nEvent Format Update \nFrom Plaridel Hall to Zoom\n Originally Scheduled\n Face-to-Face at UP Diliman\n Final Delivery\n Online Masterclass via Zoom\n Access\n Free and Open to All\n \nWhy the Change Matters \nThe PACMRI General Assembly Went Online and Opened the Conversation Wider\n\n The formal invitation originally identified the UP CMC Plaridel Hall Auditorium as the venue for the General Assembly. Before the event\, however\, the masterclass moved online and was delivered through Zoom.\n \n\n The change allowed students\, educators\, researchers\, creators\, and communication practitioners beyond UP Diliman to participate. It also aligned naturally with the masterclass theme: helping locally grounded ideas travel to wider audiences.\n \n\n The platform changed\, but the central question remained the same: How can Filipino research travel across audiences without losing its cultural truth?\n \n\n\nMasterclass Focus \nBringing Storytelling Practice into Communication and Media Research\n\n The session addressed how research findings can be framed for conferences\, publications\, presentations\, and wider public engagement while remaining accountable to the Filipino experiences they represent.\n \n\n 01 \nFrame Research for Wider Audiences\nTranslate complex findings into narratives that are clear\, compelling\, and accessible without reducing their intellectual substance. \n\n\n 02 \nProtect Authenticity and Filipinoness\nPreserve cultural meanings\, voices\, and lived realities as findings move into global and cross-cultural spaces. \n\n\n 03 \nConnect Scholarship and Storytelling\nUse narrative structure\, audience awareness\, and cultural context to strengthen the public value of communication research. \n\n Explore the C3 Framework\n Explore Speaking\n\n\nIntended Audience \nA PACMRI General Assembly Session for the Media Research Community\n\n The masterclass was designed for people interested in how stories and research travel across cultures and audiences.\n \n\nStudents\nEmerging researchers developing culturally grounded projects and presentations. \n\n\nEducators\nTeachers and mentors guiding research communication and scholarly storytelling. \n\n\nResearchers\nScholars presenting Filipino experiences in local and international venues. \n\n\nCreators and Practitioners\nCommunicators bridging professional practice\, evidence\, and public engagement. \n\n\n\nAbout PACMRI \nWhat the PACMRI Masterclass Advanced in Philippine Media Research\n\n The Philippine Association for Communication and Media Research\, Inc. is a UP-based\, non-stock\, non-profit organization founded in 2019 by the UP Department of Communication Research.\n \n\n PACMRI promotes the systematic study of developments\, changes\, and challenges in Philippine communication and media. It also supports local researchers and facilitates engagement among practitioners\, institutions\, educators\, and advocates.\n \n\n Inviting Ned to address its General Assembly connected his professional experience in global Filipino media with the association’s commitment to research centered on Filipinos and the Philippines.\n \n\nEvent Organizer \nPhilippine Association for Communication and Media Research\, Inc.\nBased at the University of the Philippines Diliman and serving the Philippine communication and media research community. \n Visit PACMRI\n PACMRI on Facebook\n \n\n\nEvent Archive \nA Full-Circle Conversation Between Research and Practice\n\n This event forms part of Ned Legaspi’s continuing work at the intersection of culture\, communication\, storytelling\, and education. It was especially meaningful because the invitation came from a research community connected to the undergraduate discipline he studied at UP Diliman.\n \n\n The masterclass also demonstrated how an event can move from an originally planned face-to-face format to an online platform while preserving its purpose and expanding its reach.\n \n View All Events\n Contact Ned\n\n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Road Here \nThe professional turn continues\, this time with researchers rather than a company. A month after walking back into ABS-CBN\, the PACMRI Masterclass took the same material to the people who study Philippine communication and media for a living. It was meant to be face to face at UP Diliman and moved online. \nBefore this: the ABS-CBN Leadership Speaker Series\, February 2026.  ·  Next stop: Patok na Patok at Ateneo de Manila\, April 2026. \nRelated reading: PACMRI Masterclass: Ned Legaspi on Culturally Intelligent Storytelling and From CIS Bamboo to C3. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/pacmri-general-assembly-masterclass-on-culturally-intelligent-storytelling/ CATEGORIES:Workshops & Masterclasses ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/pacmri-general-assembly-masterclass-ned-legaspi.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260218T140000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260218T153000 DTSTAMP:20260823T075520Z CREATED:20260822T120907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075520Z UID:38988-1771423200-1771428600@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:ABS-CBN Leadership Speaker Series: Stories That Travel Beyond Origins DESCRIPTION:Thirty years in one building teaches you where all the shortcuts are. But walking back in as a guest is a different feeling. That was February\, at the ABS-CBN Leadership Speaker Series. \nOn 18 February 2026\, I returned to ABS-CBN to speak at the ABS-CBN Leadership Speaker Series on Becoming a Global Storyteller. ABS-CBN is the media company where I spent about three decades\, most of it with ABS-CBN Global and The Filipino Channel\, the service that carries Filipino programming to viewers overseas. Then I left in December 2023. So this was the first time I came back to that room as an outside speaker. \nThe session ran at the Collab Space on the thirteenth floor of the ELJ Communications Center in Quezon City\, with a Microsoft Teams link for staff who could not be there in person. Mark Nepomuceno\, a consultant on transformation and innovation\, moderated. \n\nEvent Details \nDate18 February 2026\, 2:00 to 3:30 PM \nVenueCollab Space A and B\, 13th Floor\, ELJ Communications Center\, Quezon City \nSeriesABS-CBN Leadership Speaker Series on Becoming a Global Storyteller\, Session 2 \nModeratorMark Nepomuceno\, Consultant for Transformation and Innovation \n \nStories That Travel Beyond Origins\nMy session was the second in the ABS-CBN Leadership Speaker Series. The series looks at the strategic side of taking content global\, across digital and traditional platforms. Still\, my part was narrower. What happens to a Filipino story when it crosses a border? \nThe easy answer is to file down the local details until the story feels neutral enough for anyone. But that does not work. Audiences abroad are not asking for a Filipino story with the Filipino parts taken out. They are asking to understand it. Those are two different jobs\, and only one of them leaves the story worth telling. \nSo I walked the room through the Culturally Intelligent Storytelling Bamboo Framework from my book. It reads a story through four parts: StoryRoot\, StoryCraft\, StoryPulse\, and StoryLeaf. Together they show where culture is sitting inside the work\, and how far the work can travel before the meaning starts to break. \nThe first ABS-CBN Leadership Speaker Series talk after the book\nThis was also the first talk I gave after the book came out\, and the ABS-CBN Leadership Speaker Series was the room that got it first. Culturally Intelligent Storytelling for Southeast Asian Creators launched in Santa Monica\, California\, in November 2025. Three months later I was standing in front of my old colleagues with it. \nThere was something fitting in that. After all\, the ideas in the book were shaped over thirty years inside that company. The first room I brought them back to was the same company. \n\nThe Road Here \nThe professional turn starts here. Nine months of conference rooms\, then the ABS-CBN Leadership Speaker Series\, which was a corridor I had walked for about thirty years. Speaking in your old building is a different kind of nervous. \nBefore this: MARAAS at the University of Pittsburgh\, November 2025.  ·  Next stop: the PACMRI masterclass\, March 2026. \nRelated reading: Nobody Calls Me “Sir” Anymore and ABS-CBN Covers the Santa Monica Book Launch. \n \n\nIf you want the whole method rather than one talk\, start with the C3 Bamboo Framework. It is set out in full in the book. \n Become a Nedizen \nNed speaks to universities\, newsrooms\, and companies. See Speaking\, or get in touch. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/abs-cbn-leadership-speaker-series-stories-that-travel-beyond-origins/ LOCATION:ELJ Communications Center (ELJCC)\, Quezon City\, Metro Manila\, Philippines CATEGORIES:Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/abs-cbn-leadership-speaker-series-stories-that-travel-beyond-origins.