The UBC History Empires and (P ost-)Colonialisms in the Asia-Pacific Cluster features local non-U BC scholars who have recently published monographs to have informal discuss ions about a chapter or two of their book. We invite all faculty and gradua te students with interests in modern Asia/-Pacific (broadly defined) and th e themes of empire\, colonialism\, or postcolonialism/decolonization to joi n\, regardless of discipline or department.
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The UBC History Em
pires and (Post-)Colonialisms in the Asia-Pacific Cluster is pleased to inv
ite you to a seminar by Dr. Adrian de Leon on his new monograph\, Bundok: A Hinterl
and History of Filipino America. This seminar will be held on
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Dr. Adrian de Leon i s the 2023-2024 Jack and Nancy Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in His tory at Simon Fraser University\, and an Assistant Professor of U.S. Histor y at New York University. Dr. de Leon's book explores how:
< div>"From the late eighteenth century\, the hinterlands of Northern Luzo n and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of imperial and capitali st extraction. Combining the breadth of global history with the intimacy of biography\, Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across spa ce and time\, advancing a new vision of the United States's Pacific empire that begins with the natives and migrants who were at the heart of colonial ism and its everyday undoing. From the emergence of Luzon's eighteenth-cent ury tobacco industry and the Hawaii Sugar Planters' Association's documenta tion of workers to the movement of people and ideas across the Suez Canal a nd the stories of Filipino farmworkers in the American West\, De Leon trace s "the Filipino" as a racial category emerging from the labor\, subjugation \, archiving\, and resistance of native people."
Interested participants are should read the Preface\, Introduction\, an d Chapter 4 'They Are by Nature and Custom Head Hunters' of Bundok i n preparation for discussions. Reading materials will be provided by the co nvenors a week beforehand.
If you are interested in joining the cluster\, please contact Quinton Huang (qhuang98@student.ubc.ca) to be add ed to the mailing list\, and please direct other inquiries to Ryan Sun (rchsun29@student.ubc.ca).
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