Schedule of Panels and Events

Venue: Escaler Hall

Opening Ceremonies

• 0830-0900 Onsite Registration

• 0900-0945 Opening Ceremonies, with a performance of Rodolfo Cornejo's Hail, Democracy

First Series: Shaping the Subject

• 0945 Call to order and introduction to the speaker

• 0950-1100 Keynote address (with open forum) - Mary Racelis

• 1100-1230 Panel 1: Dynamics of Religion / Clash of Spirits

  • “‘Surrin Ninyo ang Lahat ng Bagay at Panghawakan ang Mabuti’”: Receptive Ecumenism and the Renewal of Aglipayan Canon Law” by Joseph B. Johnson, JCL, STB (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • “American Jesuits in the Philippines between Mission and Ideology: Francis X. Byrne, SJ—First American Jesuit Rector of the Ateneo de Manila University (1921-1925)” by Antonio de Castro, SJ (Ateneo de Manila University)

• 1400-1530 Panel 2: The Uses and Functions of English

  • “Linguistic Creativity in Philippine Englishes” by Isabel P. Martin, PhD (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • “Writing from a Colonized English” by Cyan Abad-Jugo, PhD (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • “English in Philippine Higher Education” by Kingsley Bolton (University of Stockholm)

• 1530-1700 Panel 3: American (Mis)education and Colonial Logics

  • “The Racial-Ideological Roots of Philippine Identity-Building in Schools” by Rowena Azada-Palacios (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • “(Mis)educating the Empire: American Epistemic Repression and Their Effects” by Kelly Louise Rexzy Agra (University College Dublin / University of the Philippines–Baguio) 

  • “An Uneasy Positionality: Reflections on Philosophical Research in the Field” by Pamela Joy Mariano Capistrano (Ateneo de Manila University)

Venue: Escaler Hall

• 0900-0930 Onsite Registration

• 0930-1100 Keynote address (with open forum) - Felice Prudente Sta. Maria

• 1100-1230 Panel 4: Food, Hygiene, and the Environment

  • “The Ecologies of Freezing: The Cold Storage and Ice Plant, Urban Health, and Environmental Considerations in American Manila” by Niccolo Paolo P. Ludovice (Division of Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

  • “Hygienic Death: Transformation of Burial Practices during the American Period” by Erik Akpedonu (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • “The Industrialization of Philippine Food Production: The Role of the American Multinationals” by Roberto N. Galang (Ateneo de Manila University)

• 1400-1530 Panel 5: Mobility and Transportation

  • “The Measure of Mobility: Private Roads and Public Transportation in American Colonial Davao, 1898-1941” by Patricia Irene Dacudao (Ateneo de Manila University) 

  • “Philippine Airlines and the Philippine-American Nexus” by Meynardo P. Mendoza (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • “Modernization’s Frustration: The Motorization of Manila’s Urban Transport System, 1898-1941” by Michael D. Pante (Ateneo de Manila University)

• 1530-1700 Panel 6: Bureaucratic Perceptions of the Environment and their Dangers in American Colonial Philippines 

  • “'Good' Fire, 'Bad' Fire: Bureau of Forestry and Its Policy towards Indigenous Agricultural Practices in the Philippines 1900–1940” by Greg Bankoff (Ateneo de Manila University) 

  • “Destroyer of Fish: Alvin Seale, American Ichthyology, and the Introduction of Gambusia to Philippine Waters” by Brian Paul Giron (Indo-Pacific Research Center, Murdoch University)*

  • “Men and Their Beasts: Medical Research and Animal Experiments in American Colonial Philippines” by Bianca A. Claveria (Institute of History, Leiden University)*

  • “Colonizing Risks: Disasters and the Colonial State in Early Twentieth-Century Nueva Ecija” by Diego F. Rebato (Ateneo de Manila University)

Venue: Rizal Libary - Batch '83 Room (2nd Floor)

• 1300 Onsite Registration

• 1400 Film Showing - Culion (with talk and forum afterward)

• 1600 Tour of the Rizal Library Special Collections exhibit

Venue: 5F Rizal Library

• 0900-0930 Onsite Registration

• 0930-1100 Keynote address (with open forum) - Ambeth Ocampo

• 1100-1230 Panel 7: Special Collections of the Rizal Library

  • • • • “Filipino Women as Pensionados (Scholars) during the American Colonial Period” by Hilario S. Balderas Jr. (Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings) 

        • “Snapshots of the Past: Exploring Philippine Arts, Culture, Literature, Media, and Music during the American Period through the Rizal Library's Filipiniana Collection” by Bernadette M. Garilao (Filipiniana Collection and Indexing Pool)

        • “Shared Histories, Shared Lives: Resources on Philippine-American Relations in the American Historical Collection” by Russel N. Castro (American Historical Collection)

        • “Colonial Chronicles: The American Experience in the Philippines through Pardo de Tavera’s Special Collections” by Rosalyn Santos Diño (Pardo de Tavera Library and Special Collections)

        • “Headlines under the Stars and Stripes: Philippine Newspapers during the American Colonization” by Tommy dela Cruz (Microform and Digital Resources Center)

