The UBC Philippine Studies Series
together with the Liu Institute for Global Issues,
in cooperation with the
Global and Transnational Ethnographies Research Network,
St. John’s College,
and the Trudeau Foundation

invite you a two-day event with

Dr. Vicente Rafael, University of Washington

About the Speaker: Dr. Vince Rafael is a renowned historian teaching at the University of Washington, whose cross-cultural work focuses on the Philippines, comparative colonialism and nationalism. He is writer and editor of several books, including White Love and Other Events in Filipino History and  Contracting Colonialism, which both won the Philippines National Book Award for History awarded by the Manila Critics’ Circle in 2000 and 1989, respectively. He was also the recipient of fellowships, such as the Simpson Humanities Center at the University of Washington Fellowship (2004-2005), Andrews Visiting Chair at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Residential Fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy (1997), the Mellon Fellowship at Stanford University (1986-87), and many others. Dr. Rafael received his PhD and Masters in History from Cornell University, and his undergraduate degree in History and Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University with highest honours.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011 , 1:00-2:45pm
Targeting Translation: US Counterinsurgency and the Politics of Language

Open Lecture with Dr. Vicente Rafael and with comments by Dr. Derek Gregory, Dept. of Geography, Peter Wall, Distinguished Professor

Update: See video from the event

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OCTOBER 28, 2011, 1:00-3:30pm
Philippine Migration Workshop

Limited seats only, kindly RSVP with ubc.pss@gmail.com.

Prior to the workshop, participants are strongly encouraged to read the following:

• Introduction, Chapters 2, 4, 5, 6 of The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946 by Rick Baldoz (2011) (On reserve at the UBC Library)
•  “Your Grief is Our Gossip” in White Love and other Events in Filipino History by Vicente Rafael (2000), or in Public Culture 1997 Vol 9(2):267-291 http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/9/2/267
• Preface, Introduction and Chapter 1 of The Promise of the Foreign by Vicente Rafael (2005). Available to UBC students online at http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=3975936

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OCTOBER 28, 2011, 7:30pm onwards
Opening and reception for art exhibit, MAHAL

YACTAC artist-run space, 56th & Ontario St., Vancouver

This exhibit, organized by the UBC Philippine Studies Series, will run until November 4, 2011.

Update: See photos from the event