No dia 4 de abril, Stephanie Marie Coo (Ateneo de Manila University e CHAM FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa) será a oradora convidada do Seminário do Grupo de Investigação Diversidades: Etnografias no Mundo Contemporâneo. O tema para esta sessão será Phillipine clothing, colonial resistance, and public memory.

O evento terá lugar entre as 11h e as 13h, na Sala Maria de Sousa do ICS-ULisboa e online.

This work examines the links between clothing, colonial resistance, and public memory by utilising rare nineteenth-century iconographic and textual materials. Investigating the characteristics of dressed Philippine "types," as shown in certain periodicals published in both Philippine and Spanish contexts, the objective is to acquire a deeper understanding of the diverse perspectives and depictions that contributed to the emergence of anti-colonial sentiments.

The first part highlights the importance of clothes in the context of colonialism, focusing on "tipos del país" to demonstrate the development of "traje del país." The methods and approach are then discussed, with a focus on the interaction between words and images, as well as the use of illustrations representing "tipos del país" in periodicals as archives of shared or public memories. The third part examines travel guidebooks to determine how shifts in Spanish Imperialism affected the clothing recommendations made for incoming visitors. The fourth section looks at the various ways the local populace demonstrated their agency, while also exploring the occasional conflicting inclinations of allegiance and defiance. Finally, this research examines two images, one originating from the Philippines and the other from Spain, to show how dress, colonial resistance, and public, collective memories are intertwined.

Bio: Dr. Stephanie Marie Coo is a Filipino-Chinese author of the multi-award-winning book Clothing the Colony: Nineteenth-century Philippine Sartorial Culture, 1820–1896 (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2019), which won the 39th Philippine National Book Award 2022 and the John C. Kaw Prize 2022 for Best Book in History, and the IIAS-ICAS biennial International Book Prize 2021 for Best Book in Humanities at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Between 2019 and 2022, she worked as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (EU Horizon2020-Athenea3i) at the Universidad de Granada (Spain) and NOVA School of Law-Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). She holds an Associate Professorship at the Ateneo de Manila University and is currently an auxiliary researcher at CHAM FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with funding from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).