May 11, 2019

 7:30AM – 8:30AM | Check In

Lobby of Everson Hall

 

 

 

8:30AM – 9:00AM | Introduction/Opening Remarks

Everson Hall

Wayne Jopanda, Associate Director of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies

 

Dr. Robyn Rodriguez, UC Davis Asian American Studies,  Director of the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies

 

 

 

9:00AM – 10:00AM | Keynote Speech

Everson Hall

 

Dr. Martin F. Manalansan IV, Author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora and the co-editor of Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora, Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America and Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism. He has also won many awards such as the Excellence in Mentorship Award in 2013 from Association of Asian American Studies and the Crompton-Noll Award for the best LGBTQ essay in 2016 from the Modern Language Association.

 

 

 

10:00AM – 11:15PM | PANEL SESSION 1

 

Panel 1A Filipinx Lives, Imagining, & Hxstory  | Hart 3201 | Discussant: Dr. James Zarsadiaz, University of San Francisco

• Imaging American Empire in the Philippines: Political Cartoons of the Philippines and America during the American Period

  • Carlo Tuason, University of Southern California

• Transliterated Medievalisms: Understanding the Postcolonial Philippine 'Middle Ages

  •  Stefanie Matabugo, University of California, Los Angeles

• Manilamen in Louisiana: Migration and Unfreedom at Bayou St. Maló

  • Michael Salgarolo, New York University

 

WORKSHOP 1B Zoot Suit Funk Riot: Legacies of Filipino American Dance & Decolonization | Hart 1150

• Mark Villegas, Franklin & Marshall College

 

Panel 1C Filipinxs, Mental Health, & Wellness | Hart 3114 | Discussant: Dr. Lily Villaraza

• Addressing Filipino-American Mental Health in Solano County

  • Mauricio Torres, UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities

• Exploring Mental Health, Help-seeking, and Coping Strategies for Filipinx College Students 

  • Ruben, UCLA

  • Paul Mendoza,  UCLA

• Supporting API Students Who Have Disabilities: An Autoethnography

  • Linda Nguyen, UC Davis

 

WORKSHOP 1D How to Publish Culture Via Children's Stories | Hart 1130

• Justine Villanueva, Children's Book Author and Publisher (Sawaga River Press)

• Christina Newhard, Designer and Publisher (Sari-Sari Storybooks)

 

 

 

11:35PM – 1:00PM | LUNCH

Everson Hall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:15PM – 2:30PM | PANEL SESSION 2 

 

PANEL 2A Dismantling Empire & Postcoloniality | Hart 3201 | Discussant: Lucy Burns

• Filipinx Afterlives: Life After Death

  • Giselle Cunanan, Indiana University Bloomington

• Postcolonial Education and the Filipino Diaspora: A Critical Dialogue on a Global Course of Study

  • James Fabionar, University of San Diego

• Bringing the Revolution Home: Filipino Urban Poor Women, “Neoliberal Imperial Feminisms,” and a Social Movements Approach to Domestic Abuse

  •              Huibin A. Chew, Mellon / ACLS Public Fellow

 

WORKSHOP 2B Making History and Getting Personal through Podcasting | Hart 1150

• Paola Mardo, Host/Creator/Producer, Long Distance podcast

 

PANEL 2C Filipinx Community, Culture, & Performance  | Hart 3114

• “Wanna Get Boba?” The Bond Between Boba Shops and Asian American Youth Culture in California 

  • Angel Trazo, UCLA

• Of Beginnings and Futures: Bayanihan’s Enduring Legacy

  • Jemuel Jr B. Garcia, University of California Riverside

• Julian 

• Abby 

 

PANEL 2D Filipinx & Health | Hart 1130

• Hypertension Management at UC Davis Bayanihan Clinic

  • Camille Abutin, Bayanihan Clinic

  • Ton Bui, Bayanihan Clinic

• Addressing the Importance of Filipinx Mental Health Issues

  • Charissa Lagasca, UC Davis

  • Michael Viray, UC Davis

 

 

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2:45PM – 4:00PM | PANEL SESSION 3 

 

PANEL 3A Precarious Positions: Reimagining Filipinx Migration and Resistance | Hart 3201 | Discussant: Reuben B. Deleon, UCLA Higher Education and Organizational Change

• Interrogating the Neoliberal Paradox of the Elderly Migrant Experience in Mga Gerilya Sa Powell Street 

  • Edward Nadurata, UCLA Asian American Studies ​

• Stories of Place: Cultivating Kuleana Among Filipinx in Hawai‘i 

  • Kathleen Corpuz, UCLA Asian American Studies

• “The Madness and the Sadness:” Queer Narratives of Return in R. Zamora Linmark’s Leche”

  • Micaella Libunao, UCLA Asian American Studies

• ghost becomes ghost / robot becomes plant

  • Christian Gella, UCLA Asian American Studies

 

ROUNDTABLE 3B Mixed Race Fil Ams and Identity | Hart 1150

• Bobby Dalton Guleng Roy, Filipino American National Historical Society

 

WORKSHOP 3C Urban Displacement & Gentrification in Metro Manila | Hart 3114

• James Perez, UC Berkeley Urban Displacement Project / Department of City & Regional Planning

• SveaJoaquino , UC Berkeley Urban Displacement Project / Department of City & Regional PlanningJoaquino

• Nicole Montojo, UC Berkeley Urban Displacement Project / Department of City & Regional Planning

• Amiel Leano, UC Berkeley Urban Displacement Project / Department of City & Regional Planning

 

PANEL 3D BRIDGE | Hart 1130

• Mina

• Wesley

 

 

 

4:15PM – 5:30PM  | PANEL SESSION 4

 

ROUNDTABLE 4A The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader | Hart 3201

• "Pilipinx Radical Imagination as Ancestral Medicine"

  • Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano, PhD, SFSU

• "Pilipinx Radical Imagination as Cultural Production and Knowledge"

  • Tony Santa Ana, M.S.Ed., De Anza College

• “Thinking about Philippine Studies in the United States in the 21st Century”

  • Lily Ann Bolo Villaraza, PhD, CCSF

• “Pinxy American Aswang: Imagining Identity in Diaspora”

  • Joseph Ruanto-Ramirez, MA, UCSD

 

PANEL 4B Building Filipinx Community through Transnational Activism & Advocacy | Hart 3114 | Discussant: Kat Nasol, UC Davis

• Institutional Determinants of Local Immigration Policy 

  • Vannalee, UC Davis Department of Political Science

• Watching over the watchdogs: the problems that Filipino journalists face [Edson C. Tandoc Jr.]"

  • Janelle Salanga,

• What Draws Us In: Examining the Implications of Filipinx-American Identity Perception on the National Democratic Movement in the United States

  • Anneliese Garcia, Mission College

• “Our Family’s Patriarch”: Transnational Feminist Understandings of the Diaspora and Nationalism

  • Isabella Jaravata, University of Washington

 

WORKSHOP 4C Decolonizing Filipinx History | Hart 1130 | Discussant: Dr. James Zarsadiaz, University of San Francisco

• Reimagining the Pre-Colonial Philippines and its role in Southeast Asia

  • Matthew Lawrence, UC Davis

• Kirby Araullo

• Pinay Guerrilleras: The Unsung Heroics of Filipina Resistance Fighters During the Pacific War

  • Stacey Salinas, BCFS, UC Davis

 

 

 

 

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