Organizer: NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
Description:
Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a talk by Gina Apostol, acclaimed author who teaches writing at the Fieldston School, Barnard College, and The New School; and Neferti Tadiar, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College.
About the Speakers:
Gina Apostol won the 2022 Rome Prize in Literature to write her next novel, on womanhood and radicalism in fin-de-siécle Europe.She was the 2024 Inouye Chair for Democratic Ideals at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Her body of work has been shortlisted for the John Dos Passos Prize, longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and in the Philippines has been honored with the Alagad ni Balagtas award, among others. Her last book, La Tercera, was selected an Editors’ Choice of the NYT. Insurrecto was named by Publishers’ Weekly one of the Ten Best Books of 2018, selected as an Editor’s Choice of the NYT, and shortlisted for the Dayton Prize. Gun Dealers’ Daughter won the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan Prize. Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, out in the US from Soho Press, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine National Book Award). Bibliolepsy was one of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022, and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata was an Editor’s Choice of the NYT. She has received fellowships from Civitella Ranieri and Emily Harvey Foundation, among other residencies, and has served as writer-in-residence at Vassar College and Phillips Exeter Academy, among other institutions. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, and others. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, in the Philippines. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City, the undergraduate writing program at Barnard College, and the graduate writing program at The New School.
Neferti Xina M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of Remaindered Life (Duke University Press, 2022), a meditation on the disposability and surplus of life-making under contemporary conditions of the global empire of capital which won the John Hope Franklin Book for Best Book in American Studies in 2023, and Life-Times of Becoming-Human (Everything’s Fine Press, 2022), which won the Philippine National Book Award in Philosophy in 2024. Professor Tadiar is also the author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (2009), and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order (2004), which was awarded the Philippine National Book Award in Cultural Criticism for 2005. She is also co-editor of Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation (with Angela Y. Davis). Her most recent books are Discourse on Imperialism (University of the Philippines Press, 2025) and At the Edges of Command: Conversations and Reflections on Remaindered Life (Gantala Press, 2026). Professor Tadiar’s work examines the role of cultural practice and social imagination in the production of wealth, power, marginality, and liberatory movements in the context of global relations. Her research focuses on contemporary as well as historical Philippine and Filipino cultures and their relation to political and economic change, while addressing broader issues of gender, race, and sexuality in the discourses and material practices of colonialism, nationalism, transnationalism, and globalization.
Registration:
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