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20251115T081500 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20251115T094500 DTSTAMP:20260822T223004Z CREATED:20260720T173302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T223004Z UID:38213-1763194500-1763199900@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Translating Culture Across Screens at MARAAS 2025 DESCRIPTION:Past Event \nMARAAS 2025 · Conference Paper Presentation \n\n Translating Culture Across Screens at MARAAS 2025\n \n\n Ned Legaspi presented a paper on culturally intelligent storytelling\n at the 53rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies\n Conference\, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh.\n \n\n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n\n The presentation placed Southeast Asian storytelling within a wider\n scholarly conversation on transnational movement\, translation\,\n technology\, and cultural meaning.\n \n Date\n Saturday\, November 15\, 2025\n Time\n 8:15 to 9:45 a.m.\n Eastern Standard Time\n Venue\n Wesley W. Posvar Hall\, Room 3610\n University of Pittsburgh\, Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\n Role\n Conference Paper Presenter\n Panel\n A3: Transnational and Translation\n Moving Meaning\n \n \n\nThe Conference \n\n Asian Networks: Transnationalism\, Technology\, and Equity\n \n\n The 2025 MARAAS Conference examined how movement\, connectivity\,\n technology\, and transnational networks shape Asia and the wider\n world. It brought together scholars working across the humanities\,\n social sciences\, cultural studies\, education\, media\, and related\n fields.\n \n\n Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center\, the\n conference returned to Pittsburgh after ten years. Its program\n reflected regional\, transnational\, and interdisciplinary approaches\n to understanding Asia as part of an interconnected world.\n \n\n Ned’s paper contributed a Southeast Asian media and storytelling\n perspective to this wider academic exchange.\n \n \n Official Conference Page\n \n \n Visit MARAAS\n \n\nConference Scale \n 53rd\n Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference\n 250+\n Proposals submitted for consideration\n 156\n Accepted presentations\n 35\n Academic panels across the conference\n \n\n \n\nThe Paper \n\n Translating Culture Across Screens: Culturally Intelligent\n Storytelling as Narrative Infrastructure in Southeast Asia\n \n\n The paper examined culturally intelligent storytelling as more than a\n creative technique. It proposed it as a form of narrative\n infrastructure that can help stories move across media\, markets\, and\n cultural contexts without becoming detached from their roots.\n \n Presenter\n Ned Legaspi\n Program Listing\n Edgar Legaspi\n Institution\n University of the Philippines \n\n 01 \nCultural Grounding\n\n Stories begin within specific histories\, identities\, values\, and\n communities. Translation should not erase those foundations.\n \n\n\n 02 \nMovement Across Screens\n\n Narratives change as they move across platforms\, industries\,\n languages\, and audiences. Each movement requires cultural judgment.\n \n\n\n 03 \nNarrative Infrastructure\n\n Frameworks can help creators make consistent and responsible\n decisions as stories travel through complex cultural systems.\n \n\n\n \n\nPanel A3 \n\n Transnational and Translation at MARAAS 2025\n \n\n Chaired by Yuping Zhang\, the panel brought together research on music\,\n dance\, public discourse\, translation\, and storytelling across borders.\n \n\n\n Listening Across Borders: Ghazals\, Cultural Memory\, and Digital Audiences\n \n Ali Hassan \n\n A study of cultural memory and digital listening across borders.\n \n\n\n\n Queerness as Epiphytism: The Transnational Movement of Gay Dance “Waacking”\n \n Raymond Kyooyung Ra \n\n An examination of how a dance form traveled from the United States\n to South Korea.\n \n\n\n\n Constructing a Straits Chinese Public Discourse\n \n Zhinan Ji \n\n Research on writing\, translation\, and public discourse in the\n Straits Chinese Magazine.\n \n\n\n\n Translating Culture Across Screens\n \n Ned Legaspi \n\n A Southeast Asian framework for culturally grounded storytelling\n across media and cultural contexts.\n \n\n\n \n\n\n Stories do not simply cross borders. They pass through systems of\n interpretation\, power\, memory\, and cultural expectation.\n Presentation premise\n \nWhy It Mattered \n\n Bringing Storytelling Practice into Asian Studies at MARAAS 2025\n \n\n The presentation created a bridge between professional storytelling\n practice and academic inquiry. It drew from three decades of work\n with global Filipino audiences while engaging questions of\n translation\, transnational movement\, identity\, and cultural power.\n \n\n It also extended the CIS Bamboo Framework beyond a book or creative\n methodology. Within the conference\, the framework became a way of\n thinking about the systems that enable stories to circulate and\n acquire meaning across different contexts.\n \n\n For Ned\, the paper was part of a continuing effort to connect media\n practice\, Philippine Studies\, communication\, and cultural\n intelligence.\n \n\n \n\nContinue Exploring \n\n From Conference Paper to Framework and Practice\n \n\nC3 Bamboo Framework\n\n Explore the broader framework connecting Culture\, Communication\,\n and Connection across Stories\, People\, and Nations.\n \n \n Explore the Framework\n \n \n\nCulturally Intelligent Storytelling\n\n Learn about the book and the CIS Bamboo Framework developed for\n Southeast Asian creators.\n \n \n Explore the Book\n \n \n\nSpeaking\n\n View speaking themes and engagement areas involving culture\,\n communication\, storytelling\, and connection.\n \n \n View Speaking Topics\n \n \n\nEvents Archive\n\n Browse past and upcoming talks\, conferences\, masterclasses\, book\n launches\, and institutional programs.\n \n \n View All Events\n \n \n\n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Road Here \nThe last academic room of 2025\, and the closing of a very full year. MARAAS 2025 at the University of Pittsburgh placed Southeast Asian storytelling inside a wider conversation about movement\, translation\, and technology. Twelve rooms in seven months\, and then the work changed shape. \nBefore this: the SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies\, November 2025.  ·  Next stop: the ABS-CBN Leadership Speaker Series\, February 2026. \nRelated reading: Why Dark Travels and Why Money Heist Resonated Worldwide. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/translating-culture-across-screens-at-maraas-2025/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/asian-networks-conference-university-of-pittsburgh.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251108T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251108T150000 DTSTAMP:20260823T075237Z CREATED:20260822T183644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075237Z UID:39055-1762609500-1762614000@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Rooted Yet Resonant at the SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies DESCRIPTION:The paper was written in Manila. The SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies was in San Antonio\, Texas. Almost nobody in that room worked on the Philippines. \nOn 8 November 2025 I presented “Rooted Yet Resonant: A Southeast Asian Framework for Culturally Intelligent Storytelling” at the 54th SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies\, held at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. \nSWCAS has been meeting since 1971\, when the first conference was held in Austin. It is the Southwest regional affiliate of the Association for Asian Studies. So the address is regional\, but the subject is not. The papers come from everywhere. \nI was in Session 6.6\, “Cultural and Literary Expression in Southeast Asia.” The chair was Min Suk Kim of the University of Texas at Austin. \n\nEvent Details \nConference: 54th SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies (SWCAS) \nDates: 7 to 9 November 2025 \nVenue: Texas A&M University-San Antonio\, San Antonio\, Texas \nNed’s session: Session 6.6\, Saturday 8 November 2025\, 1:45 to 3:00 PM\, Classroom Hall 219 \nPanel: Cultural and Literary Expression in Southeast Asia \nChair: Min Suk Kim\, University of Texas at Austin \nPaper: “Rooted Yet Resonant: A Southeast Asian Framework for Culturally Intelligent Storytelling” \n \nWhy the room mattered\nTwo other papers shared my panel. Aanmona Priyadarshini of Southern Methodist University spoke on cultural resistance and the afterlife of rubble in post-conflict Asia. Then Karandeep Singh of the University of Hamburg spoke on cremation volumes as cultural knowledge systems in early twentieth-century Siam\, the old name for Thailand. \nSo the panel ran across three countries and three centuries. That is the setting a framework has to