Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Asian Center Hosts ‘A Conversation with Vince Rafael’

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The UP Asian Center and AC Balangay, the graduate students organization of the Asian Center, hosted “From Contracting Colonialism to the Promise of the Foreign: Conversations with Vince Rafael” on Sept. 24, Tue, 5:30 pm-7:00 pm at the ASEAN Hall of the GT-Toyota Asian Cultural Center at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman.

The event is an informal gathering wherein Professor Rafael will discuss his work(s) and his observations on the current political and academic developments in Philippine Studies. P

Vicente L. Rafael, PhD is Professor at the Department of History, University of Washington. Currently Visiting Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman where he teaches Comparative Colonialism, he finished his MA and PhD in Southeast Asian History at Cornell University. His research interests include postcolonial history, comparative nationalism, language and power, translation, and religious conversion.

Professor Rafael has published: The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines (2005); White Love and Other Events in Filipino History (2000); and Contracting Colonialism:Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule (1988).