Talk with Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday, March 17, 2021
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Zoom

Dr. Aboitiz will discuss her new book, Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912 (Columbia University Press, 2020), which examines the Philippine Revolution of 1896–1905 through consideration of its transnational political setting and regional intellectual foundations.

Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz received her Ph.D. in History from Yale University. She is currently a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. She is originally from the Philippines. Published last year, Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912 is her first book.

Moderator: Lisandro Claudio, Assistant Professor of South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley 

Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley Filipino and Philippine Studies Working Group