Bibliographic Ties: Notes on Filipiniana from Retana to Medina
4th floor, First Pacific Hall (aka New Rizal Library)
05 Mar 2024 03:30 pm
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05 Mar 2024 04:30 pm
Bibliographic Ties: Notes on Filipiniana from Retana to Medina
Jonathan Victor Baldoza
4th floor, First Pacific Hall (aka New Rizal Library)
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 3:30 pm
ABSTRACT
Drawing on the dissertation-in-progress entitled Making Filipiniana, this presentation explores the history of Philippine bibliography and the bibliographic construction of Philippine history by following selected archival traces—letters, photographs, drafts, postcards, and reference lists. From these material fragments, several shapers of Filipiniana from different political regimes are highlighted, including Wenceslao Retana, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, James Robertson, Eulogio Rodriguez, Gabriel Bernardo, and Isagani Medina. By exploring not only their professional itineraries and intellectual projects, but also the “bibliographic ties” that connect them with each other, the presentation describes the landscape of scholarly work and knowledge production in the 20th century.
SPEAKER
Jonathan Victor Baldoza is a PhD candidate in History at Princeton University. His research has appeared in Archipel and Philippine Studies: Historic and Ethnographic Viewpoints. A new article on the Bureau of Science is forthcoming in the journal Labor.