Webinar: The Philippines and Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century
Date and Time: Sept 15, 2022 | 5pm – 6p.m (Philippine Time)
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Asia Society Philippines, together with Manila House, the Department of History of the School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University, and the College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University, brings “The Philippines and Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century.”
The program features a presentation by Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, Ph.D, The idea of Asia in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Filipino political thought and action followed by a question and answer segment for participants.
Dr. CuUnjieng Aboitiz’ presentation underscores the history of intellectual cross-pollination between the Philippines and its neighbors in Asia. Further, anchored on her first book, Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912, published by Columbia University Press in June 2020, charts the emplotment of ‘place’ in the proto-national thought and revolutionary organising of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Filipino thinkers. It analyses how their Pan-Asian political organising and their constructions of the place of ‘Asia’ and of the spatial registers of race/Malayness connected them to their regional neighbours undertaking the same work. Asian Place, Filipino Nation unearths precisely what ground the Philippine nation has built itself upon intellectually, excavating its neglected cosmopolitan and transnational Asian and Malay moorings in particular, in order to reconnect modern Philippine history to that of Southeast and East Asia, from which it has been historiographically separated.
Moderated by Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua, Ph.D.
Join the program online through Zoom on September 15th, Thursday at 5:00PM PHT.
*This program will also be shown live on Asia Society Philippines Facebook page (@AsiaSocietyPh)
Speaker Profiles
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, Ph.D is a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Supervisor in World History, and the Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Her broad research interests centre on global intellectual history and Southeast Asian environmental, cultural, and social history. Her current research analyses the co-constitution of class and relationships with the natural environment over the 19th to the 20th centuries in the Philippines.
Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua, Ph.D. received his Doctorate in Social Science from Hitotsubashi Univeristy. He was former Director of the Japanese Studies Program of the Ateneo de Manila University. He authored Covid-19 and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia Digital Responses to the Pandemic for Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies Covid Chronicles series, and Japanese Representation in Philippine Media as a section for The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. He has been an Asia Public Intellectual Junior Fellow, and is currently a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellow. He is part of the Editorial board of the Social Sciences Diliman and East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. He is a steering committee member of the Japanese Studies Association of Southeast Asia (JSA-ASEAN).