survive. \nA month before the SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies\, I gave a version of this paper at the University of the Philippines Los Banos. That room was full of Filipino speech communication scholars. I could name a show\, a network\, a decade\, and the audience filled in the rest. \nSan Antonio was different. Nothing about a Philippine example carries itself there. \nThe test at the SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies\nThat is the honest test of any framework. If it only works with an audience that already knows your country\, it is not a framework. It is a shared memory. \nSo the Philippine material had to do two jobs at once. First\, it had to stay specific enough to be true. Second\, it had to travel far enough to be useful to someone working on Bangladesh or Thailand. \nThat is also what the CIS Bamboo Framework is for. Bamboo bends without breaking. A story can cross a border and keep its roots. But the person telling it has to know which parts are load-bearing and which parts are local decoration. \nWhat I learned from the SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies is that a framework earns its name outside the culture that produced it. Inside your own country\, agreement is cheap. \n\nThe Road Here \nFive days after the book launched in California\, the argument went back into an academic room\, this time one with almost no Philippine specialists in it. San Antonio is where the framework had to work without any shared context to lean on. \nBefore this: the international book launch in Santa Monica\, November 2025.  ·  Next stop: MARAAS at the University of Pittsburgh\, November 2025. \nRelated reading: Why Southeast Asian Stories Do Not Need to Sound Western and Rooted Yet Resonant: Stories That Travel Across Cultures. \n \n\nIf you want the whole method rather than one talk\, start with the C3 Bamboo Framework. It is set out in full in the book. \n Become a Nedizen \nNed speaks to universities\, newsrooms\, and companies. See Speaking\, or get in touch. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/rooted-yet-resonant-at-the-southwest-conference-on-asian-studies/ LOCATION:Classroom Hall\, Texas A&M University-San Antonio\, One University Way\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78224\, United States CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/southwest-conference-on-asian-studies-2025-rooted-yet-resonant.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20251104T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20251104T170000 DTSTAMP:20260823T075857Z CREATED:20260720T171016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075857Z UID:38208-1762268400-1762275600@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:International Launch of Culturally Intelligent Storytelling in Santa Monica DESCRIPTION:Share This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n \n\n Past Event \nInternational Book Launch \n\n The Global Launch of Culturally Intelligent Storytelling\n \n\n Ned Legaspi introduced Culturally Intelligent Storytelling for\n Southeast Asian Creators internationally during the CQ Fellows\n Book Launch at the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica\, California.\n \n\n The event marked his debut as an international author and brought a\n distinctly Southeast Asian perspective into a global conversation on\n cultural intelligence.\n \n Date\n Tuesday\, November 4\, 2025\n Venue\n Shore Hotel\n 1515 Ocean Avenue\, Santa Monica\, California 90401\n Event\n CQ Fellows Book Launch\n Role\n Featured Author\n Organizer\n CQ Fellows\n Led by cultural intelligence scholar Dr. David Livermore\n \n \n\n\n 01 \nA New Chapter \n\n International Author Debut\n \n\n After three decades of working with stories and audiences in\n international media\, Ned entered a new chapter as the author of an\n original Southeast Asian storytelling framework.\n \n\nWhy the Launch Mattered \n\n A Southeast Asian Voice in a Global Cultural Intelligence Community\n \n\n The Santa Monica launch was part of a wider CQ Fellows gathering\n featuring new books that applied cultural intelligence to\n real-world fields such as leadership\, education\, organizational\n practice\, culture\, and storytelling.\n \n\n Ned’s contribution focused on the creative world. The book asked\n how creators can build stories that connect with audiences across\n cultures without flattening the identities\, values\, and lived\n realities from which those stories emerge.\n \n\n Launching the book in this setting placed Southeast Asian creative\n practice within a global community of cultural intelligence\n practitioners and thought leaders.\n \n\n “This book is a way of reclaiming our place in global storytelling.”\n Ned Legaspi\n \n\n \n\nThe CQ Fellows Context \n\n From Fellowship Inquiry to Published Framework\n \n\n CQ Fellows is a one-year advanced certification program in cultural\n intelligence led by Dr. David Livermore. Fellows apply cultural\n intelligence to a specific professional field and continue as\n members of the Society of CQ Fellows after completing the program.\n \n\n For Ned\, the professional domain was storytelling. The fellowship\n provided a disciplined environment for examining a question shaped\n by years in international media: How can stories cross cultures\n while remaining accountable to the people and communities from\n which they come?\n \n\n The book launch represented the public expression of that inquiry.\n It turned lived experience\, professional practice\, and cultural\n intelligence scholarship into a practical framework for creators\,\n educators\, and communicators.\n \n \n About CQ Fellows\n \n\nEvent Theme \n\n How Cultural Intelligence Shapes Practice\n \n Storytelling\n How narratives can remain rooted while connecting across cultures.\n Leadership\n How leaders adapt and work effectively across diverse contexts.\n Culture\n How identity\, values\, expectations\, and context shape human interaction.\n \n\n \n\nThe Book \n\n Culturally Intelligent Storytelling for Southeast Asian Creators\n \n\n The book introduces the CIS Bamboo Framework\, a four-stage approach for\n creating narratives that stay culturally grounded while resonating\n across audiences and contexts.\n \n\n 01 \nStoryRoot\n\n Understanding the cultural identity\, values\, history\, and lived\n realities beneath a story.\n \n\n\n 02 \nStoryCraft\n\n Building the narrative through structure\, character\, perspective\,\n language\, and responsible creative choices.\n \n\n\n 03 \nStoryPulse\n\n Listening for how different audiences may interpret\, feel\, and\n respond to the story.\n \n\n\n 04 \nStoryLeaf\n\n Translating insight into an audience encounter that makes\n connection\, reflection\, or action possible.\n \n\n \n Explore the Book\n \n \n Explore the C3 Framework\n \n \n \n\nThe Larger Journey \n\n From International Media Executive to Author\, Educator\, and Speaker\n \n\n The launch connected three chapters of Ned’s professional life:\n international media practice\, continuing scholarship\, and the\n development of original frameworks.\n \n\n Chapter 01 \nThree Decades in International Media\n\n Work with global Filipino audiences created the questions that\n would later shape his cultural and storytelling inquiry.\n \n\n\n Chapter 02 \nCultural Intelligence and Scholarship\n\n CQ Fellows\, Philippine Studies\, communication research\, and\n cross-cultural practice gave the questions deeper structure.\n \n\n\n Chapter 03 \nAn Original Southeast Asian Framework\n\n The CIS Bamboo Framework transformed experience and inquiry into a\n practical model for creators and communicators.\n \n\n\n \n\nMedia Coverage \n\n The Launch in the News\n \n\n ABS-CBN Lifestyle \n\n “Culturally Intelligent Storytelling” Launch Marks Breakthrough for Author Ned Legaspi\n \n\n Coverage of the international launch and the book’s contribution to\n culturally grounded storytelling for Southeast Asian creators.\n \n \n Read the Article\n \n \n\n The Filipino Correspondent Network \n\n Filipino Author Ned Legaspi Launches Book on Cultural Intelligence\n \n\n A preview of the Santa Monica launch\, the CQ Fellows gathering\, and\n the international release of the book.\n \n \n Read the Article\n \n \n\n \n\nEvent Archive \n\n The Beginning of the Book’s Public Journey\n \n\n The Santa Monica launch was the first public milestone in the life of\n Culturally Intelligent Storytelling for Southeast Asian\n Creators. It introduced the book within an international\n community and affirmed that Southeast Asian creative perspectives\n belong in global conversations about culture and communication.\n \n\n The book would later return to the Philippines for its formal\n Philippine launch at Ateneo de Manila University\, extending the\n conversation from an international fellowship community to creators\,\n educators\, media practitioners\, and institutional leaders at home.