• 1400-1530 Panel 8: The Cold War in the Philippines 

  • “Carter, Human Rights, and the Marcos Regime” by Meynardo P. Mendoza (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • “’The Balance of Terror’: The Cold War and the US Bases Question in the Making of the 1987 Philippine Constitution” by Francis C. Sollano (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • “The Cold War and America's International Development Agenda: Ford Foundation and the Rizal Library” by Nikki B. Carsi Cruz (Ateneo de Manila University)

    • 1530-1700 Panel 9: Issues of Health and Nutrition in the Early American Period 

      • “Transplanting Modernity through Medical Supplies: Transport of Medical Technology in the Philippine-American War and Its Legacy in Colonial Medical Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century Philippines, 1899-1920” by Alvin D. Cabalquinto (Ateneo de Manila University)

      • “The Epidemiology of War: Infectious Diseases and the Philippine-American War” by David O. Lozada III (Ateneo de Manila University)

      • “Dr. Pedro A. Rodriguez and the Zamboanga General Hospital, 1918–1945” by Felice Noelle Rodriguez (Universidad de Zamboanga)

      • “The Nutrition and Hygiene in the Early American Period Public Schools, 1900-1012” by Olivia Anne M. Habana (Ateneo de Manila University)

      • “Teaching Girls Not How to Cook, But How to Live: Gendered Nutritional Discourse in American Colonial Cookbook-Textbooks, 1911-1925” by Sarah Jessica E. Wong, MA Cand., (Ateneo de Manila University)

Venue: Leong Hall Auditorium

• 0900-0930 Onsite Registration

• 0930-1100 Keynote address (with open forum) - Marian Pastor-Roces

• 1100-1230 Panel 10: Literary Contact Zones of US-Philippine Relations

  • “The Making of the Twentieth-Century Filipino Writer in English: The National Summer Writers’ Workshop and the Rise of Creative Writing in the Philippines” by Charlie Samuya Veric  (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • “Cultures of Commemoration and Posthumous Literary Biographies of Nick Joaquin” by Luisa L. Gomez  (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • “‘I Read, Therefore I Am’: The Construction of Self-Reflexivity in Filipino-American Literature” by Maria Gabriela Martin (Ateneo de Manila University)

• 1400-1530 Panel 11: Philippine Fiction in English and Cultural Knowledge 

  • “Dust and Crabs: Nick Joaquin’s Zoopeisis of Postcolonial  Philippines” by Nathan Chan 

  • “Filipino-American Intimacy: Revisiting N. V. M. Gonzalez’s The Bamboo Dancers” by Stanley Guevarra (University of Tokyo)

  • “MTV Cities: The Translocal, Mobile, and Virtual City in Luis Katigbak” by Stephen Seth Zagala

• 1530-1700 Panel 12: Literature in Spanish

  • “Tuning to Tango: Radio's Influence on Filipino Poetry in Spanish (1922-1952)” by Maria del Rocio Ortuño Casanova (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) 

  • “El fuerte y  la Bella: Locating Malakas and Maganda in Philippine Literature in Spanish” by Wystan de la Peña (University of the Philippines)

  • “Between the Mall, the Street and the House: Desire, Action and Boredom in the Stories of Evangelina Guerrero Zacarías” by Irene Villaescusa Illán (University of Amsterdam)

• 1700-1730 Launch of Notas de Viaje (Travel Notes) and Hispano-Filipino Literate Culture and the Challenge of Modernity

VENUE: Leong Hall Auditorium

• 1000 Onsite Registration

• 1100-1230 Panel 13: Songs and Sounds of the Commonwealth and Beyond

  • “Ang Wika ng Kundiman” by Michael M. Coroza (Ateneo de Manila University) 

  • “On and Around the Stage: Changes in the Soundscape of Moro-Moro Theater in the American Period” by Nikki B. Carsi Cruz (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • "Gen Zs and Jazz" by Antonio Cayabyab (Ateneo de Manila University)

• 1400-1530 Panel 14: The Visual Arts

  • “Racial Feudalism” and the American Occupation of the Philippines” by Jovino de Guzman Miroy (Ateneo de Manila University) 

  • “Against U.S. Economic Aggression, Embracing Indigenous Values for a Sustainable Future: A Comparative Study of Art Projects in Baguio and Naoshima” by Midori Yamamura (CUNY Graduate Center)

  • “Passages to Modernism in Pre- and Post-war Philippine Visual Arts” by Victoria T. Herrera (Ateneo Art Gallery)

• 1530-1700 Panel 15: Literary Traditions and Identity

  • “Ang Panahon, Espasyo, at Uring Panlipunan ng Piling Nobelang Pangkasaysayan sa Wikang Tagalog, 1905-1927 (Time, Space, and Social Class in Select Historical Novels in Tagalog, 1905-1927)” by Christoffer Mitch C. Cerda (Ateneo de Manila University)

  • “Literary Criticism in Spanish about the Inchoate Philippine Literature in English: The Ideas of Enrique K. Laygo (1897-1932), Journalist and Writer” by Beatriz Alvarez-Tardio (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)  

  • “Mr. and Mrs. English Travel with a Rattan Suitcase” by Luis H. Francia (New York University)

  • "The Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization of the ‘Filipino American’" by Oscar V. Campomanes (Ateneo de Manila University)

VENUE: Dulaang Onofre Pagsanghan

• 1730-1800 Closing Ceremonies

• 1800-1930 Devised Reading of Pilipinas circa 1907 by Nicanor G. Tiongson