Date and Time: 21 July 2016, 16:00-17:30 Place: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201),CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Speaker: Prof. Filomeno Aguilar Jr. Title: Romancing Tropicality: Ilustrado Portraits of the Climate in the Late Nineteenth Century Philippines. Abstract: In contrast to the literature’s dominant focus on Western constructions of tropicality, this article explores the representations of the tropics from the perspective of the colonized, specifically the climatological conditions of the Philippines as portrayed in the late nineteenth century by the Europe-based native intellectuals known as ilustrados. Their visceral estrangement from Spain and anticolonial sentiment led to idealized representations that reversed the colonizers’ prejudice against the tropics as causing indolence and [ Read More ]