\n \n \n View All Events\n \n \n Contact Ned\n \n \n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Road Here \nThe book arrives. Six months after the first academic room in Diliman\, the work stopped being a paper and became something people could hold. The Santa Monica book launch was the international one\, four days before the argument went back into a conference room in Texas. \nBefore this: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\, October 2025.  ·  Next stop: the SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies\, November 2025. \nRelated reading: Before the Santa Monica Book Launch and ABS-CBN Covers the Santa Monica Book Launch. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/international-launch-of-culturally-intelligent-storytelling-in-santa-monica/ CATEGORIES:Book Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cq-fellows-book-launch-santa-monica.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20251028T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20251028T133000 DTSTAMP:20260831T184700Z CREATED:20260720T180056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260831T184700Z UID:38219-1761652800-1761658200@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Decoding the Intersections: Communication Styles\, Generational Shifts\, and the Context of Cultural Intelligence DESCRIPTION:The Road Here \nThis is the turn in the story. Eight rooms into the year\, and this was the first one that was not a campus or a conference at all. Talking with healthcare workers about hierarchy\, communication\, and generational difference is what pushed the work past storytelling and into ordinary working life. C3 grew out of this conversation. \nBefore this: the Speech Communication Conference at UP Los Baños\, October 2025.  ·  Next stop: the international book launch in Santa Monica\, November 2025. \nRelated reading: Why Filipino Nurses Wait for One Another and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n\n\n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n \n\n Past Event \nHealthcare and Cultural Intelligence: Decoding the Intersections \n\n Cultural Intelligence at Cedars-Sinai: Decoding the Intersections\n \n\n I brought Decoding the Intersections to Cedars-Sinai\, where I joined healthcare and organizational leaders for a career development session on communication styles\, generational shifts\, and cultural intelligence at work.\n \n\n This is where C3 started. I came in to talk about storytelling. I left with a bigger question.\n \n Date\n Tuesday\, October 28\, 2025\n Time\n 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.\n Pacific Time\n Venue\n Harvey Morse Auditorium\n Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\, Los Angeles\, California\n Program\n Talk of the Hour\n Career Development Program\n Community\n Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n Cedars-Sinai Filipino employee resource group\n \n \n\nThe Institution \n\n A Conversation Inside a Leading Academic Medical Center\n \n\n Cedars-Sinai is a large nonprofit academic medical center in Los Angeles\, serving the city and patients from around the world.\n \n\n Many of the people in the room were Filipino healthcare workers. That made the conversation both institutional and personal.\n \n\n The session put cultural intelligence into the realities of care work: hierarchy\, communication\, and how people adapt.\n \n \n Visit Cedars-Sinai\n \n \n View Rankings\n \n\nInstitutional Context \n #1\n Tied for the highest-ranked hospital in California and Los Angeles\n in the 2025-26 U.S. News rankings\n 10\n Consecutive years on the U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll\n 11\n Medical specialties nationally ranked in 2025-26 \n\n Cedars-Sinai was ranked the #2 hospital in the United States in the\n earlier 2022-23 U.S. News rankings. By the time of this 2025 event\,\n the national overall ranking had shifted to an Honor Roll model.\n \n\n\n \n\nThe Session \n\n Decoding the Intersections: Communication Styles\, Generational\n Shifts\, and the Context of Cultural Intelligence\n \n\n The session explored how cultural expectations influence the way\n healthcare professionals communicate\, respond to authority\, interpret\n behavior\, adapt across generations\, and build trust in the workplace.\n \n\n 01 \nCommunication Styles\n\n Direct and indirect communication\, high-context and low-context\n meaning\, and the risks of assuming that shared language guarantees\n shared understanding.\n \n\n\n 02 \nAuthority and Relationships\n\n How power distance\, hierarchy\, respect\, collectivism\, and\n relationship expectations can shape teamwork and professional\n interaction.\n \n\n\n 03 \nGenerational Shifts\n\n How changing workplace values and expectations interact with\n culture\, professional identity\, migration\, and the experience of\n adapting across contexts.\n \n\n\n \n\nTalk of the Hour \n\n Three Professional Perspectives in One Conversation\n \n\n The program connected organizational development\, cultural\n intelligence\, and nursing leadership.\n \n\n Organizational Development \nLiv Behre\n\n Senior Organizational Development Partner in Learning and\n Organizational Development at Cedars-Sinai.\n \n\n\n Cultural Intelligence \nNed Legaspi\n\n Author\, educator\, speaker\, and Cultural Intelligence Fellow\n exploring how culture shapes communication and connection.\n \n\n\n Nursing Leadership \nPeachy Hain\n\n Executive Director of Nursing and advisor to the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n Employee Resource Group.\n \n\n\n \n\n\n C3 \n\n Decoding the Intersections: The Moment the Framework Widened\n \n\nFrom Stories to People \n\n One Question Changed the Direction of the Work\n \n\n Near the end\, a male nurse raised his hand. He wanted more examples. More application. He wanted to know what to do with any of this during shifts\, handovers\, and team interactions on his own floor.\n \n\n He was not being difficult. He was telling me the framework was still too abstract to use on a Monday. I had built it around stories. He was asking me to bring it to work.\n \n\n That question is the reason C3 exists. Stories stayed as one lens\, but they could not be the only one. The framework had to account for the people who communicate and care across cultural differences\, not only the ones who tell stories about it.\n \n\n The three lenses came out of that room.\n The emerging logic of C3\n \n Culture\n The values and unspoken rules beneath the encounter.\n Communication\n How meaning\, authority\, and respect were expressed and read.\n Connection\n The trust and relationships that came out of the exchange.\n \n \n\nAcknowledgment \n\n An Invitation That Opened a New Direction\n \n\n The Cedars-Sinai engagement was made possible through the invitation\n and support of Janeth Zafra-Mauricio and the Fil-Am C.A.R.E.S.\n community.\n \n\n The session opened a new field of inquiry for Ned’s work: how\n culturally grounded frameworks could help professionals navigate\n communication\, hierarchy\, identity\, care\, and trust in institutions\n where people from different backgrounds work together every day.\n \n\nC3 Bamboo Framework\n\n Explore how Culture\, Communication\, and Connection now operate\n across the three lenses of Stories\, People\, and Nations.\n \n \n Explore the Framework\n \n \n\nSpeaking\n\n View speaking areas involving cross-cultural communication\,\n healthcare\, professional adaptation\, storytelling\, and cultural\n diplomacy.\n \n \n View Speaking Work\n \n \n\nC3 Journal\n\n Read the essays\, reflections\, and field notes documenting how the\n framework continues to develop through real encounters.\n \n \n Read the Journal\n \n \n\nEvents Archive\n\n Browse past and upcoming talks\, conferences\, masterclasses\, book\n launches\, and institutional programs.\n \n \n View All Events\n \n \n\n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n••• URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/decoding-the-intersections-communication-styles-generational-shifts-and-the-context-of-cultural-intelligence/ CATEGORIES:Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/talk-of-the-hour-career-development-cultural-intelligence.