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Day 1 | 5 November 2025 | De La Salle University, Manila
7:30 AM
Start of Registration
8:30 AM
Opening Ceremonies
9:15 AM
Keynote Speech 1: ITA FATIA NADIA
Center for Women's History and Archives, Indonesia
10:15 AM
Break: AM Snacks
10:30 AM
Keynote Speech 2: SYED FARID ALATAS
National University of Singapore, Singapore
12:00 PM
Break: Lunch
1:30 PM
Plenary Roundtable on Bandung and Autonomous Knowledge
3:00 PM
Break: PM Snacks
3:30 PM
PARALLEL SESSION A:
Panel A1: Afro-Asian Solidarity
A1.1. "Comrades in need or hegemons in disguise? Rekindling Nkrumah’s Rivers of the World analogy in the 21st Century Neo-Asian scramble for Africa"
Satwinder S. Rehal, The Philippine Women's University
A1.2. "Post-Bandung Regional Identification: The Inner Tensions of South–South Solidarity in East Africa’s Swahili Worlds"
Jianda Xu, Tianjin Foreign Studies University
Allen Xiao, National University of Singapore
A1.3. "Institutionalizing African Studies in the Philippines: From Area Studies to Araling Kabanwahan"
Axle Christien J. Tugano, Baliwag Polytechnic College, Bulacan
A1.4. "Fanon’s Pan-Africanism Reborn: East African Unity and the China–Africa Partnership in a Post-Hegemonic World"
Timothy J. Kerswell, Development Watch Centre
Panel A2: Historical Perspectives on Bandung
A2.1. "Kashmir Princess: Martyrs of the Asian-African Conference 1955"
Indranil Chattopadhyay and Sukanya Sarkar Sasmal, West Bengal State University
A2.2. "Is the Bandung Spirit Only for Men? Uncovering the Role of Women in the 1955 Bandung Conference"
Fahadz M. Lulu, Philippine Women's University
A2.3. "U Nu and U Thant the Double Act: Burma’s Bandung Moment, 1955"
Tathagata Dutta, Auburn University, Montgomery
A2.4. "Internal Colonization: The Bandung Conference and the Roots of the Bangsamoro Armed Struggle"
Raihan A. Yusoph and Al-mahdi G. Alonto, Mindanao State University-Marawi
Panel A3: Bandung and International Relations
A3.1. "Bandung Reimagined: Toward an Islamic IR through Taʿāwun and Taʿāruf in Indonesia’s KNB Scholarship Program"
Christopher P. Gerale and Mohamed Iyas Valarthodi, Universitas Negeri Malang
A3. 2. "Reconstructing the study of international relations in Indonesia after October 7, 2023: A Proposal"
June Cahyaningtyas, University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Yogyakarta
Virtuous Setyaka, Andalas University
A3.3. “Les Noirs Americains, Un Peuple Frere,”: Haitian Revolutionaries, the US Black Power Movement, and Global Subaltern Politics"
Willie J. Mack, University of Missouri
A3.4. "Bandung and the challenges to the European imperial conception in the United Nations system"
Sergio Galiana, Universidad de Buenos Aires
5:00 PM
Campus Tour: De La Salle University, Manila Campus
6:30 PM
Diplomatic Reception and Welcome Dinner
8:30 PM
END OF DAY 1
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Day 2 | 6 November 2025 | De La Salle University, Manila
8:00 AM
Start of Registration
8:30 AM
Break: AM Snacks
9:00 AM
Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake Drill
10:00 AM
Keynote Speech 3: FARISH A. NOOR
Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia
11:00 AM
Keynote Speech 4: VANNESSA C. HEARMAN
Curtin University, Perth, Australia
12:00 PM
Break: Lunch
1:00 PM
PARALLEL SESSION B:
Panel B1: Bandung and Palestine 1
B1.1. "From Bandung to Gaza: The Strategic Limits of Postcolonial Solidarity"
Virdika R. Utama, PARA Syndicate, Jakarta, Indonesia
B1.2. "I Will Not Dance to Your War Drum: Palestinian Women’s Poetry and the Struggle for Self-Determination"
Wenona Bea S. Javier, Siliman University
B1.3. "The Revolutionary Quest for Islamic Statehood: A Comparative Analysis of Hamas’ and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s History, Strategies, and Visions of the Future"
Gabriel Emmanuel D. Gabrillo, University of Santo Tomas
B1.4. "Completing Bandung: BRICS, Decolonial Justice, and the Creation of a Palestinian State"
Abdul Khalik, Omong-Omong Media, The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
Panel B2: The Role of Literature in Political Struggles
B2.1. "The Rise and Decline of Thai Progressive Literature, 1930s-1980s"
Piyada Chonlaworn, Tenri University
B2.2. "The impact of the 1955 Bandung Conference and the 1958 Afro–Asian Writers’ Conference on the relationship between Thai writers and Indonesian literature, 1955-1958"
Artyasit Srisuwan, Thammasat University
B2.3. "A Mapping of the Literature of the Marginalized in Pakistan during the Agrarian Change and Green Revolution (1947-1970s)"
