An Undergraduate and Graduate Conference at DLSU-Manila
July 23 2016, Saturday
8 AM – 5 PM
De La Salle University
2401 Taft Avenue, 1004 Manila, Philippines
“Elitism in Art and Culture”: An Undergraduate and Graduate Student Conference at DLSU-Manila
“Elitism in Art and Culture” is a one-day conference that is open to undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in any Philippine university or college. It will be held on the 23rd of July 2016 at De La Salle University, Manila and is an event organized and sponsored by the host university’s Department of Literature. No conference fee will be collected. Meals and snacks will be provided.
We invite abstracts (~250 words) from qualified students on topics, which may include but are not limited to:
High/ Low Culture
High Theory
Modernism
Anti-intellectualism
Popular Culture
Public Intellectuals
University Rankings
The Middle Class
Marxist approaches to culture
Art and Activism
Literary Awards
The Canon
English Departments
Indie Films
Taste
Art and Social Media
Regional Literatures
Provincialism
Fascism
Abstracts are to be electronically submitted on or before the 15th of June 2016.
Kindly email your abstract with short bio note to dlsu.elitismconference@gma
Acceptance letters will be sent out by the 24th of June 2016.
Exceptional participants coming from outside Metro Manila are eligible to receive travel assistance. Those interested and qualified may request for a travel bursary in their email.
Abstracts Due: June 15, 2016.
Notification of Acceptance: June 24, 2016.
Conference Date: July 23, 2016.
NOTE: Only those with approved papers will be allowed to enter the venue.
About the keynote speaker:
Professor Martin Manalansan is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2003; Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006). He is editor/co-editor of four anthologies namely, Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora (New York University Press, 2016) , Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Temple University Press, 2000) and Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (New York University Press, 2002), Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (New York University Press, 2013) He has edited several journal special issues including a special issue of the International Migration Review on gender and migration and more recently, a special issue of the Journal of Asian American Studies entitled “Feeling Filipinos.”
Parallel Session 1
(A.M.)
Room Y409: The Promises and Limits of Critique
Panelists:
“Dissenting from Cultural Studies: Norris, Perloff, Bal”
Riddick Recoter, DLSU-Manila
“Critical Calibrations/ Conflations: Reconsidering Critique”
Carlos Quijon Jr., U.P. Diliman
“Adventures Past Circuits: Sociality in Philippine Conceptual Writing”
Ivan Emil Labayne, U.P. Baguio
“Uncreative Working Conditions as Anti-Individual”
Marren Adan, U.P. Diliman
Room Y408: Virtual Insanity
“Possible Worlds in Impossible Spaces: The Virtual as a Spatial Project”
Reyzeljian Josef De Los Trinos, U.P. Baguio
“The Ends will Justify the Memes: Internet Memes and the State of Discourse in the Age of the Virtual”
Mary Joyce Paragas, U.P. Baguio
“The Perpetuation of Hegemonic Narratives through Elitist and Reactionary Discourse: The Case of the Facebook Page This Crappy Generation”
Anzelwise Augustus Dominic Paras, U.P. Los Banos
