CONTACT: piper_prolago@berkeley.edu
The Filipinx & Philippine Studies Working Group provides a regular meeting space for graduate students to discuss new and critical scholarship in Filipino/Filipino-American/Filipinx and Philippine studies. We bring these fields together through interdisciplinary collaborations among our working group members whose own backgrounds derive from various disciplinary topics. With existing on-campus resources, the working group will continue to participate in and collaborate with other Townsend working groups, cultural and social issues-based research centers, local Filipinx American organizations, U.S.-wide Philippine studies initiatives, and cross-campus scholarly networks with Filipinx American and Philippine-based researchers. It is our aim to foster support for intellectual interrogation, student research, and recent publications while developing ties across our professional networks, scholars in humanities/social sciences, and interdisciplinary departments.