The 2nd Roderick Hall Memorial Lectures

KAMLON’S REBELLION, 1948-1955:
A FORGOTTEN SULU INSURGENCY
AND THE HIDDEN LEGACIES OF WORLD WAR II
with Thomas McKenna

A free webinar presented by
Ayala Foundation, Inc. – Filipinas Heritage Library
March 9, 2024 (Saturday) | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Online via Zoom

On the island of Jolo, a former anti-Japanese guerrilla in his sixties fought the combined forces of the Philippine army, navy, and air force in the first decade of the postwar Philippine Republic. He was never defeated in battle. Supported by pirate raids across international borders, Kamlon’s Rebellion resonated throughout the region and taxed the military resources of the new republic.

Join us on March 9, 2024 as Thomas McKenna returns to uncover a dramatic though little-known armed conflict that would help shape modern-day Mindanao and Sulu.

The Roderick Hall Memorial Lectures are an annual lecture series to commemorate the longtime patron of Filipinas Heritage Library (FHL), Mr. Roderick Hall. Over the course of his lifetime, Mr. Hall built The Roderick Hall Collection. Each talk in the lecture series promotes a uniquely Filipino experience of World War II and the war’s continuing legacy. This year’s lectures are made possible through the generous support of Ms. Consuelo Hall McHugh and family.

Thomas McKenna
Speaker

An anthropologist who has lived and worked for years in Bangsamoro communities in the Philippines and has spent decades writing and conducting research on their culture and history. Formerly Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he has won writing and teaching awards and has been invited to present his work on the Moros at Oxford University, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, among other forums. He is the author of Moro Warrior (from Ateneo University Press), Muslim Rulers and Rebels (from Anvil Press), and a number of other published works. He lives with his wife in San Francisco.