Intellectuals, the Public Arena, and the Nation
The University of the Philippines is one with the Filipino people in celebrating the 150th birth anniversaries of Apolinario Mabini and Isabelo delos Reyes. Known as the the “Brains of the Revolution,” Mabini is one of the country’s most important intellectuals. Delos Reyes, the “Father of Filipino Socialism,” was an indefatigable journalist, folklorist, politician, and labor activist.
To celebrate their lives and legacies, the international and interdisicplinary conference, titled“Intellectuals, the Public Arena, and the Nation,” will be held on 22 to 24 September 2014 at the College of Arts and Letters Auditorium, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
Noted scholars and writers, Resil Mojares (University of San Carlos), Ramon Guillermo (University of the Philippines), and Merlinda Bobis (University of Wollongong) will keynote the conference. Bobis will also read from works her works and new book Dream Stories (Anvil) will be launched.
Close to 60 papers on wide-ranging disciplines will be presented on themes including people’s struggles; media and society; artists, writers, and musicians as intellectuals; archaeology and history of ideas; performance and public spaces; narratology and authorship; aesthetic traditions; pedagogy and university life.
Among the presenters are Joyce Arriola, Glecy Atienza, Arnold M. Azurin, Grace Barretto-Tesoro,Jose Buenconsejo, Patrick Campos, Wystan de la Peña, Alfredo Diaz, Jimmy Balud Fong, J. Neil Garcia, Eli Guieb III, Antonio Hila, Corazon Hila, Maria Alexandra Iñigo-Chua, Lisa Ito-Tapang, David R.M. Irving, Rene Javellana, Diosa Labiste, JPaul Manzanilla, Raul Casantusan Navarro, Choy Pangilinan, Michael Pante, Raul Pertierra, Rommel Rodriguez, Christian Tablazon, Judy Taguiwalo, Rolando Tolentino, and Jose Victor Torres.
The conference is organized by the College of Mass Communication, in partnership with the Archeological Studies Program, College of Arts and Letters, College of Fine Arts, College of Music, College of Social Science and Philosophy, and the School of Labor and Industrial Relations.
The conference is free for students, while a minimum conference fee of P3,000 will be charged for other participants.
Tickets to the opera Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka, on 23 September, at the Abelardo Hall, and Dulaang UP’s Ang Huling Lagda ni Apilinario Mabini, on 24 September, at Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater, may be availed as part of the conference fee, on a first-come, first-served basis.For more details, email [email protected], visitwww.facebook.com/intellectuals150, or call the Secretariat at 920 6864.
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Below is the list of speakers and their topics:
Panel 1 – Tracing Historical/Historiographic Links
September 22, 2014, 10:20 – 12:00
Arnold Molina Azurin
Mabini- the Revolutionary Link: From Burgos to Rizal, Bonifacio, Aguinaldo, Aglipay and de los Reyes
Kristoffer R. Esquejo
From July 4 to June 12: Tracing a Historian’s Quest and Role on the Change of Philippine Independence Day
Michael D. Pante
“Los Filipinos No Son Brutos!” The 1902 Anti-Rickshaw Campaign of the Union Obrera Democratica
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Panel 2 – Music and Nation Across History
September 22, 2014, 1:00 – 2:40 pm
David R.M. Irving
Music and the End of Empire in Late 19th Century Manila
Ma. Edelquinn Sy-Beltran
The Public School Teacher as an Intellectual: the Historicism and Nationalism of Raymundo Bañas (1894-1969)
Raul Casantusan Navarro
Apat na Taong Pagsikat ng Nakapapasong Araw: Musika sa Filipinas sa Panahon ng Hapon, 1942-1945
Lata Katrina T. Mendoza
Rappin’ Against the Hemegononic Bloc: The Sirena of Abe Dancel and Gloc-9
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Panel 3 – Discourse and / of Pedagogy
September 22, 2014, 1:00 – 2:40pm
Maria Teresa Tinio
The Osias-Bocobo Medium of Instruction Debate of 1916-17
Danim Majerano, Lilimay Manalo
Ang Bisa at Halaga ng Artifak sa Pagtuturo ng Lokal na Kasaysayan ng Pasig
Clod Marlan Krister V. Yambao
Estetika, Kontemporenidad at ang Art and Humanities General Education ng Universidad ng Pilipinas
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Panel 4 – Visualizing Shifting Traditions
September 22, 2014, 1:00 – 2:40 pm
Lorelei D.C. de Viana
Filipino Pioneers of the Architectural Avant Garde: Manila’s Break from Classicism
Romeo Galang, Jr.
