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Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Humanities, McGill University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 17 (Tue.), 16.00-18.00, 2015<br \/>\n<strong>Place:<\/strong> Tonan-tei (Room No. 201), CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis paper examines the aftereffects of authoritarian power through an ethnographic account of queer performances set in the ageing Brutalist structures of the Philippine capital, Manila. Focusing on the megalithic public buildings erected under the orders of former first lady, Imelda Marcos, the paper suggests that the modern ruins of dictatorship architecture function paradoxically, as avatars for the violences and excesses of unbridled sovereign authority and as objects of nostalgia for the lost future of the past. 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