Asian Heritage Month Lecture and Roundtable: Filipino Voices in the Arts and Academia

Asian Heritage Month Lecture and Roundtable: Filipino Voices in the Arts and Academia

Monday, 16 May 2016
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Vari Lecture Hall A, York University

An afternoon at York University in celebration of Asian Heritage Month

What does it mean to be Filipino in Canada?

How do parents and their kids think differently about this question?

How are these questions tackled by writers, artists and researchers?

The Philippines is Canada’s #1 source of new immigrants and temporary foreign workers. For the first time, the annual Asian Heritage Month lecture and roundtable at York University will focus on the culture and experiences of the Filipino-Canadian community. Bringing together voices from the arts, media and academia, the event will reflect on the ways in which writers, performers and researchers have articulated the immigration experiences, family relationships, identities and political struggles of the Filipino community in Canada, and especially its younger generation.

Keynote speakers:

• Jennilee Austria, Novelist, Journalist, Settlement Worker

• Shirley Camia, Broadcaster, Producer, Poet

Roundtable Panelists:

• Patrick Alcedo, Professor of Dance

• Conely de Leon, Doctoral Candidate, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies

• Philip Kelly, Professor of Geography

• Marissa Largo, Artist, Researcher, Teacher

• Ethel Tungohan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Moderator: Jody Huang, Community Relations, TCDSB

This event is free and open to all.

Sponsored by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation, the Halton Pinoy Project and the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Organized by the York Centre for Asian Research. For information or to RSVP: ycar@yorku.ca

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