Programme

22 June, 2021
tuesday

Day One

9:30 am (UK)
4:30 pm (PH)

Introductions, Conference House rules 
Opening Remarks:
Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, Representative for Antique, Lone District

 

10:00 am (UK)
5:00 pm (PH)

Keynote Speaker:  Resil Mojares 

11:30 am (UK)
6:30 pm (PH)
Panel title: Pre-colonial Material Cultures
Panel Members: 

  • 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” 

1:00 pm (UK)
8:00 pm (PH)

Panel title: Visayan Representations from Colonial Archives
Panel Members: 

  • 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’

Art Talk: 

  • Roy Lu: Unang Balak ni Antonio Pigafetta
 

23 June, 2021
wednesday

Day Two

9:00 am (UK)
4:00 pm (PH)

Plenary Speaker:  Nicole Cuunjieng Aboitiz

10:30 am (UK)
5:30 pm (PH)

Plenary Speaker: Michael Cullinane

12:00 noon (UK)
7:00 pm (PH)

Panel title: Performing Local Histories  

Panel Members: 

  • 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
 

1:30 pm (UK)
8:30 pm (PH)

Art Talk: 

  • Raymund Fernandez : Looking for Nick Salumer
 

24 June 2021
thursday

Day Three

9:00 am (UK)
4:00 pm (PH)

Keynote Speaker Merlie Alunan

10:30 am (UK)
5:30 pm (PH)

Panel title: The Visayas through its Epic Narratives
Panel Members:

  • 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)”
  • Myfel Paluga : Personhood, cosmology, and ‘The Man With No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epic narratives

11:45 am (UK)
6:45 pm (PH)

Panel title: Visayan Literary Forms
Panel Members:

  • 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

12:30 noon (UK)
7:30 pm (PH)

Art Talk: 
Carlito Camahalan Amalla: Binanog
The UPCIS Bunraku Ensemble’s Si Felimon, A Bunraku Puppet Dance Directed by Dr. Jina Umali
Liby Limoso: BAGSANG, the naga icon in Sugidanun.

25 June 2021
friday

Day Four

9:00 am (UK)
4:00 pm (PH)

Plenary Speaker: Clothing the Bisaya ( Dr Stephanie Coo)  

10:30 am (UK)
5:30 pm (PH)

Panel title: Visayan Weaving Cultures  

Panel Members:

  • 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”

11:30 am (UK)
6:30 pm (PH)

Panel title: Colonial Representations of the Visayas   
Panel Members: 

  •  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”

1:00 pm (UK)
8:00 pm (PH)

Art Talks: 

Jandy Carvajal: Dances from the Heartlands: Illustrated Re-presentations of Folk Dances from the Visayas
Riza Romero: The Chaleco/Kimona with eight ties :An anamnesis of a childhood spent in a Visayas-based cult
Norberto Roldan: Incantations in the land of virgins, monsters, sorcerers and angry gods

Premiere Screening of Threaded Traditions: Textiles  of Panay Island is a journey through a Bisayan island where weaving is a part of life. The documentary surveys the making of piña and cotton textiles from plant to finished product – traditional clothing for special occasions and everyday wear – and the embroidery of the upland Panay Bukidnon. Directed and written by Luna Mendoza Film makers: Carlo Eliserio and RD Auto Produced by Adelaida Lim for Museum Foundation of the Philippines and HABI, The Philippine Textile Council Inc.

26 June, 2021
saturday

Day Five

9:00 am( UK)
4:00 pm (PH)

Keynote Speaker: Patrick Flores

10:30 am (UK)
5:30 pm  (PH)

Virtual Launch of Kaagi: Tracing Visayan Identities through Cultural Texts  Exhibit (SOAS Foyle Room, Brunei Gallery)

11:00 am (UK)
6:00 pm (PH)
Panel title:  (Post) Colonial Legacies in Art and Architecture  
Panel Members: 

  • 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

12:00 noon (UK)
7:00 pm (PH)

Panel title: The Visayas and Contemporary Art Practice  

Panel Members:

  • Mona Alcudia: The Peacock Chair
  • Marie Rose Arong: Film Festivals and the Reshaping of the 21st Century Cebuano Cinema

Art Talk: 

Palmy Marinel Pe – Tudtud
Babbu Wenceslao: Meditations
Premiere Screening of Lagang – A Documentary on Cebuano Shell Art

1:00 pm (UK)
8:00 pm (PH)

Art Performance:

Lutgardo Labad : Mangayaw 
Xo? Collective

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