Invitation to

The International Conference on Education, Imperialism, and Resistance

August 10-11, 2009
Taipei, Taiwan

Organizers:

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle Working Group on Teachers, Researchers, and other Education Personnel;
International Center for Taiwan Social Studies (世新大學台灣社會研究國際中心)
Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies. (台灣社會研究季刊)

Venue:

S1204, She-Wo Building, Shih Hsin University,
No. 1, Lane 17, Sec. 1, Mu-Cha Rd., Taiepi
台北市木柵路一段17巷1號，世新大學舍我樓1204會議室

Background and Objectives:

Imperialism is at the root of untold suffering for billions of people throughout the world. Imperialist banks and corporations reap huge profits from the exploitation of working people even as the world economy is racked by crises, the gap between rich and poor countries widens, hundreds of millions are thrown into unemployment, billions are kept in poverty, and environmental destruction proceeds unabated. The imperialist countries, led by the United States, wage wars of aggression to control valuable markets and resources and suppress revolutionary movements. All over the world, imperialism intensifies the oppression of women, exacerbates racial and ethnic conflicts, and incites discrimination against migrants.

In the guise of neoliberal globalization, imperialism is having a devastating impact on education. Drastic cuts in public spending for education have become the norm. Teachers, researchers, and other education personnel suffer deteriorating standards of living as salaries fail to keep up with rising costs. Large numbers are being laid off as governments close down schools and universities deemed inefficient. As education becomes the flashpoint for popular struggles, schools and universities are increasingly subjected to state repression.

Imperialism exercises an ever-tightening grip on education. The WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) has placed liberalization of the so-called education market and the privatization of education on the agenda of future negotiations, along with other basic social services. Teaching and research are to an unprecedented extent driven and defined by corporate interests.

Imperialist control of education is a key element in imperialist domination of culture as a whole. U.S. imperialism, in particular, makes full use of the means at its disposal—chiefly its huge monopolies in mass media—to shape world public opinion according to its interests. Monopolies have increasing influence over curricula, education programs, institutional organization, and research agendas.

Struggle over knowledge and research is a key aspect of struggles against imperialism. On the one hand, imperialist domination of education and research is used to undermine people’s struggles. On the other, a critique of imperialist ideology can be an important tool in the struggle for radical structural change. Throughout the world today, education workers respond to imperialist globalization through solidarity and struggle to defend their rights and welfare, the people’s right to education, and advance the struggle for a more just and humane future for all.

The conference aims to bring together academics and social activists to put forward a progressive critique of imperialism and education. Participants to the conference will present critiques of aspects of imperialism and education including access to education, education sector reforms on neoliberal lines, right to education and livelihood, the political economy of education, the politics and theories of knowledge production and research, the impact of privatization and liberalization on educators and students and the impacts of education sector reforms on societies.

Program

 

 

August  10, Monday

Time

Activity

Panelists

8:30 – 9:00am

Registration

9:00
–

10:00am

Opening Program

 

 

09:00—09:10 

Welcome Remarks

Barbara Waldern

ILPS Working Group on Teachers, Researchers, and other Education Personnel

09:10—09:20

Introduction of Local Context

 

 

09:20—09:40

Keynote Speech 1:

 

Professor Jose Maria Sison

Chairperson,

International League of Peoples Struggles

09:40—10:00

Introduction of Conference Participants

Messages

 

10:00—12:00pm

Panel

1: 

Education and Imperialism in Historical Context

Moderator:

Antonio Tinio

ACT-Philippines

“Managing Democracy”: Cold War American Universities in the

Philippines 

Historical Insights into the Struggle for Linguistic
Self-Determination in the

Philippines

From the Thomasites to the

Monroe Survey: Historical Roots of Neoliberal Education in the
Philippines                                        

Educational Politics at Carlisle: Re-reading and Re-writing American
Imperialism from an Indian Perspective  

Colleen Woods

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

 

