Postcolonial Praxis:
Theories, Cultural Practices and Movements for the Global South

July 21-23, 2010

Bulwagang Rizal (Faculty Center), College of Arts & Letters
University of the Philippines – Diliman
Quezon City, Philippines

Through this conference, we invite participants from other parts of the Philippines and from other former colonies /countries in the “Global South” (i.e., “underdeveloped , “developing”, “Third World”, decolonizing societies) to re-examine and to re-territorialize Anglo-American, English, American, French, German, Dutch, Hispanic, Latin American Studies, programs and projects. The conference aims to provide a venue for the construction of a general programmatic of postcolonial knowledge-production and other postcolonial cultural practices which can be disseminated through formal educational institutions as curricula and courses; informal/alternative educational groups; professional organizations; mass media; computer-aided technologies, and through cultural networks. To be engaged in this process are hundreds of scholars from the humanities and social sciences, teachers, creative writers, journalists and broadcast media practitioners , studio, visual and performance artists, architects, design specialists .

The time is right to re-examine the colonial and neocolonial pasts as functions of both particular and world-wide geopolitical and temporal conditions in order to limn possible futurities for cultural discourses (knowledge production) and cultural practices as forms of local/ national/ regional resistance to neocolonialism and global capitalism.

Conference Sub-Themes: (Panel & Papers/Multimedia Presentations may revolve along these sub-thematics)

Each panel (of at most 4 participants) will be allotted 1 hour and 30 minutes with Open Forum. A paper reader and/or multimedia presentor will be given 15 minutes each.

Please submit panel and paper/multimedia proposals to the Conference Convenor:

“Professor Priscelina Patajo-Legasto”

Deadline for submission of panel and paper/multimedia presentation abstracts will be on March 30, 2010. Final Conference schedules and other information (conference registration, travel and accommodation details) will be posted on April 15, 2010.

Plenary speakers include Professor Reynaldo C. Ileto of National University of Singapore and University Professor Emeritus Gemino H. Abad of University of the Philippines-Diliman.

This conference is being organized by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines-Diliman in celebration of its centennial anniversary (1010-2010); with the support of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Philippine Studies Association (PSA), the Office of the President, UP System and the Office of the Chancellor-UP Diliman.