Announcement
WCSA 2027 at Ateneo de Manila University (Quezon City, Philippines)
The Working-Class Studies Association (WCSA) annual conference will be held primarily in-person at the Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines), from 22–25 July 2027, with an online presentation component happening on the first day of the conference, 22 July 2027.
Gawâ (Work) is a term in Filipino which calls attention to the complexity of laboring hands. In the Philippines and in the diaspora, the work of laboring hands ranges from those of millions of farmers, factory workers, service industry workers, migrant workers, cultural workers, and many others, who are all subject to precarious and untenable conditions. The WCSA 2027 conference, hosted by the Ateneo de Manila University, thus engages with the theme of Gawâ which generatively and capaciously also refers broadly but not limited to: (a) the ways in which body and intellect are used to fulfill aims; (b) a finished work or act resulting from labor from a person, organization, sector, or class; and (c) the use of strength to overcome resistance and impediments. In other words, the conference seeks to unpack the manifold and intersecting dimensions of work and labor as they are manifested—historically and in the present day—in academic, cultural, professional, industrial, agricultural, formal and informal contexts, be it in contested and complementary national and transnational spaces.
This conference is timely in an age of interrelated problems such as the increasing global wealth disparity, rise of right-wing authoritarianism and fascism, and the climate crisis exacerbated by extractions for artificial intelligence infrastructures and by existing neocolonial relations, where labor becomes a central and crucial concern. The location of the conference is likewise fitting insofar as it brings Global South problems up close. Given these conditions, and guided by the hope of building and sustaining affinities and solidarities between and across multiple sectors, the WCSA 2027 conference invites proposals for individual papers, panels, and workshops from scholars, scholar-activists, and cultural workers.
For further information and to access the Call for Proposals please visit the following link: https://workingclassassn.org/conferences/wcsa-2027-conference/.
The Fifth Asian Journals Network (AJN) Conference
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints (PSHEV) participated in the Fifth Asian Journals Network (AJN) Conference held at the Universitas Gadjah Mada Jakarta campus on 19 July 2026. The conference theme was AJN and AI: Promises and Perils. It featured nineteen talks delivered by editors of humanities and social science journals based in various Asian countries. PSHEV was represented by its chief editor, Michael Pante, who shared a presentation titled "Publishing Translated Documents in the Face of Google and AI."
Call for Papers: The Memory and Afterlives of Conflict in Mindanao
In 1968, Moro recruits in Corregidor were killed by their own military handlers in an episode that came to be known as the Jabidah Massacre. Conventionally read as the catalyst for the modern Mindanao conflict, its approaching sixtieth anniversary in 2028 offers an occasion to take a wider view. Over the ensuing decades, how has Mindanao remembered its long century of war, displacement, and contested peace? This special issue of Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints (PSHEV) gathers scholars and practitioners to map that memorial terrain.
Mindanao is a place where several histories overlap on the same ground. Moro, Lumad, Christian settler, and state communities carry distinct and often incompatible accounts of the same events, formed through commemoration and silence; through official memory and vernacular transmission; through monuments, rituals, archives, and textbooks; and increasingly, through digital media. This special issue asks how those memories are made and unmade, who is authorized to remember and who is compelled to forget, and what is politically at stake in the answers. Jabidah’s anniversary arrives at a charged moment, with the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region past its first electoral transition and a generation with no direct memory of the war now coming of age, which makes the question of what gets transmitted, ratified, and left to lapse an urgent one.
Memory studies and the scholarship on the Mindanao conflicts have each expanded over recent decades, yet they rarely intersect. The critical frameworks of memory studies have seldom been applied comprehensively across Moro, Lumad, settler, and state registers in Mindanao, even as the archival and ethnographic materials to do so are increasingly available. Bridging this disciplinary divide is the animating aim of this special issue, which seeks to draw the field’s disparate strands into a unified conversation.
We invite abstracts that engage the memorial dimensions of conflict, peace, and dictatorship in Mindanao from across the humanities and social sciences. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following themes:
•Transitional justice and the memorialization of conflict-related massacres, among them Jabidah, Manili, Tacub, Patikul, Palimbang, Maguindanao, and Mamasapano
•The afterlives of the Marawi Siege and the memory of post-2017 displacement
•Martial Law and the making of Bangsamoro political memory
•Lumad and Indigenous memorial registers between Moro and state narratives
•Gendered memory of the conflict and women’s practices of transmission
•Digital and platform memorialization of the Mindanao conflicts
•Generational transmission and the inheritance of conflict memory
•The memory of insurgency and counterinsurgency
•Rido and the vernacular transmission of vengeance and reconciliation
•Private armies, paramilitaries, and the memory of strongman violence
We particularly welcome contributions from early-career scholars and practitioners from or based in Mindanao, as well as work that bridges academic and community registers of memory to surface new insights into how the region remembers its long century of conflict.
