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Sociology Rooms 209-210

Pagpakabana is a bisaya term means ‘to develop concern or awareness’

The Pagpakabana Series of the Sociology Department is an informal and conversational form of learning with an invited resource person or speaker, usually outside the department. In general, ‘Pagpakabana’ aims to raise social consciousness of the students and faculty. Specifically, the objectives of the conversations are:

• To provide a venue for dialogue and sharing of experiences and perspectives
• To raise awareness of students and faculty on the various pressing issues – local, national, global
• To offer an avenue that promotes engaged learning and critical thinking
• To stimulate potential research engagements, partnerships and collaboration

For Pagpakabana Series #3, Ms. Rosa Cordillera Cstillo, PhD of the Department for Southeast Asian Studies of the Humboldt University of Berlin-Institute of Asian and African Studies will be discussing Emotions, memories, and imaginings of violence: Insights from an ethnography of Maguindanaons in the Cotabato region.

This lecture-forum is open for CASS students and faculty.

Ma. Cecilia M. Ferolin
Chairperson, Department of Sociology
221-4050 loc. 4193

Abstract

How do anthropologists study emotions? And what is the relationship between emotions, memory, imagination, and the (un)making of an imagined community, particularly in contexts of violence, the liminality of uncertain peace, and the struggle for the right to self-determination? I tackle this questions through a discussion of one of the chapters in my dissertation Being and becoming: Imagination, memory, and violence in the Southern Philippines, which is based on my long-term ethnographic research among Maguindanaons in the Cotabato region, who participate and have a stake in the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Bangsamoro struggle. I explore particular Maguindanaon emotions borne out of remembering and imagining violence by bringing my ethnographic data into dialogue with the anthropology of emotions and empathy, the ideas of David Hume and Adam Smith on fellow-feeling, and current kinship theory. Through this approach, I consider the links between emotions, moral judgment and action, and imagined identification, as well as elaborate on the emotional and moral salience of the Bangsamoro imagined community. I end this talk by looking at possibilities for studying emotions and memory in the aftermath of the Marawi siege.