Dr. Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo
- Foto
- Figure Photo by Alexander Steffens @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt
- Name
- Dr. Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo
- Status
- Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
- rosa.castillo (at) hu-berlin.de
Seminar for Southeast Asian Studies
Office: Invalidenstraße 118, Room 101
Tel.: +49 30 2093-66030
E-Mail: rosa.castillo (at) hu-berlin.de
1. About
2. Research Interests
3. Teaching
4. Publications
5. Selected Invited Lectures
6. Selected Work Experiences
1. About
Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo is a socio-cultural and public anthropologist, curator, and musician working on social justice issues through interdisciplinary research, teaching, and multi-media knowledge transfer and praxis. Straddling academic, artistic, and activist practices, her work spans critical areas of memory, imagination, media and politics, political emotions, solidarity, ethics, and decoloniality. Through an interdisciplinary lens, she explores the intersections of these fields, seeking innovative approaches to investigate, theorize, and address pressing social issues, with a particular focus on processes and dynamics of dehumanization and rehumanization that underlie violence, inequalities, and resistance.
She is a substitute professor of public anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research, University of Bremen. Rosa has taught at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, and the University of the Philippines, and worked as a curator at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt as well as an indigenous rights advocate for the NGO Anthropology Watch, Inc.
Her current research focuses on media and politics, with an emphasis on developing a political and ethical ontology of photographs that depict suffering and resistance, particularly in relation to the Philippine drug war. She delves into the relationality inherent in these images, their production, and (trans)national physical and online circulation, reception, and their potential and limits for rehumanization. Relatedly, she investigates the role of social media in fostering solidarity and exacerbating polarization as well as social media-specific ethical dilemmas of research. Through this lens, she seeks to illuminate the evolving landscape of mediated communication and its implications for subjectivity and constituting the political community.
This project builds on her previous work and book project on Being and Becoming: Imagination, Memory, and Violence in Muslim Mindanao where she explores the productive force of imagination, entwined with memory, emotions, and temporality in individual and collective becoming amidst a backdrop of coloniality,Islamophobia, political turmoil, and the Bangsamoro struggle for the right to self-determination. This is based on her PhD dissertation, which received a summa cum laude distinction from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies at Freie Universität Berlin.
Rosa was born and raised in the Philippines where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Masters in Anthropology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. She previously conducted research on the life world of compressor fishers, indigenous peoples’ rights, and gender-based barriers to access to healthcare and medicine in India and China, among others. She also does engaged research for NGOs and communities. Prior to moving to Berlin for her PhD studies, Rosa was a lecturer, instructor, and assistant professor in anthropology at the University of the Philippines Diliman and Manila campuses from 2005 to 2011.
She created and curates the Philippine Studies Series Berlin, a platform for lectures, discussions, and art and film events regarding the Philippines, Filipina/o/x, and the diaspora. Rosa leads the Philippine Studies program at HU-IAAW where she also co-established the Negotiating Research Ethics initiative with PD. Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu and Dr. Sarah Holz, and is a principal investigator of the Berlin University Alliance-funded project Co2Libri - Conceptual Collaboration: Living Borderless Research Interaction. And together with Dr. Jonas Bens, Dr. Fabian Bernhardt, Dr. Débora Medeiros, and Dr. Verena Straub, she co-created and co-leads the "Affect and Colonialism Web Lab," winner of the Ideas Competition for International Research Marketing Prize of the German Research Foundation. It is based at and co-funded by the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin.
Rosa is an inaugural editorial board member of Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studiesbased at the University of California Davis, and a board member of the Philippine Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies.
