Each year, PSG designates one panel for guaranteed acceptance into the AAS conference program. In July, we solicited proposals for the 2024 conference in Seattle. Our Designated Panel Selection Committee included Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza (chair), Maria Ela Atienza, and Herb Fondevilla. With several outstanding proposals to consider, the Committee had the difficult task of choosing one:
"Nuancing the Filipina: Empire, Beauty, Labor, and Love in the 20th Century," organized and submitted by Kelly Van Acker (University of Washington), together with panelists Adrian Ellis Alarilla (UH Mānoa), Jorge Bayona (Colegio de México), Frances Anthea R. Redison (University of the Philippines Visayas), and panel chair Vicente Rafael (University of Washington).
Here's the panel's abstract:
By adopting a pan-archipelagic and transpacific vision of Filipina women, this panel brings to the fore the role of women in contesting and negotiating US and Japanese empire and modern nation building in the Philippines and beyond. Adrian Alarilla's paper examines life-writing by Filipina migrants in the United States to fill in the gaps of the more male-centered Filipino American narrative by showing how they transgressed gendered borders to perpetuate the culture of their homelands. Jorge Bayona's paper brings Muslim women into the discussion, focusing on two case studies of élite women from Jolo and how they negotiated their engagement with US empire and modernity vis-à-vis their Christian Filipino counterparts. Frances Anthea Redison's paper focuses on how élite Filipina women in Iloilo continued to participate in beauty pageants during the Japanese occupation, nuancing our understanding of how women took control of such public spaces in contexts of violence. Kelly Van Acker's paper analyzes love advice columns to reveal the changing gendered expectations in the arena of courtship. As a whole, this panel addresses the role of women in various regions, communities, and classes of the archipelago and its diaspora, offering new insights into evolving societal expectations under empire and rapid modernization.
Additional details about the panel, including presentation titles/abstracts and scheduling, will appear in the official conference program when it is released later this fall.
Please join us in congratulating Kelly and her fellow panelists -- and in thanking the selection committee for their service!
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