THE CONFERENCE, ?VISIONS and Articulations: The Carolina U. Garcia Centennial Conference on the Teaching of Literature,? opens today and runs until Friday at the Tanghalang Teresita Quirino of the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School.

Organized by the UST Department of Humanities, UST Literary Society, UST Graduate School, UST Faculty of Arts and Letters, and UST Varsitarian, the conference (tel. 0917-5373168, 0920-9258639) pays tribute to the late well-loved literature professor Carolina U. Garcia, who was the mentor of several generations of writers and teachers, including National Artists.

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts is supporting the conference.

Keynote speaker is writer-teacher Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, vice president of the University of the Philippines and a former student of Garcia.

A roundtable discussion remembering Garcia as a ?Teacher?s Teacher? will feature Cirilo Bautista, Florentino Hornedo, Milagros Tanlayco, and Ophelia Dimalanta, also Garcia?s former students at UST.