Recent international_uclacseas items

Areal Typology of Southeast Asian Languages: Evidence from the World Atlas of Language Structures

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Bibliography and data provided as a handout to accompany keynote lecture at the joint UCLA-UC Berkeley conference on Languages of Southeast Asia, held at UCLA January 30 - February 1, 2009.

Smart Teaching and Learning Strategies in Pre-writing Activities in Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language)

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This is a qualitative case study of four smart schools’ teachers using purposive sampling. The study unveils the implementation of smart teaching and learning strategies in pre-writing activities in Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language). Pre-writing activities include reading, free writing, brainstorming, mind mapping, and listening. These activities revolve around student centered learning, thoughtful learning, group work, and also media in the implementation of teaching and learning. There is Integration of Learning Theories based on Brain Based Learning Theory in the prewriting activities. Qualitative data are derived from triangulation of data from non-participant observation, interviews, document analysis as well as vignette and concept maps. Validity is documented through six segments: triangulation from multisources, experts’ review, long-term observation, peer checking, investigator’s position, and collaborative ties with participants. Reliability is determined by the researcher,...

Selected Abstracts from the Languages of Southeast Asia Conference

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Selected abstracts from the UCLA – UC Berkeley Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies, Friday, January 30 - Sunday, February 1, 2009, 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Campus. A forum for presentations of new research and the exchange of ideas to create fresh conversations between scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian languages.

Filipino Intellectuals and Postcolonial Theory: The Case of E. San Juan, Jr.

Mon, 8 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This essay discusses the distinctive features of the writings of Epifanio San Juan, Jr. with special reference to his interpretation of postcolonial theory. After demonstrating the significance of postcolonial theories from a Japanese perspective, San Juan’s approach toward postcolonial theory is critically examined. By doing so, positive linkage between postcolonial studies and the new directions in Philippine studies is sought.

The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This essay explores the role of the cell phones and the practice of texting within the context of the civilian backed coup that overthrew President Joseph Estrada in January of 2001 popularly known as “People Power II.” It focuses in particular on a set of political fantasies among the Filipino middle class, including their belief in in the power of communication technologies to transmit messages at a distance and in their ability to possess that power. In the same vein, they had faith in their ability to master their relationship to the masses of people with whom they regularly shared Manila’s crowded streets, utilizing the power of crowds to speak to the state. Communication from this perspective held the messianic promise of refashioning the heterogenous crowd into a people addressing and addressed by the promise of justice. But as we shall see, such telecommunicative notions were predicated on the putative “voicelessness” of the masses. For once heard, the masses called...

Islam and Women’s Rights

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The Islamic resurgence that has engulfed most Muslim countries today has thrown forth different levels of tension and competing ideologies within these societies: what Islam, whose Islam is the right Islam? Very often, it is the status and rights of women that have become the first casualty in this battleground. The struggle for equality and justice for Muslim women must therefore be placed within the context of women living in Muslim societies where Islam is increasingly shaping and redefining our lives. Very often, it is the Muslim women who are targeted to reflect society’s renewed commitment to the faith in ways that are often discriminatory and oppressive.

Philippine Historiography and Colonial Discourse: Eight Selected Essays on Postcolonial Studies in the Philippines (An Introduction to the Japanese Translation) by Yoshiko Nagano (translated into English by Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes)

Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

This essay was originally written by Yoshiko Nagano in 2004 in Japanese as a commentary to an edited volume where Japanese translation of eight essays by three Filipino historians, Reynaldo C. Ileto, Vicente L. Rafael and Floro C. Quibuyen - originally written in English – are compiled. Originally the essay was written for Japanese readers, then translated into English by Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes. The essay analyzes the contributions of the three Filipino authors to Philippine historiography, to post-colonial studies broadly, and to post-colonial studies in Japan in particular.

The Landing at Leyte -- After Fifty Years

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

For one who would like to see U.S. relations with the Philippines democratic in form and content, the landing of General Douglas MacArthur at Leyte in October 1944 inspires feelings that are decidedly ambivalent. On the one hand the landing signifies the defeat of Japanese rule in the Philippines, and so can be seen as an important link in the global victory over the fascist axis. So much is positive. But in moving from a consideration of the general and global meaning of the event to its more particular and local significance for the Philippine people, the picture becomes darker, more negative. Viewed from this standpoint the MacArthur landing bears a striking resemblance to an earlier U.S. military incursion in Philippine affairs, Admiral George Dewey’s entry into Manila Bay in 1898.

Talk at the Anniversary Celebration of the Defeat of the Bases Treaty

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Talk delivered by Daniel Boone Schirmer in Manila, Philippines celebrating the 1991 vote in the Philippine Senate that rejected the renewal of the treaty between the United States and the Philippines to allow the continuation of U.S. military bases in the Philippines. The bases were closed in 1992, a year after the treaty was rejected.

Reflections on Processing the Schirmer Papers

Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Processing the papers of Boone Schirmer was a wonderful experience for an undergraduate. The papers provided a memorable education both about a unique individual, and about an important period in history. Some of Schirmer's quirks also were revealed in the process.

Boone Schirmer and the Early Days of the Philippines Information Bulletin, Friends of the Filipino People, and the Philippines Program at Goddard-Cambridge

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Daniel Boone Schirmer had a lasting impact on the movement in the United States to oppose martial law in the Philippines from 1972 until his death in 2006. He was active in several AMLM institutions such as the Philippines Information Bulletin, Friends of the Filipino People, and the Philippines program of the Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change.

Philippine Bases and U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy