Speaking Engagements

2025

The 30th Annual Philippine Studies Forum in Japan. University of Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan.
Paper: Populism, Nationalism, and the Moral Economy of Reciprocity: The Case of Duterte’s ICC Arrest.

Rethinking Social Research: Digital Methods and Virtual Fieldwork. College of Communication, Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Manila, Philippines.

2024

Accelerating Prevention and Control of Dengue in South-East Asia Region: Regional Updates. World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia. New Delhi, India.

Risk Communication and Community Engagement During Health Emergencies. World Health Organization Myanmar. Yangon, Myanmar.

Infodemic Management Training. World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia. Paro, Bhutan.

2023

Workshop to Finalize SOP on Infodemic Management. Cambodian Ministry of Health, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Consultative Workshop: Addressing and Managing Misinformation and Disinformation in Cambodia. Cambodian Ministry of Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Risk Communication Training of Trainers. Papua New Guinea National Department of Health. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Internal Infodemic Management Training. World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Manila, Philippines.

SocialNet + RCCE-IM School Training: Global Tools, Regional Guidance, Local Wisdom. World Health Organization. Krakow, Poland.

2022

Infodemic Management Training. World Health Organization Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and Singapore. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Ontology of the Present. Department of History, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Session: Populism as a symptom of the present: the intersection of populism with nationalism and colonialism in Asia
Paper: Populist and nationalist discourse in the dark social: A Philippine case study

2021

IPRA@24: Charting Developments in Philippine Indigenous Peoples Rights. University of the Philippines Baguio, Baguio City, Philippines.
Session: Appropriation, attribution, and indigenous peoples’ cultural rights 
Paper: Commodifying cultures, negotiating identities: The reproduction and performance of the Cordilleran cultural heritage in Tam-awan Village

11th European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS 2021) Conference. Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Panel: Memory, heritage, commemoration, and contestations in Southeast Asia
Paper: The politics of nostalgia and the Marcos “Golden Age” in the Philippines

The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12). Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan.
Panel: Politics and identities in Southeast Asia
Paper: Disinformation and historical distortion: The politics of nostalgia and the Marcos “Golden Age”

2021 International Southeast Asian Media Studies Virtual Conference. Baguio City, Philippines.
Panel: The geopolitics of media infrastructure: From old colonialisms to new capitalisms
Paper: Disinformation and historical distortion: The politics of nostalgia and the Marcos “Golden Age”

2020

Contesting Memorial Spaces in the Asia-Pacific. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Panel: From the margins
Paper: Commodifying cultures, negotiating identities: The reproduction and performance of the Cordilleran cultural heritage in Tam-awan Village, Philippines

Empowering Network for International Thai and ASEAN Studies-ENITAS 2020. Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Paper: Policing cyberspace: Understanding online repression in Thailand and the Philippines

The 6th Lemkin Reunion. Shattuck Center, School of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Session: Transactional foreign policies and democratic backsliding
Paper: How the Beijing-Manila relationship impacts the state of democracy and rule of law in the Philippines

2019

Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA) Biennial Conference 2019. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Panel: Conflicts in Southeast Asia: Challenges and trajectories
Paper: Realigning a nation: Analyzing Duterte’s foreign policy shift in the context of China’s bid for global supremacy

Wenzao International Conference on Southeast Asian Studies 2019. Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Panel: Challenges of a regional community
Paper: The South China Sea dispute: Examining Duterte’s foreign policy shift in the context of the China-ASEAN geopolitics

10th European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS 2020) Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Panel: Challenges to the future of ASEAN
Paper: The South China Sea dispute: Examining Duterte’s foreign policy shift in the context of the China-ASEAN geopolitics

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference 2019. Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines.
Panel: Gender across generations: Tracing identity and performativity in visual texts in East and Southeast Asia
Paper: NEPA and women: A study of the relationship between the representation of gender, fulfillment of role, and acceptance of identity

2015

First College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Graduate Student Research Conference. University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
Paper: Ice cream and refrigeration: Americanization of Filipino food and kitchen

2014

Alternative Urbanities: New Perspectives on Quezon City and Urbanizing Asia. Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines.
Panel: Political and economic perspectives
Paper: NEPA and Quezon City: Protectionism and nationalist economy

2013

Cheche Lazaro Kritika Series. University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
Paper: Ang pagsasa-NEPA ng tangkilikan at kamalayang bayan, 1934–1941

College of Mass Communication Research Brownbag Series. University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
Paper: Everyday television practices in the Philippines: An interim report

2012

Cheche Lazaro Kritika Series. University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
Paper: Colonizing Filipino standards: A historical study of Philippine advertising, 1901–1966

2011

UPLB Rizal @150 Goes to Dapitan. Andres Bonifacio College, Dipolog, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines.
Paper: Rizal’s Asia: Travels and perspectives on late 19th century Asia

Rizal: Malay, Diwa, Puso at Buhay. National Historical Commission of the Philippines Academic Conference, Laguna, Philippines.
Paper: Jose Rizal: Monumento ng pag-alala, alaala ng mga monumento