DIALOGUE:
Doing Performance Studies in Literature Departments
about the event
This event is a series of online conversations between performance studies scholars situated in literature departments in universities in the Philippines.
The conversations engage with disciplinary issues and challenges experienced by these scholars, highlighting innovative approaches in advancing performance scholarship enriched or influenced by their department’s disciplinal aims while recognizing the struggles experienced in situating performance studies as a distinct discipline.
featured sessions
23
Sep
2026
First Session
21
Oct
2026
Second Session
18
Nov
2026
Third Session
ORGANIZER/S & INSTITUTION AFFILIATION
Department of Literature, De La Salle University
About the speakers
Jose Kervin Cesar B. Calabias is an Igorot Kankana-ey scholar from Baguio City, Philippines. He is an associate professorial lecturer at the Department of Literature at De La Salle University in Manila and managing editor of Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance. He has a PhD in Cultural Studies from Lingnan University Hong Kong where he received the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme and the Belt and Road Scholarship awards. His research areas and publications examine the intersections of contemporary Igorot indigeneity, activism, and social media.
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