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The Cordillerans of the north and the Moro of the south explore the ties that bind them, and how historically they waged unrelentingly fierce resistance to the Spanish and American colonizers. Salvador-Amores and Absari will focus on visual and material culture representation as continuing resistance in decolonizing archives
Explore Event: Cordillera and Moro People: Dis/EngagementFilipinos in Europe speak of their varied writing experiences with narratives about and from the home country, with or without nostalgia. Does the distance make them more objective? Does it make them more critical from a point of love?
Explore Event: Writing Far, Writing Home (1)How do Filipino writers in the diaspora build an audience? Who do they write for, and do they inherently desire to be read by their own country?
Explore Event: Writing Far, Writing Home (2)In a world riven by deep conflicts and wars, are there still delight and innocence in our children’s books?
Explore Event: Delight and Innocence in Filipino Children’s BooksA children’s book publisher who is first a reading advocate, a young adult author, and a publisher-writer of children’s books from Mindanao discuss how they creatively raise our children to be good citizens of our nation: critical, creative, and contributive to an equal and just future.
Explore Event: Stories We Build for Our ChildrenWhile myths are abstract narratives, they are entwined with the material world, with objects perceived to have powers. Derain shows how such objects insert themselves into daily lives; Recepcion locates the intersections of our mythologies and contemporary articulations of Filipino spirituality; and Tan, how urban legends crowd the imagination of city dwellers.
Explore Event: Materiality of Mythology
