Interactive Program
Foundations, Ferment, and New Frontiers of CCO:
Widening the Conversation
15-17 July 2026 | UPOU HQ, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines | via Zoom
Colloquium Programme
HYBRID
(30 minutes)
OPENING PROGRAM
Message from the Chancellor
Dr. Joane V. Serrano
UPOU Chancellor
Overview of the Colloquium
Dr. Jean A. Saludadez
DComm Program Chair
(1 hour and 30 mins.)
LECTURE 1
The Montreal School: How Communication Makes Organization
Dr. François Cooren
Professor
Université de Montréal, Canada
(30 minutes)
BREAK
PAPER PRESENTATIONS (ON-SITE)
(30 minutes)
PAPER 1
Innovation as "pakikipagkapwa": How Filipino Tech Startup Founders Constitute Innovation as Service
Raymond Calbay
UPOU DComm Alumnus
Mapua University
(30 minutes)
PAPER 2
Communicative Constitution in a Human-AI Hybrid Organization: A Case Study of AI Agents and a Filipino Freelancer's Case for a More-Than-Human CCO
Patrick Bayron Gattoc
UP Cebu
ONGOING DISSERTATION 1
When Slogans Speak: Non-Human Agency and Ventriloquism in the Communicative Constitution of Organizational Identity in School Website Slogans
Socorro Tuazon
UPOU DComm Student
ONGOING DISSERTATION 2
Mapping Leadership Narratives: An Actantial Analysis of Academic Union Communications
Robert Reyes
UPOU DComm Student
DISSERTATION PROPOSAL 1
Organizing an Aesthetics of Law through Communication
Alden Luazon
UPOU DComm Student
Colloquium Programme
HYBRID
(1 hour and 30 mins.)
LECTURE 2
The Communicative Fabric of Reality: Exploring the More or Less
Dr. François Cooren
Professor
Université de Montréal, Canada
(30 minutes)
BREAK
PAPER PRESENTATIONS (HYBRID)
(30 minutes)
PAPER 3
The Relational Epistemology of Indigenous Journalism: Knowing as Material Practices of Being with through Media and Mediation
Huey-Rong Chen
Chinese Culture University
(30 minutes)
PAPER 4
Lake Ecosystems and Emerging Pathogens: Materialities of Dialogue in Narrating Ecological Futures
Pamela Custodio
UP Los Baños
(30 minutes)
PAPER 5
Confessions Page as Spokesthing
Evelyn Perez
UPOU DComm Alumna
De La Salle University - Dasmariñas
(1 hour and 30 mins.)
LUNCH
(1 hour and 30 mins.)
LECTURE 3
Technologies and Other than Humans as Agents in Organizing: Ventriloquism as Research Approach
Dr. François Cooren
Professor
Université de Montréal, Canada
(30 minutes)
BREAK
PAPER PRESENTATIONS (ONLINE)
(30 minutes)
PAPER 6
Emergence and Evolution of Collective Actorhood in Platformed Organizing
Mia Leppälä
University of Tampere
(30 minutes)
PAPER 7
Constituted by Text, Misread by Culture: An Autoethnography of a Neurodivergent UPOU Student
Asia Kimberly Bandoles
UPOU BES student
(30 minutes)
PAPER 8
The Communicative Constitution of Organizational Boundaries: Conversations with Mensa Philippines on Artificial Intelligence
Daniel Renz Roc
UP Diliman
PROPOSAL PRESENTATIONS (ONLINE)
DISSERTATION PROPOSAL 2
More Than Family: Kinship Networks and the Communicative Constitution of a Philippine State University
Claerchille Julia Robin-Tan
UPOU DComm Student
DISSERTATION PROPOSAL 3
A Coin-Operated Internet Service as an Agent in Accomplishing Education in Disadvantaged Environment: A Ventriloquial Analysis
Felyn Mae Yap
UPOU DComm Student
DISSERTATION PROPOSAL 4
Communicative Identity Negotiation in a Japanese University: Constituting an All-Foreign Faculty Unit
Celeste Beboso
UPOU DComm Student
DISSERTATION PROPOSAL 5
A Communication-Constitutive Approach to LGU Crisis Response: Design and Evaluation of an Offline-Capable Workflow Automation System for Disaster Management in the Bicol Region
Juvelyn Salvador
UPOU DComm Student
DISSERTATION PROPOSAL 6
Communicative Constitution of Faith-Based Higher Education Institution: An Analysis of Leadership Communication
Sharlene G. Gotico
UPOU DComm Student
DISSERTATION PROPOSAL 7
Exploring Non-Human Agency in Organizing Sustainable Green Tourism: A Ventriloquial Analysis of Plans, Ordinances and Signages
Qiarrah Syrah Chavez
UPOU DSus Student
THESIS PROPOSAL
Evaluating Strategies for Supporting Informal Peer Interactions in Student Communities in Distance Education
Ayeza Pamintuan
UPOU MDE Student
Colloquium Programme
HYBRID
PAPER PRESENTATIONS (HYBRID)
(30 minutes)
PAPER 9
Restore-Restory: lntertextual Play of Restoration as a Communicative Mode of Organizing: A Postcolonial CCO Perspective on Grassroots Alternative Food Systems in Cebu
Crina E. Tañongon
UP Cebu
Taylor Mitchell
Columbia University
(30 minutes)
PAPER 10
Ethical Artificial Intelligence (Al) for Enhanced Crisis Management: A Governance Policy Roadmap for Philippine Higher Education
Julius Garcia
Technological University of the Philippines
(30 minutes)
PAPER 11
Communicative Practices of Women Information Technology Leaders: An Ethnomethodological Study of Podcast Narratives
Lee Troy Calimlim
UPOU MDC Alumnus
(30 minutes)
PAPER 12
Program Accreditation Report as a Non-Human Agent in Quality Assurance in Basic Education: A Ventriloquial Analysis
Jonathan C. Villasor, Jr.
UPOU DComm Alumnus
(30 minutes)
BREAK
PROPOSAL PRESENTATIONS (ONLINE)
(45 minutes)
ONGOING DISSERTATION 3
Exploring Non-Human Agency in Knowledge Management: A Ventriloquial Analysis of the Presence and Absence of KM Principles in the Organizing Process
Jed Cortez
UPOU DComm Student
ONGOING DISSERTATION 4
The Communicative Constitution Of Higher Education Institutions Through HRD Programs: A Ventriloquial Analysis
Ana Flor Adrias
UPOU DComm Student
ONGOING DISSERTATION 5
Constituting Sociotechnical Order in Digital Troubleshooting in Learning Management Systems: A Ventriloquial Analysis of Publicly Available Threads
Christian Dave Baclayon
UPOU DComm Student
(15 minutes)
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference and Publication at the Management Communication Quarterly (MCQ)
Dr. François Cooren
Professor
Université de Montréal, Canada
Dr. Matthew Koschmann
Editor in Chief
Management Communication Quarterly
CLOSING PROGRAM
Closing Remarks
Dr. Roberto B. Figueroa, Jr.
FICS Dean
Closing Notes
Dr. Jean A. Saludadez
DComm Program Chair
Lunch