THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Michael L. Tan
Michael L. Tan
Dr.
Michael L. Tan is a medical anthropologist. He is currently the Dean of
the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, UP Diliman and Visiting
Professor at the College of Medicine, UP Manila. He has published many
journal articles and scholarly books, but is happiest writing for mass media,
including "Pinoy Kasi", which appears twice a week in the Philippine
Daily Inquirer. His two most recent books are "Revisiting Usog,
Pasma, Kulam" (UP Press) and Thinking, Doing Culture (UST Press).
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Fr. Albert E. Alejo, SJ, “Paring Bert” combines priestly ministry, fighting corruption, interreligious and intra-faith dialogue, indigenous rights advoacy, human trafficking research, and creative writing, while animating social development in Ateneo de Zamboanga University. He is the author of Generating Energies in Mount Apo: Cultural Politics in a Contested Environment (anthropology), Ehemplo: Spirituality of Shared Integrity in Philippine Church and Society (social spirituality), Tao Po! Tuloy! IsangIsang Landas ng Pag-unawa sa Loob ng Tao (philosophy), Sanayan lang ang Pagpatay (poetry), among others. PB is also compiler/editor of Sikamin Lumad: Bagong Panitikang Katutubong Mindanao and founding editor of the new journal Asia Mindanaw: Dialogue on Peace and Development. His MTVs on peace and integrity, like ‘Meme na Mindanaw’, ‘Ehemplo’, ‘Bayang May Dangal’ are found in YouTube. He finished his PhD in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.
Fr. Albert E. Alejo, SJ, “Paring Bert” combines priestly ministry, fighting corruption, interreligious and intra-faith dialogue, indigenous rights advoacy, human trafficking research, and creative writing, while animating social development in Ateneo de Zamboanga University. He is the author of Generating Energies in Mount Apo: Cultural Politics in a Contested Environment (anthropology), Ehemplo: Spirituality of Shared Integrity in Philippine Church and Society (social spirituality), Tao Po! Tuloy! IsangIsang Landas ng Pag-unawa sa Loob ng Tao (philosophy), Sanayan lang ang Pagpatay (poetry), among others. PB is also compiler/editor of Sikamin Lumad: Bagong Panitikang Katutubong Mindanao and founding editor of the new journal Asia Mindanaw: Dialogue on Peace and Development. His MTVs on peace and integrity, like ‘Meme na Mindanaw’, ‘Ehemplo’, ‘Bayang May Dangal’ are found in YouTube. He finished his PhD in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.
Victor Emmanuel Carmelo D. Nadera, Jr.
An Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines where he
became the Likhaan: U.P. Institute of Creative Writing director, Vim holds an
M.A. and B.S. in psychology from University of Santo Tomas that published his
book Poetreat in 1996. As
a performance art therapist, he has served cancer survivors, persons with AIDS,
drug patients, “comfort women,” streetkids, sexually abused children, and men
and women caught in crossfire, human-made, and natural calamities. In 1996, he wrote a play Sens Op Tyumor
wherein cancer victims became victors as actors . Together with his wife Ellay,
he founded the Foundation AWIT (Advancing Wellness, Instruction, and Talents)
Inc. in 2008. Vim is
also a member of the UNESCO National Commission of
the Philippines Culture Committee, Philippine Center for Gifted Education board
of directors; Commission on Higher
Education Technical Committee on Literature; Philippine High School for the
Arts Advisory Council. He organizes Conspiwriters Tuesdays at the Conspiracy
Garden Cafe since 2003 when he was named one of The Outstanding Young Men
(TOYM) and Natatanging Anak ng Quezon, both for Literature. He is the president
of Kapisanan ng May K sa Pilipinas Inc., an umbrella organization of cancer
support groups in the Philippines. In 2011, he
defended his dissertation for his Ph.D. Philippine Studies and his his latest
poetry collection Kayumanggi
was published by the UST Publishing House. In 2012, his collaboration with painter Elmer Borlongan, who did an iPad
art, became a tribute to Jose Rizal’s sesquicentennial birth anniversary called
Rizalpabeto,
published by the The Center for Art, New Ventures, and Sustainable
Development. In 2013, he celebrated through Perya ni Andres the 150th
birthday of Andres Bonifacio with the Philippine High School for the
Arts where he is now serving as its Director who also created MAKILINC or Makiling
Intercultural Arts Festival in 2014.
Epifanio
San Juan, Jr.
U.S.-based
Filipino scholar E. San Juan, Jr., emeritus professor of English, Comparative
Literature and Ethnic Studies, has just published his fifth book of poems in
Filipino, Bukas Luwalhating Kay Ganda,
sponsored by the Philippines Cultural Studies Center and is available from
amazon.com and also createspace.com.
His
forthcoming collection, KUNDIMAN SA GITNA NG KARIMLAN, an expanded version of
this book, is due this January 2014 from the University of the Philippines
Press. His previous collections include Alay sa Paglikha ng Bukang-liwayway
(Ateneo U Press), Sapagkat Iniibig Kita (U.P. Press), Sutrang Kayumanggi and Mahal
Magpakailanman (LuLu.com), and Ulikba
at iba pang tula (UST Publishing House).
San
Juan was recently a fellow of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Austin,
Texas. Previously he was a fellow of the W.E.B. Institute, Harvard University,
for which he completed a monograph on
“African American Internationalism and Solidarity with the Philippine
Revolution.” A part of the research has
been published in Socialism and
Democracy, July 2010, and in the e-journal Cultural Logic.
Born in
Sta. Cruz, Manila, Philippines, San Juan received his A.B. , magna cum laude,
from the University of the Philippines, and his M.A. and
Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was president of the U.P. Writers Club in
1957-58. He also taught at U.P. from
1959-60, 1966-67, and 1987-88 (as Fulbright professor); in Ateneo University,
and also at Centro Escolar University.
He was visiting professor at Brooklyn College; Wesleyan University;
Leuven University, Belgium; Trento University, Italy; Tamkang University and
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
His
recent books are Rizal in Our Time
(revised edition; Anvil); Balikbayang
Sinta: An E. San Juan Reader
(Ateneo U Press); In the Wake of Terror
(Lexington), Critique and Social
Transformation (Mellen); From
Globalization to National Liberation (U.P. Press), US Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines (Palgrave), and Critical Interventions (Lambert). Currently San Juan is preparing an anthology
of his critical essays in Filipino as a sequel to Himagsik (published in 2004 by De La Salle U Press) and a
ground-breaking commentary on an important historical document, hitherto
unpublished, Benjamin Appel’s “Manila Diary,” together with a critique of
Appel’s novel on the Philippines, Fortress
in the Rice.
GUEST PANEL
Ekaterina A. Baklanova is a Senior
Researcher (Philippine Studies) in the Department of SEA countries philology at
Institute of Asian and African Studies of the
Born in
the Moscow region of the former USSR in 1981 (former surname - Novojenova).
Studied at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Lomonosov Moscow
State University, Russia. Got her MA in 2002. In 2009 defended the PhD Thesis
on the theme «Lexical Borrowings in the Tagalog Language and the Problem of
Interference» (in Russian).
Teacher
of Tagalog (Filipino) and Philippine philology at the IAAS of MSU since 2002.
Participated in several international conferences including 7th ICAL in Leiden
(2004), 9th PLC in Manila and 10th ICAL in Puerto Princesa (2006).
Currently
working on a course of the Contemporary Philippine Literature for the Russian
senior students.
