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

09:45 am • Panel 4: Race and Religion

9:45 am–11:15 am
PANEL 4: RACE and RELIGION

Chinos Indios as Sexual Deviants: Sodomy as Colonial Trope of Moral Panic in the Early Spanish Philippines
           Thomas David F. Chaves, University of the Philippines Diliman • Watch on YouTube
Christianity and Racism in Post-colonial Society: White Jesus, Black Piet and Normalized Racism in Ambon, Indonesia
           Hanry Harlen Tapotubun, Christian State Institution, Ambon, Indonesia
Religious Syncretism of Libad Apung Iru and the Kapampangan Pre-colonial Beliefs
           James Darwin N. Lagman, Mabalacat City College, Philippines • Watch on YouTube