ASIA_NEWS: Philippine Studies Workshop

[Greg Young]

From: "ANU/Mike Poole" <mike.poole at anu.edu.au>
About: Philippine Studies Workshop


Graduate Students of the Asian Studies Annex
In conjunction with
The Philippine Studies Association of Australasia
&
The Asian Studies Association of Australia
are proud to announce

Philippine Currents 2001

A workshop and discussion about current research and issues in the
Philippines

To be held in the Staff Common Room, 4th floor Baldessin Precinct
Building

Friday 30 November - 9 am to 5 pm

Morning and Afternoon Tea will be provided.


Program

 
Opening Speech by Ron May


Colloquium - brief discussion of current research amongst participants


Panel 1. Politics and People


Prof. Mark Turner (University of Canberra) - Mindanao Update.


Lorraine Salazar (ANU) - EDSA 2 and 3


Nathan Quimpo (ANU) - 'Elite Democracy' and 'Democracy from Below'


Alan Robson (ANU) - Politics in Ilocos Sur


Panel 2. In Life and Death: Labour and its Representations


Yuko Kitada (ANU) - Ethnographic Study of Child Labourers in the
Philippines: Experience and Practice of Childhood.



Dr. Anne-Marie Hilsdon (Curtin/ANU) - What the Papers Say: Violence
against overseas contract workers



Panel 3. Here and There: Migration and the Community

Anne Colbourn (UWS) - Filipina Migration & Adjustment


Deirdre McKay (ANU) - Filipino translocalities: linking rural
communities to global cities


Shun Ono (ANU) - The Transformation of Philippine Nikkeijin Society


Panel 4. Genders and Transgenders in the Philippines



Emmy Teoh (Deakin University): Marilou Leviste Jacob - Feminist
Nationalist Playwright in the Philippines Peoples' Theatre.


Dr. Paul Mathews (UWS): Transgenders in the Philippines.


Please direct any inquiries to mike.poole at anu.edu.au



See you there!








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