IPC International Summer School for Doctoral Researchers in the Philippines
The IPC International Summer School for Doctoral Researchers on the Philippines is an annual IPC program (from 2013 to 2015) whereby very promising PhD students in the social sciences or interdisciplinary programs from around the world are invited for an intensive series of workshops, seminars, and lectures. With the theme “Historical and Ethnographic Approaches to Philippine Culture,” the IPC Summer School addresses questions about how historical and ethnographic approaches contribute to a closer understanding of Philippine social realities, what principles inform their conceptual and methodological orientations, and whether these approaches can be extended to other aspects of Philippine studies. The IPC covers the travel and lodging expenses and most meals of the Summer School participants, who had been chosen by a Selection Committee which reviewed the documents submitted by the applicants, including a never-before-published paper appropriate to the theme of "Historical and Ethnographic Approaches to Philippine Culture."
The four-day IPC Summer School includes paper presentations by each of the ten to twelve doctoral researchers on their own work and subsequent discussion by the group of participants. Two leading scholars in Philippine Studies moderate the discussion, provide feedback on the paper of the Summer School fellows, and deliver public lectures on their own research. The roster of IPC Summer School moderators includes Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr. and Resil B. Mojares (2013); Patricio N. Abinales and Ramon Guillermo (2014); and Caroline Hau and Mary Racelis (2015).
The Summer School fellows are expected to revise their papers based on the suggestions offered during the workshop sessions, with a view to improving the papers for submission to and possible publication in the journal Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints.
Summer School Year | Name of Summer School Fellow | Title of Paper | Ph.D. Academic Program | Institution and Country |
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07/2015 | Jonathon G. Malek | Silangan Rising: Filipino Cultural Identity Negotiation | History | Western University, Canada |
07/2015 | Ruel V. Pagunsan | Imperial collecting: Philippine natural history, American colonialism and the empire of science | History | National University of Singapore |
07/2015 | Carlos M. Piocos III | Suffering that Counts: The Politics of Sacrifice in Filipina Labor Migration | Comparative Literature | University of Hong Kong |
07/2015 | Chester Antonino C. Arcilla | Lumaban na tayo! Wala na tayong pupuntahan!‟ [We must fight! We have nowhere to go!]: An ethnography of a state-sponsored demolition and „barikadang bayan‟ [slum community barricade] | Sociology | University of the Philippines Diliman |
07/2015 | Mae U. Caralde | Of bodies, death and martyrdom: the case of Ninoy and Cory Aquino's death and the re-articulations of Philippine political narratives | Media Studies | University of the Philippines Diliman |
07/2015 | Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo | The will to remember: Discoursing massacres and becoming mujahideens | Anthropology | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
07/2015 | Caroline Compton | Extractive institutions and property insecurity in the Philippines: a historical analysis | Law | Australian National University |
07/2015 | Stephanie T. Fajardo | Gender, Power, and Social Order: Venereal Disease Control and the War on Prostitutes in the Postwar Philippines | History | University of Michigan, USA |
07/2015 | Naoki Fujiwara | Gentrification and Segregation in the Process of Neoliberal Urbanization of Metro Manila | Politics | Kobe University, Japan |
07/2015 | Yuria Furusawa | Brown Madonna Painting by Galo B. Ocampo: Its Early History and Possibility of Retouch | Art History | Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan |
07/2015 | Carlos Isabel Gala | The Royal Decree of 1863 on Primary Education: the problem of the evaluation of its success | Contemporary History | Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain |
07/2014 | Dohye Kim | Clashing Whiteness: Conflicts between Filipino/as and South Korean Retirees in the Philippines | Anthropology | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA |
07/2014 | Omri Bassewitch Frenkel | Smoke over Waters—Tobacco Transplantation and Trade from late Sixteenth to late Seventeenth Century Philippine Islands | History | Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Canada |
07/2014 | Ma. Concepcion R. Lagos | In Their Shoes: A Social History of the Footwear Capital of the Philippines | Philippine Studies | University of the Philippines Diliman |
07/2014 | Elizabeth R. Lee | Witnessing Colonial Trauma: Two Photographs of the Philippine American War | History | University of Toronto, Canada |
07/2014 | Christopher Andreas T. Martin | “`Mr & Ms STEP 2012’: Pageants and Performance of Educational Spectacle in Batangas | Anthropology | London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom |
07/2014 | Isidora K. Miranda | Icons of Superfluity and the Reproduction of Colonial Anxieties in Philippine Popular Music | Historical Musicology | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
07/2014 | Paul I. Nadal | Nation and Repatriation: Juan C. Laya’s His Native Soil and the Rise of the Filipino Realist Novel in English | Rhetoric | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
07/2014 | Adele Hannon Webb | The idealised democratic imaginary of the Philippine middle class: An immanent critique of Benedit Anderson | Politics | University of Sydney, Australia |
07/2014 | Menandro S. Abanes | Asymmetric relationship and enduring inequality between Christians and Muslims in the Philippines: A historical perspective | Social Science | Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands |
07/2014 | Nicole Elizabeth del Rosario CuUnjieng | The Cultures of Empire, Nation, and Universe in President Jose P. Laurel’s Political Thought | History | Yale University, USA |
07/2014 | Gary C. Devilles | City Sense: Hearing Manila in Popular Culture | Media Studies and Sociology | La Trobe University, Australia |
07/2013 | Christianne France Collantes | Intersections of Gender, Religion, the Changing Nation: An Examination of Faith Based Responses to the Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines | University of London, United Kingdom | |
07/2013 | Adrianne Marie Francisco | The Course of a Nation: American Colonial Education and Philippine Nation-Building, 1900-1934 | University of California, Berkeley, USA | |
07/2013 | Maureen Cristin Justiniano | Navigating Manila’s Labyrinth: An analysis of 19th-century colonial Manila in the making of the Revolution | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |