Events > 40th National Conference on Local and National History > Topics and Speakers

Culinary Literacy in Adult Education of the Philippine Commonwealth, 1937-1946
Felice Prudente Sta. Maria
Culinary Historian, Independent Researcher

Southeast Asian Boat Construction in the Philippines at the End of the First Millennium: The Butuan Boards
Ligaya S.P. Lacsina
National Museum of the Philippines

Hibla ng Lahing Pilipino: A Peek on the Socio-Cultural Identity of the Filipino People
Allan Alvarez
National Museum of the Philippines

History from Below: The Economic Life of Philippine Pearls, 1870-1940
Anthony D. Medrano
Yale-NUS College, Singapore

Reviving and Promoting a Town’s Local History Through Kwentong Bayan: The Experience of Taguig City
Jomar Encila
Office of Historical Research, Office of the Taguig City Mayor

Filipino Heritage in the Popular: Examples from Villame’s Rhyming Songs to Max Surban’s ‘Kuradang‘
Jose S. Buenconsejo
College of Music, University of the Philippines Diliman

Jose Rizal in the Emotional Landscape of the 20th Century Samar and Leyte
George Emmanuel R. Borrinaga
University of San Carlos, Cebu City

Displaying Indigenous Filipinos: Historiographies of the 1904 St. Louis Fair and Beyond
Maria Nela B. Florendo
University of the Philippines Baguio

Chinese Vagrants and Social Outcasts in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
Jely A. Galang
University of the Philippines Diliman

Gendering a Japanese Pioneer Narrative of ‘Savagery’: Violence Committed by Indigenous Peoples towards Japanese Settlers in Davao, 1918-1938
Eri Kitada
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey USA

A Glimpse of Ilmu’Pagkausug in the Jawi Materials of Sulu
Munap H. Hairulla
Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan City

Tandaya or Kandaya Puzzle: The Confusion Clarified and the Historical Site Located
Rolando O. Borrinaga
School of Health Sciences, UP Manila at Palo, Leyte

Tagalog and Kapampangan Marriage Customs in the Spanish Colonial Legal Regime (17th-18th c.)
Marya Svetlana T. Camacho
University of Asia and the Pacific, Pasig City

Demographic Constraints to Parental Choice over Marriage Partners in Nineteenth Century San Pablo, Laguna
Nicholas Sy
University of the Philippines Diliman

Jean Paul G. Potet and His Work on the Philippines – Tribute to French Filipinist, Poet, and Author
Regalado Trota José
Archivo de la Universidad de Santo Tomás

Ang Balagtasan: Kasaysayan at Transpormasyon ng Isang Anyo ng Pangangawitran
Galileo S. Zafra. Vim Nadera, Michael Coroza
Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Diliman at Unibersidad ng Ateneo de Manila