Jun
Paper · Conference papers
Informational Territory-Making: Health Data, Colonial Categories, and Constrained Sovereignty during the Postwar Philippine Rehabilitation
Contagion, Information, Territory. Leiden University, The Netherlands
Talks
Talks and presentations
Papers, lectures and workshops from the last ten years (2017 to 2026). Earlier talks are in the archive.
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2026
Mar
Paper, co-presented · Conference papers
‘More Calories, More Protein, More Progress’: The Nutribun and the Politics of Nostalgia of the Marcos Regime
Association for Asian Studies. Vancouver, Canada
Guest lecture · Invited lectures
Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy in the Philippines: What Endures and What Proves Fragile
Department of History, University of the Philippines, Diliman. Course: Science and Technology Studies in the Philippines.
2025
Aug
Paper · Conference papers
‘We Keep Trained Baboons to Do Housework’: Repulsive Animality and the Making of Colonial Domesticity in the Philippines
European Society for Environmental History. Stockholm
Jun
Paper · Conference papers
‘We Keep Trained Baboons to Do Housework’: Repulsive Animality and the Making of Colonial Domesticity in the Philippines
AAS-in-Asia Conference. Kathmandu, Nepal
Jun
Discussant · Conference papers
(Post)-Colonizing the Body: Discourses and Histories of Health in East and Southeast Asia
AAS-in-Asia Conference. Kathmandu, Nepal
Jun
Paper · Conference papers
The Filled Milk Controversy: Debating Nutritional Security and National Self-Sufficiency in the Philippines, 1957-1961
History of Medicine in Southeast Asia Conference. Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
May
Paper · Conference papers
Towards a holistic and reflexive assessment of green buildings and technological landscapes in Hong Kong
AUA Asia-Pacific Public Policy Network (AP-PPN) Conference on Public Policy. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Apr
Paper · Conference papers
The Dual Temporalities of Waste: Sewage Surveillance and Filipino Migrants in Pandemic Hong Kong
Environmental Humanities in the Philippines and Southeast Asia (Ateneo de Manila University, University of the Philippines-Diliman, National University of Singapore). Manila, Philippines
Mar
Discussant · Conference papers
Towards a Multispecies History of the Philippines
Association for Asian Studies. Columbus, OH, USA
Guest lecture · Invited lectures
Dairying Dependence: Industrialisation and Ecological Change During the Postwar Philippines
Department of Anthropology, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Course: Anthropology of Food.
2024
Sep
Paper · Conference papers
The Ecologies of Freezing: The Cold Storage and Ice Plant, Urban Health and Environmental Considerations in American Manila
Contacts & Continuities II: 125 Years of Philippine-American Encounters. Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines
Jun
Paper · Conference papers
Building Urban Resilience through Epizootics in Colonial Manila
Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. Aix-Marseille University, Campus de Schuman, Marseille, France
Jun
Paper · Conference papers
Inventing the Fresh Meat: The Matadero and the Emergence of Zoonotic Control in the Nineteenth-Century Manila
Malasakit sa May Sakit: Narratives of Health, Healing, and Human Values in Philippine History (Ateneo de Manila University and Leiden University). Manila, Philippines
Mar
Paper · Conference papers
Towards Multispecies Justice? Situating Epidemic Intelligence in a Multispecies World
Critical Approaches on Social Sciences for Epidemic Intelligence. University of Sydney, Australia
2023
Jun
Paper · Conference papers
Zoonotic Urbanisation and the Building of Urban Resilience in Colonial Manila
Unruly Microbes: Epidemics, Infections, and Ecologies of Change. Durham University, United Kingdom
May
Paper · Conference papers
Zoonotic Urbanisation and the Building of Urban Resilience in Colonial Manila
Animals, Colonialism, and Health. Durham University, United Kingdom
Mar
Paper · Conference papers
Dairying Dependence: Industrialization and Ecological Change During the Postwar Philippines
Association for Asian Studies Conference. Boston, MA, USA
Guest talk · Invited lectures
Dairying Dependence: Dairy Industrialization and Ecological Change during the Postwar Philippine Republic
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Invited lecture · Invited lectures
Domesticated Geographies: Animals and the Making of Modern Health in the Philippines, 1860-1935
Ani ng Kasaysayan: The Young Historian’s Prize Awardees Lecture Series, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Republic of the Philippines.
Guest lecture · Invited lectures
Finding Creatures in the Archive: Doing Animal History
Department of History, University of the Philippines-Diliman. Course: KAS 10 Introduction to History.
Guest lecture · Invited lectures
Kasinglakas ng Kalabaw! Animals and Health in Philippine History
Huntahan: The Southern Luzon State University Research Seminar Series. Online; university students and general public.