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251009 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251012 DTSTAMP:20260823T075343Z CREATED:20260822T130111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075343Z UID:39003-1759975200-1760147999@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Rooted Yet Resonant at the Speech Communication Conference 2025 DESCRIPTION:Three weeks earlier I made a version of this argument in London. At the Speech Communication Conference 2025 I made it at home\, in Los Baños\, to a room of Filipino teachers and students. \nThe conference ran on 9 and 10 October 2025 at the NCAS Auditorium of the College of Arts and Sciences Annex 1\, University of the Philippines Los Baños. Los Baños is a university town in Laguna\, about two hours south of Manila. The theme was “On Speaking Terms: Enabling Encounters\, Engaging Communities.” The UP Diliman Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts ran it with the UPLB Communication Division. \nMy paper was called “Rooted Yet Resonant: A Southeast Asian Framework for Culturally Intelligent Storytelling in Global Media.” \n\nEvent Details \nConferenceSpeech Communication Conference 2025. On Speaking Terms: Enabling Encounters\, Engaging Communities \nDates9 and 10 October 2025 \nVenueNCAS Auditorium\, College of Arts and Sciences Annex 1\, University of the Philippines Los Baños \nOrganisersUP Diliman Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts\, with the UPLB Communication Division \nConference pageDSCTA UP Diliman \n \nWhat rooted yet resonant means\nThose two words usually get treated as a trade. Rooted means the story stays close to where it came from. Resonant means it reaches people far away. And the common belief is that you pick one\, because the more local a story is\, the smaller its audience gets. \nBut my paper argued against that trade. A story does not reach further by becoming less Filipino. It reaches further when a viewer somewhere else is given enough to enter it. Those are two different moves\, and creators keep confusing them. That was the case I put to the Speech Communication Conference 2025. \nSo the framework builds from Southeast Asian practice rather than from Western media theory with local examples pasted on top. That distinction matters more than it sounds. When the model comes from outside\, cultural specificity always ends up looking like the problem to solve. When it comes from inside\, specificity is the material you work with. \nWhy the Speech Communication Conference 2025 was a different test\nThree weeks before\, I brought the same framework to a conference on heritage repatriation in London. That audience worked on museums\, objects\, and return. \nThis audience was different. Speech communication people study how Filipinos actually talk\, teach\, argue\, and perform. They know the local ground better than any framework does. Presenting to them was less about explaining Filipino culture and more about defending whether the model held up. \nIt was also a month before the book came out in Santa Monica\, California\, in November 2025. So the Speech Communication Conference 2025 was one of the last rooms to hear the framework before it went into print. \n\nThe Road Here \nThe same paper that would later go to Texas\, but first in front of the people whose field it borrows from. At the Speech Communication Conference 2025 in Los Baños I could name a show and a decade and the room filled in the rest. A month later in San Antonio\, none of that carried. \nBefore this: the Philippine Sociological Society conference in Davao\, October 2025.  ·  Next stop: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles\, October 2025. \nRelated reading: Rooted Yet Resonant: Stories That Travel Across Cultures and Why Southeast Asian Stories Do Not Need to Sound Western. \n \n\nIf you want the whole method rather than one talk\, start with the C3 Bamboo Framework. It is set out in full in the book. \n Become a Nedizen \nNed speaks to universities\, newsrooms\, and companies. See Speaking\, or get in touch. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/rooted-yet-resonant-at-the-speech-communication-conference-2025/ LOCATION:NCAS Auditorium\, CAS Annex 1\, UP Los Baños\, Los Baños\, Laguna\, Philippines CATEGORIES:Academic & Education Events,Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/speech-communication-conference-2025-up-los-banos-venue.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251005 DTSTAMP:20260823T075904Z CREATED:20260822T141019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075904Z UID:39029-1759284000-1759543199@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Reclaiming Story\, Restoring Care at the Philippine Sociological Society Conference DESCRIPTION:The Philippine Sociological Society approved my abstract and then told me to explain myself better. They were right. \nThe society held its 2025 conference from 1 to 3 October at Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City. Davao is a city in southern Mindanao. The theme was “The Sociology of Crisis and Care: Navigating Tensions\, Charting Alternatives.” \nMy paper ran in Panel 7\, under serial PNL-PSS-2025-074. It was called “Reclaiming Story\, Restoring Care: Filipino Storytellers and the Comparative Crisis of Cultural Representation in Southeast Asia.” \nTwo other papers shared that Philippine Sociological Society panel. First\, Maria Anjelica C. Wong wrote on climate migration and environmental care in Iloilo City. Then Paola Louise Rico wrote on comedic portrayals of Filipina migrant nurses on TikTok. \n\nEvent Details \nConferencePhilippine Sociological Society 2025. The Sociology of Crisis and Care: Navigating Tensions\, Charting Alternatives \nDates1 to 3 October 2025 \nVenueAteneo de Davao University\, Davao City \nMy paperPanel 7\, serial PNL-PSS-2025-074\, presented onsite \n \nThe note that made the paper better\nThe scientific committee approved the abstract in July 2025. But it attached a comment. The abstract needed a short\, plain definition of the Culturally Intelligent Storytelling Framework\, for readers who did not already know it. \nThat kind of note is easy to resent. It is also easy to act on. But the second option is the better one. \nWhen you have lived inside an idea for a few years\, you forget something. Because its name means nothing to a stranger. A framework is not a password. \nSo I rewrote the abstract for the Philippine Sociological Society with a plain definition inside it. Also\, the title grew a clause. It now says Filipino storytellers out loud instead of leaving them implied. The version in the programme is that revised one. \nSociologists were the right people to catch it. Their whole discipline runs on not assuming the reader already lives in your world. \nWhy a storytelling paper belonged at the Philippine Sociological Society\nThe theme was crisis and care. So the fit was not obvious at first. After all\, storytelling sounds like a creative concern\, not a social one. \nBut my argument was that cultural representation is its own kind of crisis. A community that keeps seeing itself told badly loses something real. And telling a story back to the people it came from is a form of care\, not decoration. \nThe Philippine Sociological Society conference also came a week before Los Baños. Two Philippine conferences in ten days\, one sociological and one on speech communication. So the framework had to answer to both. \n\nThe Road Here \nHome ground again\, on the other side of the country. The Philippine Sociological Society meeting in Davao took the work out of media studies and put it next to questions of crisis and care\, which is where the framework started to stretch beyond storytelling. \nBefore this: the TFCN Global News Summit\, September 2025.  ·  Next stop: the Speech Communication Conference at UP Los Baños\, October 2025. \nRelated reading: Why Filipino Nurses Wait for One Another and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n \n\nIf you want the whole method rather than one talk\, start with the C3 Bamboo Framework. It is set out in full in the book. \n Become a Nedizen \nNed speaks to universities\, newsrooms\, and companies. See Speaking\, or get in touch. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/reclaiming-story-restoring-care-at-the-philippine-sociological-society-conference/ LOCATION:Ateneo de Davao University\, Davao City\, Philippines CATEGORIES:Academic & Education Events,Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/sociology-of-crisis-and-care-conference.