30/09/2024
Happening today! Part I of Day 4: Expressing Modernities will take place on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at Leong Hall Auditorium featuring the keynote address by Marian Pastor-Roces followed by three panels.
Panel 10: Literary Contact Zones of US-Philippine Relations features Charlie Samuya Veric, Luisa L. Gomez, and Maria Gabriela Martin of the Ateneo de Manila University. The discussions will explore the significance of the National Summer Writers Workshop, how commemoration practices reinforce Nick Joaquin’s literary greatness through biographical narratives, and the construction of self-reflexivity in Filipino-American literature.
Panel 11: Philippine Fiction in English and Cultural Knowledge will include presentations by Nathan Chan, Stanley Guevarra (University of Tokyo), and Stephen Seth Zagala. This panel will focus on Nick Joaquin’s use of crab symbolism in his novels to critique and articulate the complexities of postcolonial Philippines, Philippine-American relations in the 1950s through N.V.M. Gonzalez’s The Bamboo Dancers, and Luis Katigbak’s portrayal of Manila as a dynamic, culturally rich city in his literary works.
Finally, Panel 12: Literature in Spanish will feature presentations by Maria del Rocio Ortuño Casanova (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Wystan de la Peña (University of the Philippines), and Irene Villaescusa Illán (University of Amsterdam). The discussions will focus on how radio shifted Filipino poetry from Hispanic sentiment to the popularity of tango from 1922 to 1952, how early Filipino writers affirmed identity using Malakas and Maganda in response to Americanization, and Evangelina Guerrero Zacarías’ stories in The Excelsior, highlighting her nuanced portrayal of women’s roles amid US-Hispanic cultural influences.
Register for free at https://go.ateneo.edu/CC2reg
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore 125 years of Philippine-American encounters! Certificates of attendance are available upon request for onsite attendees.
See you there!
Or catch the live stream here: https://sites.google.com/ateneo.edu/contacts-continuities-2/youtube-live-stream?authuser=0