2022
Jun
Fellow · Workshops and fellowships
The Evaporada’s Regime: Dairy Industrialization and Ecological Change During the Postwar Philippines
Halo-Halo Ecologies: A Transnational Workshop on Emergent Philippine Environments and Foodways (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Yale-NUS College). Singapore
Book response · Invited lectures
Animals and the Empire of Health
Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF), London. Online; response to Colonizing Animals by Jonathan Saha.
Guest lecture · Invited lectures
Humanities and Social Science Perspectives for One Health
St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine, Philippines, and International Alliance Against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade. Workshop: Next Generation One Health Philippines.
2021
Dec
Fellow · Workshops and fellowships
‘We Keep Trained Baboons to Do Housework’: White Women, Animals, and Disgust in the Making of Colonial Domesticity
Ugh! Disgust, Repugnant Matters and the Construction of Difference c. 1700-1900 (York St John University and Universität Rostock). United Kingdom and Germany
May
Paper · Conference papers
Domesticated Geographies: Animals and the Making of Modern Health in the Philippines, 1860-1935
Postgraduate Animal Studies Symposium (University of Strathclyde and University of Glasgow). Glasgow, United Kingdom
Workshop facilitator · Invited lectures
Communicating and Writing Academic Ideas to the Public
Shun Hing College, The University of Hong Kong.
2020
Nov
Fellow · Workshops and fellowships
Colonial Laboratory, Global Experiment: The Co-production of Epizootic Knowledge in Spanish Philippines, 1888-1898
Global Histories of Colonialism Virtual Workshop, Global History Initiative. Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Aug
Paper · Conference papers
Bahay at Kalye: The Liminality of Domestic Spaces in the War Against Stray Dogs
RPG Department Seminar. The University of Hong Kong
Jan
Paper · Conference papers
The Ice Plant Cometh: The Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant, Livestock Health, and the Imperial Biodeterioration of American Manila, 1900-1941
Science, Technology and Medicine Series, Centre for Humanities and Medicine. The University of Hong Kong
Guest lecture · Invited lectures
Animals as Food: Meat-scapes in the Philippines in the Long Nineteenth Century
Department of History, The University of Hong Kong. Course: HIST2077 Eating History: Food Cultures From the 19th Century to the Present.
Guest lecture · Invited lectures
Capturing the Dwelling Place and Filth in American Manila
Department of History, The University of Hong Kong. Course: HIST2175 Medicine, Propaganda, and Colonialism in Asia, 1895-1945.
2019
Oct
Paper · Conference papers
Livestock Production and Negotiating the Terrain of the Law in Nineteenth-Century Philippines
17th Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day Conference. University of the Philippines Diliman
Jul
Fellow · Workshops and fellowships
European Summer School ‘Interspecies Relationality’
Faculty of Social Sciences, Kassel University, and the Animal Society Institute. Kassel, Germany
May
Paper · Conference papers
Cartographic Anxieties: Mapping Animals, Health, and the Philippine Question
Spring History Symposium 2019. The University of Hong Kong
Feb
Fellow · Workshops and fellowships
Workshop on Knowing through Animals: The Animal Turn in the History of Science
Center for Science & Society, Columbia University, with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. New York, USA
Guest lecture · Invited lectures
Foodways and Health: Tracking Meat in the American Philippines
Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University. Philippine History Lecture Series.
Guest talk · Invited lectures
Reclaiming by Adobo: Food, Survival, and Philippine Identities in Migrant Geographies
Comparative Literature Festival, Society of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong.
2018
May
Paper · Conference papers
Beastly Pasts: Animals, Medicine, and Health in Nineteenth Century Philippines
Spring History Symposium 2018. The University of Hong Kong
Guest lecture · Invited lectures
Animals as Food: Changing Animal-Human Relationships in the Philippines during the Long Nineteenth Century
Department of History, The University of Hong Kong. Course: HIST2077 Eating History.
Workshop facilitator · Invited lectures
Stand Up and Deliver!: Two-Part Workshop on Effective Presentation Design and Delivery
Shun Hing College, The University of Hong Kong.
2017
Guest talk · Invited lectures
‘You are What You Eat’: Musings on Food, Wellness, and Philippine History
School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University.
Workshop facilitator · Invited lectures
Gamifying the Constitution: Investigating Current Problems through Digital Games
TALAB (Talakayang Alay sa Bayan), Ateneo de Manila University.
Convener · Invited lectures
History Graduate Research Colloquium
Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University. Organized the research colloquium for MA History students.
Guest talk · Invited lectures
History of Sh*t: Movements of Public Health in Philippine History
Project Laan, Ateneo de Manila University.
Talks archive, 2016 and earlier
12 lectures and conference papers from the early years of my research.
Also attended: 4 workshops, summits and symposia (listed in the CV)