Daniel Boone Schirmer had a lasting impact on the movement in the United States to oppose martial law in the Philippines from 1972 until his death in 2006. He was active in several AMLM institutions such as the Philippines Information Bulletin, Friends of the Filipino People, and the Philippines program of the Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change.

Selected abstracts from the UCLA – UC Berkeley Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies, Friday, January 30 - Sunday, February 1, 2009, 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Campus. A forum for presentations of new research and the exchange of ideas to create fresh conversations between scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian languages.