Muhammad Nasir, Independent Scholar
B2.4. "Words Across Borders: Tracing the Legacies and Afterlives of the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association through Pramoedya Ananta Toer and His Contemporaries"
Mochamad Alvin D. Qobulsyah and Dhamayanti Pratiwi, Bina Nusantara University
Anggia Utami Dewi, Universitas Padjadjaran
Panel B3: Reflections on Bandung
B3.1. "Expression of Popular Culture in the Digital Era as a Spirit of Bandung"
Ana Windarsih, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)
B3.2. "Echoes of Mahatma Gandhi in Bandung: Ethics of Nonviolence and Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Postcolonial Contexts"
Nisha Daga, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India
B3.3. "Post-truth, Bandung, and the Relation of Politics and Truth"
Apollo Kristoffe F. Gueco, University of the Philippines Diliman
B3.4. "Muslim and Lumad Indigenous Communities Resistance Against Japanese occupation in Mindanao"
Maria Cecilia T. Medina, University of the Philippines Diliman
B3.5. "Reclaiming Bandung at Sea: Marine Plunder and Postcolonial Sovereignty in the Global South"
Cristián G. Castillo Vásquez, Xiamen University / University of Chile
2:30 PM
PARALLEL SESSION C:
Panel C1: The Many Meanings of Bandung
C1.1. "Romulo's Bandung: Observations of A Filipino Diplomat in The Wake of the African-Asian Conference of 1955"
Jose Victor Z. Torres, De La Salle University
C1.2. "The Meaning of Carlos P. Romulo’s The Meaning of Bandung at the Present Time"
Antonette Talaue-Arogo, De La Salle University
C1.3. "Revisiting Bandung 1955: Historical Contexts and Contrasting Visions of Postcolonial Solidarity"
Fernando A. Santiago, Jr., De La Salle University
Panel C2: Bandung and International Solidarities
C2.1. "Unlocking the Potential of Multiplicity of Trade Unions in Malaysia: An Insight from Japan and Indonesia"
Sharifah Nursyahidah N. Syed Annuar, National University of Malaysia
C2.2. "Weaving the Margins: Establishing the Movement for Alternatives and Solidarity in Southeast Asia (MASSA) as a cross-border people-led regionalism"
Ryan Joseph C. Martinez, University of the Philippines Diliman
C2.3. "From the Spirit of Resistance to Global Solidarity to Creative City: Bandung’s Urban Transformation and a Critical Reflection on Its Enduring Bandung Spirit"
Annisa R. Amadea, Tongji University
C2.4. "Bandung’s Shadow Networks: China’s People’s Diplomacy in Thailand through Exile, Broadcast, and Personal Ties"
Kanokwan Piamsuwansiri, Thammasat University
4:00 PM
Break: PM Snacks
4:15 PM
PARALLEL SESSION D:
Panel D1: Palestine and Transnational Advocacy Networks in Southeast Asia
Panel Moderator:
Jude Antenorcruz, De La Salle University
Panel Members:
Angela Labador, De La Salle University
Susan Kurdli, De La Salle University
Crisanto Q. Regadio Jr., De La Salle University
Panel D2: Philosophy and the Bandung Spirit
D2.1. "Fanon, National Consciousness, and the Development of Filipino Philosophy"
Roy Lexter S. Hembra, University of Santo Tomas
D2.2. "What can Pantayong Pananaw learn from Fanon: Toward a Synthesis"
Roland A. Macawili, De La Salle University
D2.3. "'A new beginning of the story of humanity': Visions and tribulations of Bandung’s philosophical anthropology"
Carlos Cordero-Pedrosa, Spain
D2.4. "Toward A Posthuman Non-Alignment: Rethinking 1955 Bandung Conference, Autonomy and Entanglement"
Fitrilya Anjarsari, Universitas Diponegoro
D2.5. "Tahan-nan and Bandung: A Filipino Concept of Home and Postcolonial Belonging"
Adrian C. Porcadilla, Palawan State University
5:45 PM
END OF DAY 2
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Day 3 | 7 November 2025 | Asian Center, UP Diliman
8:00 AM
Start of Registration
8:30 AM
Opening Program for the UP Diliman Leg of the Conference
8:45 AM
Keynote Speech 5: WILDAN SENA UTAMA
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
9:45 AM
Break: AM Snacks
10:00 AM
Keynote Speech 6: HILMAR FARID (Online)
Senior Fellow, Georgetown University
Reaction: Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III
University of the Philippines Diliman
Reaction: Vladimier B. Gonzales
University of the Philippines Diliman
11:30 AM
Break: Lunch
1:00 PM
PARALLEL SESSION E:
Panel E1: The Teaching of SEA at the UP Center for International Studies: The Legacy of Consuelo Paz
E1.1. "Spices, Prayers, and the Emporium’s Echo"
Cynthia Neri Zayas, UP Center for International Studies
