Group 1 Towards a Rationale
CIS READING GROUP
based in the University of the Philippines Diliman
Reports from the current members:
Santiago: In our sharing of ongoing research during our meeting, online and onsite, this Critical Island Studies Reading Group has helped me explore the mutual constitution of languages used in island environments and the environments themselves. With dialogue and exchanges among like-minded scholars from the humanities, archaeology, history, and literary studies, like we have had, I believe the reading group can help us, members, move toward a better understanding of our experiences in and our research data gathered from an archipelagic setting.
Mendoza: Since this newly-formed Critical Island Studies reading group has brought together individuals from a broad range of academic disciplines, in our meetings, my understanding of topics and issues related to CIS has inevitably become multi-faceted.
Garcia: The reading group has begun to help me in framing my research questions/interests in the context of our islandness.
Ornopia: This reading group has encouraged collegiality and inter-island and inter-regional collaborations among the present members who are now involved in Island Studies within Asia. I am looking forward tothis group becoming a dynamic laboratory of ideas and providing space for the growth of our individual research projects.
Tablan: As Archaeology is an inherently cross-disciplinary field, having a reading group constituting members from diverse fields has shown great potentials for providing new and fresh perspectives on current archaeological research from a non-archaeology perspective. As I am greatly interested in Island Archaeology, connecting with current researchers helps me grow in my future as an academic. Developingmy network with like-minded individuals could help gain perspective in the current professional landscape of critical island studies.
Bolata: In our meetings, the CIS reading group has helped me in terms of rethinking the material and possible approaches in undertaking research on island studies. In particular, on how the historical and contemporary experiences of the islanders and non-islanders should be read and told.
Members of the Reading Group
Vincent Christopher A. Santiago
Institutional Affiliation(s)
Department of Linguistics, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Faculty member.
Research Interests
language documentation & description, diachronic linguistics, comparative linguistics, lexicography
Academic Publications
Santiago, V. C. One Hundred Years of Scholarship on Philippine Linguistic Diversity: A Brief History of The Archive. The Archive: A Journal Dedicated to the Study of Philippine Languages and Dialects, vol. 3, nos. 1-2, 167-174. 2022. https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/archive/issue/view/943.
____________. Nominal Anchoring Functions of Porohanon Common Noun Markers. JSEALS Special Publication No. 8: Papers from the 10th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2021), 195-206. 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52498.
Gallego, M.K., Dreisbach, J., Manzano, D., Santiago, V.C., Tupas, R., Zubiri, L.A. Counter-Babel: Reframing Linguistic Practices in Multilingual Philippines. The Archive, Special Publication No. 17: Selected Papers from the 14th Philippine Linguistics Congress, 113-153. 2021. https://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/archive/article/view/9163/8091.
Endriga, D. A., Santiago, V. C., Cruz, N. D., Abrigo, J. C., & Manrique, J. D. Language of the Pandemic: The #LexiCOVID Project. Diliman Review Vol. 64(1), Dànas/[R]ánas: COVID-19 Special Issue, 131-167. 2020. https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/dilimanreview/article/view/8939/7841.
Zubiri, L. A., Jugueta, A., Alpay, J. Santiago, V. C., Imperial, I. J. [Compilers & editors]. Inagta Alabat: Mga Kuwento [Inagta Alabat: Stories] (Vol. II). Quezon City, Philippines. 2019.
Zubiri, L. A., Jugueta, A., Alpay, J. Santiago, V. C., Imperial, I. J. [Compilers & editors]. Inagta Alabat: Introduksiyon at Gabay [Inagta Alabat: An Introduction and Guide] (Vol. I). Quezon City, Philippines. 2019.
___________. Ilang kritikal na tala sa Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Pilipino ni Rosendo Ignacio [Some critical notes on the Dictionary of the Pilipino Language by Rosendo Ignacio]. Daluyan Journal ng Wikang Filipino Tomo XII, 145-164. 2016. https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/djwf/article/view/5745.
Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III
Institutional Affiliation(s):
Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas, University of the Philippines Diliman, Faculty member (on study leave)
PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Research Interests:
Congress for Cultural Freedom Journals in Southeast Asia, Cultural Cold War in Asia, Southeast Asian Marxism, Translation Studies, Philippine literature, Indonesian literature
Recent/Selected Publications:
Books
Translated Short Story Collection. Gerilya ng Lungsod [Urban Guerilla]. Savage Mind and Ateneo de Naga University Press. [forthcoming 2024].
Novel. Materyales sa Komplisidad [Materials on Complicity]. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press. 2023.
