Lecture, forum at UH-Hilo to explore Filipino identityPosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Live Events, Media Archive, Philosophy, United States on 2015-10-14 00:54Z by Steven |
Lecture, forum at UH-Hilo to explore Filipino identity
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Hilo, Hawaii
2015-10-13
Dr. Ronald R. Sundstrom
Dr. Ronald Sundstrom, professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, will deliver a public lecture titled “The Filipino-American Experience and The Post-Racial State” from 4-5:30 p.m. Friday at the University of Hawaii at Hilo UCB 127.
The presentation, part of UH-Hilo’s Filipino-American Heritage Month events, is open to the public.
There also will be an academic forum titled “Knowledge, Power and Identity” from 11-11:50 a.m. Friday in UCB 111.
Dr. Celia Bardwell Jones, UH-Hilo philosophy professor, and the Filipino-American Heritage Month committee organized the academic forum and public lecture to tackle sensitive and provocative issues of Filipino identity.
Sundstrom comes from a mixed-race Filipino heritage and was born as a Filipino Amerasian child in Olongapo, Subic Bay. He later had to nationalize in order to claim his U.S. citizenship.
Additionally, he teaches for USF’s African-American studies program and the master of public affairs program for the Leo T. McCarthy Center of Public Service and the Common Good…
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