SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Spaces, and Networks Dagat ug Kinabuhi / Maritime Cultures,
Silliman University, Dumaguete City October 22 to 24, 2015
A joint regional conference of the Ugnayang Pang-‐Agham Tao (Anthropological Association of the Philippines) and the Philippine Geographical Society
37th Annual Conference of the Ugnayang Pang-‐AghamTao, Inc./ 7th National Conference of the Philippine Geographical Society, Inc. Between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, peoples and lands separated by water have also been integrated through the same medium, enabling transit of persons, commodities and ideas by boats bridging the ports and harbors, moorages and river systems serving as nexus for trade and migration, through to inland waters, wetlands and upstream forest, or to lands beyond the horizon. This conference hopes to create an interdisciplinary regional forum to discuss issues and debates revolving around maritime contexts as structured and structuring fluid zones of spatial connection and separation, and within which contemporary insecurities and vulnerabilities communities must find ways to keep afloat—hence Dagat ug Kinabuhi, which means ‘the sea and life [lifeways/strategies]’ in the Visayan languages.