2. Research Interests
- Peace and conflict studies
- Social justice
- Subjectivity
- Memory
- Imagination
- Media and politics
- Decoloniality
- Resistance
- Solidarity
- Ethics
- Indigenous studies
- Feminist approaches
- Public anthropology
3. Teaching
Institute for Asian and African Studies
- Southeast Asian Diasporic Politics - BA Seminar SoSe 2022
- Solidarity: Critical Approaches - MA Seminar WiSe 2021/22
- Language and Aesthetics of Violence and Protest Across Southeast Asia and its Diasporas - BA Seminar SoSe 2021
- Political Emotions: Between Solidarity and Polarization - MA Seminar WiSe 2020/21
- Abschlusscolloquium - BA and MA WiSe 2020/21, SoSe 2022
- Politics of Memory in Southeast Asia - BA Seminar SoSe 2020
- Decolonizing Research and Methodology - BA Seminar WiSe 2019/20
- Populist Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Publics in the Philippines and Beyond - MA Seminar SoSe 2019
- Ethnographic Fieldwork: Methods, Positionality, Ethics, and Challenges - BA Seminar WiSe 2018/19
- Politics of Memory in Southeast Asia - MA Seminar SoSe 2018
- Peoples of the Philippines: Diversity, Integration, Exclusion, and Resistance - BA Seminar WiSe 2017/18
- Introduction to Philippine Studies - BA Seminar SoSe 2017, WiSe 2014/15
Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
- Ethnographic Fieldwork: Intensive Workshop for BGSMCS PhD Fellows - WiSe 2021/22, WiSe 2020/21, WiSe 2019/20, WiSe 2018/19, SoSe 2018
- Post-field Conversation Workshop for BGSMCS PhD Fellows - SoSe 2022, SoSe 2021, SoSe 2019, SoSe 2018, SoSe 2015
- Qualitative Data Analysis Workshop for BGSMCS PhD Fellows - SoSe 2020
- Qualitative Research Methods Workshop for BGSMCS PhD Fellows - WiSe 2015/16
University of the Philippines Manila (2009-2011)
- Anthropological Theory
- Peoples of the Philippines
- Introduction to Philippine Culture and Society
- Applied Anthropology
- Urban Anthropology
- Economic Anthropology
University of the Philippines Diliman (2005-2007)
- Peoples of the Philippines
- Introduction to Philippine Culture and Society
- Applied Anthropology
4. Publications
Book and Special Issue
2023.Fleschenberg, Andrea, Kai Kresse, and Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo (editors). Thinking with the South: Reframing Research Collaboration Amid Decolonial Imperatives and Challenges. Berlin: DeGruyter.
2023. Special Issue editor (with Andrea Fleschenberg, Abida Bano, and Sarah Holz), "Negotiating Research Ethics in Volatile Contexts." International Quarterly of Asian Studies, 54(1).
2022. Special Issue editor (with Andrea Fleschenberg, Abida Bano, and Sarah Holz), "Negotiating Research Ethics in Volatile Contexts." International Quarterly of Asian Studies, 53(4).
Article and book chapter
2023. Fleschenberg, Andrea, Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo, and Kai Kresse. Introduction: Reframing, Re-enacting Research and Collaboration. In Thinking with the South: Reframing Research Collaboration Amid Decolonial Imperatives and Challenges, Fleschenberg, Kresse, and Castillo (eds). Berlin: DeGruyter (book chapter)
2023. "Zerrissene Beziehungen: Affekte und Sozialität in Zeiten Dutertes." In Rechtspopulismen der Gegenwart. Kulturwissen- schaftliche Irritationen. Stefan Wellgraf and Christine Hentschel, editors. Berlin: Spector Books (book chapter)
2023. "The Bangsamoro as imagined future." In Emerging Perspectives in Philippine Studies: A Reader. Stephen Acabado, Clement Camposano, and Dada Docot, editors. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
2023. Critical research ethics as decolonial praxis. Debating section. International Quarterly of Asian Studies 54(1) https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2023.1.21746
2023. Castillo, Rosa Cordillera and Raffy Lerma. “Regime-made disaster in Metro Manila: Beyond an aesthetics reading of photographs of Duterte’s 'drug war'.” In Beauty and Brutality: Manila and Its Global Discontents, Martin Manalansan IV, Robert G. Diaz, and Rolando B. Tolentino, editors. Pennsylvania: Temple University Press
2022. Castillo, Rosa Cordillera, Kay Abaño, Bui Kim Dinh, Henry Tan, Ferdiansyah Thajib, and Clod Yambao. "Southeast Asian Artists and Academics Unsettling Borders, Power, and Authority Through Collaborative Works." In Local Responses to Global Challenges in Southeast Asia - A Transregional Studies Reader, Claudia Derichs, Andrea Fleschenberg, Sumrin Kalia, and Lina Knorr, editors. World Scientific Press. (book chapter)
2022. Fleschenberg, Andrea and Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo. "Negotiating Research Ethics in Volatile Contexts." International Quarterly of Asian Studies, 53(4): 495-503.