Maria Teresa Tinio

Ateneo de Manila University

Francis A. Gealogo,

Ateneo de Manila University

 

 

Kiara M. Vigil,

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

12:00
–

01:30pm

Lunch
Break

01:30
–

03:00pm

 

Panel

2: Education and Markets: A Focus On The

Philippines

Moderator:

Francis Gealogo

Ateneo de Manila University

Privatization of the University of the Philippines: Circumstance, Forms,
Resistance

 

The Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism and the University of the
Philippines

 

UP-Ayala Techno-Hub:  Big Business in Philippine Academe

Judy M. Taguiwalo,

University of the Philippines

 

 

R. Kwan Laurel,

University of the

Philippines

 

Rolando B. Tolentino,

University of the

Philippines

03:00
–

03:20

pm

Coffee Break

03:20—05:20pm

Panel 3:
Imperialism, Language and Culture

 

Moderator:

Rolando B. Tolentino,

University of the

Philippines

The Struggle for Philippine Studies:

De-colonization of Filipino Bodies & Drained Brain

 

Language Teaching and Politics:  Notes on Diaspora Nationalism

 

 

 

English as a Foreign Language: Tool and Industry of Imperialism,
and Strategies and Response by Communities, Hints for Progressive
Educators

 

 

Aesthetics of Anti-Imperialist Protest Performances 

Nenita Pambid Domingo,

University of California,
Los Angeles

Maria Josephine Barrios Leblanc,

University of California Berkeley/University of the Philippines

 

Barbara Waldern,

                 Pusan

University of Foreign Studies,
South Korea 

 

Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns,

University of California, Los Angeles
　 　 　

 

 

 

August 11, Tuesday

Time

Activity

Panelists

09:00 –

09:20am

Keynote Speech 2:

 

GN Saibaba

Deputy Chairperson

International League of Peoples Struggles

09:20—10:20am

Panel

4: 

Education, Repression and Resistance

Moderator:

Barbara Waldern,

TEA-KOR,
South Korea

Research for resistance: Whose knowledge counts, and what’s it for?

 

Education and National Liberation

Aziz Choudry

McGill University, Canada

 

Bobby Tuazon,

CENPEG-Philippines

10:20
– 10:30am

Break

 

 10:30
–

12:00pm

Panel 5: Ideology, Critical Pedagogies and Resistance

Moderator:

Hsiao-Chuan Hsia

Shi-Hsin University, Taiwan

Triple Capacity Building as Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Students Doing
Rural Social Work in China

 

 

Unpacking Racial Ideologies in
Taiwan

 

 

 

Institutional Ethnography as Critical Pedagogy for Social Workers

Hok Bun Ku and Angelina, W. K. Yuen-Tsang,

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

YihYeh (Donna) Pan,

Akita International University,
Japan

 

Frank Wang,

National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan

12:00
–

01:30pm

Lunch
Break

01:30
–

03:00pm

Panel

6:

Education, Imperialism and Resistance: Indian perspectives

Moderator:

Judy M. Taguiwalo,

University of the Philippines

Implications of Imperialist Globalisation for India’s Higher Education

G.N. Saibaba,

University of Delhi,
India

K.R. Chowdry,

N G Ranga Agricultural University (ret),
India

 

Education, Resistance and Imperialism: Student Movement in India during
the 1970s 

 

Changing Policies of Teacher Management in
India – Impact of Structural Reforms in Education

 

Amit Bhattacharyya,

Jadavpur University,
India

 

Sadhna Saxena,

University of Delhi,
India

 

 

03:00–

03:20pm

Coffee Break

 

03:20
–

05:00pm

Closing Program

 

06:00pm

Solidarity Dinner

 

Registration

No registration fee for local participants. All local participants are welcome to join the solidarity dinner with payment of 200 NT on the site. Due to limited capacity in the venue, please register before July 15 by sending the following registration form to: yunawsili@gmail.com.

International Conference on Education, Imperialism, and Resistance

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