Kritika Kultura An open-access semi-annual peer-reviewed international electronic journal of literary, language, and cultural studies of the Department of English of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.

 

Arising from Our Dance Democracy 2, a successful conference organised online by Dr. Sarah Black (Liverpool Hope University) and Karen Gallagher and Associates (11 and 12 February 2021), proposals are invited for contributions to the Forum Kritika on Dancing Democracy in a Fractured World, a special, themed, section of the online open access journal Kritika Kultura. All articles accepted will be submitted to blind peer review, and the Forum Kritika will be edited by Dr. Black and Victor Merriman, Professor of Critical Studies in Drama (Edge Hill University), who delivered keynote addresses at Our Dance Democracy (2018) and Our Dance Democracy 2 (2021). 

Edel E. Garcellano in First Person, Plural (1987) uses the generic terms “essay” and “reportage” to refer to a particular mode and method of critical writing and thinking, which are usually reserved for the term Critique. In his book, it underpins his critical reading strategies: ideological deconstruction, textual subversion, filmic incursion, praxiological information.

An award-winning writer, critic, and activist, Garcellano, who died in April 2020, taught at the University of the Philippines and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He had been a major influence among his university students who, in turn, have influenced their own students in the country and abroad. His blog, “The Works of Edel Garcellano,” continues to be read avidly by his former students, colleagues, friends and fellow-travelers. It is to his memory that a special section of Kritika Kultura is dedicated.

The Forum Kritika not only aims to reveal the material nature of literature and its form of brain text, but also attempts to investigate the ethical function and educational value of brain text in the arena of world literature. Closing date for proposals: Aug. 1, 2020.

Kritika Kultura, the international refereed journal of language, literary, and cultural studies of the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University—n cooperation with CHED-Salikha's Ethnographies of Philippine Auditory Popular Cultures (EPAPC) and the Korean Cultural Center—will host lectures by Alona U. Guevarra and Andrew Ty. The lecture by Guevarra is titled "Hugot K-Pop: Early Explorations on K-style OPM," while the lecture by Ty is titled "Connecting Flights: Ekphrasis as Intermedial Reference in the WINGS Short Films"; the lectures are on Mar. 5, 2020, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at the Eugenio Lopez Jr. Center for Multimedia Communication (Room 320 Soc. Sci. Building, Ateneo de Manila University). The event is open to the public.

Kritika Kultura, the international refereed journal of language, literary, and cultural studies of the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University, will host a lecture by Fátima Marinho. The lecture—titled “Saramago and History: The Destruction of Myths”—is on Feb. 27, 2020, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at SEC C 201A, Ateneo de Manila University. The event, which is in partnership with the Department of English and Department of Modern Languages, is open to the public. Prof. Marinho's lecture is made possible by the Erasmus Merging Voices Program.

Kritika Kultura, the international refereed journal of language, literary, and cultural studies of the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University, will host a lecture by Fátima Marinho. The lecture—titled “The Portuguese Novel after the 1974 Revolution”—is on Feb. 26, 2020, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at SEC C 201A, Ateneo de Manila University. The event, which is in partnership with the Department of English and Department of Modern Languages, is open to the public. Prof. Marinho's lecture is made possible by the Erasmus Merging Voices Program.

Updated on Jan. 30, 2020: Carol A. Kidron has opted to cancel her trip to the Philippines due to the coronavirus issue. The Feb. 18, 2020 lecture will not push through.

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Kritika Kultura, the international refereed journal of language, literary, and cultural studies of the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University, will host a lecture by Carol A. Kidron. The lecture—titled "Glocal Spaces Lost in Translation: An Ethnographic Reading of Communal Genocide Monuments in Cambodia"—is on Feb. 18, 2020, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at Faura AVR, Ateneo de Manila University. The event is open to the public.  