2022. Special Issue editor (with Andrea Fleschenberg, Abida Bano, and Sarah Holz), "Negotiating Research Ethics in Volatile Contexts." International Quarterly of Asian Studies, 53(4).
2022.Castillo, Rosa Cordillera and Hansjörg Dilger. Ethics as embodied practice: reflexivity, dialogue, and collaboration – Rosa Castillo in conversation with Hansjörg Dilger. International Quarterly of Asian Studies, 53(4): 505-518.
2022. Yambao, Clod Marlan Krister, Sarah, Wright, Noah Theriault, and Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo. “I am the land and I am their witness”: placemaking amid displacement among Lumads in the Philippines. Critical Asian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2022.2059771
2022. "The past, present, and future entangled: Memory-work as decolonial praxis." In The Decolonial Enactments of Community Psychology, Shose Kessi, Shahnaaz Suffla, andMohammed Seedat, editors. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International. (book chapter)
2021. "When Facebook is the Internet: A halfie anthropologist grapples with evolving social media connectivity." Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 65(1): 143-150. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2020.650110 (article in journal)
2021. "A politics and ethics of viewing photographs of Duterte's 'drug war:' Towards reconceptualizing the political community," Akda: Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, and Performance, 1(2): 54-70. https://doi.org/10.59588/2782-8875.1015 (article in journal)
2020. “Being young and Muslim in the Philippines: Changing the present, shaping the future.” In Rethinking Filipino Millennials: Alternative Perspectives on a Misunderstood Generation, Jayeel Cornelio, editor. Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. (book chapter)
2020. "Stories and voices from Southeast Asia: EuroSEAS 2019 Film Program." HU-IAAW Newsletter, Issue #6. (article in newsletter)
2019. "Mediated politics and the populist political style: Introduction to the Focus Section (guest editor)." HU-IAAW Newsletter, Issue #5. (article and guest editor of newsletter)
2018. “Unpacking 'youth' and 'religiosity' in J. Cornelio's Being Catholic.” Journal of World Christianity, Vol. 8, No. 2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jworlchri.8.2.0165?seq=1 (article in journal)
2018. "Subverting 'formalised' ethics through mainstreaming critical research ethics and a responsive review process." Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 26:3. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1469-8676.12526 (article in journal)
2017. Being and Becoming: Imagination, Memory, and Violence in the Southern Philippines [dissertation on microfilm]. [Berlin]: Freie Universität Berlin. 377 p.
2015. "The emotional, political, and analytical labor of engaged anthropology amidst violent political conflict." Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, Vol. 34(1). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2014.960564 (article in journal)
2014. “Perspectives on truth, justice, reparation, and reconciliation in Central Mindanao.” In Dealing with the Past in Mindanao: Perspectives and Entry Points for Transitional Justice, Domes, M. and Jaeger, D., editors. Davao City: ForumZFD.
Online - http://www.forumzfd.de/sites/default/files/downloads/forumZFD-Moving_Beyond_Towards_Transitional_Justice_Bangsamoro_Peace_Process.pdf (book chapter)
2013. Alvarez-Castillo, Fatima and Rosa Cordillera Castillo. "Gender-based Barriers to Access to Health Care and Medicine: The Case of India and China." In The Living Tree: Traditional Medicine and Public Health in China and India, Chaturvedi, S., Ladikas, M. and Guo, L., editors. New Delhi: The Academic Foundation and Research and Information System for Developing Countries. http://academicfoundation.org/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=173 (book chapter)
2011. "When fishing is no longer viable: Environmental change, unfair market relations and livelihood in a small fishing community in the Philippines." COMCAD Arbeitspapiere – Working Paper, No. 105, 2011. Online - https://www.unibielefeld.de/tdrc/ag_comcad/downloads/workingpaper_105_castillo.pdf (working paper)
2009. Alvarez-Castillo, Fatima, Julie Marianne Lucas and Rosa Cordillera Castillo. “Gender and vulnerable populations in benefit sharing: an exploration of conceptual and contextual points.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 18:130-137. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=4429852 (article in journal)
2009. Castillo, Rosa Cordillera and Fatima Alvarez-Castillo. “The law is not enough: free and prior informed consent issues raised by the mining of Philippine indigenous peoples’ lands; with insights from the San-hoodia case.” In Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing: Lessons from the San-Hoodia Case, Wynberg R, Vermeylen S, Chennels R. eds. South Africa: Springer. Pp. 271-284. http://www.springer.com/de/book/9789048131228?wt_mc=ThirdParty.SpringerLink.3.EPR653.About_eBook (book chapter)