E1.2. "Celestial Maidens and MoviEXchange for Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond"
Amparo Adelina C. Umali, III, UP Center for International Studies
E1.3. "Sarap, Sedap, Enak, Aroy Mak: Teaching and Tasting Southeast Asian Food Culture"
Raymond Aquino Macapagal, UP Center for International Studies
E1.4. "'Dalam Mata-Batinku': Pramoedya Ananta Toer in and on the Philippines"
Ramon Guillermo, UP Center for International Studies
Panel E2: Cold War
E2.1. "Filipinoness as Cold War Strategy: Lamberto Avellana and the US Capture of Decolonization"
Charlie Samuya Veric, Ateneo de Manila University
E2.2. "Retrospective on Cold War Ideology: The Bandung Spirit and Rethinking the Cold War in East Asia"
Jason M. Morgan, Reitaku University
E2.3. "From Kampong to Barong-Barong: The Urban Underside of Cold War Southeast Asia"
Michael D. Pante, Ateneo de Manila University
E2.4. "Indonesia after 1965: Military, Technocracy and the deepening of Inward-Looking Nationalism"
Riwanto Tirtosudarmo, Indonesia
2:30 PM
Break: PM Snacks
3:00 PM
PARALLEL SESSION F:
Panel F1: Constructing Nation and Region: Area Studies in the Philippines ca. 1950s-90s (Batch 1)
F1.1. "Juan Francisco: A Life in Asian Scholarship"
Joefe B. Santarita, UP Asian Center
F1.2. "Cesar Adib Majul: On Nationalism and Islam in Southeast Asia, ca. 1970s"
Ariel C. Lopez, UP Asian Center
F1.3. "Understanding the Nation Better through Area Studies: The Legacy of Aurora-Roxas Lim"
Michelle R. Palumbarit, UP Asian Center
F1.4. "Blueprints and Backstories: The Changing Faces of the UP Asian Center’s Buildings"
Danae M. Pantano, UP Asian Center
F1.5. "Snapshots of Scholarship and Solidarity: A Visual History of the UP Asian Center at Seventy Years (1955-2025)"
John Lemuel T. Magnaye, UP Asian Center
Panel F2: The Agrarian Questions of Land and Decolonization in Songs, Theatre, Film, and Artistic Collaboration
F2.1. "Remembering Arakan: Memories of Land, Dispossession, and Displacement in Rohingya Songs"
Sirajul Islam, Department of Geography & Environment
Vishnu Prasad, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
F2.2. "Singing the Soil: Huangmei Opera, Agrarian Memory, and Cultural Imagination in Rural China"
Zhou Yuqin, Department of Sociology, Tohoku University, Japan
F2.3. "Tumandok Women for Land: Intergenerational Resistance in Literature and Film"
Genevieve L. Asenjo, Department of Literature, De La Salle University Manila, Philippines
F2.4. "They may enclose our lands, but they will not enclose our minds: Long-term artistic practice-led research collaborations with the Mah Meri and Semai peoples of Peninsular Malaysia as a pathway to decolonization"
Wen Di Sia, Gerimis Art, Malaysia
Panel Moderator: Fathun Karib, National University of Singapore
4:30 PM
Campus Tour
6:30 PM
Cultural Night
8:30 PM
END OF DAY 3
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Day 4 | 8 November 2025 | Asian Center, UP Diliman
8:00 AM
Start of Registration
8:15 AM
PARALLEL SESSION G:
Panel G1: Pramoedya and Literature
G1.1. "The Universality of Socialist Realism and Social Commitment in Literature: the Case of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Realisme Sosialis dan Sastra Indonesia"
Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III, University of the Philippines Diliman
G1.2. "Of Manuscripts and Men: A Critical Content Analysis of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s This Earth of Mankind and Miguel Syjuco’s Ilustrado"
Jericho Daniel DV. Igdanes, University of the Philippines Diliman
G1.3. "A Translation Study of Culture-Specific Items in the Filipino translation of This Earth of Mankind"
Eliezar L. Iñigo, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta
G1.4. "Bandung humanism and re-reading the literary canon"
Laurence Marvin S. Castillo, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Panel G2: Culture and Literature
G2.1. "Biopolitics of Coffee as Natural Heritage in the Philippines: The Case of Benguet Arabica Typica"
Aliya S. Peleo, University of the Philippines Diliman
G2.2. "Gongs Overload: Examining the role of the Javanese Gamelan and the Maguindanao Kulintangan in decolonizing complex musical milieu in Philippine Music"
Eva Paciencia Cuenza, University of the Philippines Diliman
G2.3. "Impossible Solidarities in Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter"
Kathrine D. Ojano, De La Salle University
G2.4. "Allegory of Spectators: International Solidarity in Thürk’s Amok and Koch’s The Year of Living Dangerously"
