Dr. David Chu Distinguished Visitor Seminar with Professor Vicente Rafael
By Asian Institute
Date and time
Fri, Oct 12, 2018 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
Location
208N - North House
Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy 1 Devonshire Place Toronto CanadaDescription
Vicente L. Rafael is the Giovani and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of several works on the cultural politics of the Philippines including Contracting Colonialism, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History, The Promise of the Foreign, and Motherless Tongues: the Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation (all from Duke Univ. Press). He also wrote the Introduction to a recent edition of Nick Joaquin’s stories, The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropic Gothic (Penguin Classics).