2008. “The Tasaday twenty four years after: Insights on ethnicity and the rights framework.” AghamTao Journal (journal of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines), Vol. 17:75-83. (article in journal)
2006. with Erika Rey, "Social capital, morality and the politics of urbanidad: The case of sidewalk clearing operations in an urban space." AghamTao Journal (journal of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines), Vol. 15. (article in journal)
Opinion Editorial, NGO and Policy Studies, Research Report
2023. Castillo, Rosa Cordillera A., Rachelle Bascara, Jasmine Grace Wenzel, Kate Lim, and Analie Neiteler . "Diasporic solidarity: Filipino migrants' Covid-19 initiatives between Europe and the Philippines." In Global Solidarity Series - Lessons learned from Covid-19: Transforming a Global Crisis into Global Solidarity? Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-Southeast Asia-Manila (research report)
2019. “Bangsamoro hopes,” Rappler. https://www.rappler.com/views/imho/221291-bangsamoro-plebiscite-hopes
2018. “The Mamasapano clash, memories of violence, and the politics of Muslim belonging in the Philippines.” New Mandala, hosted by the Australian National University’s (ANU) Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs.
Online: http://www.newmandala.org/mamasapano-memories-muslim-belonging-philippines/
2015. "Who do we condemn? Whose lives matter?" Rappler. http://www.rappler.com/views/imho/83885-mamasapano-lives-matter
2011. Gender-Based Inequities in Access to Medicines: The Case of India and China (with co-author Fatima Alvarez-Castillo), submitted to Innova-P2 Project, University of Central Lancashire. (research report)
2009. Automated Election System Policy Study(with co-author Center for People's Empowerment and Governance), submitted to the Dean’s Office, College of Law, University of the Philippines Diliman. (policy report)
2008. Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Research – Ati and Tagbanua Case Studies, submitted to the Commission on Higher Education of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines. (research report)
2006. Ethnography of Indigenous Molbog Communities in Bataraza and Balabac, Palawan, Philippines (with co-author Portia Villarante), submitted to SAMBILOG and Palawan NGO Network Inc. (research report)
Thesis
2009. There is No Other Livelihood: Negotiating Danger and Survival in the Life World of Compressor Fishers [masters thesis]. Quezon City: Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman. (MA thesis)
2003. Parabuso: A Glimpse at the Hazardous Occupation of Compressor Diving in Behia(with co-author Andrea Malaya Ragragio) [undergraduate thesis]. Quezon City: Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman (BA thesis
5. Selected Invited Lectures / Panel Presentations / Panels Convened
July 2022. De/colonising anthropology - decentering ethical and epistemic positions, panelist, University of Leipzig, Germany
June 2022. Critical Research Ethics as Decolonial Praxis, lecture, Lund University, Sweden
May 2022. Memory-Work as Decolonial Praxis, lecture, Ca'Foscari University, Italy
August 2021. Solidarities, Global Social Justice, and Radical Humanism, panelist, 16th Annual Peace, Safety, and Human Rights Memorial Lecture, Psychological Society of South Africa, Pan-African Psychology Union, and University of South Africa
2021-2022. Philippine Social Science Seminar Series, Co-convener and moderator, with the Sydney Southeast Asia Center, SOAS, and University of the Philippines Diliman
June 2021. Towards Decolonizing Filipin@-German Solidarity and Cooperation Webinar, Co-convener and moderator, Germany
WiSe 2021. Co2libri Fishbowl Talk on "Research Ethics as Decolonial Praxis, Co-organizer and moderator, Conceptual Collaboration: Living Borderless Research Interaction Project, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
SoSe 2021. Negotiating Scholar-Activisms and Divergent Positionalities, workshop, Co-convener and moderator, Conceptual Collaboration: Living Borderless Research Interaction and Introducing Future Academic Collaboration Projects, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
January 2021. A Politics and Ethics of Viewing Photographs of Suffering, lecture, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and Photojournalists Center of the Philippines
January 2021. Violence, Resistance, and Solidarity: A Transcultural Lens, lecture, University of Bremen Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research Tenure-track Professorship in Transcultural Studies, Germany
November 2020. Anti-Asian racism and the media during the pandemic, panelist, 8.Asientag "Solidarität in der Pandemie," Germany
June 2020. Critical research ethics as decolonial praxis, lecture for the Negotiating Research Ethics and Critical Research Approaches in Volatile Contexts Lecture/Podcast Series, HU-IAAW
April 2020. The past, present, and future entangled: Memory-work as decolonial praxis, lecture, Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