Ricky C. Ornopia, University of the Philippines Diliman
Panel G3: Reclaiming from the Margins: Agency, Leadership, and Democracy in Southeast Asia
G3.1. "Reclaiming the Agency of Marginalized Groups in Colonial Spaces: Comparative Histories of Community Development in Two Experimental Stations and Colonial Hill Stations in Early 20th-Century Southeast Asia"
Alvin D. Cabalquinto, Ateneo de Manila University
Marie Beatriz D. Gulinao, Ateneo de Manila University
G3.2. "Bandung Reimagined: Feminist Visions of Postcolonial Democracy in Southeast Asia"
Valerie May M. Cruz-Claudio, Ateneo de Manila University
G3.3. "When People Lead: Local Participation and Leadership in the Global South Panel"
Lermie Shayne S. Garcia, Ateneo de Manila University
9:45 AM
Break: AM Snacks
10:00 AM
PARALLEL SESSION H:
Panel H1: SEA Coalition for Academic Freedom (SEACAF) and the Network for Historical Truth and Academic Freedom: A Roundtable on "Bandung and Academic Freedom: Legacies and Current Challenges"
Panel Chair:
Vina A. Lanzona, Kyoto University
Panel Members:
Oscar V. Campomanes, Ateneo de Manila University
Rommel B. Rodriguez, University of the Philippines Diliman
Sol Iglesias, University of the Philippines Diliman
PJ Thum, New Naratif
Panel H2: Bandung and Palestine 2
H2.1. "The Right to Have Rights: The Palestinian People Between Arendtian Statelessness and Bandung’s Promise"
Jenalyn Domingo Rowel, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
H2.2. "How Do You Sleep At Night?: On the Ongoing Struggle of Palestinians Through Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism"
Mark TJ B. Bio, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
H2.3. "Cyber Resistance as a New Form of Palestinian Struggle: Code, Connectivity, and Collective Memory"
Lucia P. Tangi, University of the Philippines Diliman
H2.4. "Bandung and Some Thoughts on the Quest for Palestinian Homeland"
Rolando G. Talampas, UP Diliman and UP Open University
11:30 AM
Break: Lunch
1:00 PM
PARALLEL SESSION I:
Panel I1: Reimagining the Bandung Spirit
I1.1. "The Ambivalent Legacies of Bandung: Theatrics, Rhetoric and Aesthetics of Decolonization"
Rommel A. Curaming, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
I1.2. "Refiguring Bandung: Collective Memory, Narrative Identity, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Solidarity"
Jan Enviro A. Quiambao, Pampanga State University
I1.3. "Kapwa and Ubuntu: Revitalizing the Bandung Spirit"
Cleovi C. Mosuela, University of Hamburg
Panel I2: Southeast Asian Diplomacy
I2.1. "Notes on Ferdinand Marcos's Notes for the Cancun Summit"
Miguel Paolo P. Reyes, University of the Philippines Diliman
I2.2. "Ho Chi Minh Thought on Diplomacy and the Southeast Asian Path to National Independence and Sovereignty"
Jervy C. Briones, University of the Philippines Los Baños
I2.3. "'Martyrs for Peace': The PHILCAG and its activities in South Vietnam from 1966 to 1973"
Kevin Philippe C. Santos, De La Salle University
I2.4. "Philippine Foreign Policy on the Unification of Vietnam after Saigon during the Marcos Sr. Administration, 1975-1986"
John Leonard C. Polon, University of Santo Tomas
2:30 PM
PARALLEL SESSION J:
Panel J1: Constructing Nation and Region: Area Studies in the Philippines ca. 1950s-90s (Batch 2)
J1.1. "Pioneer Entanglements: A Critical Analysis of the Works of F. Landa Jocano"
Noel Christian A. Moratilla, UP Asian Center
J1.2. "Josefa Saniel: Carving a Filipina Academic Identity in Studies on Japan"
Jocelyn O. Celero, UP Asian Center
J1.3. "The Enduring Relevance of Aileen S.P. Baviera’s Scholarship on China and the Philippines’ Independent Foreign Policy"
Aaron Jed Rabena, UP Asian Center
J1.4. "Memory, Milestones, and Meaning: The Institutional Journey of the UP Asian Center Library"
Jhonalyn T. Calamanan, UP Asian Center
J1.5. "From Bulwagang Sala’am to the Hall of Wisdom: A Historical Journey of the Asian Center Museum and Its Ethnographic Collections"
Ma. Renelyn Joy Buenavantura, UP Asian Center
Panel J2: Geopolitics
J2.1. "The Bandung Conference and Multipolarity"
Jose Mario D. De Vega, University of the Philippines Diliman
J2.2. "Spaces of the Bandung Spirit: BRI-CPEC Special Economic Zones and the New Socio-technical Imaginaries in Pakistan"
Asif M. Mehmood, New York University, Shanghai
J2.3. "Reorienting Philippine Diplomacy: The Bandung Spirit, Regionalism, and Cold War Foreign Policy"
Severo C. Madrona Jr., Ateneo de Manila University
4:00 PM
Break: PM Snacks
4:15 PM
Keynote Speech 7: MAXWELL RONALD LANE (Online)
