10:00 am • Panel 8: Rituals and Performance

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

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