November 2019. 'Moral Governance' and the Making of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, panel presentation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
September 2019. Panel convener, Muslim Belonging and Politics of Belonging in the Philippines, European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Conference (EuroSEAS), Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, September 10-13, 2019
September 2019. (Un)grievable lives and the politics of Muslim belonging in the Philippinespanel, panel presentation, European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Conference (EuroSEAS), Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
September 2019. Roundtable Discussion co-convener (with Kay Abano and Clod Yambao), Responding to Troubling Times: The Urgency of Collaborations Between Academics and Artists in Southeast Asia, European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Conference (EuroSEAS), Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
March 2019. The Politics and Ethics of Viewing Photographs of the “Drug War”, lecture, The College of Liberal Arts, De la Salle University Manila
March 2019. The Bangsamoro as Imagined Future, lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman
March 2019. Rumours, Intrigues, and Communal Violence in the late 1960s and 1970s Cotabato Region, lecture, Department of Sociology, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology
November 2018. “Human Rights in the Philippines,” roundtable discussion with Raffy Lerma and Kiri Dalena, 2018 Exground International Film Festival, Wiesbaden
November 2018. “Genres of Resistance: On Ethnography, Creativity, and Public Engagement,” roundtable discussion, American Anthropological Association Conference, San Jose
November 2018. “What Knowledge? Whose Knowledge? Current Anthropological Knowledge Production in Switzerland,” plenary roundtable discussion, Swiss Anthropological Association Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, convened by Olivia Killias and Zeynep Sariaslan
October 2018. The Politics and Ethics of Viewing Photographs of the Drug War, lecture, Philippine Ecumenical Conference, Bonn
March 2018. The Mamasapano Clash, Memories of Violence, and the Politics of Muslim Belonging in the Philippines, panel presentation, Association for Asian Studies Conference, Washington D.C.
March 2018. Panel co-convener (with Noah Theriault), Difference, Belonging, and the Politics of Memory at Southeast Asia’s Margins, Association for Asian Studies Conference, Washington D.C., March 22-25, 2018
March 2018. Inhabiting the Everyday through the Bangsamoro Imaginary: Insights from an Ethnography of Maguindanaons in the Cotabato Region, lecture, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines-Manila
February 2018. The Will to Remember: Discoursing Massacres and Becoming a Mujahid, lecture, Mindanao State University-Marawi
February 2018. Emotions, Memories, and Imaginings of Violence: Insights from an Ethnography of Maguindanaons in the Cotabato Region, lecture, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology
December 2017. The Emotional, Political, and Analytical Labor of Engaged Anthropology Amidst Violent Political Conflict, lecture and article discussion, Bachelor’s seminar at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
November 2017. Othering and Recognition: Muslim-Christian Relations in the Southern Philippines, lecture, Center for Peace Studies University of Tromsø
November 2017. The Emotional, Political, and Analytical Labor of Engaged Anthropology Amidst Violent Political Conflict, lecture and article discussion, Berlin Graduation School Muslim Cultures and Societies - Critical Texts and Practices seminar for PhD students, Freie Universität Berlin
October 2017. Cultivating Ethical Consciousness and Disposition in Ethnographic Research, plenary panel presentation, German Anthropological Association Conference, Berlin
September 2017. The Tipping Point?: The Political Potential and Limits of Imagined Identification, lecture, Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway
June 2017. The Bangsamoro Collective Memory and Its Traction Among Non-elite Moro Islamic Liberation Front Adherents in the Southern Philippines, lecture, Emmy Noether Guest Lecture Series, Max Planck Institute-Halle
February 2017. On Fellow-Feeling, Imagined Identification, and the Bangsamoro Imagined Community, lecture, University of the Philippines College of Arts and Letters Bahaginan Research Forum
March 2017. The Past Present: Memory as Moral Discourse and Political Tool, panel presentation, Scholars for Humanity International Network workshop, University of the Philippines-Visayas
February 2017. On Fellow-Feeling, Imagined Identification, and the Bangsamoro Imagined Community, lecture, University of the Philippines-Diliman, College of Arts and Letters Bahaginan Research Forum
October 2016. Becoming a Tidtu a Muslim (True Muslim): Religious and Moral Subjectivities Caught Between Adat and the MILF Islamic Renewal, lecture, University of Heidelberg, Department of Anthropology Winter Colloquium
