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As Coo captures the politics of colonial clothing in the 19th century, Aguilar revisits the historical construction of Filipino nationhood and what then constituted the anti-colonial imagination.
Explore Event: Fashion, Politics, and the Anti-Imperial Imagination (with visuals)From the beginning of time, wars have been waged in the name of religion and race. How has the long, relentless experience of the world’s conflicts, engendered by colonialism and conquest, shaped the practice of our faith and forged our sense of nation? From the local millenarian rebellions to Muslim resistance and WW2 guerrilla engagement,…
Explore Event: War and Peace : Religion and RaceBooks are stories we tell visually in words and pictures, designed as works of elegant form and of substance that stimulates and disrupts. Books are cultural artifacts, and making them rises and falls with our creativity and resourcefulness.
Explore Event: Very Visual StoriesProgressive educators Almario and Ocampo share stories of communities taking into their own hands creative and unconventional ways of addressing the country’s literacy crisis. It takes a village to teach reading: through a wealth of stories— their very own and from afar, or from a time past, and in their own languages.
Explore Event: Reading is Everyone’s BusinessThis discussion looks at the rising popularity of a new genre of comics among young creators—works that document lived realities, whether seemingly ordinary or profoundly extraordinary.
Explore Event: Cartooning the Politics of EverydayA shy gay man, swallows a magical rock that transforms him into a flamboyant female superhero! Zsazsa Zaturnah is a beloved graphic novel by Carlo Vergara that is currently being adapted into an animated feature by Avid Liongoren.
Explore Event: Animating a Queer SuperheroWorld literature is often defined by major, influential novels from various countries that have been translated into English to reach a broader international audience. These works enter the global literary canon thanks to the courageous and essential work of translators—true literary superheroes.
Explore Event: Superheroes of World Literature
