The Remains of a Dictatorship: An International Conference on the Philippines under Marcos Organized by Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
and the Dean’s Office, School of Social Sciences, Loyola Schools Ateneo de Manila University Novotel Manila Araneta Center Quezon City, Philippines 3 –4 August 2017
CONFERENCE PROGRAM 3 August 2017 (Thursday) 8.00 – 8:30
Registration
8.30 – 8.45
Opening Ceremonies Gaugin Room
National Anthem Invocation Introduction of the Dean, School of Social Sciences Filomeno V Aguilar Jr, PhD Professor, Department of History Editor, Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Ateneo de Manila University Welcome Remarks Fernando T Aldaba, PhD Dean, School of Social Sciences Ateneo de Manila University 8.45 – 10.45
SESSION 1: Plenary Panel
Soldier, Lawyer, Author, Fraud: Manufacturing the Many Fictions of Ferdinand Marcos Gaugin Room
On Marcos’s Medal for Valor
RICARDO T. JOSE University of the Philippines-Diliman 1
Marcos’s “Brilliance”: Creating Ferdinand Marcos, the Scholar-
President
MIGUEL PAOLO P. REYES University of the Philippines-Diliman The Dead Body Politics in the Marcos Playbook
CHRISTIAN VICTOR A. MASANGKAY University of the Philippines-Diliman Finding Marcos’s “Immortal Legacy” in Bullion Buyer Ltd.
JOEL F. ARIATE JR. University of the Philippines-Diliman 10.45 – 11.00 Morning Refreshments 11.30 – 1.00
SESSION 2: Simultaneous Panels
Session 2-A Salvaging Memories: Books, Publishers, and Martial Law Gaugin Room
The Writing of Subversive Lives: A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years
MARIA KARINA A. BOLASCO Ateneo de Manila University Publication, Death, and The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
VERNON R. TOTANES Ateneo de Manila University The Making of the Tadhana Project
ROMMEL A. CURAMING University of Brunei Darussalam Session 2-B The Arts against the Marcosian Machine Van Gogh Room
Here Lies Love: Making ‘Sense’ of Martial Law
CHRISTINE BACAREZA BALANCE Asian American Studies (UC Irvine) Pagkahaba-haba man ng Prusisyon: Reading the Translational Context of Dulaang UP’s Maiden Play
VLADIMEIR B. GONZALES 2
University of the Philippines-Diliman The UP Repertory Company and Tula-Dula: Role of Student-Artists' Activism in Marcos’s Era
MARK ANTHONY E. LOPEZ University of the Philippines-Diliman and Philippine Science High School Session 2-C Forming and Retrieving Martial Law Memories Cezanne Room
Moving on or Repressing Memory? A Memory Studies Analysis of the Marcos Burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani
JOCELYN MARTIN Ateneo de Manila University The True Marcos Ideology: An Analysis of Bongbong Marcos’s
Ideographs in the 2016 Vice Presidential Debate
HANNAH FAITH P. SAAB University of the Philippines-Diliman The Pervert’s Guide to Historical Revisionism: A Proposal
VICTOR BAUTISTA Ateneo de Manila University 1.00 – 2.00
Lunch Gaugin Room
2.00 – 4.00
SESSION 3: Simultaneous Panels
Session 3-A The Institutions and Infrastructures of Marcosian Modernization Gaugin Room
Crisis amidst Crisis: Disasters during the Marcos Administration, 1966 –1986
MA. LUISA DE LEON-BOLINAO University of the Philippines-Diliman Hunger, Malnutrition, and the New Society: US Food Diplomacy and Marcosian Biopolitics during the Martial Law Era
LEO ANGELO NERY Ateneo de Manila University Wings for a Dictator: The Philippine Commercial Aviation Industry during the Marcos Dictatorship
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PATRICK JOHN F. MANSUJETO Philippine State College of Aeronautics | University of the PhilippinesDiliman The Inside Out of the Philippine Heart Center Hospital
MARIA ANGELICA VICERAL University of the Philippines-Diliman Session 3-B Beyond the Moro Struggle: Revisiting Mindanao’s Marcos-Era Stories Van Gogh Room
