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“Area Studies Lecture Series”
October 17 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The UPM BA Social Sciences – Area Studies Program, in partnership with the UPM CAS Manila Studies Program, proudly presents the “Area Studies Lecture Series” with historian Jonathan Victor Baldoza. Jonathan will lecture on “No East and West: International Science during the Interwar, 1920-1939.” Asst. Prof. Atoy M. Navarro will serve as Reactor.
Date: October 17, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: UP Manila Theater
Abstract: At the 1926 Pacific Science Congress in Tokyo, American scientist William Brown, leading the Philippine delegation, remarked that the scientific congress revealed that “East and West can meet, and that there should be no East and West.”
The talk explores how the series of Pacific Science congresses, held six times during the interwar, created a transnational community for scientists of various backgrounds, fields of expertise, and cultural origins. By examining specifically the proceedings in Japan (1926) and in what was then the Dutch East Indies (1929), the talk interrogates how the congresses allowed scientists to explore commensurable ways of doing and making science, legitimized by an international audience. Moreover, the talk discusses how, for Filipino scientists who were then colonial subjects, being delegates in the congress furnished legitimacy to their professional identity and practice, allowing them to bridge what they understood as the possibilities of scientific modernity with their national and post-imperial imaginaries.
About the Speaker: Jonathan Victor Baldoza is a PhD candidate in History from Princeton University. He has degrees in BA History, cum laude from UP Diliman; MA Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley; and MA History from Princeton University.
His research has appeared in Philippine Studies: Historic and Ethnographic Viewpoints, Archipel, and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History. He is currently Assistant Public Relations Officer of the Philippine Historical Association (PHA).
Register here: bit.ly/AreaStudiesLectureSeries3
Source: BA Social Sciences – Area Studies Program, UP Manila Facebook