Kritika Kultura | Forum-Book Launch with E. San Juan @ Ateneo

KRITIKA KULTURA LECTURE SERIES

Ateneo de Manila English Department
Kritika Kultura and
IBON Books

invite you to a

1. Lecture

Problems of Discussing the Filipino Situation in the U.S.”
by E. San Juan

A dialogue with E. San Juan, who will describe his efforts in writing about Filipinos in the U.S., from the sixties to the present, given the racialized U.S. polity and the desire of Filipinos to be come 200% Americans. San Juan writes that Filipinos are “uprooted and dispersed from hearth and communal habitat” and that notwithstanding the “majority status of Filipinos within the Asian American category,” Filipinos remain “marginalized and racialized…”

2. Book Launch

Filipinos Everywhere: Displaced, Transported Overseas, Moving On in the Diaspora
by E. San Juan

3. Launch: Fil-Am Study Group

December 11, 2006
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Lec 2, SEC Building
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City

Prof. E. San Juan, Jr. was recently Fulbright professor of American Studies at Leuven University, Belgium, and visiting professor of literature at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He directs the Philippine Cultural Studies Center in Connecticut and serves as co-director of the Board of Directors, Philippine Forum, New York. Among his recent books are Beyond Postcolonial Theory (Palgrave), Racism and Cultural Studies (Duke University Press), and Working through the Contradictions (Bucknell University Press). He is coming to the Philippines to launch his latest book Filipinos Everywhere: Displaced, Transported Overseas, Moving On in the Diaspora and talk about the recent developments on migrant Filipinos. Currently, San Juan is the Director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center in Storrs, Connecticut. San Juan is an internationally known cultural critic and the leading authority on Philippine-U. S. literary studies.

KRITIKA KULTURA LECTURE SERIES
Program

Welcome Remarks:
Margot R. Orendain, Ph.D.
Associate Chair, English Department

Fil-Am Study Group Launch:
Jonathan Chua

Introduction to the Event
Word from the Publisher:
Rosario Bella Guzman
Executive Editor, IBON Foundation, Inc.

Introduction of the Speaker:
Ralph Acuna

Main Speaker:
Prof. E. San Juan

Reaction:
Dr. Elmer Ordonez, IBON board member

Open Forum

Closing Remarks:
Elmo Gonzaga,
Managing Editor, Kritika Kultura
(www.ateneo.edu/kritikakultura)

Book signing and merienda

For queries and confirmation, please call Gina or Mario of IBON at 927 7059, 927 7060 to 62 local 312, or Jossie or Raquel of the Ateneo English Department at 4266120.