Several of the Department’s faculty, graduate students, and alumni will be presenting at the 15th Conference of the Société Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) Ritual Year Working Group (RYWG) [RYManila] from 11 to 13 December 2024, organized by SIEF and the CSSP Folklore Studies Program (FSP). This year’s theme is “Food, Feasts, Festivities, and Folklore.”
Assoc. Prof. Tuting Hernandez, head of the College’s FSP, is the convener of the conference which aims to ” highlight the centrality of gustatory experiences and gastronomical practices in various ethnolinguistic groups around the world” through papers “that relate to food production, food preparation, food consumption, and their connection to feasts, festivities, folklore, taboos, rituals, deities, legends, magic, homeopathy, heritage, and religion, among other things.”
Assoc. Prof. Jem Javier, along with Asst. Prof. Madilene Landicho of the Department of Anthropology, will read their work, “Free-Flowing Food: Food as Facilitator of Baysanan, a Community Festivity in Batangas.” Asst. Prof. Divine Endriga, Inst. Noah Cruz, and Inst. JM De Pano will also present “All Rice: Tracing the Origins of the Names of Select Philippine Rice Varieties.” Cruz and De Pano will also join Asst. Prof. Ria Rafael in the reading of their paper, “Busog Lusog: A Survey of Food-Related Pregnancy and Perinatal Practices across the Philippines.” Endriga will meanwhile present another research, “Food in Filipino Films,” with Divine Marie Joanne P. Endriga.
Next, PhD in Lingg student Mark Angeles (“Tinola: Variations as Indices of Micro-Identities”) and BA Lingg alum Florinda Amparo Palma (“Culinary and Linguistic Practices of Filipino Women in Japan: Negotiating Identity through Food and Language”) will join in a panel with Assoc. Prof. Aldrin Lee, who will be presenting on “Islandness & Food: The Culinary Practices in the Island Community of Cuyo, Palawan.” Finally, MA Lingg alum Edward Estrera will share a study on “Maa To Ro: Notes on the Ethnoculinary Lexicon of Bagobo-Klata.”
More information about their work may be read in the book of abstracts posted on RYManila’s office website, <https://rymanila2024.webflow.io>.
Published by UP Department of Linguistics