Edited and Translated Anthology. Destination SEA 2050 A.D.. Edited and Translated by Tilde Acuna, Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III, Kristine Ong Muslim. Singapore: Penguin Random House Ltd. 2022.
Journal Articles
Mendoza, Amado Anthony III, G. “Freedom and Complicity: The Case of Horison and Solidarity, two CCF Journals in Southeast Asia.” Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance (April 2022): 46-65.
Book Chapters
Mendoza, Amado Anthony III, G. “Prefatory Freeze: Ivan Kats and Initial Cultural Anti-Communist Sequences in Cold War Indonesia and the Philippines.” in Decolonizing Comparative Literature: Reading across Southeast Asian Literature. Edited by Chi Pham and Nguyen Nhu Trang. New York: Springer Nature. [forthcoming 2025].
Guillermo, Ramon; Marasigan, Teo, Mendoza Amado Anthony III, Sy, Dominic. “Heavier than Mount Banahaw: Five Golden Rays and the “Filipinization” of Maoism.” In Fellow Travelers: Revolutionary Ideology in Southeast Asia, 1921-1989. Edited by Marc Opper & Matthew Galway. Canberra: Australian National University Press. 2022.
Arturo Joseph T. Tablan III
Institutional Affiliation(s)
The University of the Philippines, School of Archaeology; Graduate Student
The Kapisanan ng mga Arkeologist sa Pilipinas, Inc.; Associate Member
Research Interests
Ceramic Petrography, Public Archaeology, Social Network Analysis, Island Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Austronesian Studies, Philippine Archaeology, Pacific Island Archaeology
Current Research
Ceramic Assemblage from Callao Cave, Peñablanca, Cagayan Valley, Philippines
Publications
- “The Survival of the Damned: a Case Study of the Damnatio Memoriae,” Hoplon: The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Classical Studies Vol. IV: p.121-138. Montréal, Concordia Classics Student Association. 2022.
2022.“Revisiting Callao Cave in the Neolithic: A Stylistic Analysis of Ceramics from Square 9”. Test Pit: Bulletin of the University of the Philippines Archaeological Studies Program 24: 13-18.
2022. “The Ethnogenesis of Fiji: Examining the Crossroads of Oceania,” Diversity in Archaeology: Proceedings of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference 2020/2021. Oxford, ArchaeoPress Publishing.
2023. “The Conception of Neolithic Networks in the Northern Philippines: The Ceramics of Callao Cave,” The Proceedings of the Society of Philippine Archaeologists, 12: 10-17.
Mark Laurence Garcia
Institutional Affiliation(s)
Bioarchaeology Ancient DNA Laboratory, School of Archaeology, UP. Graduate Student and Researcher.
Research Interests
Application of genetic/genomic approaches in answering archaeological inquiries. Archaeogenetics of commensal taxa
Ricky C. Ornopia
Institutional Affiliation(s)
Department of European Languages, College of Arts and Letters. Student and Researcher.
Research Interests
Germanistik, Literary studies, Cold War Studies, Asia-Pacific War, Southeast Asian Studies, Translation Studies
Emmanuel Jayson V. Bolata
Institutional affiliation:
Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. Faculty member.
Research interests:
cultural history; literary history; history of science; local history of Marinduque, an island province in the Philippines; island geography
Publications:
– “Hindi Lang Basta Bata: Mga Pananaliksik at Panunuri sa Kasaysayan at Panitikang Pambata” [Not Just Kids: Studies and Interpretations in Children’s Literature and History]. Quezon City: Sentro ng Wikang Filipino-Diliman, 2020. (Book)
– “Si Rene O. Villanueva sa Panimulang Yugto ng Pag-akda para sa Bata, 1977-1986″ [Rene O. Villanueva in his Initial Stage of Writing for Children, 1977-1986]. In Eugene Y. Evasco and Cheeno Marlo M. Sayuno (eds.), Bata, Hiwaga, Bansa: Pamana ni Rene O. Villanueva sa Panitikang Pambata, 3-44. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2023. (Book chapter)
– “Teksto at Talastasan: Pagmumuni at Pagbabalangkas sa Kasaysayan-bilang-Komunikasyon” [Text and Discourse: Understanding and Structuring History-as-Communication]. Talas: Interdisiplinaryong Journal sa Edukasyong Pangkultura, vol. 6 (2023): 25-63. (Journal article)
– “Walking in UP Diliman as Ethnographic and Countermapping Practice.” Banwaan: The Philippine Journal of Folklore, vol. 2, no. 2 (2022): 227-263. (Journal article)
– “Marinduque Silencescapes: History and Stories of Local Silence.” Banwaan: The Philippine Journal of Folklore, vol. 2, no. 1 (2022): 49-78. (Journal article)
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