Room Y405: Bakla Meets Girl: On Gender and Other Things in Between
“Mas Lalaki pa sa Lalaki ang Bakla: Isang Pagtunghay sa Signipikasyon at mga Haraya ng Liberasyon sa Pamamagitan ng ‘Sirena’ ni Gloc 9”
Johann Vladimir Espiritu, DLSU-Manila
“Fun, Fearless, Female: Emergence of the Middle-Class Pinay in Philippine Chick Literature”
Mikaela Viktoria Eleazar, ADMU
“Classy Gays: A Narrative-Discourse Study of Middle-Class Filipino Gay Men’s Identity Construction vis-à-vis Sexual Narratives”
Christian Go, DLSU-Manila
“What It Takes to be a Mistress: The Mistress Phenomenon Promoted by Media and Its Effects on Society”
Jan Paolo Gambalan, U.P. Diliman
Room Y306: Tabi-tabi Po: Negotiating Center and Margin
“Reshaping the Environment: A Reading of Contemporary Western Visayan Poetry through the Lens of Ecocriticism”
Maria Anjelica Wong, U.P. Visayas
“The Sarimanok of Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte”
Lynrose Jane Genon, MSU-IIT
“Mga Talinhaga sa Lupain ng Tapang at ng Giting: Ang Paghahanap sa Tunay na ‘Katutubo’ at ‘Pilipino’ sa mga Tula ng ‘Sa Gulugod ng Kalabaw: Mga Tula ng Bulakan, 1928-1997”
Cris Lanzaderas, U.P. Diliman
“Prosperity and Devolution in Space and Place: Ascendancy and Dissesion in Pedro S. Dandan’s May Buhay sa Looban”
Jan Raen Carlo Ledesma, UST
Room Y304: Masa-Kista: Aliw at Anyo sa Kulturang Popular
“Telenovelang Tatak Pinoy”
Beatrice Ogsimer, U.P. Diliman
“The Grave Misconceptions in Philippine Culture and Language”
Philip Victor Maranan, UST
“The Inside Joke: Appreciating the Twist in Comedy”
Ryann Ting, DLSU-Manila
“Threatened Identity of Filipino Youth by Overseas Popular Culture”
Yeeun Han, DLSU-Manila
Parallel Session 2
(Afternoon)
Room Y409: Sariling Sikap: Mga Pagpupumiglas mula sa Sinaunang Kamalayan
Panelists:
“Ang Tao at Kumag at/o ang Tao Bilang Kumag sa Nobelang ‘Ang Banal na Aklat ng mga Kumag’ ni Allan N. Derain”
Jeric Jimenez, U.P. Diliman
“The Anomaly that is Jessica Zafra: A Look at Elitist Pop Autobiographical Narratives”
Maricris D. Martin, U.P. Diliman
“The Wattpad Nation: The Life and Times of a Filipino Young Adult (FYA) Reader”
Kathleen T. Nepomuceno, Lyceum of the Philippines, Cavite
“Pag-balangkas ng Emperyo: Neo-kolonyal na Pilipinas sa Dead Balagtas”
Arbeen Regalado Acuna, U.P. Diliman
Room Y408: Ansaveh?: On Language and Translation
“Pinoy Potter: Translating Harry Potter in the Philippines”
Leif Garinto, DLSU-Manila
“Jhemlet, Phrinz op Jhenmark: Humor Translation and the Irony of Representation”
Vyxz Vasquez, U.P. Diliman
“Forming a World Literature: F. Sionil Jose and the Rosales Saga”
Alexandra Bichara, ADMU
“Process and Product: A Contrastive Rhetoric Study on Reader Perspective”
Jocelyn Navera, DLSU-Manila
Room Y405: Imperial Legacies
“The Writer and his Savage God, or A Polemic Against Postcolonial Subjectivity”
Jayson Jimenez, PUP
“The Obsession Over Post-Colonialism as a Symptom of a Culturally Insecure Nation”
Xavier Selman, DLSU-Manila
“‘Winter is Coming’: The Imminent Collapse of Westeros’ Colonial Geography in Game of Thrones”
Matthew Ordonez, DLSU-Manila
“The Southeast Asian Luxury Culture: A Historical and Cultural Exploration”
Lora Marie S. Lumba, ADMU
Room Y306: Sine-suri: On Visual Cultures
“Ang Pelikula at mga Film Studio noong 1930s: Isang Pagsusuri ng Epekto ng Film Studios sa Kultura at Gawi ng Industriya ng Pelikulang Pilipino”
Rommel Borromeo Cristobal, PUP
Arnold Rosales Lapuz, PUP
“Armando Lao’s Found Story: Creating Forms of Life through Writing Photographable Scripts as a Means of Effective Storytelling”
Kat Marasigan, DLSU-Manila
“From ‘Rotoscoping’ to ‘Convenience Store’: Reliving the Spectacle of Optic Culture through Semiosis”
Lawdenmarc Decamora, ADMU
Room Y304: Theoretical Explorations
“Justice and Authenticity in Derrida”
Raymond John Vergara, DLSU-Manila
“Conditional Autonomous Family: A Modification of Rawls’s Original Position in Order to Reconcile it with the Feminist Objections of Okin and Nussbaum”
Danielle Cortes, DLSU-Manila
“Consciousness: Not a Necessary Condition for Artificial Moral Agency”
Angela Patiag, DLSU-Manila
“Different Forms of Alienation Perpetrated by the K-12 Program”
Gringo Corpuz, AMA Computer University
Parallel Session 3
(Afternoon)
Room Y409: The Canon and Awards
“Awards Pa More!: Ang Sistema ng Literary Awards sa Pilipinas”
Jeric Jimenez, U.P. Diliman
“The Problematics of Canon Formation and the Function(s) of Minor Literature”
Jesus Emmanuel Villafuerte, ADMU
“The Canon: Demythologizing the Literary Culture’s Coprolite”
Clare Angelou Ordonez, DLSU-Manila
“Imahen ng Batang Pilipino at mga Paksa sa mga Tulang Pambatang Nagwagi sa Palanca (2009-2013)”
China De Vera, U.P. Diliman
Room Y408: Remembering and Dismembering Fascism
“Mula Carinderia Tungong Café: Pagpopook ng mga Café sa Malate sa Ilalim ng Batas Militar (1972-1981)”
Norben Sagun Jr., DLSU-Manila
Alyssa Erni, DLSU-Manila
“Retrieving the Past within Epistolaries: History through the Lens of Young Adult Literature in Cyan Abad-Jugo’s ‘Salingkit: A 1986 Diary’”
Maria Selina Dominique C. Santiago, UST
“A Deconstruction of the Duterte Phenomenon in Major Social Media Platforms”
Vincent Pacheco, DLSU-Manila
“The Liberal’s Derangement on the Duterte Phenomenon”
Emmanuel Bonn Taguba, U.P. Baguio
Room Y405: Of Lies and Lust: Exploring Contemporary Cinema
“Absurdly Witty and Wittily Absurd: A Critical Analysis of Camp as an Artistic Form in Joey Gosiengfiao’s Temptation Island (1980)”
Joseph Velasco, FEU
“Magsayaw Na Lang Tayo: A Critique on Filipino Spectatorship in Temptation Island (1980)”
Dorynna Zyneensky L. Untivero, DLSU-Manila
“The Erotic/ Transgressive Appeal of the Local: Bomba Films in Forming Definitions of Sexual Attractiveness”’
Ian S. Embradura, MSU-IIT
“Philosophy through a Cinematic Lens”
Clark Rosales, DLSU-Manila
Room Y306: Taste, Value, Ideology
“Lukewarm Liberalism”
Tyra Delos Reyes, DLSU-Manila
“Convergence of Filipino Values: The Philippines’ Paradoxical Value System”
Janielle Villanueva, UST
“Art, Taste, and Exclusivity in light of Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste”
Marko Antonio Da Silva, DLSU-Manila
“Demystifying the Pinoy Culture of Anti-Intellectualism in Art and Politics”
Clyde Jayvy Villanueva, San Pablo Colleges Laguna
Room Y304: The Tone of Critique
“Pop Music as an Instrument of Social Relevance: The Case of ASIN”
Gertrudes Sapitan, U.P. Diliman
“The Semiotics of a Female Pop Star: An Analysis of Taylor Swift’s Creative Works as a Manifestation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Concept of Immanence”
Ericka Pingol, DLSU-Manila
“A Dearth in Scholarship on the Pinoy Rock Music Scene”
Susan Claire Agbayani, DLSU-Manila
“Filipino Vaporwave: Arming the Baduy as Counter-Culture”
John Levi Masuli, U.P. Baguio
Invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/137704449967852/
