MARCH 20: PROGRAM
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08:15 am • Panel 7: Colonial Images and Narratives
8:15 AM – 9:45 AM
PANEL 7: COLONIAL IMAGES AND NARRATIVES
Revisiting the Boxer Codex: How the Filipino “Indio” within Early Modern Colonial Encounters Uncovers the Construction of the Filipino Identity
Jessica Nicole R. Manuel, University of the Philippines Diliman • Watch on YouTube
The Mingling of Asian and European Art Traditions in the Boxer Codex Illustrations
Clio Kimberly R. Tantoco, University of the Philippines Diliman • Watch on YouTube
Búyo in the Narratives of Early Spanish-Austronesian Intercultural Encounters
Mark Anthony B. Cabigas, Samahan ng mga Mag-aaral ng Kasaysayan, Philippine Normal University • Watch on YouTube
10:00 am • Panel 8: Rituals and Performance
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
PANEL 8: RITUALS AND PERFORMANCE
An Orosipon ni Ina: A Case for the Syncretic Origin of the Peñafrancia Festival in Bicol, Philippines
Al B. Rodriguez, Asian Center, UP Diliman
Colonizing Blood Covenants: Ritualized Friendship and Contractual Colonialism in Early Filipino-Spanish Encounters
Arthit Jiamrattanyoo, University of Washington (WITHDRAWAL)
Sayaw sa Ginunting: A Postcolonial Analysis of a Wedding Dance
Kyle Philip M. Ravena, University of the Philippines Diliman
12:30 pm • Panel 9: Place and Memory
12:30 pm–2:00 pm
PANEL 9: PLACE AND MEMORY
Indigeneity and Ethnicity of Suverna Bhumi (Burma): A View from Colonisers
Sumit Mondal, Central University of Gujarat and Sampayan Chakravarty, Delhi University
A Local View from Northeastern Taiwan to Understand Intercultural Encounters between Europe and Asia and their Indirect Effects
Li-Ying Wang, University of Washington
From Remembrance to Recreation: Memory of European Houses in Urban Landscape Manila (Philippines) and Saigon (Vietnam) during the Colonial Period
Nguyet Thi Minh Nguyen, Faculty of History, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University
02:15 pm • Keynote 3: Shifting the entrepôt paradigm: Local Agents and Indigenous Voices in the Making of Manila’s Global Connections, ca. 16th-18th Century
2:15 pm–3:30 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Shifting the Entrepôt Paradigm: Local Agents and Indigenous Voices in the Making of Manila’s Global Connections, ca. 16th-18th Century
Dr. Birgit Tremml-Werner, Linnaeus University, Sweden
In recent decades, a rich body of scholarship has demonstrated that Manila was more than just a trans-shipment port. Studies on far-reaching intra-Asian, Austronesian, and trans-Pacific connections have posed a challenge to narratives of both galleon-centricity and irrational colonial governance. Yet, there continues to exist an overemphasis on actors and processes reaching the Philippines from abroad, while both indigenous agency and colonial policies are rendered secondary to the course of events. However, from the sixteenth century onwards, a long list of ‘connectors’ including among many others ‘mestizo de sangley’-interpreters, provincial parish priests, colonial officials, indigenous chiefs, localized foreign residents, indigenous allies, beatas, and Spanish women, were at the heart of local and global projects. Zooming in on such local agents opens up new vistas for a nuanced global history of a connected archipelago.
03:45 pm • Panel 10: Warfare and Military History
