Venue: SMT Hall, Miriam College

SMT Building Lecture Room 1

SMT Building Lecture Room 2

·         Randy Madrid, University of the Philippines Visayas, Iloilo: Chinese Communities in the Urbanization of Iloilo City, Philippines: History, Identity and Cultural Formation

·         Jely Galang, University of the Philippines: Chinese Vagrants and Social Outcasts in the Nineteenth-century Philippines

Moderator: Pacita Fortin, Miriam College

·         Chien-Wen Kung, National University of Singapore: A Government Within a Government: Nationalist China, the Philippine Military, and the Yuyitungs, 1950-1970

·         Phillip Guingona, Wells College: Trading Places: Defining Diaspora through Overlapping Chinese and Filipino Migrations

·         Patrick Stein, Reed College: Zheng Leaders and Spanish Colonial Philippines

Moderator: Tina Clemente Asian Center, University of the Philippines

·         Johanna Marie Astrid Sister, SMIC-Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Exploring the History of Acupuncture in the Philippines

·         Ang Chak Chi and Carmelea Ang See, Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran Inc.: Chinese Publications and Sources: New Narratives and Resource on Chinese in Southeast Asia and the Philippines at the Kaisa Heritage Center

·         Niping Yan, University of British Columbia: Sangleys and the Boxer Codex: Unequal Presence and the Making of a Spanish Manuscript in the 1590’s

·         Michiko Pearl Palaran, University of the Philippines: The Chinese-Filipino Crisis: Finding One’s Self Through Media

Moderator: Kebart Licayan, Miriam College

SMT Building Lecture Room 1

SMT Building Lecture Room 2

·         Oded Abt, Tel Aviv University: Narratives of Kinship and Ethnicity across the South China Sea: The Manila Muslim Five-Surname Association

·         Eduardo Chan de la Cruz Jr.: Kaisa: Bridging Families, Bridging Generations

Moderator: Clara Paulite, Miriam College

·         Serina Mara Alonzo, De La Salle University:  Narrative Identity and the Case of “Identity Envy” Among the Third-Culture Generation of Tsinoys: A Qualitative Exploratory Study

·         Richard T. Chu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: The Chinese in Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, and Cuba: Lessons in Identity, History, and Culture for the Chinese in the Philippines

Moderator: Sharlene May Cua, Philippine Association for Chinese Studies

Venue: Conference Room, Environmental Studies Institute, Miriam College

·         Rommel Banlaoi, Philippine Association for Chinese Studies: Philippines-China Counter Terrorism Cooperation under the Duterte Administration: Small State Diplomacy with Major Power

·         Reynard Hing and Teresita Ang See, Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran Inc.: China Issues and Rising Ethnic Tensions and Racial Conflict: Tsinoys as Collateral Damage

·         Dr. Martin Woesler, Hunan Normal University / Witten University:

The Importance of Dialogue even in tensional times - Concepts of change through trade

5 p.m. Closing Ceremonies

·         Synthesis– Dr. Theresa Cariño, Founding President, Philippine Association for Chinese Studies

·         Closing remarks – Meah Ang See, Managing Director, Bahay Tsinoy Museum.