ISEAS - Yusok Isak Institute, Singapore
5:30 PM
Closing Program
5:45 PM
END OF THE CONFERENCE
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Day 1 | 5 November 2025 | De La Salle University, Manila
7:30 AM Start of Registration 8:30 AM Opening Ceremonies 9:15 AM Keynote Speech 1: ITA FATIA NADIA
Center for Women's History and Archives, Indonesia10:15 AM Break: AM Snacks 10:30 AM Keynote Speech 2: SYED FARID ALATAS
National University of Singapore, Singapore12:00 PM Break: Lunch 1:30 PM Plenary Roundtable on Bandung and Autonomous Knowledge 3:00 PM Break: PM Snacks 3:30 PM PARALLEL SESSION A:
Panel A1: Afro-Asian Solidarity
A1.1. "Comrades in need or hegemons in disguise? Rekindling Nkrumah’s Rivers of the World analogy in the 21st Century Neo-Asian scramble for Africa"
Satwinder S. Rehal, The Philippine Women's University
A1.2. "Post-Bandung Regional Identification: The Inner Tensions of South–South Solidarity in East Africa’s Swahili Worlds"
Jianda Xu, Tianjin Foreign Studies University
Allen Xiao, National University of SingaporeA1.3. "Institutionalizing African Studies in the Philippines: From Area Studies to Araling Kabanwahan"
Axle Christien J. Tugano, Baliwag Polytechnic College, Bulacan
A1.4. "Fanon’s Pan-Africanism Reborn: East African Unity and the China–Africa Partnership in a Post-Hegemonic World"
Timothy J. Kerswell, Development Watch Centre
Panel A2: Historical Perspectives on Bandung
A2.1. "Kashmir Princess: Martyrs of the Asian-African Conference 1955"
Indranil Chattopadhyay and Sukanya Sarkar Sasmal, West Bengal State University
A2.2. "Is the Bandung Spirit Only for Men? Uncovering the Role of Women in the 1955 Bandung Conference"
Fahadz M. Lulu, Philippine Women's University
A2.3. "U Nu and U Thant the Double Act: Burma’s Bandung Moment, 1955"
Tathagata Dutta, Auburn University, Montgomery
A2.4. "Internal Colonization: The Bandung Conference and the Roots of the Bangsamoro Armed Struggle"
Raihan A. Yusoph and Al-mahdi G. Alonto, Mindanao State University-Marawi
Panel A3: Bandung and International Relations
A3.1. "Bandung Reimagined: Toward an Islamic IR through Taʿāwun and Taʿāruf in Indonesia’s KNB Scholarship Program"
Christopher P. Gerale and Mohamed Iyas Valarthodi, Universitas Negeri Malang
A3. 2. "Reconstructing the study of international relations in Indonesia after October 7, 2023: A Proposal"
June Cahyaningtyas, University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Yogyakarta
Virtuous Setyaka, Andalas UniversityA3.3. “Les Noirs Americains, Un Peuple Frere,”: Haitian Revolutionaries, the US Black Power Movement, and Global Subaltern Politics"
Willie J. Mack, University of Missouri
A3.4. "Bandung and the challenges to the European imperial conception in the United Nations system"
Sergio Galiana, Universidad de Buenos Aires
5:00 PM Campus Tour: De La Salle University, Manila Campus 6:30 PM Diplomatic Reception and Welcome Dinner 8:30 PM END OF DAY 1 -
Day 2 | 6 November 2025 | De La Salle University, Manila
8:00 AM Start of Registration 8:30 AM Break: AM Snacks 9:00 AM Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake Drill 10:00 AM Keynote Speech 3: FARISH A. NOOR
Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia11:00 AM Keynote Speech 4: VANNESSA C. HEARMAN
Curtin University, Perth, Australia12:00 PM Break: Lunch 1:00 PM
PARALLEL SESSION B:
Panel B1: Bandung and Palestine 1
B1.1. "From Bandung to Gaza: The Strategic Limits of Postcolonial Solidarity"
Virdika R. Utama, PARA Syndicate, Jakarta, Indonesia
B1.2. "I Will Not Dance to Your War Drum: Palestinian Women’s Poetry and the Struggle for Self-Determination"
Wenona Bea S. Javier, Siliman University
B1.3. "The Revolutionary Quest for Islamic Statehood: A Comparative Analysis of Hamas’ and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s History, Strategies, and Visions of the Future"
Gabriel Emmanuel D. Gabrillo, University of Santo Tomas
B1.4. "Completing Bandung: BRICS, Decolonial Justice, and the Creation of a Palestinian State"
Abdul Khalik, Omong-Omong Media, The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
Panel B2: The Role of Literature in Political Struggles
B2.1. "The Rise and Decline of Thai Progressive Literature, 1930s-1980s"
Piyada Chonlaworn, Tenri University
B2.2. "The impact of the 1955 Bandung Conference and the 1958 Afro–Asian Writers’ Conference on the relationship between Thai writers and Indonesian literature, 1955-1958"
Artyasit Srisuwan, Thammasat University
