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"Colonial Incarceration and its Legacies in the Southern Philippines"
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- Wednesday, November 12, 2025
- 4pm to 5pm
New Cabell Hall 349
This talk focuses on the Spanish empire’s penal colonies project in Mindanao, the Philippines. It analyzes the administrative archive of the San Ramón penal colony in Zamboanga (from the National Archives of the Philippines), established as an experiment in 1869 with indigenous incarcerated individuals. It addresses some of the mechanisms through which incarcerated bodies are scrutinized, capacitated and incapacitated, discriminated against, and finally archived through the colonial gaze. Ultimately, the legacies of the penal colonization of the Philippines by the Spanish empire led to the reproduction of other penal colonies: the U.S. colonization, which commenced in 1898, entailed the implementation of governmental techniques previously employed by Spain. The talk also shares interviews conducted at the Manila City Jail and the Iwahig penal farm in Puerto Princesa (Palawan Island) to show the legacies of colonial incarceration today.
In addition to the public talk, Professor Vialette will also offer a workshop earlier that day, focusing on archival research and methodological approaches to prison literature and history.
Aurélie Vialette is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Spanish. A scholar of archive theory and modern Iberian studies, her work explores the intersections of labor, gender, and incarceration in the Spanish Empire. She is the author of Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction of the Masses (Purdue University Press, 2018) and co-editor of Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain (SUNY Press, 2025). Her current book project, The Penal Archive of the Iberian Pacific: Prison and Disability in the 19th-Century Philippines (Cornell University Press), examines the racial, ethical, political, and social issues involved in the penal colonization process in the Philippines.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures; and the East Asia Center. Organized under Archival Crossings. For more information or to request accessibility accommodations, contact: Robert Sanchis-Álvarez at robert.sanchis@virginia.edu
- Can AI Read Biodiversity in Prose Fiction?
- November 18, 2025
- 11am to 12:30pm
Digital Humanities Center, Shannon Library, Room 308
Join us to learn about the collaborative research project that Professor Adrienne Ghaly and graduate student Tom Williams (English) are developing with Bruce Rushing (Data Analytics) as part of the Data Analytics Center—Digital Humanities Center Fellowship. Launched in February 2025, the Fellowship supports the use of high-performance computing resources in the humanities, such as AI, gaming platforms, imaging tools, and geospatial technologies. This informal event offers an opportunity to learn from scholars' hands-on experience of centering computational methods in environmental humanities research, as well as different ways AI and LLMs can be integrated into humanistic inquiry. Hosted by the Digital Humanities Center and Data Analytics Center.
Lunch will be served. Please share with interested colleagues.
Being Jewish in America Today: Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
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- November 19, 2025
- 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Rotunda Dome Room
UVA Jewish Studies will host UVA's Distinguished Professor of Law and History Risa Goluboff in conversation with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl about her new book, Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging, on Wednesday, November 19th at 5:30 PM in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. Reception to follow.
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