The Shifting Terrain of Tolentino’s Visual Narratives
Rene B. Javellana
Lists and Manuals: Guide for Sustaining Tradition and Tracing a Visual Tradition
Rhayan G. Melendres
Of Museums, Kinalabasa, and Swatow Ware: Looting, Collecting and Exhibiting Illicit Antiquities in the Philippines
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Panel 5 – European Connections in Intellectual Discourse
September 22, 2014, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Wystan de la Peña
Bancarrota de Almas, Geokratos, the Filipina as Filipinas, and Filipinas as Pais Hispanico: Understanding Early American-Period Filipino Hispanista Discourse, 1898-1917
Edsel Basilla
Appropriating Gramsci: Searching a Neo-Gramscian in Renato Constantino
Richard Karl Deang
Foucalt et al.: “French Theory” in Philippine Intellectual Discourse
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Panel 6 – Constructing Fans and Icons
September 22, 2014, 3:00 – 4:30pm
Patrick Campos
Constructing Rizal as Cinematic Icon as Genesis of Filipino Film, College of Mass Communication
Karen Frondozo and Kristoffer Brugada
Ang Komodipikasyon at Komersalisasyon ng Isang Bayani
Roland Tolentino
Fans
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Panel 7 – Politics and Poetics of (Self-) Authorship
September 22, 2014, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Eulalio R. Guieb III
Pag-aakda/Authoring: Rights to Narratives and a Writer’s Critical Self-Reflexivity
Rommel Rodriguez
Chained Metaphors: The Artist as Political Prisoner
J. Neil Garcia
The Poet-Critic in Contemporary Philippines
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Panel 8 – Gender and Political Commitments
September 23,2014, 1:00 – 2:40 pm
Judy Taguiwalo
Birthing Creativity and Commitment: Women Militants in the Midst of the Anti-Imperialist People’s Struggle
Mae Caralde
Ang Maging Babae sa Pulang Larangan [To Become a Woman in the Red Front]: A Research-based Screenwriting Chronocling Women in the Contemporary Revolutionary Movement
Cherish Aileen A. Brillon
Nagmalitung Yawa in Between the Lines: A Feminist Reading of Humadapnon
David R. Corpuz
The Wedding Video and the Persistence of the Marriage Model, Romantic Love Myth and Heteronormativity in Filipino Same-Sex Relationships
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Panel 9 – Situating Intellectuals, Grounding Experience
September 23, 2014, 1:00 – 2:40 pm
Linda Grace Cariño
From the (Kafagway) Ground: A Case Study of the Continuing Cariño Case Over Camp John Hay
Jimmy Balud Fong
Ibaloys Reclaiming and Asserting their Presence in Baguio: The Role of Intellectuals
Doris Wilson
Theater Performance as Public Arena for Discourse on Today’s Indigenous Youth, Elders and Culture: The Dulaang UP Baguio Experience, Department of Communication
Scott Magkachi Saboy
A Native Re/Turns: An Autoethnographic Musing
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Panel 10 – Public / Private Constructions of Stars
September 23, 2014, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Karen Lee V. Panela
Physical Humor and Vic Sotto’s Persona as the Paramour in Dobol Trobol and Pak! Pak! My Dr. Kwak
Alfredo Diaz
Kris Aquino: Private as Public
Christina Stella Cruz Ustaris
Bongga Ka Guy: Constructing Nora Aunor as a Philippine Gay Icon
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Panel 11 – Journalism and Knowledge Formation
September 23, 2014 3:00 – 4:30
Jose Victor Torres
The Business of Truth: Notes on the Rise of the Philippine Newspaper Business During the American Colonial and Commonwealth Period (1900-1941)
Maria Diosa Labiste
Folklore and the Insurgent Journalism of Isabelo de los Reyes
JPaul Manzanilla
Malikhaing Pakikisangkot: Intellectuals and Democratic Space in the Post-EDSA Dispensation
Anthony Divinigracia
Campus Journalism at the Sidelines of Philippine History: The Case of the Varsitarian
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Panel 12 – Musicians as Intellectuals
September 24, 2014, 10:20 – 12:00nn
Arwin Tan
Bridging the Gap in Cultural Capital: Jose Zamora’s Tagalog Translation of a Spanish Music Theory Book “ Breve Explicacion de los Principios Elementales de la Musica” from Late 19th Century Manila
Jose S. Buenconsejo
Jose A. Estella’s Music Archive: A Cultural History of Musicology and Filipinism in the Music of Manila’s Public Sphere from 1890s
Maria Alexandra Inigo-Chua
Musical Representations of a Marginal Intellectual at the Time of the Philippine Revolution: A Study of Selected Piano Works of Julio Nakpil
Antonio C. Hila
Francisco Santiago: Utilizing Filipino Folk Music in the Academic Art Music Genre
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Panel 13 – Narrating (Public) Absence/Presence
September 24, 2014, 1:00 – 2:40pm
Kristoffer Brugada
Kanya-kanyang Maynila, Iisang Maynila
Jaimee Faith J. Santos
Resurfacing the Disappeared: The Author in Fish-Hair Woman by Merlinda Bobis
Christian Tablazon
Banwa: Notes Towards a Narratology of Absence
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Panel 14 – Archaeology and its Representations
September 24, 2014, 1:00 – 2:40 pm
Grace Barretto-Tesoro
The Oriental Ceramics Society of the Philippines and Philippine Archaeology
Jack G.L. Medrana
Selling Banaue: Material Culture in the Marketing of a Tourist Destination
Dawn Iva Satumbaga
Archaeology and Media in the Philippines
Melodina Cruz
Representations of Archaeologists in Japanese Anime
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Panel 15 – Contesting Screens
September 24, 2014, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Marie Louise Antoinette Sioco
Indiana Jones: The Contributions of the Film Series in the Field of Archaeology
Joyce L. Arriola
Visual Artists as Literary Artists: Fantasy and Folklore in 1950s Cinematic Adaptations
Rosemarie Roque
Pelikulang Independiyente at Kolektibong Alaala: Ang AsiaVisions at ang Pagsibol ng Sineng Bayan noong Dekada ’80
Choy Pangilinan
Indie at Pakikibaka: Kritikal na Pagsiyasat sa Imahen ng Pakikibaka at Bansa sa Ilang Piling Pelikulang Indie
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Panel 16 – Performance and Public Spaces
September 24, 2014, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Glecy Atienza
Ang Maging GANAP
Lito Casaje
Convergence of Artaud’s and Grotowski’s Theatrical Expressions vis-à-vis Philippines’ Holy Week Rituals and Plays
List Ito-Tapang
Effigies as Allegories of Nation: Performativity in Philippine Protest Art
Corazon Hila
Revelry as a Medium for National Issues Awareness: The Case of the UP Lantern Parade