The Forum Kritika on Goa Before India aims to explore what it means to transit between Iberian colonial rule and new arrangements of power, and what happens to the past in the process. The Forum Kritika hopes that the articles generated will contribute to, if not lay the ground for, a comparative study of Iberian post-colonialisms in Asia, in turn supporting a larger project to craft regional and decolonial histories that are not Anglo-American centric. Closing date for proposals: Dec. 9, 2019.

Kritika Kultura invites interested scholars to submit manuscripts to a Forum Kritika on Spanish Literature on the Philippines, guest edited by Rocío Ortuño Casanova of University of Antwerp (Belgium). Selected papers will be published in the August 2021 issue of Kritika Kultura (ISSN: 1656-152x), an international peer-reviewed journal indexed in, among others, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Clarivate), EBSCO, and Scopus. Please submit a title and an abstract (200 to 250 words) together with a short bio (100 to 150 words) to rocio.ortuno@uantwerpen.be by February 15, 2020 (cc: kk.soh@ateneo.edu / subject heading: Spanish Literature).

Kritika Kultura will be initiating a forum on the filmic representations of issues on genders and sexualities in the Southeast Asian region, in line with its commitment to the pursuit and development of cultural and media studies, slated for the journal’s February 2021 issue. The forum invites scholars of gender, media, and culture to formulate topics that inspect and submit to critical evaluation, instances where Asian film products embodied controversies on gender and/or sexuality, as either local or as cross-cultural phenomena. Paper proposals should be submitted electronically to the forum editor, Joel David, at joelsky2000@yahoo.com, no later than February 29, 2020 (cc: kk.soh@ateneo.edu; subject heading: genders and sexualities).

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The Forum Kritika on Goa Before India aims to explore what it means to transit between Iberian colonial rule and new arrangements of power, and what happens to the past in the process. The Forum Kritika hopes that the articles generated will contribute to, if not lay the ground for, a comparative study of Iberian post-colonialisms in Asia, in turn supporting a larger project to craft regional and decolonial histories that are not Anglo-American centric. Closing date for proposals: Dec. 1, 2019.

Kritika Kultura, the international refereed journal of language, literary, and cultural studies of the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University—in cooperation with the Chinese Studies Program (AdMU)—will host lectures on Hong Kong, China, and the Philippines. The lectures—which feature Rommel C. Banlaoi, PhD, Robin Michael U. Garcia, PhD, and Atty. Jose Duke Bagulaya—are on Oct. 8, 2019, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., at 5/f Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University. The event, which is part of TALAB 2019 (Talakayang Alay sa Bayan, Ateneo@160: Agenda for Hope), is open to the public. Registration required (Eventbrite).

Critical Island Studies: The Islandic, Archipelagic, and Oceanic is the inaugural conference of an inter-institutional consortium that aims to develop critical and comparative island studies of Southeast Asia, in particular, and the Asia-Pacific, in general. The conference—which will be held in Manila, Philippines, and hosted by Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) and University of Santo Tomas (UST)—will be on November 27, 2019 (UST) and November 28 and 29, 2019 (ADMU). 

The Forum Kritika on Theorizing Corporeality in the Climate Change Era aims to gather essays that propose new theoretical and methodological ways to understand the body within the context of 21st century conditions and concerns, among them, extreme weather, sustainability, ecophobia, cultural and national identities, the Microbiocene, and transnationality. Closing date: Jan. 31, 2020.

Kritika Kultura mourns the passing of Peter Horn, member of the International Board of Editors (KK), Professor Emeritus and Honorary Lifetime Fellow (University of Cape Town, South Africa), and Honorary Professor and Research Associate in German Studies (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa).

Kritika Kultura, the international refereed journal of language, literary, and cultural studies of the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University, will host a lecture by Melani Budianta and Shuri Mariasih Gietty Tambunan. The lecture—titled "For Better and for Worse: Democracy and Digital Media in Indonesia"—is on Aug. 5, 2019, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., at SEC B 201A, Ateneo de Manila University. The event is open to the public.