Date and Time: January 22nd, 2016 16:00 – 18:00 Place: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Speaker: Michael D. Pante, instructor in the Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University, and associate editor of Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Title: The Changing Borders of a Borderline Capital: Quezon City in the Twentieth-Century Philippines Abstract: Theorizing geographical borders has almost always been confined at the level of the nation-state, to the detriment of our understanding of subnational boundaries. Such a disparity is unfortunate given the fact that at the city level numerous forms of sociospatial delineations, e.g., municipal borders, gated communities, barricades, affect people’s everyday lives. […]