EVENTS

U P C O M I N G   C A L E N D A R

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Academic Paper Presentation “We’re All Others Now: Revisiting Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in the Age of Post-post-colonialism”at Associated Core Texts and Courses 18th Annual Conference, The Hilton Milwaukee City Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Thursday, 5 April 2012

Guest lecture for Barbara Jane Reyes’ Pinay Literature course at the University of San Francisco

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PAST INTERVIEWS, READINGS, PANELS AND WORKSHOPS

16 November 2011- Guest Lecture for Interpersonal Communication Class at Ohlone College, lead the session “Digital Citizenship & Digital Communities.”

22 October 2011- SMC Parent Welcome Weekend Classes without Quizzes, lead the session “Classroom as Kitchen Table: Education Through Conversation and Feeding Hungry Minds.”

21 October 2011- Associated Core Texts and Curriculum at Saint Mary’s College, paper presentation: “Engaging First Generation Students with Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality.”

29 September 2011- “The Places We Call Home” (part of the International Filipino Book Festival 2011) at Eastwind Books of Berkeley.

14 May 2011- Keynote Speaker for Saint Mary’s College of California’s Asian Pacific American Student Association’s Cultural Graduation Ceremony

27 April 2011- Saint Mary’s College of California’s Creative Writing Reading Series Alumni Reading with Rosemary Graham and Rashaan Alexis Meneses

16 April 2011- “Engaging First Generation Students with Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality” academic paper presentation for The Associated Core Texts and Courses sponsored by Yale University.

16 May 2010 – “Eating Our Words: Writings About Food & Family,” Asian Culinary Forum’s 2010 Symposium: “Filipino Flavors = Tradition + Innovation

17 April 2010 – GUFFII Reading at the I-Hotel, Manilatown Heritage Foundation

March 2010 – “Getting Savvy with SLO’s” presenter for Composition Colloquium, Saint Mary’s

February 2010 – Guest Lecturer for USF’s Filipino American Arts YPSP 316 taught by Barbara Jane Reyes

January 2010 – Growing Up Filipino II Book Launch, Bayanihan Community Center, San Francisco

November 2009 – PAWA, Inc’s Community & Academic Writing Programs: A Panel for Emerging Writers, San Francisco Public Library

October 2009 – “I’s Through the Looking Glass”- Organized and presented this a two-hour forum and workshop for Saint Mary’s students, staff, and faculty to explore and discuss issues concerning identity and culture, Delphine Cultural Center

November 2008 – MFA Open House Panel, MFA Creative Writing Program, Saint Mary’s College of CA

October 10, 2007 – “A Night of Filipino-American Writing” Presented by APASA and MFA Creative Writing Program, Saint Mary’s College of California

February 22, 2007 – “Sense…& Sensuality: Literary Reading,” Sponsored by Asian American Women Writer’s Association, Encantada Gallery of Fine Arts, San Francisco.

March 24, 2006 – “Blurred into the Landscape: Writing the Lives of Invisible Los Angeles” graduate presentation for City University of New York’s English Students Association, Graduate Student Conference on “Literature and the City”

January 2006 – Paolo Javier’s “A Play, A Play”, Small Press Traffic’s Poet’s Jamboree, California College of the Arts

October 2005 – The Lovely Nowhere- Readings by Bay Area Pin@y Writers, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

October 2004 – “Wide Eyed Workshop: Nurturing Emerging Asian American Voices” by Eurie Chung in Asians in America Magazine

March 2004 – “Pilipino Alumni Association’s Career Nights Network” James West Alumni Center, UCLA

—                 “Babae- A Special Edition of the FilAm ARTS Bazaar celebrating International Women’s Day,” LA, CA

February 2004 – “Our Young Filipino Writers- The Filipino American’s Uphill Battle” by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard in Filipinas Magazine

October 2003 – “PinaySPEAKS: Making Connections Through Words and Memory” Workshop, Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), San Diego Chapter Conference

May 2003 – “The Mixed Race Experience” on 90.7 KPFK’s Program Aziatik Rythymz, Pacifica Radio

—              “Verbal Eyes” Organized by CAPSA “Art of War”, Ackerman Student Union, UCLA Campus

September 2002 -  Moderated “Finding Home” Reading Series, PAN Literary Arts/Spoken Word, SIPA, Los Angeles, CA