ABOUT THE FORUM
Now on its 5th year, the International Research Forum on the Philippines (IRFP), previously known as The Philippine Research Forum, is a gathering of academics, scholars, and students interested about the Philippines. It is a coming together of people from different disciplines, locations, and cultural backgrounds to discuss about their recent scholarly work related to the Philippines, attend workshops, and engage in roundtable discussions about the annual theme.The Filipino Australian Students Council of Victoria (FASTCO), in cooperation with the Philippines Australia Studies Center of La Trobe University, hopes to make IRFP 2017 an avenue to raise critical questions, intellectually engage with fellow scholars on the Philippines, and hopefully generate constructive ideas concerning issues, challenges, and potentials of Philippine research. With the vibrant Melbourne landscape and interesting papers as backdrop, this year's forum is definitely something to look forward to.
Plenary Speakers
Dr Nicole C Curato
Dr William Peterson
ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis
University of Canberra
Senior Lecturer
Department of Drama, School of Creative Arts
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Flinders University
ABOUT THE FORUM
Now on its 5th year, the International Research Forum on the Philippines (IRFP), previously known as the Philippine Research Forum, is a gathering of academics, scholars, and students interested about the Philippines. It is a coming together of people from different disciplines, locations, and cultural backgrounds to discuss about their recent scholarly work related to the Philippines, attend workshops, and engage in roundtable discussions about the annual theme.The Filipino Australian Student Council of Victoria (FASTCO), in cooperation with the Philippine Australia Studies Centre of La Trobe University, hopes to make IRFP 2017 an avenue to raise critical questions, intellectually engage with fellow scholars on the Philippines, and hopefully generate constructive ideas concerning issues, challenges, and potentials of Philippine research. With the vibrant Melbourne landscape and interesting papers as backdrop, this year's forum is definitely something to look forward to.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Philippine postcolonial realities reveal the limitations of understanding national territories, cultures, politics, institutions, and identities in either monolithic or dichotomous terms. The 21st century has at once constituted and been constituted by conditions whereby the Filipino people’s ways of belonging to the nation, the region, and the world have become more fractal and less predictable than before. Recent developments in the Philippines show that political, geographic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethical demarcations have not only become blurry but are also, and more importantly, constantly shifting or adjusting. This international research forum calls for papers from the arts and humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences, and engineering that explore ways to surmount totalistic perspectives about Philippine or Filipino life, and grasp the tensions in reconfigured or newly emerging issues on contemporary Philippines. We welcome scholarly submissions that address or may fall under broad themes such as, but not limited to, the following:
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Globalisation and Localisation
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Nation and Diaspora
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Materiality and Intangibility
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Mobility and Stasis
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Innovation and Convention
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People and Environment
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Power and Susceptibility
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Progress and Poverty
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Secularity and Sacredness
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Sustainability and Loss
Submission Guidelines
Submission deadline: 15 September 2017, 5:00 PM (AEDT)
Notification of acceptance: At least one week after abstract submission
Selected papers may be invited for inclusion in a refereed conference proceedings
Complete the submission through http://bit.ly/IRFP2017 and provide (1) title, (2) 250-word abstract, (3) 5 keywords and (4) 100-word bio.
Kindly address all inquiries concerning the conference to the co-chairs, Oscar T Serquiña and Allen A Espinosa, at official@fastcovic.org with the subject "IRFP 2017".
Conference Fees
AUD150 - Professionals and international participants
AUD30 - Australia-based students
Free for FASTCO members
FORUM OVERVIEW
Panel 1: Post-truth era: Effects on Philippine studies scholarship and research
Dr Angelito Calma
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne
Panellist
Dr Marienette Vega
Research Fellow, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Ateneo de Manila University
Panellist
Dr Angela Cruz
Lecturer, Department of Marketing, Monash University
Panellist
Panel 2: Circulating and disseminating research or creative work
Dr Rebecca Valenzuela
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Monash University
Panellist
Dr Claire Scoular
Academic, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
Research Fellow, Assessment, Curriculum, and Technology Research Centre, University of the Philippines Diliman
Panellist
BookB
Dr Vito Butardo Jr
Lecturer, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Swinburne University of Technology
Panellist
Book Launch
Dr Hannah Bulloch
Researcher, National Centre for Indigenous Studies; Adjunt Fellow, School of Archaeology & Anthropology,
Australian National University
Author
In Pursuit of Progress: Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island
A Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte's Early Presidency
Dr Nicole C Curato
ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra
Editor
ORGANISED BY
IN COOPERATION WITH
Philippines-Australia Studies Centre (PASC)
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
WITH SUPPORT FROM
FILIPINO-AUSTRALIAN STUDENTS COUNCIL OF VICTORIA
BOARD 2017-2018
President Ethel Villafranca
VP-Internal John Cormanèz
VP External David Bryan Collado Lozada
Secretary Patricia Cruz
Director - Finance Allen A Espinosa
Director - Organizational
Identity and Development Neilsen Tolentino Campit
Director - Learning Oscar Tantoco Serquiña
Director - Communications Mina Akram
Director - Resource
Development Ed Rimmington
Director - Special Projects Rowena Veloso
The Filipino-Australian Student Council of Victoria (FASCTO) is a student-led hub of Filipino student organisations in Victoria supported by the Philippine Consulate of Victoria and the Philippine Community Council of Victoria.
FASTCO welcomes Filipino international and domestic students, Filipino-Australian students as well as non-students who wish to be part of the community of individual offering support to students.
Please click here to become a member:
Members Mina Akram,
Swinburne University of Technology
Martin Isidro,
The University of Melbourne
Charles Siriban,
The University of Melbourne
Neslie Carol Tan,
The University of Melbourne
Ethel Villafranca,
The University of Melbourne
INFO
Conference Venue:
La Trobe University, City Campus, 20th floor, 360 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
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