You are cordially invited to a CSEAS Tonan Talk, a Brown Bag lecture series. The talk is open to the public, and you can bring your lunch bag to the place. The details are as follows. Title: The Place of the Dead: Queer Performance, Modern Ruins, and Dictatorship Architecture Speaker: Dr. Bobby Benedicto Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Humanities, McGill University Date: February 17 (Tue.), 16.00-18.00, 2015 Place: Tonan tei (Room No. 201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Abstract: This 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 [ Read More ]