An Oral History of the Political Activism of the Cagayanons during the Marcos Regime: 1969 –1986
PEDRO C. GAMBA MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology Unmasking the Other Truth: Initao during Martial Law
XANDELYN RACEL R. BAENA AND GLARRY JUN A. VEDRA MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology People’s Resistance During Martial Law Period in Butig, Lanao del Sur (1972 –1981)
NORJANNAH B. BAO, MARWAH M. CAMAMA, AND ROHANE M. DEROGONGAN MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology
Session 3-C Chronicling the Chroniclers: Journalists and the Marcos Regime Cezanne Room
Theorizing the “Mosquito Press,” also known as the Anti-Marcos
Press
MA. DIOSA LABISTE University of the Philippines-Diliman Voices in the Wilderness: Broadcast Personalities’ I ndustry Experiences during the Martial Law Era
JOAN M. DIZON Southern Luzon State University Shackled Airwaves: Radio Broadcasting in Baguio City during the Marcos Regime
JASON PAOLO R. TELLES University of the Philippines-Baguio 4
In Defiance of the Mainstream: A Historical Analysis of the Works of Three Activist Journalists Twenty Years after Martial Rule
JOSE MA. EDITO TIROL Ateneo de Manila University 4.00 – 4.15
Afternoon Refreshments
4.15 – 6.00
SESSION 4: Simultaneous Panels
Session 4-A The Ateneo de Manila and the Challenge of Democratization Gaugin Room
Down from the Hill, Part II: The Ateneo de Manila and the Challenge of Democratization (1982 –1992)
BENJAMIN T. TOLOSA Ateneo de Manila University The Marcos Dictatorship and Philippine (Re-)Democratization: Some Jesuit Responses in A Decade of Turmoil and Change
GINO ANTONIO P. TRINIDAD Ateneo de Manila University Social Involvement of the Ateneo de Manila Studentry: Growth and Transformation, 1982 –1992
PHILIP TUAÑO Ateneo de Manila University Responses from the Academe: Ateneo Braving the Tumultuous years, 1982 –1992
ARJAN P. AGUIRRE Ateneo de Manila University CCS and ACSPPA: Pioneering Social Development from 1982 to 1992
MARGARITA LOPA-PEREZ Ateneo de Manila University Session 4-B The Power of Narratives: Bridging the Martial Law and Post-Authoritarian Periods Van Gogh Room
The 1983 National Day of Sorrow: Forgotten Narratives, Forgotten Deaths
EMERALD O. FLAVIANO University of the Philippines-Diliman
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Remembering EDSA 1: A Content Analysis of Millennials’ Recall of
the People Power Revolution
NOAHLYN C. MARANAN AND APRIL HOPE T. CASTRO University of the Philippines-Los Baños Narrative Momentum and the Duty of Hearsay Testimony: Second Generation Stories on Martial Law
IMELDA VELOSO-BELTRAN, JUNESSE DEL ROSARIO CRISOSTOMO, MIRAFLOR V. CELEMIN, BERNADETTE ANDRADA-DIZON, AND SOLEIL ANNIAH C. SANTOALLA University of the Philippines-Diliman Patron –Client Politics Writes a Historical Novel: The Golden Age of the Philippines under Marcos
JANUS ISAAC V. NOLASCO Asian Center, University of the Philippines-Diliman Session 4-C Dissecting Dissent and the Revolutionary Movement Cezanne Room
Student Activism in Cebu during the First Quarter Storm of 19 70
OPHELYNN P. CANO Philippine Christian Gospel School War of Remembrance: Contesting/Contested Memories on the AntiInfiltration Campaign of the National Democratic Movement
LAURENCE MARVIN CASTILLO University of the Philippines-Los Baños A Revolution within a Revolution: Nationalism of Women NPAs in Mindanao, Marcos Era up to the Present
MARY DONNA GRACE CUENCA Ateneo de Davao University
4 August 2017 (Friday) 8.30 – 10.00
SESSION 5: Plenary Panel
Competing Narratives and New Emplotments Gaugin Room
The Anti-Marcos Struggle Revisited
MARK RICHARD THOMPSON City University of Hong Kong
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Metaphors of the Movement: The “Woman” in Speeches and
