Why does the Philippines keep flooding, who pays for it, and what can people here in the Bay Area do? Dr. Mahar Lagmay, Executive Director of the UP Resilience Institute and the scientist behind Project NOAH's national flood hazard maps, is coming from Manila to talk it through with two UC Berkeley scholars. Dr. Lisandro Claudio is a prize-winning scholar of Philippine political thought and economic policy, and Dr. Diana Martinez is an architectural historian of how the United States built its rule in the islands in concrete.
When: Monday, November 9, 2026, 4 to 5 PM Pacific
Where: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall (2594 Hearst Avenue). Stay after to meet the speakers at a reception in B100 Blum Hall, next door.
Online: Livestreamed. The link goes to everyone who RSVPs.
Cost: Free and open to everyone. Seating is limited to 149, so please RSVP early!
RSVP: https://gregor-posadas.github.io/lagmay-visit-hub/event/rsvp/
Event page: https://gregor-posadas.github.io/lagmay-visit-hub/event/
Co-hosted with PhilDev (Philippine Development Foundation), with support from Development Engineering at UC Berkeley, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Berkeley Club of the Philippines, and the Southeast Asia Program at Stanford's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.