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250921 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250923 DTSTAMP:20260822T195741Z CREATED:20260822T150006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T195741Z UID:39046-1758420000-1758506399@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:TFCN Global News Summit: Culturally Intelligent Newswriting DESCRIPTION:The TFCN Global News Summit was in the Netherlands. I was in London. So I gave the talk from a laptop\, and that turned out to suit the subject. \nOn 21 September 2025 I spoke to the summit online. TFCN is The Filipino Correspondent Network\, a group of Filipino journalists and correspondents who file their stories from outside the Philippines. The summit ran on 20 and 21 September in the Netherlands. I joined on the second day\, because I was in London that weekend for the Philippine Studies Conference at SOAS\, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. \nMy topic was culturally intelligent newswriting. \n\nEvent Details \nEvent: TFCN Global News Summit 2025 \nHost: The Filipino Correspondent Network (TFCN) \nDates: 20 and 21 September 2025 \nNed’s session: 21 September 2025 \nLocation: The Netherlands \nFormat: Ned joined online from London \nTopic: Culturally intelligent newswriting \n \nWhat culturally intelligent newswriting means\nThe correspondents at the TFCN Global News Summit live this problem every day. \nA Filipino correspondent abroad writes with two readers in the room at once. First\, there is the community being reported on. Then there is everyone else who will read the piece without sharing that community’s assumptions. \nSo there are two ways to lose. You can explain a community to outsiders in terms the community itself would not recognise. Or you can write only for insiders\, and lose everyone else at the first unexplained reference. \nCulturally intelligent newswriting is the habit of noticing which of those you are doing\, sentence by sentence. It is not softer reporting. It is more precise reporting\, because precision includes knowing who is reading. \nThat was the case I brought to the room. Not a style guide. A question to ask before filing. \nWhy the TFCN Global News Summit worked from a laptop\nTFCN also organises its coverage by region. Europe\, the Middle East\, the Philippines\, Asia Pacific\, the United States. That is not a website menu. That is where the correspondents actually are. \nSo a network like that does most of its real work at a distance. The virtual room is not a downgrade from the physical one. It is the normal working condition of the people in it. \nThat is also the argument in miniature. A story crosses a border and something happens to it. A newsroom spread across five regions has to think about that every day\, not once a year at a summit. \nTwo rooms in one weekend\, then. A conference on heritage in London\, and the TFCN Global News Summit in the Netherlands. Scholars in one\, working deadlines in the other\, and the same question underneath both. Who is reading this\, and what will they hear. \nWhat I learned from that room is that the people who need cultural intelligence the most are rarely the ones who use the term. They just know\, from experience\, that a story lands differently depending on where it is read. \n\nThe Road Here \nThe first room on this list that was not academic. A day after London\, the TFCN Global News Summit put the same argument in front of working journalists filing on deadline\, which is a harder audience for a framework than a conference panel. \nBefore this: the Philippine Studies Conference at SOAS\, the day before.  ·  Next stop: the Philippine Sociological Society conference in Davao\, October 2025. \nRelated reading: Connecting London and The Hague Through Stories and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n \n\nIf you want the whole method rather than one talk\, start with the C3 Bamboo Framework. It is set out in full in the book. \n Become a Nedizen \nNed speaks to universities\, newsrooms\, and companies. See Speaking\, or get in touch. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/tfcn-global-news-summit-culturally-intelligent-newswriting/ LOCATION:Virtual Session\, The Netherlands\, Netherlands CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/tfcn-global-news-summit-netherlands-2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250920T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250920T183000 DTSTAMP:20260823T075423Z CREATED:20260822T123800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075423Z UID:38996-1758387600-1758393000@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Restorying Heritage at the SOAS Philippine Studies Conference DESCRIPTION:Most of the SOAS Philippine Studies Conference was about objects. Bells\, coffins\, arrowheads\, gold. Things you can put in a crate and fly home. But my paper asked about something you cannot crate. \nFrom 19 to 21 September 2025\, I took part in the Philippine Studies Conference at SOAS University of London. SOAS is a British university that specialises in the study of Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East. The conference was in its ninth year\, and the 2025 theme was Repatriating Philippine Heritage. Also\, the programme listed me as Edgar N. Legaspi. \nMy paper was called “Restorying Heritage: A Culturally Intelligent Framework for Reclaiming Philippine Narratives.” It ran on Saturday\, 20 September\, in Panel 8 of the SOAS Philippine Studies Conference\, a session called Tools for Storytelling. I shared the panel with Reginald Zell\, who spoke on reconnecting the Aeta with dispersed material culture\, and with Francesca Inciong\, Jude Crisostomo\, and Farjina Razak\, who presented Weaving Stories. \n\nEvent Details \nConferencePhilippine Studies Conference 2025: Repatriating Philippine Heritage\, 19 to 21 September 2025 \nVenueKhalili Lecture Theatre\, SOAS University of London \nMy sessionPanel 8\, Tools for Storytelling. Saturday\, 20 September 2025\, 5:00 to 6:30 PM \nProgrammeFull conference programme \n \nWhat the paper argued\nRepatriation usually means the return of things. A bell taken as a war trophy. A carved coffin sitting in a European storeroom. Those cases are real\, and the conference gave them the attention they deserve. \nThat is the question I carried into the SOAS Philippine Studies Conference. But objects are not the only thing that leaves. Colonial rule\, media globalisation\, and migration also moved Filipino stories around\, and they moved the right to tell them. So my paper argued that storytelling itself can be a form of return. Not as a figure of speech. As a practice. \nSo the paper introduced the Culturally Intelligent Storytelling Framework\, then worked through cases from Philippine film\, animation\, and digital media. It also pushed back on export-driven storytelling\, which strips local context out of a story so it will sell in more markets. That model treats heritage as raw material. Instead\, the framework treats it as something living. \nWhy the SOAS Philippine Studies Conference mattered\nThis was two months before the book launched in Santa Monica\, California\, in November 2025. So the framework met its first hard audience in London\, not in a bookshop. \nStill\, the room was not a media room. It held scholars\, artists\, community organisers\, and museum professionals\, people who spend their working lives on questions of return. Bringing a storytelling framework into that room meant it had to hold up next to hard cases about physical objects with paperwork and provenance behind them. \n\nThe Road Here \nEurope for the first time. Four months after Diliman\, the SOAS Philippine Studies Conference put the work in front of scholars who study the Philippines from the outside\, in the city that holds a good deal of the material the paper was about. \nBefore this: the AUN-EEC conference at Ateneo\, August 2025.  ·  Next stop: the TFCN Global News Summit\, the very next day. \nRelated reading from the SOAS Philippine Studies Conference and after: Crossing Continents with Stories at SOAS and Restorying Heritage: Returning Meaning\, Memory\, and Voice. \n \n\nThe argument I brought to London runs deeper than one session. If you want the whole method rather than one talk\, start with the C3 Bamboo Framework. It is set out in full in the book. \n Become a Nedizen \nNed speaks to universities\, newsrooms\, and companies. See Speaking\, or get in touch. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/restorying-heritage-at-the-soas-philippine-studies-conference/ LOCATION:SOAS University of London\, Khalili Lecture Theatre\, London\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/soas-philippine-studies-conference-restorying-heritage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250828 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250830 DTSTAMP:20260823T075402Z CREATED:20260822T143523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075402Z UID:39039-1756346400-1756432799@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Storytelling in Climate Communication at the AUN-EEC Conference DESCRIPTION:Ten minutes to present\, five for questions. At the AUN-EEC Conference that was the whole slot. \nI spoke there on 28 August 2025. The conference ran on 27 and 28 August at Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City\, and also online. AUN-EEC stands for the ASEAN University Network programme on Ecological Education and Culture. Its 2025 theme was “Current Responses and Action in Climate Change Education.” \nMy paper was “Culturally Intelligent Storytelling in Climate Communication: A Southeast Asian Lens on Resonance\, Care\, and Representation.” At the AUN-EEC Conference it ran in Parallel Session 5 on day two\, under the heading Climate Change Education in Media and Classrooms. \n\nEvent Details \nConference2025 AUN-EEC Conference on Ecological Culture and Education. Current Responses and Action in Climate Change Education \nDates27 and 28 August 2025\, with a post-conference tour on 29 August \nVenueAteneo de Manila University\, Quezon City\, and online via Zoom \nMy