This special issue will be guest coedited by John Lee Candelaria (Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University), Primitivo III Cabanes Ragandang (College of Arts and Social Sciences, Mindanao State University–Iligan Institute of Technology) and Ariel C. Lopez (Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman).
Prospective authors must submit extended abstracts of up to 500 words by 30 September 2026 along with their brief biographies in a combined Word (.docx) document. All submissions should be sent to the PSHEV Editorial Team ([email protected]), with guest editors cc’ed. Contributors will receive feedback by 15 October 2026.
Contributors of accepted abstracts will be invited to participate in either of two hybrid developmental workshops, to be held in Quezon City and in Iligan in November 2026, to refine and further develop their papers prior to final draft submission. Working drafts will be circulated among participants in advance, and selected participants may join at whichever location is more convenient, or online, subject to their own availability. Full drafts will be due by the first quarter of 2027.
For inquiries, please contact:
John Lee Candelaria ([email protected])
Primitivo III Cabanes Ragandang ([email protected])
Ariel C. Lopez ([email protected])
The 5th Asian Journals Network (AJN) Conference
The Asian Journals Network (AJN) is pleased to announce the 5th Asian Journals Network Conference, which will be held on 18–20 July 2026 at Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia). With the theme "AJN and AI: Promises an Perils," the conference will bring together journal representatives from across Asia to discuss the opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence presents for academic publishing. Through a series of discussions and collaborative sessions, participants will explore the future directions of Asian journal publishing in an increasingly AI-driven landscape.
Call for Papers: (Re)Imagining the Global Filipino: Roots, Knowledges, Communities and Collective Futures, scheduled to take place on 18–19 February 2027 at the AUT City Campus, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Philippine Studies Hub and the Philippine Studies Network Aotearoa New Zealand invite proposals for individual and panel presentations for the 2027 International Philippine Studies Conference, entitled (Re)Imagining the Global Filipino: Roots, Knowledges, Communities and Collective Futures, scheduled to take place on 18–19 February 2027 at the AUT City Campus, Auckland, New Zealand.
This international gathering is the second iteration of Dialogo Philippine Studies Conference and the first to be held outside of the Philippines. Building upon discussions that foregrounded the global trajectory of Philippine Studies, this conference seeks to re-examine Philippine Studies not only as a global and interdisciplinary field but also as a critical framework for engaging with contemporary social, cultural, political and transnational issues.
Centring the ‘global Filipino’ as both a conceptual and methodological lens, the conference seeks to bring together scholars, researchers, students, practitioners and policymakers to exchange insights and generate analyses on the shifting conditions, connections and contributions of Filipinos across the world. The notion of the global Filipino will serve as a point of departure for examining how histories, (im)mobilities, cultural practices and transnational networks shape contemporary Filipino subjectivities and shared futures within and beyond the Philippines.
Amid evolving global security concerns, the conference underscores the urgency of rethinking and reconsidering the evolving scope and shape of Philippine Studies in relation to the pressing challenges and possibilities surrounding migration, democracy, climate change and global interdependence encountered by the Filipino people. It is against this backdrop that the conference spotlights Filipino lived experiences as critical inputs to ongoing debates and research on how communities navigate uncertainty, inequality and disruption, while continuously striving and aspiring for more just and sustainable futures.
Set within the unique context of Aotearoa New Zealand, and conceived in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the two countries’ bilateral relations, the conference likewise seeks to foreground indigenous epistemologies as vital, enduring and dynamic ways of understanding the world. By creating space to consider how Filipino indigenous knowledge(s) is positioned, contested and engaged within global contexts, it hopes to foster meaningful dialogue across Filipino, Māori, and Pacific knowledge systems, as well as with other Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge traditions worldwide.
The conference welcomes proposals from a range of disciplinary and methodological traditions that promote awareness and expression of diverse forms of knowledge and knowledge-making on the Filipinos and the Philippines, while also providing a venue to discover and celebrate Filipino/Philippine-focused scholarship and papers across multiple fields such as the following:
•Art and literature
•Education and pedagogy
•Governance and politics (domestic, regional and global)
•Health and wellbeing
•History and culture
•Indigenous epistemologies and connections
•Methodological issues and trends in Philippine Studies and related fields
•Migration, (im)mobilities, transnationalism
•Sustainable development
•Technology, ethics and society
Full Papers and Publication Opportunity
Selected abstracts may be invited for development into full papers for potential inclusion in a Special or Guest Edited Issue to be submitted to "Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints" or "The New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies." Invited authors will be asked to prepare their full papers in accordance with the relevant journal guidelines, including formatting requirements.
For further information, visit: https://www.philippinestudies.global/
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