This lecture examines how a melodramatic aesthetic and sentimental mode of publicity based on true feeling helped secure the dictator’s so-called “Democratic Revolution” while also galvanizing the popular struggles that culminated in “people power” in 1986.
The Lecturer
Dr. Talitha Espiritu is Associate Professor of English, Film and New Media Studies at Wheaton College (Norton, MA) where she is also the Coordinator of its Film and New Media Studies Program. She obtained her PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University where she wrote her dissertation on “Revisiting the Marcos Regime: Dictatorship, the Mediaand the Cultural Politics of Development.” She has written extensively on the Marcos Regime, her latest publication (2017) being Passionate Revolutions: The Media and the Rise and Fall of the Marcos Regime, published by the Ohio University Press.
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
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The Center for Social Entrepreneurship invites you to a talk by Thomas Graham on Social Enterprise: Building Business in the Spirit of Bayanihan. Mr. Graham will share his experiences while working with Gawad Kalinga Enchanted farm and other Social Enterprise ventures.
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FREE ADMISSION
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Mid-Year Economic Briefing 2017 in Cebu
Assessing the 1st Year of the Duterte Administration: Winners and Challenges
August 25, 2017
Harolds Hotel, Cebu City
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Disciplining with Love (Session 1) : Aims to help parents effectively discipline children who are in their pre-school to teen years. Learn about your parenting style and its effects on strengthening connection and confidence with kids and teens.
The talk is based on two studies made by Queena Lee-Chua, PhD and Maribel Dionisio, MA, studies which are now in book form, “Helping Our Children Do Well In School” (Anvil 2004, revised 2014) where we share 10 best parent practices and “Growing Up Wired (Anvil 2013) a study on media and technology use.
Free Admission
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