B2.3. "A Mapping of the Literature of the Marginalized in Pakistan during the Agrarian Change and Green Revolution (1947-1970s)"
Muhammad Nasir, Independent Scholar
B2.4. "Words Across Borders: Tracing the Legacies and Afterlives of the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association through Pramoedya Ananta Toer and His Contemporaries"
Mochamad Alvin D. Qobulsyah and Dhamayanti Pratiwi, Bina Nusantara University
Anggia Utami Dewi, Universitas PadjadjaranPanel B3: Reflections on Bandung
B3.1. "Expression of Popular Culture in the Digital Era as a Spirit of Bandung"
Ana Windarsih, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)
B3.2. "Echoes of Mahatma Gandhi in Bandung: Ethics of Nonviolence and Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Postcolonial Contexts"
Nisha Daga, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India
B3.3. "Post-truth, Bandung, and the Relation of Politics and Truth"
Apollo Kristoffe F. Gueco, University of the Philippines Diliman
B3.4. "Muslim and Lumad Indigenous Communities Resistance Against Japanese occupation in Mindanao"
Maria Cecilia T. Medina, University of the Philippines Diliman
B3.5. "Reclaiming Bandung at Sea: Marine Plunder and Postcolonial Sovereignty in the Global South"
Cristián G. Castillo Vásquez, Xiamen University / University of Chile
2:30 PM
PARALLEL SESSION C:
Panel C1: The Many Meanings of Bandung
C1.1. "Romulo's Bandung: Observations of A Filipino Diplomat in The Wake of the African-Asian Conference of 1955"
Jose Victor Z. Torres, De La Salle University
C1.2. "The Meaning of Carlos P. Romulo’s The Meaning of Bandung at the Present Time"
Antonette Talaue-Arogo, De La Salle University
C1.3. "Revisiting Bandung 1955: Historical Contexts and Contrasting Visions of Postcolonial Solidarity"
Fernando A. Santiago, Jr., De La Salle University
Panel C2: Bandung and International Solidarities
C2.1. "Unlocking the Potential of Multiplicity of Trade Unions in Malaysia: An Insight from Japan and Indonesia"
Sharifah Nursyahidah N. Syed Annuar, National University of Malaysia
C2.2. "Weaving the Margins: Establishing the Movement for Alternatives and Solidarity in Southeast Asia (MASSA) as a cross-border people-led regionalism"
Ryan Joseph C. Martinez, University of the Philippines Diliman
C2.3. "From the Spirit of Resistance to Global Solidarity to Creative City: Bandung’s Urban Transformation and a Critical Reflection on Its Enduring Bandung Spirit"
Annisa R. Amadea, Tongji University
C2.4. "Bandung’s Shadow Networks: China’s People’s Diplomacy in Thailand through Exile, Broadcast, and Personal Ties"
Kanokwan Piamsuwansiri, Thammasat University
4:00 PM Break: PM Snacks 4:15 PM PARALLEL SESSION D:
Panel D1: Palestine and Transnational Advocacy Networks in Southeast Asia
Panel Moderator:
Jude Antenorcruz, De La Salle University
Panel Members:
Angela Labador, De La Salle University
Susan Kurdli, De La Salle University
Crisanto Q. Regadio Jr., De La Salle UniversityPanel D2: Philosophy and the Bandung Spirit
D2.1. "Fanon, National Consciousness, and the Development of Filipino Philosophy"
Roy Lexter S. Hembra, University of Santo Tomas
D2.2. "What can Pantayong Pananaw learn from Fanon: Toward a Synthesis"
Roland A. Macawili, De La Salle University
D2.3. "'A new beginning of the story of humanity': Visions and tribulations of Bandung’s philosophical anthropology"
Carlos Cordero-Pedrosa, Spain
D2.4. "Toward A Posthuman Non-Alignment: Rethinking 1955 Bandung Conference, Autonomy and Entanglement"
Fitrilya Anjarsari, Universitas Diponegoro
D2.5. "Tahan-nan and Bandung: A Filipino Concept of Home and Postcolonial Belonging"
Adrian C. Porcadilla, Palawan State University
5:45 PM END OF DAY 2 -
Day 3 | 7 November 2025 | Asian Center, UP Diliman
8:00 AM Start of Registration 8:30 AM Opening Program for the UP Diliman Leg of the Conference 8:45 AM Keynote Speech 5: WILDAN SENA UTAMA
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia9:45 AM Break: AM Snacks 10:00 AM Keynote Speech 6: HILMAR FARID (Online)
Senior Fellow, Georgetown UniversityReaction: Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III
University of the Philippines DilimanReaction: Vladimier B. Gonzales
University of the Philippines Diliman11:30 AM Break: Lunch 1:00 PM PARALLEL SESSION E:
Panel E1: The Teaching of SEA at the UP Center for International Studies: The Legacy of Consuelo Paz
E1.1. "Spices, Prayers, and the Emporium’s Echo"
Cynthia Neri Zayas, UP Center for International Studies
E1.2. "Celestial Maidens and MoviEXchange for Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond"
Amparo Adelina C. Umali, III, UP Center for International Studies
E1.3. "Sarap, Sedap, Enak, Aroy Mak: Teaching and Tasting Southeast Asian Food Culture"
Raymond Aquino Macapagal, UP Center for International Studies
E1.4. "'Dalam Mata-Batinku': Pramoedya Ananta Toer in and on the Philippines"
Ramon Guillermo, UP Center for International Studies
Panel E2: Cold War
E2.1. "Filipinoness as Cold War Strategy: Lamberto Avellana and the US Capture of Decolonization"
Charlie Samuya Veric, Ateneo de Manila University
E2.2. "Retrospective on Cold War Ideology: The Bandung Spirit and Rethinking the Cold War in East Asia"
Jason M. Morgan, Reitaku University
E2.3. "From Kampong to Barong-Barong: The Urban Underside of Cold War Southeast Asia"
Michael D. Pante, Ateneo de Manila University
E2.4. "Indonesia after 1965: Military, Technocracy and the deepening of Inward-Looking Nationalism"
Riwanto Tirtosudarmo, Indonesia
2:30 PM Break: PM Snacks 3:00 PM PARALLEL SESSION F:
Panel F1: Constructing Nation and Region: Area Studies in the Philippines ca. 1950s-90s (Batch 1)
F1.1. "Juan Francisco: A Life in Asian Scholarship"
Joefe B. Santarita, UP Asian Center
F1.2. "Cesar Adib Majul: On Nationalism and Islam in Southeast Asia, ca. 1970s"
Ariel C. Lopez, UP Asian Center
F1.3. "Understanding the Nation Better through Area Studies: The Legacy of Aurora-Roxas Lim"
Michelle R. Palumbarit, UP Asian Center
F1.4. "Blueprints and Backstories: The Changing Faces of the UP Asian Center’s Buildings"
Danae M. Pantano, UP Asian Center
F1.5. "Snapshots of Scholarship and Solidarity: A Visual History of the UP Asian Center at Seventy Years (1955-2025)"
John Lemuel T. Magnaye, UP Asian Center
Panel F2: The Agrarian Questions of Land and Decolonization in Songs, Theatre, Film, and Artistic Collaboration
F2.1. "Remembering Arakan: Memories of Land, Dispossession, and Displacement in Rohingya Songs"
Sirajul Islam, Department of Geography & Environment
Vishnu Prasad, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)F2.2. "Singing the Soil: Huangmei Opera, Agrarian Memory, and Cultural Imagination in Rural China"
Zhou Yuqin, Department of Sociology, Tohoku University, Japan
F2.3. "Tumandok Women for Land: Intergenerational Resistance in Literature and Film"
Genevieve L. Asenjo, Department of Literature, De La Salle University Manila, Philippines
F2.4. "They may enclose our lands, but they will not enclose our minds: Long-term artistic practice-led research collaborations with the Mah Meri and Semai peoples of Peninsular Malaysia as a pathway to decolonization"
Wen Di Sia, Gerimis Art, Malaysia
Panel Moderator: Fathun Karib, National University of Singapore
4:30 PM Campus Tour 6:30 PM Cultural Night 8:30 PM END OF DAY 3 -
Day 4 | 8 November 2025 | Asian Center, UP Diliman
8:00 AM Start of Registration 8:15 AM PARALLEL SESSION G:
Panel G1: Pramoedya and Literature
G1.1. "The Universality of Socialist Realism and Social Commitment in Literature: the Case of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Realisme Sosialis dan Sastra Indonesia"
Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III, University of the Philippines Diliman
G1.2. "Of Manuscripts and Men: A Critical Content Analysis of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s This Earth of Mankind and Miguel Syjuco’s Ilustrado"
Jericho Daniel DV. Igdanes, University of the Philippines Diliman
G1.3. "A Translation Study of Culture-Specific Items in the Filipino translation of This Earth of Mankind"
Eliezar L. Iñigo, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta
G1.4. "Bandung humanism and re-reading the literary canon"
Laurence Marvin S. Castillo, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Panel G2: Culture and Literature
G2.1. "Biopolitics of Coffee as Natural Heritage in the Philippines: The Case of Benguet Arabica Typica"
Aliya S. Peleo, University of the Philippines Diliman
G2.2. "Gongs Overload: Examining the role of the Javanese Gamelan and the Maguindanao Kulintangan in decolonizing complex musical milieu in Philippine Music"
Eva Paciencia Cuenza, University of the Philippines Diliman
G2.3. "Impossible Solidarities in Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter"
Kathrine D. Ojano, De La Salle University
G2.4. "Allegory of Spectators: International Solidarity in Thürk’s Amok and Koch’s The Year of Living Dangerously"
Ricky C. Ornopia, University of the Philippines Diliman