Addresses by Women in the Philippines in the 1980s
JULIE JOLO University of the Philippines-Diliman The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in the Philippines: Lessons from a White Elephant Project
RONALD U. MENDOZA Ateneo School of Government | University of the Philippines 10.00 – 10.15 Morning Refreshments 10.15 – 12.15 SESSION 6: Simultaneous Panels
Session 6-A Recovering from Historical Trauma: Untold Stories of Martial Law Gaugin Room
Imprisoning Minds and the Bodies under Martial Law
VINA A. LANZONA University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Historical Accounts during Ferdinand Marcos’s Rule: Stories of the Nameless
GLORIA ESGUERRA MELENCIO University of the Philippines-Los Baños Burying Pains: Retelling the Culture of Violence under the Martial Law Era in Pampanga (1972 –1986)
JOEL S. REGALA Holy Angel University Against Forgetting: Understanding the Legacy of Resistance in the Cordilleras
NASTASIA L. TYSMANS Independent researcher Session 6-B Propaganda and Protest from the Pulpits: The Churches and Martial Law Van Gogh Room
The Church under the Gun: The Relationship between the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) and the Marcos Regime during Martial Law
VICTOR AGUILAN Silliman University
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One with the People: Social Action and the Redemptorists during the Martial Law Years (1972 –1986)
TRIZER DALE MANSUETO MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology Diliman Bible Church: A History of an Evangelical Church during Martial Law
FRANCIS KRISTOFFER L. PASION National Historical Commission of the Philippines The (Un)Holy Alliance: The Political Theology of Martial Law
KARL JAMES E. VILLARMEA Silliman University Session 6-C Interrogating Hegemony through the Prism of the Arts under Authoritarianism Cezanne Room
High Art as Object of Fascist Desire
MARIAN PASTOR ROCES TAO INC. Independent Curator and Scholar The Ghost Is a Ghost, No Fiction: Complicities between Artist and State, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and Convolutions of Power and Desire in Creative Labor and Collaboration
CHRISTIAN TABLAZON Philippine High School for the Arts Pelikula bilang Historikal na Artifak
ROSE ROQUE University of the Philippines-Diliman |NCCA State Power and National Trauma: Darna Movies in the Time of Martial Law
CHERISH AILEEN A. BRILLON Far Eastern University Manila |UP Asian Center 12.15 – 1.15
Lunch Gaugin Room
1.15 – 3.15
SESSION 7: Simultaneous Panels
Session 7-A Life Stories and Storied Lives under and beyond Authoritarian Rule Gaugin Room
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Memories of Military Rule: Philippine Martial Law Autobiographies as Catharsis and Commemoration
MARY GRACE R. CONCEPCION National University of Singapore The Brightest, the Bravest, the Extraordinary: Plotting the Heroic Biography of Ferdinand Marcos
RODERICK C. JAVAR University of the Philippines-Los Baños Capturing the Steel Butterfly: Three Women Documentarians on Imelda Marcos
ANTON GABRIEL L. MAZA AND MARY ROSEANNE A. RAMIREZ Kalayaan College|University of the Philippines-Diliman Imprisonment and “ Social” Solitude
MARIA SERENA I. DIOKNO University of the Philippines-Diliman Session 7-B Diplomacy and International Relations during the Marcos Regime Van Gogh Room
The United States Contradictory Position on Ferdinand Marcos ’s Foreign Policy towards Communist Countries
KOBE BRYAN L. LOTERINIA AND DIEGO F. REBATO JR. Polytechnic University of the Philippines-Sta. Mesa Freedom Won by the Siege: Marcos’s Political Harassment against
Napoleon Lechoco
RENATO N. PELORINA Cavite State University Public Display of Bilateral Affections: Imelda Marcos’s First U.S.
