Shaping City Sense: A free webinar on June 26

Ayala Foundation, Inc. – Filipinas Heritage Library
and U.S. Embassy in the Philippines
present

SHAPING CITY SENSE

A free webinar part of Liberation: War & Hope, a series of events in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII.

June 26, 2021 (Saturday)
10AM – 12 NN (Manila time*)
Online: Zoom and Facebook Live
FREE Webinar with Certificate

*Convert to your time zone

In this free webinar, three historians reflect on the changing urban forms of three cities: Makati, Iloilo, and Zamboanga. Paulo AlcazarenMeloy Mabunay, and Noelle Rodriguez connect those changes to Philippine democracy’s evolution before and after World War II.

Co-presented with the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines, the webinar examines how the shaping of citizens occurs alongside cultivating their city sense. Showing this link are the expansions, improvements, and uses of streets, plazas, and other public spaces.

City sense names the sense of community that helps city dwellers consolidate who they are. Their identification with processes in, and the shapes of, their cities strengthen civic feeling, the care for these places and for the nation as a whole.

Alcazaren, Mabunay, and Rodriguez use primary sources to recall the histories unique to the cities respectively in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. They feature maps, letters, travelogues, postcards, and photos from their personal archives and FHL’s Roderick Hall Collection.

Register here for Zoom access: bit.ly/ShapingCitySense. The event will also be streamed live on the Filipinas Heritage Library Facebook page. Viewers will receive a Certificate of Participation after answering the feedback form.

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The Speakers

Paulo Alcazaren

Urban designer, landscape architect, and urban historian, Paulo Alcazaren is a principal of PGAA Creative Design. He is also the director of PDAA Pte Ltd. in Singapore, and a Philippine Star columnist. He has authored books and scholarly articles on architecture, design, and urban history. For his writing, Alcazaren has won the Alab ng Haraya Award from the NCCA. He also curates exhibitions, and various institutions have showcased his architectural photography. His advocacies are in heritage conservation, public parks, and open spaces.

 

 

Ma. Luisa “Meloy” Mabunay

Former dean of arts and sciences at the University of the Philippines in Miagao, Iloilo, Dr. Ma. Luisa “Meloy” Mabunay is a scholar of local Philippine history. Her work cuts across fields in the social sciences: gender and women’s studies, coastal resources management, and Japanese studies. Her major contribution is on early twentieth-century settlement of the Japanese in Panay, their wartime experiences, and their descendants in postwar Philippines and Japan. She continues her inquiry on Iloilo, integrating research on prewar Japanese immigrants in a larger project on the city’s history.

 

 

Felice Noelle Rodriguez

Based in Kuala Lumpur, Dr. Felice Noelle Rodriguez is the former chairperson of the Ateneo de Manila University History Department. She is known for her work on Malay and Mindanao history. Today she continues her research on the Malay world, global trade systems, and warfare and connections in the Nusantara region. Using primary sources from various archives, she is currently working on the history of Zamboanga as a visiting scholar at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University.

UPDATE: The webinar recording may now be viewed on our YouTube channel:

 

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