Panel G3: Reclaiming from the Margins: Agency, Leadership, and Democracy in Southeast Asia
G3.1. "Reclaiming the Agency of Marginalized Groups in Colonial Spaces: Comparative Histories of Community Development in Two Experimental Stations and Colonial Hill Stations in Early 20th-Century Southeast Asia"
Alvin D. Cabalquinto, Ateneo de Manila University
Marie Beatriz D. Gulinao, Ateneo de Manila UniversityG3.2. "Bandung Reimagined: Feminist Visions of Postcolonial Democracy in Southeast Asia"
Valerie May M. Cruz-Claudio, Ateneo de Manila University
G3.3. "When People Lead: Local Participation and Leadership in the Global South Panel"
Lermie Shayne S. Garcia, Ateneo de Manila University
9:45 AM Break: AM Snacks 10:00 AM PARALLEL SESSION H:
Panel H1: SEA Coalition for Academic Freedom (SEACAF) and the Network for Historical Truth and Academic Freedom: A Roundtable on "Bandung and Academic Freedom: Legacies and Current Challenges"
Panel Chair:
Vina A. Lanzona, Kyoto University
Panel Members:
Oscar V. Campomanes, Ateneo de Manila University
Rommel B. Rodriguez, University of the Philippines Diliman
Sol Iglesias, University of the Philippines Diliman
PJ Thum, New NaratifPanel H2: Bandung and Palestine 2
H2.1. "The Right to Have Rights: The Palestinian People Between Arendtian Statelessness and Bandung’s Promise"
Jenalyn Domingo Rowel, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
H2.2. "How Do You Sleep At Night?: On the Ongoing Struggle of Palestinians Through Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism"
Mark TJ B. Bio, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
H2.3. "Cyber Resistance as a New Form of Palestinian Struggle: Code, Connectivity, and Collective Memory"
Lucia P. Tangi, University of the Philippines Diliman
H2.4. "Bandung and Some Thoughts on the Quest for Palestinian Homeland"
Rolando G. Talampas, UP Diliman and UP Open University
11:30 AM Break: Lunch 1:00 PM PARALLEL SESSION I:
Panel I1: Reimagining the Bandung Spirit
I1.1. "The Ambivalent Legacies of Bandung: Theatrics, Rhetoric and Aesthetics of Decolonization"
Rommel A. Curaming, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
I1.2. "Refiguring Bandung: Collective Memory, Narrative Identity, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Solidarity"
Jan Enviro A. Quiambao, Pampanga State University
I1.3. "Kapwa and Ubuntu: Revitalizing the Bandung Spirit"
Cleovi C. Mosuela, University of Hamburg
Panel I2: Southeast Asian Diplomacy
I2.1. "Notes on Ferdinand Marcos's Notes for the Cancun Summit"
Miguel Paolo P. Reyes, University of the Philippines Diliman
I2.2. "Ho Chi Minh Thought on Diplomacy and the Southeast Asian Path to National Independence and Sovereignty"
Jervy C. Briones, University of the Philippines Los Baños
I2.3. "'Martyrs for Peace': The PHILCAG and its activities in South Vietnam from 1966 to 1973"
Kevin Philippe C. Santos, De La Salle University
I2.4. "Philippine Foreign Policy on the Unification of Vietnam after Saigon during the Marcos Sr. Administration, 1975-1986"
John Leonard C. Polon, University of Santo Tomas
2:30 PM PARALLEL SESSION J:
Panel J1: Constructing Nation and Region: Area Studies in the Philippines ca. 1950s-90s (Batch 2)
J1.1. "Pioneer Entanglements: A Critical Analysis of the Works of F. Landa Jocano"
Noel Christian A. Moratilla, UP Asian Center
J1.2. "Josefa Saniel: Carving a Filipina Academic Identity in Studies on Japan"
Jocelyn O. Celero, UP Asian Center
J1.3. "The Enduring Relevance of Aileen S.P. Baviera’s Scholarship on China and the Philippines’ Independent Foreign Policy"
Aaron Jed Rabena, UP Asian Center
J1.4. "Memory, Milestones, and Meaning: The Institutional Journey of the UP Asian Center Library"
Jhonalyn T. Calamanan, UP Asian Center
J1.5. "From Bulwagang Sala’am to the Hall of Wisdom: A Historical Journey of the Asian Center Museum and Its Ethnographic Collections"
Ma. Renelyn Joy Buenavantura, UP Asian Center
Panel J2: Geopolitics
J2.1. "The Bandung Conference and Multipolarity"
Jose Mario D. De Vega, University of the Philippines Diliman
J2.2. "Spaces of the Bandung Spirit: BRI-CPEC Special Economic Zones and the New Socio-technical Imaginaries in Pakistan"
Asif M. Mehmood, New York University, Shanghai
J2.3. "Reorienting Philippine Diplomacy: The Bandung Spirit, Regionalism, and Cold War Foreign Policy"
Severo C. Madrona Jr., Ateneo de Manila University
4:00 PM Break: PM Snacks 4:15 PM Keynote Speech 7: MAXWELL RONALD LANE (Online)
ISEAS - Yusok Isak Institute, Singapore5:30 PM Closing Program 5:45 PM END OF THE CONFERENCE