sessionParallel Session 5\, Climate Change Education in Media and Classrooms\, 28 August 2025 \nConference chairDr Emmanuel Delocado\, Executive Director\, AUN-EEC \n \nWhat a storytelling framework was doing at a climate conference\nClimate communication usually reaches for data. Charts\, degrees\, deadlines\, projections. And none of that data is wrong. \nBut the data has been public for decades. Behaviour has not moved at the speed the numbers imply. People rarely act because a figure is large. They act when the thing at risk is theirs. \nSo that is a storytelling problem before it is a science problem. Southeast Asia makes the point sharply. The region carries heavy climate risk\, and its climate stories are often told from outside\, in the language of damage rather than in the language of the people living there. \nTen minutes at the AUN-EEC Conference is a discipline\nThe AUN-EEC Conference gave each paper ten minutes. That sounds punishing. But a short slot forces a decision that a long one lets you avoid. \nYou cannot walk a room through a whole framework in ten minutes. You can make one claim and show one thing. So most of the preparation was subtraction\, not writing. \nThat turned out to be useful practice. A framework that only works at full length is not much use to a creator on a deadline. If it cannot survive ten minutes\, it will not survive a pitch meeting either. \nThe AUN-EEC Conference sat between Tokyo in June and London in September. But it was the one that put the framework in front of climate educators rather than storytellers or scholars of culture. \n\nThe Road Here \nBack home\, but on somebody else’s subject. The AUN-EEC Conference put a storytelling framework in front of people who work on ecology and education\, which is a fair test of whether it is a method or just a way of talking about media. \nBefore this: the ACFEA conference in Hanoi\, July 2025.  ·  Next stop: the Philippine Studies Conference at SOAS in London\, September 2025. \nRelated reading: When Stories Meet Climate Science and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n \n\nIf you want the whole method rather than one talk\, start with the C3 Bamboo Framework. It is set out in full in the book. \n Become a Nedizen \nNed speaks to universities\, newsrooms\, and companies. See Speaking\, or get in touch. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/storytelling-in-climate-communication-at-the-aun-eec-conference/ LOCATION:Ateneo de Manila University\, Quezon City\, Metro Manila\, Philippines CATEGORIES:Academic & Education Events,Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/aun-eec-conference-2025-storytelling-in-climate-communication.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20250709T153000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20250709T170000 DTSTAMP:20260823T075551Z CREATED:20260719T233335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075551Z UID:38144-1752075000-1752080400@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Culturally Intelligent Storytelling at the 15th Biennial ACFEA Conference DESCRIPTION:ACFEA Conference · Past Event \nHanoi\, Vietnam · International Paper Presentation \nCulturally Intelligent Storytelling at the 15th Biennial ACFEA Conference\nAt the 15th Biennial ACFEA Conference in Hanoi\, Vietnam\, Ned Legaspi read his paper\, “Culturally Intelligent Storytelling: A Southeast Asian Lens on Narrative\, Identity\, and Engagement.” The host was the Asian Consumer and Family Economics Association. Also\, the trip was paid for in full by the UP Office of International Linkages. \n\n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\nThe presentation brought a Southeast Asian cultural lens into an international\, interdisciplinary conversation on consumers\, families\, identity\, engagement\, and contemporary social change. \n Conference DatesJuly 8-11\, 2025\n Paper PresentationWednesday\, July 9\, 20253:25 to 5:05 p.m.\n SessionSession 2AComprehensive Issues\n VenueULIS – Jonathan KS Choi Cultural CenterSunwah Building\, Vietnam National University\, Hanoi\n RoleConference Paper Presenter\n \n\n\nAcademic Milestone \nAccepted into the Official Conference Program\n Acceptance DateApril 6\, 2025\n Affiliation in ProgramUniversity of the Philippines\n \nFrom Submission to Presentation \nA Southeast Asian Framework Entered an International Conversation at the ACFEA Conference\nThe paper had to get in first. After that\, the ACFEA Academic Committee accepted it into the official program of the ACFEA Conference. It passed blind review\, so the readers did not know who wrote it. \nThen\, at the ACFEA Conference\, the paper sat beside research on money\, families\, technology\, and health. \nBecause of that\, a Southeast Asian view got a hearing. So it asked why people trust some stories and doubt others. \nIn the end\, a framework built from Southeast Asian experience was treated as research\, not as a local side note. \n\n\nConference Session \nSession 2A at the ACFEA Conference: Comprehensive Issues\n\nSession Information \nAn Interdisciplinary Panel\n\nSession Chair\nMaxwell Hsu\, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater\, USA\n\n\n\nNed Legaspi’s Paper \nCulturally Intelligent Storytelling: A Southeast Asian Lens on Narrative\, Identity\, and Engagement\nThe paper asked one question first. How does culture change the way a story is heard? So the answer was simple. A story can travel far and still stay close to the place it came from. \nAlso\, this talk was an early step. Later\, the ideas in it grew into the C3 Bamboo Framework. \n\n\n\nSession 2A Program \nFour Papers Across Storytelling\, Economics\, and Human Flourishing\n 01Culturally Intelligent Storytelling: A Southeast Asian Lens on Narrative\, Identity\, and EngagementEdgar Legaspi\, University of the Philippines\, Philippines\n 02Macroeconomic Forecasting in Large Bayesian VARs: The Case of TaiwanKuo-Hsuan Chin and Po-Chuan Liao\n 03Understanding Global Flourishing: A Preliminary Bibliometric ReviewMaxwell Hsu\, Paul Radich\, Christopher Jacobi\, and Nicoleta Acatrinei\n 04Back to the Basics: Homo Honorabilis vs. Homo EconomicusBernd Reiter\n \n\nConference Theme \nEconomic Issues Faced by Contemporary Consumers and Families\nThe ACFEA Conference looked at how big changes in society and in money affect families across Asia and beyond. So the program was wide. \n\nClimate Change\nFirst\, this theme looked at risk\, energy\, and spending. So the questions kept coming back to what families can afford when the weather turns. \n\n\nPopulation Aging\nSecond\, this one covered health\, savings\, and care at home. Because people live longer now\, family money has to stretch further. \n\n\nDigitalization\nThird\, this one covered artificial intelligence\, online money\, and online selling. Then it asked who gets left behind. \n\n\n\nInternational Conference Context \nHosted in Hanoi by ACFEA and Vietnam National University\nThe Asian Consumer and Family Economics Association ran the ACFEA Conference. Also\, the local host was the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts at Vietnam National University in Hanoi. \nBesides the hosts\, scholars came from Asia\, North America\, Europe\, and the Middle East. So the week was full of keynote talks\, panels\, country reports\, and open discussions. \nBefore Hanoi\, Ned had never brought culturally intelligent storytelling to an academic audience outside the Philippines. After the ACFEA Conference\, more rooms followed. \n Explore the C3 Framework\n Explore Speaking \n\nConference Hosts \n15th Biennial ACFEA Conference\n Co-HostsAlvin International Education Co. Ltd. and Association for China Economic Studies\n Venue AddressNo. 2 Pham Van Dong Street\, Cau Giay District\, Hanoi\, Vietnam\n Visit ACFEA\n \n\n\nTravel Grant \nUP OIL Paid For the Trip to Hanoi\nNed did not pay for this trip. Instead\, the University of the Philippines Office of International Linkages\, known as UP OIL\, gave him a travel grant. In fact\, it covered everything. Airfare\, hotel\, conference fee\, and food. \nStill\, he wants that said out loud. Many Filipino researchers write good papers\, of course. But fewer can pay for the plane ticket. So a grant is often the only reason a Filipino voice reaches a room like that one. \nSo without UP OIL\, this paper would have stayed home. \n\n\nEvent Archive \nA Southeast Asian Framework Presented on an International Stage\nIn short\, this page is a record of the day the work was read in Hanoi\, in front of scholars from many fields. Before that day\, the paper had never left the country. \nIt also shows where the work is going. First\, start with Southeast Asian experience. Then bring it into a wider room. \n View All Events\n Contact Ned\n \n\nShare This Story \n\nin\nf\n@\n\n•••\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Road Here \nTwo countries in three weeks. Three weeks after Tokyo\, the 15th Biennial ACFEA Conference took the work to Hanoi and put it in front of researchers who study families and household economics\, not media. So it was a different discipline\, but the same question about what travels. \nBefore this: the Philippine Studies Forum in Japan\, June 2025.  ·  Next stop: the AUN-EEC conference at Ateneo\, August 2025. \nRelated reading: CIS Research Presented in Vietnam and Why Southeast Asian Stories Do Not Need to Sound Western. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/culturally-intelligent-storytelling-at-the-15th-biennial-acfea-conference/ CATEGORIES:Conferences & Forums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/acfea-15th-biennial-conference-hanoi-vietnam-2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250621 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250624 DTSTAMP:20260823T075459Z CREATED:20260822T134620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260823T075459Z UID:39019-1750471200-1750643999@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Reclaiming Filipino Narratives at the Philippine Studies Forum in Japan DESCRIPTION:My first academic conference was in May\, in Diliman. Three weeks later I was in Tokyo\, at the Philippine Studies Forum in Japan. That one was my first outside the country. \nIt ran on 21 and 22 June 2025 at the Komaba Campus of the University of Tokyo. This was the thirtieth annual edition\, and it drew Filipinists from Japan\, the Philippines\, and beyond. A Filipinist is a scholar whose field is the Philippines. Taihei Okada\, a professor of area studies at the University of Tokyo\, chaired the steering committee. \nMy paper was “Reclaiming Filipino Narratives: The CIS Bamboo Framework for Culturally Intelligent Storytelling in Philippine Film and Series.” I presented it in person. \n\nEvent Details \nForum30th Annual Philippine Studies Forum in Japan\, APSFJ 2025 \nDates21 and 22 June 2025 \nVenueKomaba Campus\, The University of Tokyo\, Meguro\, Tokyo \nSteering committee chairTaihei Okada\, Professor\, Department of Area Studies\, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences\, The University of Tokyo \n \nWhy film and series\nIn Diliman I had argued the framework in general terms. But in Tokyo I put it against actual Philippine film and television\, because a framework that cannot read specific work is not a framework. It is a slogan. \nPhilippine series now travel on streaming platforms and reach viewers who have never set foot in the country. So the question I brought to the Philippine Studies Forum in Japan was simple. What survives the crossing\, and what quietly gets dropped? \nAnd the first word of the title carries weight. Reclaiming. Not adapting\, not translating for a foreign buyer. The premise is that the narrative already belongs to us\, so the work is holding on to it while the story travels. \nWhy the Philippine Studies Forum in Japan felt different\nAt home the audience shares the references. You can say the name of a show and the room already knows what you mean. \nThe Philippine Studies Forum in Japan was not that. The room held Japanese scholars who study the Philippines closely and Filipino researchers based in Japan. They know the material well\, but many of them know it from outside daily Filipino life. That is exactly the gap the framework is about. So it was a fitting place for a first outing abroad. They could follow the argument without needing the shorthand. \nAfter Tokyo the year kept moving. Diliman in May\, Tokyo in June\, then London in September\, then Davao and Los Baños in October\, then the book in Santa Monica in November. \n\nThe Road Here \nThree weeks after Diliman the work left the country for the first time. The Philippine Studies Forum in Japan was the first room where nobody was obliged to care about a Philippine example\, and that changed how much of the story I had to carry myself. \nBefore this: the UP Asian Center graduate conference\, May 2025.  ·  Next stop: the ACFEA conference in Hanoi\, July 2025. \nRelated reading: Why Southeast Asian Stories Do Not Need to Sound Western and From UP to Southeast Asian Narratives. \n \n\nIf you want the whole method rather than one talk\, start with the C3 Bamboo Framework. It is set out in full in the book. \n Become a Nedizen \nNed speaks to universities\, newsrooms\, and companies. See Speaking\, or get in touch. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/reclaiming-filipino-narratives-at-the-philippine-studies-forum-in-japan/ LOCATION:Komaba Campus\, The University of Tokyo\, Meguro\, Tokyo\, Japan CATEGORIES:Academic & Education Events,Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/apsfj-2025-philippine-studies-forum-japan-reclaiming-filipino-narratives.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20250531T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20250531T180000 DTSTAMP:20260822T194421Z CREATED:20260822T131405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260822T194421Z UID:39011-1748678400-1748714400@nedlegaspi.com SUMMARY:Bamboo Against the Current at the UP Asian Center Graduate Student Conference DESCRIPTION:This was my first academic conference. And the Graduate Student Conference 2025 was where the Culturally Intelligent Storytelling Bamboo Framework was presented in public for the first time. \nIt ran on 31 May 2025 at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium at the University of the Philippines Diliman. The Asian Center is the UP unit where I am taking my PhD in Philippine Studies. The theme was “The Philippines in a Multipolar World.” Patricio “Jojo” N. Abinales of the University of Hawaii at Manoa gave the keynote\, and Antoinette R. Raquiza served as reactor. \nMy paper was B4.4\, “Bamboo Against the Current: Culturally Intelligent Storytelling in a Multipolar Media World.” It sat in Panel B4\, Media and Communications\, in the ASEAN Hall of the Hall of Wisdom\, moderated by Karl Ian Cheng Chua. The other papers in the panel covered beat reporting\, how Gen Z sees mixed-race Filipino athletes on television\, and humour in Filipino-American life online. \n\nEvent Details \nConferenceGraduate Student Conference 2025. The Philippines in a Multipolar World \nDate31 May 2025\, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM \nVenueGT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium\, UP Asian Center\, University of the Philippines Diliman \nMy paperB4.4\, Panel B4 on Media and Communications\, ASEAN Hall\, Hall of Wisdom. Moderated by Karl Ian Cheng Chua\, PhD \n \nWhy bamboo\, and why against the current\nBefore the Graduate Student Conference 2025\, the framework lived in my notes. So the title had to carry the whole idea in five words. \nThe framework is built on bamboo. Bamboo bends hard in a storm and does not snap\, because the roots hold while the stalk moves. That is the behaviour I want from a story that has to travel. \nThen there is the current. In a media world with more than one centre of power\, the pressure on a creator is to standardise. Sand off the local detail. Match the format that already travels. Follow the current. \nBut my paper argued for the opposite move. Bend the telling\, not the roots. Because a story can change its shape for a new audience without giving up what it is about. \nThe room I started in at the Graduate Student Conference 2025\nAt the Graduate Student Conference 2025 I was in the room as a PhD student\, not as an author with a book to point at. My co-panellists were graduate students. My audience was faculty from my own programme\, and these are people who will read the dissertation later. So it was a specific kind of pressure. \nAfter that\, the framework moved quickly. In the six months that followed it was tested in five countries across three continents. Every room took a different part of it apart. \n\nThe Road Here \nThis is where the speaking work begins. Before the Graduate Student Conference 2025 the bamboo framework lived in a manuscript and in my own head. The academic rooms came first. The international ones followed\, and after them came the newsrooms and the company floors. \nNext stop: the Philippine Studies Forum in Japan\, June 2025. \nRelated reading: From UP to Southeast Asian Narratives and From CIS Bamboo to C3. \n \n\nIf you want the whole method rather than one talk\, start with the C3 Bamboo Framework. It is set out in full in the book. \n Become a Nedizen \nNed speaks to universities\, newsrooms\, and companies. See Speaking\, or get in touch. URL:https://nedlegaspi.com/event/bamboo-against-the-current-at-the-up-asian-center-graduate-student-conference/ LOCATION:GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium\, UP Diliman\, Quezon City\, Metro Manila\, Philippines CATEGORIES:Academic & Education Events,Conferences & Forums,Speaking Engagements ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nedlegaspi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/up-asian-center-graduate-student-conference-2025.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR