The Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC), with the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities of Ateneo de Manila University and The World Bank, would like to invite the community to the forum, A Crisis of Their Own: Monitoring Crisis from the Margins, which will be held on 15 September 2011 (9:00 am-12:30 pm) at the Social Sciences Conference Rooms 1 and 2, Social Sciences Building. Organized to mark the 51st anniversary of the founding of IPC, the forum will present findings and insights from two IPC-World Bank studies: the first is a longitudinal qualitative monitoring of the effects of the 2008 financial crisis on selected sectors of the Philippine economy (e.g., households dependent on overseas/domestic remittances, returned overseas workers, smallholder farmers/workers on coconut plantations, formal sector employees in export-dependent industries, and informal workers in urban areas depending on domestic demand for goods and services). The second is a social impact monitoring study of poor communities in Metro Manila and Northern Luzon two years after Ondoy and Pepeng. Fifty years, fifty memories, fifty stars of the IPC. The second event to celebrate IPC’s 51st anniversary is a fellowship lunch on 16 September. To be previewed on this occasion are some of the memoirs of IPC research and  administrative staff, Visiting Research Associates, and students of the IPC-DSA scholarship program who have  written for the planned anthology to commemorate IPCs 50 years of  social science research. Dr. Ricky Abad and Ms. Cynthia Veneracion are overseeing the work on this book. For inquiries and reservations, please contact IPC (Tel: 2-4266067 ext 213; Email: ipc@admu.edu.ph).