The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series (in collaboration with The Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement’s “Browning Asian Canada” series) present
Storying Filipinx Greater Vancouver,
or kuwento as vernacular analysis
Dr. JP Catungal
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 12:00-1:00pm
Buchanan Tower 225
Please RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm.
ABSTRACT
This presentation tells the story of the “Kuwentong Pamamahay” (KP) project, a community engaged oral history research collaboration with Heritage Vancouver Society and Sliced Mango Collective, an arts and advocacy organization for and by Filipinx Canadian youth in Vancouver. Centering ‘kuwento’ (story) as method and the project of research for, by and with Filipinx Canadian communities, KP seeks to produce an archive of oral histories of Filipinx Canadian narrative of home and practices of placemaking in Greater Vancouver. Placing KP within a history of community knowledge production by Filipinx Canadian scholars, artists and organizers, this paper also argues for an appreciation of migrant community organizing as political analysis and anti-racist praxis from below.
ABOUT Dr. JP Catungal
Dr. John Paul (JP) Catungal (he/him) is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, and Co-Director of the Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement at UBC. As a queer, first generation, Filipinx Canadian scholar, he currently works in partnership with local Filipinx, Asian Canadian and queer of colour organizations to explore the value of community engaged and arts-based research approaches for uplifting historically marginalized communities’ knowledges, creativity and histories.
His past work on queer and diasporic Filipinx politics in Canada has appeared in his co-edited volumes for the journals ACME, TOPIA and Alon. His volume Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility was published by the University of Toronto in 2012.
