Join the Global Philippine Studies Forum at NYU and Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies for the keynote panel of the Mactan500 Virtual Conference, Friday, April 23 at 5 PM. The panel, “Reflections on 500 Years of Navigation and (Anti)Conquest,” will be moderated by Dr. Theodore S. Gonzalves (Curator, Smithsonian Museum of American History) and will feature presentations by Drs. John D. Blanco (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, UCSD), Oona Paredes (Assistant Professor of Asian Languages & Culture, UCLA), and Vicente Rafael (Professor of History, University of Washington).
This event is sponsored by Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, the NYU History Department, the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies at UC Davis, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU, and the NYU Portuguese and Spanish Students Association.
*This event will be publicly live-streamed on the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center’s Facebook page. RSVP on Eventbrite for more information and updates on the Mactan500 Virtual Conference.*
Presentations:
Dr. John D. Blanco, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, UCSD, “A God Is Weeping: Reinterpreting the Conquest”
Dr. Oona Paredes, Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA, “Death on the Beach: ‘Decolonizing’ Mactan’s Pericolonial Moment”
Dr. Vicente L. Rafael, Professor of History, University of Washington, “Duterte’s Phallus: On the Aesthetics of Authoritarian Vulgarity”
Moderator: Dr. Theodore Gonzalves, Curator, National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institute)
[Full Bios and Abstracts Available on the Bios + Abstracts Page]