Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, breakthroughs in scientific medicine and advances in visual technology combined into a new public health practice: health messaging. Health messaging was heavily reliant on visual materials such as film, photography, posters, pamphlets, diagrams, and maps to translate new insights on the nature, transmission, and prevention of disease to lay audiences. Although referred to as “medical propaganda” by contemporaries, health messaging was not just about education. In particular, in non-Western settings health messaging was instrumental in promoting new biomedical practices and ideas among the general population, displacing local medical traditions, and transforming both. Today, health messaging—what we now refer to as public health education—remains a key practice of public health around the world.

We propose that the Philippines has been significant to the history and development of health messaging. Beginning with—if not before—the American occupation in 1898, health officials, philanthropic organizations, and companies started to experiment with the development of health messaging in the archipelago. With an early focus on infectious disease, health messaging would ultimately expand to cover hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, childcare, sexual health, mental health, and lifestyle diseases. Health messaging was a constitutive component of public health in the Philippines under American rule and was instrumental in achieving imperial ambitions. In the postcolonial era and indeed up to the present, health messaging remains a principal means by which local populations are exposed to “modern” medical knowledge. The practice continues to be enmeshed with political agendas.

The children’s special or the Red Cross health mobile. The newest venture of the Philippine Chapter, Manila, c.1920.

Source: American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, US Library of Congress

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We invite submissions to Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints to gather critically and theoretically engaged studies of science, technology, and society in the Philippines. We seek interventions that disrupt the ways in which science and technology are deeply rooted in the fabric of everyday life as they emerge effortlessly from objects, spaces, infrastructures, public discourse, and scientific practice.

The field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) consists of a spectrum of inquiries that interrogate the construction of technoscientific knowledge, practices, and social policies. Not merely a study of how things work or how things are designed, STS invests in a precise, empirical, and multi-level analysis of processes that often determine how power, influence, and expertise contribute to the powerful narratives of science and technology as objective and legitimated forms of knowledge.

Special Double Issue: Vol. 68, Nos. 3–4, September–December 2020

The September 2020 issue (vol. 68, no. 3) of Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints will be released soon together with its December 2020 issue (no. 68, no. 4). These issues expected in the last two quarters of 2020 together form a special double issue devoted to a theme salient to the times, “Covidscapes: The Philippine Pandemic Experience.”

This double issue features the following contributions:

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To launch vol. 64, issue no. 1, of

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

We invite you to a talk by

Yves Boquet, Ph.D.

Professor of Geography, Université de Bourgogne, and

Secretary-General, Association of French Geographers

on

​The Grand Design of Capital Cities and the Early Plans for Quezon City

Wednesday, 13 April 2016 | 5:00 pm

Ateneo de Manila University

Faber Hall 302

To launch vol. 63, issue no. 4, of

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

We invite you to a talk by

Prof. Frederick C. Delfin

DNA Analysis Laboratory, Natural Sciences Research Institute, University of the Philippines Diliman, and 

International Max Planck Research School, Leipzig School for Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

on

Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem, “Technocracy and the Politics of Economic Decision Making during the Pre–Martial Law Period (1965–1972)”

Maria Kristina S. Gallego, “Philippine Kinship and Social Organization from the Perspective of Historical Linguistics”

Based on reconstructions of proto-Philippine terminologies, this article characterizes early Philippine kinship as bilateral with possible quasi-lineages, favoring achieved over hereditary chiefdom. These features support the reconstruction of the proto–Malayo-Polynesian system advanced by George Peter Murdock (1949).

Was the storm surge spawned by Typhoon Yolanda in November 2013 totally unprecedented or did similar disasters occur 100 years ago? What did the Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1990 have to do with rats and locusts in the devastated areas? How were disasters reported in the news at the turn of the twentieth century and even earlier? What role did observatories and meteorological analysis play in empire building? What role did climate and disasters have in influencing or even shaping Philippine history? How do we reconcile a territorially delimited national history with the fact that political geography does not confine natural hazards to the nation-state?

These are just some of the questions that were discussed in the recently concluded conference-workshop, “Disasters in History: The Philippines in Comparative Perspective,” held on 24 and 25 October 2014 at the Ateneo de Manila University. Organized by the journal Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints and the Department of History, in partnership with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, the conference-workshop was a unique gathering of scholars and research scientists in the natural and social sciences from leading universities in the Philippines as well as Australia, Belgium, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Disasters in History:

The Philippines in Comparative Perspective

An International Conference-Workshop

24–25 October 2014

Ateneo de Manila University

Quezon City, Philippines

Call for Papers

The Department of History, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University and the journal Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints invite papers to be presented in an international conference-workshop on “Disasters in History: The Philippines in Comparative Perspective” to be held on 24–25 October 2014 at the Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines.

The conference aims to gather historians, climate scientists, and other scholars to present and discuss papers based on new research and perspectives in the study of disasters. Papers that are explicitly historical, ethnographic, and/or comparative in orientation are most welcome.

The conference is intended to cover the histories of various disasters brought about by earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, drought, and other natural hazards as historically experienced by various groups, classes, and communities in the Philippines and other parts of Asia Pacific. We invite papers that offer comparative perspectives on how different societies with differing levels of vulnerability have prepared for, confronted, experienced, and moved on from disasters in different historical periods. Papers dealing with other parts of Asia Pacific are encouraged to relate the discussion to the Philippines.

The conference aims to foster closer academic and scholarly ties and relationships between and among scholars in the Philippines and Asia who are engaged in similar and parallel projects that study disasters in history.

Selected papers that pass the refereeing system will be included in a special issue of Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, the quarterly published by the Ateneo de Manila University since 1953. Articles in this journal are indexed and abstracted in several global databases such as Historical Abstracts, Project MUSE, Scopus, and JSTOR. Other publications may also be planned.

Keynote Speaker

Greg Bankoff, Professor of Modern History at the University of Hull, will deliver a keynote address. Professor Bankoff writes on environment–society interactions with respect to disasters, natural hazards, human–animal relation, development, resources, and community-based disaster management. Among his various publications are Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines (2003) and the coedited volume Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World (2012). A recent article is titled “Storm over San Isidro: Civic Community and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Nineteenth Century Philippines,” Journal of Historical Sociology (2012). A list of his publications may be found in http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/history/our-staff/greg-bankoff.aspx.

Gemma Teresa T. Narisma, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Science and Engineering of the Ateneo de Manila University, will also keynote this conference. An atmospheric scientist, Dr. Narisma is Associate Director for Research at the Manila Observatory, where she heads the Regional Climate Systems Program. Her work is geared toward assessing the potential impacts of climate change (whether due to land use or global warming or both) on society, especially in the Philippines, with the goal of providing science-based support to disaster risk mitigation, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development planning. In 2012 the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) named her an Outstanding Young Scientist (OYS). In 2013 she received the TOWNS (The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service) Award for Atmospheric Science.

Submission Guidelines

Interested paper presenters are requested to submit a 250-word abstract. Panel proposals are also welcome, and should include a brief description of the proposed panel as well as the abstracts of the individual papers in the panel.

Please submit abstracts and panel proposals by 25 June 2014. Submissions must be in Word format, and include the presenter’s name, institutional affiliation, and email address.

Inquiries as well as panel and paper proposals can be addressed to:

Francis A. Gealogo, PhD <[email protected]>

Chair, Department of History, School of Social Sciences

Ateneo de Manila University

Angelli F. Tugado, PhD <[email protected]>

Office Manager, Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University

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****                                      Overseas Participants       Philippine-based Participants

Early bird rate                         US$ 70                           P2,500

(until 25 Aug 2014)

Regular rate                            US$100                          P3,500

(25 Aug 2014–10 Oct 2014)

Late and on-site registration      US$120                         P5,500

(from 11 Oct 2014)

Please inform the organizers by 10 October 2014 of any dietary restrictions so that special meals can be prepared.

Historiography and Nation since Pasyon and Revolution:

Conference in Honor of Professor Reynaldo C. Ileto

Organized jointly by

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints and the Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University

and

Southeast Asian Studies and "Toward Sustainable Humanosphere in Southeast Asia" Research Program
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

To be held at the Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, 8–9 February 2013

The publication of Professor Reynaldo C. Ileto’s Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840–1910 by the Ateneo de Manila University Press in 1979 was a watershed event in Philippine historiography. It reshaped the contours of Philippine history and many other disciplines. Ileto’s ideas on “history from below” inspired an entire generation of Filipino historians to critically evaluate historical sources, interrogate long-held theoretical assumptions, and adopt fresh perspectives in the study of Philippine history. Pasyon and Revolution rose to become one of the most influential books in Southeast Asian Studies.

This international conference aims to assess the influence of Professor Ileto in general, and of Pasyon and Revolution in particular, on Philippine historiography, on studies of nationalism and social movements, on theories of colonialism and postcolonialism, and on area studies and scholarship beyond the Philippines.

Scholars from the Philippines as well as Australia, Canada, India, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America will present over 60 scholarly research papers in this landmark conference.