December 2015. The Emotional, Political, and Analytical Labor of Engaged Anthropology Amidst Violent Political Conflict, lecture and article discussion, Berlin Graduation School Muslim Cultures and Societies - Critical Texts and Practices seminar for PhD students, Freie Universität Berlin
October 2015. Inhabiting the Everyday through the Bangsamoro Imaginary, lecture, University of Luzerne Department of Anthropology, Conference on Philippine Studies
June 2015. The Emotional, Political, and Analytical Labor of Engaged Anthropology, lecture and article discussion, research colloquium, Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
May 2015. Becoming in the Bangsamoro: An Exploration of Imagination and Memory in Violent Contexts, lecture, University of Zurich Department of Anthropology Summer Lecture Series
May 2014. Perspectives on Truth, Justice, Reparation, and Reconciliation in Central Mindanao, lecture, Conversation on Perspectives in Reconciliation, ForumZFD, Davao City
November 2013. Discoursing Massacres and Becoming Mujahideen: An Ethnographic Research in Southern Philippines, lecture, Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia (DORISEA) Winter Lecture Series, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Asian and African Studies
October 2013. Discoursing Massacres and Becoming Mujahideen: An Ethnographic Research in Southern Philippines, lecture, Columbia University Weatherhead East Asia Institute
6. Selected Work Experience
Lecturer/mentor, Ethnographic Fieldwork: Methods, Positionality, Ethics, and Challenges and Post-field Conversations, intensive mandatory workshops for doctoral fellows, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universitaet Berlin (2015 to present)
Coordinator and co-curator, Film Program of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies Conference (EuroSEAS), Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, September 10-13, 2019
Guest lecturer, Introduction to Philippine Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Asian and African Studies, summer semester 2017 and winter semester 2014-2015
Researcher, Gender agenda of the Innova-P2 Project, an international team headed by the University of Central Lancashire; funded by the European Commission, November 2010-May 2011
Assistant Professor (rank I) of Anthropology, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of the Philippines Manila, June 2009-October 2011
Board member, Anthropological Association of the Philippines /Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao (UGAT), October 2007-October 2012
Researcher, Gender agenda of the Innova-P2 Project, an international team headed by the University of Central Lancashire; funded by the European Commission, November 2010-May 2011
Vice President for Luzon, Anthropological Association of the Philippines /Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao (UGAT), October 2010-October 2011
Conference Chair, 32nd UGAT/Anthropological Association of the Philippines Conference, Kalikhasan in Flux: Indigenous Peoples’ Creativity in a Changing Natural Environment, National Museum, funded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, October 2010
Secretariat Chair, 31st UGAT/Anthropological Association of the Philippines Conference The (Re)Making of Cities and its Consequences, Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro, October 2009
Research coordinator, Automated Election System 2010 Policy Study, Dean’s Office, College of Law and the Center for People’s Empowerment and Governance, University of the Philippines Diliman, May 2009-September 2009
Co-investigator, Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Research, funded by the Commission on Higher Education of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, 2007-2008
Researcher, Benefit Sharing for Human Genetics Research, an international team headed by the University of Central Lancashire; funded by the European Commission, November 2006-August 2009
Co-editor, AghamTao, Journal of Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao / Anthropological Association of the Philippines, Vol. 17 The Practice of Governance, 2008
Lecturer (rank II) of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman, November 2006-October 2007
Instructor (rank IV) of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman, November 2005-October 2006
Executive committee member, 28th UGAT/Anthropological Association of the Philippines Conference The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization, Silliman University, Dumaguete City, October 2005-October 2006
Technical and research staff, Anthropology Watch, Inc., an NGO composed of anthropologists and geographers who work on indigenous peoples rights in the Philippines, November 2004-November 2005
Research and administrative assistant, Resilience of Communities and Health Systems during Conflict/Post-Conflict Situations: A Multi-Country Study, funded by the World Health Organization, involving the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Congo, South Africa, and Uganda, February 2005-2006