Conference Schedule
With the exception of the keynote panel, all events will be held virtually via Zoom. RSVP via Eventbrite to receive the link and password for each event. The keynote panel will be available via public livestream on the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center’s Facebook page. All times are listed in U.S. Eastern Standard Time.
Please visit the “Bios + Abstracts” page for full participant bios and paper abstracts.
Friday, April 23
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST
Panel 1: “Colonial Knowledge Production and the Politics of Memory”
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Presenters:
– Raymond Gandara, CSU Fullerton, “Imperial Roads, “Imperial Pastoral,” and Imperial Memory in the U.S.-Occupied Philippines”
– Ian Harvey A. Claros, Ateneo de Manila University, “Dumdum, Tigaman, and Andoy: The Concept of Memory in Visayan Language and Culture”
– Sarah Day Dayon, University of Michigan, “Black and Filipino Intellectual Thought and Anti-Colonial Education: A Comparative Analysis of Carter G. Woodson and Renato Constantino’s “Miseducations”
Moderator: Emilie S. Tumale, NYU
1:oo PM – 2:30 PM EST
Panel 2: “Decolonization and Trans/Oceanic Approaches”
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Presenters:
– Kale B. Fajardo, University of Minnesota, “Native Seamen, Bangkas (Boats), Seafaring, and Turtles: Decolonizing The First Circumnavigation and Surviving the Current Climate Emergency”
– Brenda Rodriguez Alegre, University of Hong Kong, “From Asog to Bakla to Transpinay: Weaving a Complex History of Transness and Decolonizing the Future”
Moderator: Joseph Ruanto Ramirez, Claremont Graduate University
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
Keynote Panel: “Reflections on 500 Years of Navigation and (Anti) Conquest”
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Public Livestream of Keynote Panel presented by NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
Panelists:
Dr. John D. Blanco, University of California at San Diego
Dr. Oona Paredes, University of California at Los Angeles
Dr. Vicente Rafael, University of Washington
Moderator: Dr. Theo Gonzalves, Smithsonian Museum of American History
Saturday, April 24
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST
Panel 3: “Cultural Production and Colonial Legacies”
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Presenters:
– Isidora Miranda, Vanderbilt University, “Race, Religion, and the Politics of Representation in the Tagalog Zarzuela Minda Mora (1904)”
– Jose Santos P. Ardivilla, UP Diliman College of Fine Arts, “Tropical Baroque and the Two Christophers”
– Danim Majerano and Marely P. Fos, Kapitolyo High School, “Statue of the Sentinel of Freedom from Mactan: A Visual Politics”
Moderator: Erica Feild, NYU
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST
Panel 4: “Deconstructing Filipinx American Identities”
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Presenters:
– Karin Louise Hermes, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, “Deconstructing Diasporic Nationalisms to “the Philippines” for Anarchipelagic Futures”
– Marc Johnston Guerrero and Lisa Combs, Ohio State University, “At Home or On Tour? Mixed Filipina/o American Reflections on Culture and Identity ”
Moderator: Michael Menor Salgarolo, NYU
Photo credit: “Lapu-Lapu Monument, Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines” by Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D. is marked with CC0 1.0