The opening program will be held at the Leong Hall Auditorium, starting at 8:30 AM. Registration begins at 7:30 AM.

Interested participants who will not present papers are welcome to attend. Please consult http://www.philippinestudies.net to register. The registration fee for Philippine participants is P4,000 and US$100 for overseas participants. On-site registration is P5,500, with no assured conference packet.

The Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has endorsed this conference in a memorandum dated 5 October 2012.

The tentative conference program may be downloaded below.

Reynaldo Ileto conference program

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints has been declared by the Philippine Commission of Higher Education (CHED) Journal Accreditation Service as one of the CHED Accredited Research Journals for 2011 to 2014, under Category A-2.

In a memorandum dated 24 September 2012, the Chairperson of the CHED endorsed the journal for library subscription of all public and private higher education institutions in the Philippines.

In a memorandum  dated 5 October 2012, the Chairperson of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has endorsed the international conference on

Historiography and Nation since Pasyon and Revolution: Conference in Honor of Professor Reynaldo C. Ileto

Organized jointly by Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints and the History Department Ateneo de Manila University

as well as the Southeast Asian Studies and "Toward Sustainable Humanosphere in Southeast Asia" Research Program, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

to be held at the Ateneo de Manila UniversityQuezon City, Philippines, 8–9 February 2013

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION BY NON-PAPER PRESENTERS

The publication of Professor Reynaldo C. Ileto’s Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840–1910 by the Ateneo de Manila University Press in 1979 was a watershed event in Philippine historiography, recently given due recognition by the Ateneo de Manila University with the Gawad Tanghal ng Lahi awarded to Professor Ileto.

This defining moment in 1979 has reshaped the contours and directions not only of Philippine history but also of many other disciplines. Professor Ileto’s ideas on the writing of “history from below” were trail blazing, inspiring an entire generation of Filipino historians to critically evaluate historical sources, interrogate long-held theoretical assumptions, and adopt fresh perspectives in the study of Philippine nationalism and social movements. Deservedly, Professor Ileto is one of the most awarded and recognized Filipino historians of the contemporary generation.

Beyond the Philippines, Pasyon and Revolution has been considered one of the most influential books in Southeast Asian Studies by the editorial team of Sojourn: The Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia. It was the only book written by a Southeast Asian scholar and published by a Southeast Asia-based university press that found inclusion in the prestigious list. Beyond Southeast Asia, the book has caused scholars specializing on other countries in other parts of the world to take notice of Philippine studies and its relevance to their own fields of scholarship.

Over three decades have passed since the publication of Pasyon and Revolution. This international conference aims to assess the influence of Professor Ileto in general, and of Pasyon and Revolution in particular, on Philippine historiography, on studies of nationalism and social movements, on theories of colonialism and postcolonialism, and on area studies and scholarship beyond the Philippines. Scholars from the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and other parts of the world are expected to present over seventy papers in this landmark conference.

This call for participation is addressed to those who wish to attend the conference but not present papers. Interested parties are requested to complete and submit the registration form, and remit their registration fees, as soon as possible. Please note the following deadlines:

For Philippine participants: Until 1 October 2012: P3,500. After this date: P4,000.
For overseas participants: Until 1 October 2012: US$85. After this date: US$100.

On-site registration: P5,500, with no assured conference packet.

Please download the registration form at http://www.philippinestudies.net. The instructions for remittance of the registration fee are also found on this site.

Please direct all other inquiries to:

Dr. Francis A. Gealogo <[email protected]>
Philippine Studies Journal Office/Department of History
Telephone (632) 4673656 · Telefax (632) 4266001 extn 4619

Dr. Caroline Sy Hau < [email protected] >
Southeast Asian Studies Journal Office
Telephone (075) 7537344 · Fax (075) 7537356

Starting with vol. 59, no. 1 (2011), Philippine Studies is now a part of Project MUSE. If your university's library subscribes to Project MUSE, then you can have full text, subscription access to the current content of Philippine Studies. Do check with your library now!

The special double issue (vol. 58, nos. 1-2, March-June 2010) is now available, with articles on the history of the Catholic Church and other aspects of Philippine history. This special double issue is  a festschrift in honor of Fr. John N. Schumacher, S.J. Copies have been sent to  overseas subscribers.

The formal presentation of the festschrift to Father Schumacher will be held on 17 June 2010, on the occasion of his 83rd birthday.

All articles and reviews published in Philippine Studies prior to 2007 are available at no cost. Online access to single issues and individual articles published since 2007 is available only to paid subscribers; nonsubscribers can access these articles for a fee. Please consult the terms and conditions for accessing the online edition of Philippine Studies.

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