Transfiguring Mindanao Conversation Series - Building Mindanao Communities and the Zamboanga Experience

The Ateneo de Manila University - School of Social Sciences together with the Institute of Philippine Culture and Ateneo de Zamboanga University invite you to Transfiguring Mindanao Conversation Series on “Building Mindanao Communities and the Zamboanga Experience”

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The webinar will feature Dr. Felice Noelle Rodriguez, Ms. Ma. Christina A. Cañones, Dr. Czarina Saloma, and Mr. Erik Akpedonu. Prof. Rodriguez will discuss Zamboanga City and its interrelated histories with the rest of Mindanao and Sulu. The story of the city is linked to the multiple cultural encounters – the local peoples, the Subanen, Sama Bajau, Kalibugan, Yakan, Taosug with Spanish soldiers, runaway slaves, foreign merchants, and others. In this intermingling, a language and a culture of its own emerged, the Chabacano.

Ms. Cañones will present her historical investigation in Zamboanga, particularly in Mercedes, a barangay in Zamboanga City. Located in the interior some 13-kilometers from the center of Zamboanga City, Mercedes is widely acknowledged as one of the oldest communities formed out of Spanish colonial designs. The church site in Mercedes became the object of memory study by the author, when, beginning in 2009, a certain “Bro Lou” who died during the Japanese occupation, was mentioned by the Mercedes parish priest. The historical inquiry began with the site in memory, and went through archival research on the onset of the second world war in Zamboanga, and then locating Bro Lou in wartime Zamboanga.

Dr. Saloma and Mr. Akpedonu will trace the various waves of migration to Mindanao from the beginning to the present, and how these have shaped settlement patterns and urban forms found on the island today, from the maze of catwalks of Muslim communities in Sulu via Baroque churches in Misamis to the glitzy skyscrapers and shopping malls of Davao City.

This webinar is free of charge.

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The development of the Mindanao Reader was led by the School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University with funding support from CHED and additional support from The Asia Foundation (TAF). The book has 34 chapters with 44 authors mostly coming from Mindanao covering broad topics from history, social, economic, political, and cultural features of the island and its people. Edited by Jose Jowel Canuday and Joselito Sescon.

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