CONFERENCE ROOM

22 June, Tuesday
Day One

WELCOME REMARKS

Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda
Representative for Antique, Lone District

KEYNOTE

Resil Mojares
Distinguished Professor of History and Culture
Philippine National Artist

PANEL SESSION 1

Pre-colonial Material Cultures

Jose Eleazar Bersales: “The Trade in Export Ceramics in the Late Pre-colonial Period (14th-16th Centuries CE): Reexamining the Evidence from the Visayas ”
Florina Capistrano-Baker: Before Christianity: Pre-colonial Gold from Central and Eastern Visayas
Felice Noelle Rodriguez: “The 16th Century Visayan Warrior and his Weapons”

PANEL SESSION 2

Visayan Representations from Colonial Archives

Voltaire Oyzon: Winaray without Tears: Some Notes on the transcriptions of Bisayan Terms and Phrases in Paul Lietz’s Historia of Alzina
Andrea Malaya Ragragio ‘An Anthropological Rethinking of the Sixteenth-Century Pintados’
Rey Carlo Gonzales ‘Reifying the “Visayan” in Filipino Martial Arts’

ARTIST PRESENTATION 6

Roy Lu: Balak

22 June, Wednesday
Day Two

PLENARY SPEAKER

Nicole Cuunjieng Aboitiz
Contested Sovereignties And the Meaning Of Violence In Samar and the Visayan Imperial Hinterland of the Philippine-American War

PLENARY SPEAKER

Michael Cullinane

Ang Kaagi sa mga Kaagi: Biographical Journeys through the History of Cebu: 1825-1885

PANEL SESSION 3

Performing Local Histories

Patricia Marion Lopez Abrera: Tracing local histories in southern Cebu through parish music and ritual
Cristina Martinez-Juan: Ang Ikaupat na Gubat : Anoy Datahan and Performing Eskayan Literacy
Kyle Philip Ravena: Sayaw sa Ginunting: A Postcolonial Analysis of a Wedding Dance

ARTIST TALK 1

Raymund Fernandez

22 June, Thursday
Day Three

KEYNOTE

Merlie Alunan
Professor Emeritus; Palanca, Philippine National Book Winning Poet

PANEL SESSION 4

The Visayas through its Epic Narratives

Myfel Paluga : Personhood, cosmology, and ‘The Man With No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epic narratives
Alicia Magos :”Panay Sugidanon (Epic Narratives) as Paintings of Panay Life and World View”
Early Sol Gadong: “A Look at the Significance of Numbers and Measurement to Visayan Culture through the Panay Sugidanun (Epics)”

PANEL SESSION 5

Visayan Literary Forms

Bea Martinez : Early 20th Century Cebuano Literature: Sites of Construction and Subversion
Shane Carreon: Between Balak and Poem: Publishing Conditions and Translation as Sites and Iterations of Resistance

ARTIST PRESENTATION 2

Carlito Camahalan Amalla

ARTIST PRESENTATION 3

Si Filimon Puppetry Performance: Directed by Dr. Jina Umali

ARTIST PRESENTATION 4

Palmy Pe-Tudtud

ARTIST PRESENTATION 5

Libby Limoso: Naga

ARTIST PRESENTATION 6

Babbu Wenceslao: Meditations

23 June, Friday
Day Four

PLENARY SPEAKER

Stephanie Coo
Clothing the Bisaya

PANEL SESSION 6

Visayan Weaving Cultures

Mitzi Marie Aguilar-Reyes: “The Patadyong: An Enduring Weaving Tradition of the Women of Miag-ao, Iloilo”
Christian Bacolod : “Gitangkis – Gibuwos – Gihabi: Ecology, History, and Creative Forms, of the Saguran Weave of Bohol, Philippines”‘
Chiara Martinez: “Jusi as Cultural Icon: A Transnational Biography”

PANEL SESSION 7

Colonial Representations of the Visayas

Lawrence Lacambra Ypil : Experimenting the Tropics: Towards a Reclamation of Postcolonial Photography
Lalaine Little : Colonial Representations of Design, Order, and Harmony in the Visayas
Mary Dorothy Jose: “Images of Visayan Women at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition: An Intersectional Feminist Approach”

ARTIST PRESENTATION 8

Jandy Carvajal: VisayanFolk Dance

ARTIST PRESENTATION 9

Riza Romero: The Chaleco

SPECIAL ARTIST PRESENTATION

Norberto Roldan: Incantations in the land of virgins, monsters, sorcerers and angry gods

PREMIERE SHOWING

Threaded Traditions: Textiles of Panay

22 June, Saturday
Day Five

KEYNOTE

Patrick Flores
Professor, UP Diliman; Curator, Vargas Museum

EXHIBIT LAUNCH

Curator Cristina Martinez Juan walks through the virtual exhibit and introduces some of the scholars and artists in a live discussion.

View the exhibit here:

https://kaagi.philippinestudies.uk/exhibition

PANEL SESSION 8

(Post) Colonial Legacies in Art and Architecture

Elgin Glen Salomon: Subaltern Resistance And Pastoral Theme In Art: A Visual Analysis Of The Santo Tomas De Villanueva’s Church Façade In Miagao, Iloilo
Jay Nathan Jore: Marking A Turn In Tradition: Raymundo Francia’s Illusionistic Ceiling Paintings In The Heritage Churches Of Cebu And Bohol