This is an announcement to invite you to the CSEAS Colloquium for May 2014. Date & Time: 29 May (Thu) 2014, 16:00~ Place: Middle-sized Meeting Room (No. 332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Building, Kyoto University Speaker: Dr. Julius Bautista, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Visiting Research Scholar at Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University Title: Export-quality Martyrs: Overseas Filipinos in an Economy of Suffering Abstract: The Philippine state's ability to rationalize its deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) has relied on its promotion of ‘suffering’ as a positive ethic. In this paper I argue that a focus [ Read More ]