Reading Group Book Review Meetings
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October 17, 2024: Group Study Room 1, WMY Learning Commons
Disability and Social Theory: New Developments and Directions. Edited by Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes, and Lennard Davis (2012).
Ma. Donna Rebong
Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers. By Nicole Constable (2007).
Dan Paolo R. Yema
December 5, 2024: Group Study Room 18, University Library
Review of Tom Sykes’ Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism in Planning Perspectives
Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism. By Tom Sykes (2021).
Mar Lorence G. Ticao
January 24, 2025: Group Study Room 1: WMY Learning Commons
Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations. By Nicole Constable (2022).
Juan Miguel Leandro Quizon
February 13, 2025: Group Study Room 1: WMY Learning Commons
Packaged Plants: Seductive Supplements and Metabolic Precarity in the Philippines. By A. Hardon & M. Tan (2024).
Josef Adriel De Guzman
Fieldwork and the Self: Changing Research Styles in Southeast Asia (Vol. 12). Springer. By J. Jammes and V.T. King (2021).
Aileen D.R. Rondilla
March
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. By D. Immerwahr (2019).
Francisco Jayme Paolo Guiang
Lectures on Imagination. By Paul Ricoeur (2024).
Mark Antony Jalalum
May
The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and Beyond the Philippines. By C.S. Hay (2014).
Wilkinson Daniel Gonzales
Guest Speaker: Ma. Jenina Nalipay
Previous Reading Group Sessions
2023-2024 Book Discussions
Session 1: Filipino Food and Diaspora
Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora
October 11, 2023
It’s a delectable literary feast in our kickoff session!
Josef Adriel, whose work is in the domain of food and migration, serves up a tantalizing literary ‘Balut‘ to savor at our inaugural reading group gathering.
Session 2: Filipino Pre-colonial and Postcolonial Identities
Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino Postcolonial Psychology
Encyclopedia of Philippine Folk Beliefs: Volume 1
November 17, 2023
In our next session, we will explore the colourful realm of the mind.
Dan Paolo dives into the Philippine psyche’s post-colonial layers, uncovering the impact of American colonialism on identity, mental well-being, and the concept of Kapwa in ‘Brown Skin, White Minds.’
Meanwhile, Donna takes us on a journey into the depths of pre-colonial wisdom with ‘Encyclopedia of Philippine Folk Beliefs,’ shedding light on the historical roots of Philippine society.
Session 3: Philippine Urban Built Environments
Airport Urbanism: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia
American Colonisation and the City Beautiful: Filipinos and Planning in the Philippines
January 26, 2024
In our third session, we delve into the complexities of urban transformation.
Juan Miguel navigates the airport development in ‘Airport Urbanism: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia,’ linking this to the distinctive challenges of mobility in the Philippine context.
On the other hand in “American Colonisation and the City Beautiful,” Mar charts the course of Philippine cities during the early American colonial era, unraveling the intricacies of urbanization and its political backdrop.
Session 4: Phenomenology and Philippine Studies
International Studies in the Philippines: Mapping New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
The Idea of Phenomenology
March 15, 2024
In our final session, we will take a leap through the dimensions of creativity and thought.
Mark delves into the intricate framework of ‘The Idea of Phenomenology,’ unraveling solutions to the ‘fake news’ conundrum through the interplay of imagination and language.
While Jenina ventures into the collective intellect of Filipinos within ‘International Studies in the Philippines‘ exploring the theory and praxis of a broad spectrum of issues, from pre-colonial history to modern diplomacy, religion, and agrarian reform in the Philippines, offering invaluable insights into our understanding of the international landscape.
CUHK Philippine Studies Interdisciplinary Reading Group 