State Visit
ERIZA BARENG University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Fighting through Faith and Law: International Opposition to the Marcos Dictatorship in the 1980s
MARK SANCHEZ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Session 7-C The Unending Struggle: Tussles in the Post-Authoritarian Philippines Cezanne Room
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Recovering the Marcoses’ Illegal Wealth: The Quest of the Presidential Commission of Good Government (PCGG) for Justice
JOSE AIMS R. ROCINA De la Salle University-Dasmariñas Hiding from Our Sins: Regulating the Negation and Revision of Atrocities under the Marcos Regime (and Other Historical Atrocities)
RAPHAEL LORENZO AGUILING PANGALANGAN, RUBY ROSSELLE L. TUGADE, AND GEMMO B. FERNANDEZ University of Oxford The Politics of a Middle Class-Led Revolutionary Movement in the Philippines during the Martial Law Period
TERESA S. ENCARNACION TADEM University of the Philippines-Diliman Of Bodies, Death, and the Popular: Deconstructing Political Narratives, Figuring Alternatives
MAE URTAL CARALDE University of the Philippines-Diliman 3.15 – 3.30
Afternoon Refreshments
3.30 – 5.00
SESSION VIII: Simultaneous Panels
Session 8-A Pedagogy and Marcosian Ideology Gaugin Room
Metaphorizing Martial Law: Constitutional Authoritarianism in Marcos's Rhetoric (1972 –1985)
GENE S. NAVERA National University of Singapore Martial Law in Philippine Textbooks, 1972 –1986
EUFEMIO AGBAYANI, III National Historical Commission of the Philippines Martial Law Memories of Teachers in the Cordillera
MARIA MERCEDES ARZADON University of the Philippines-Diliman Blueprints for Building the Nation: Situating Rizal in the New Society: An Examination of Rizal Course College Textbooks Published During the Marcos Authoritarian Regime, 1972 –1986
ALVIN D. CABALQUINTO Ateneo de Manila University 10
Session 8-B Narrating Martial Law outside Imperial Manila Van Gogh Room
Burning the Bridge: How the Marcos Era Created a Distraught in Moro –Christian Relationship
XANDELYN RACEL R. BAENA AND BULKHIA U. PANALONDONG MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology The President and the Dictator: The Martial Law Decrees affecting Polomolok, South Cotabato
MARLON B. LOPEZ AND NORJANNAH B. BAO MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology Davao, Duterte, and Salvagings: Between Resistance and Revolution in Martial Law’s Killing Fields
JOSE JOWEL CANUDAY Ateneo de Manila University Session 8-C Dissent and Cultural Work during the Martial Law years: Its Contribution in Toppling down a Dictator Cezanne Room
A Dissenter as a Cultural Worker: Anecdotes on Lifestyle and Methods of Work
FLORENTINO C. SANTOS Independent writer and consultant Songs as a Form of Dissent
CONSUELO ANGELA L. SANTOS De La Salle University Tracing Some Lines: An Analysis of the Philippine Progressive Visual Art during the Martial law Period
CARLO M. DIMAANO Visual artist; Sining Balangay (Art group) 5.00 – 5.15
Closing Ceremonies Gaugin Room
Closing Remarks Michael D Pante, PhD Department of History Associate Editor, Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Ateneo de Manila University
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Master of Opening and Closing Ceremonies:
Michael D Pante, PhD Department of History Associate Editor, Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Ateneo de Manila University
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