Talakayan

Ambeth Ocampo, Michael D. Pante, and Meynardo P. Mendoza, Ph.D

In this episode of Talakayan, Ambeth Ocampo, Michael D. Pante, and Meynardo P. Mendoza discuss the issue of historical revisionism, and how it is facilitated by digital technology. They present how social media serve as tools for conveying alternative histories, using martial law in the Philippines as a jumping off point. They insist that historical accounts provide avenues for thinking about the present, so that we will not repeat the past.

Ambeth Ocampo is a public historian whose research covers the late nineteenth-century Philippines: its art, culture, and the heroes who figure in the birth of the nation. He writes a widely read Editorial Page column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and moderates a growing Facebook Fan Page. Ocampo is a Professor and former Chairperson of the Department of History, School of Social Sciences in the Ateneo de Manila University.

Michael D. Pante is an associate professor at the Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University, and the chief editor of Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. He is the author of A Capital City at the Margins: Quezon City and Urbanization in the Twentieth-Century Philippines (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2019).

Meynardo P. Mendoza, Ph.D. is a part-time faculty of the Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University. He is the former Director of the Ateneo Martial Law Museum as well as the Ateneo Center for Asian Studies. He was also the first Coordinator of the Initiatives for Southeast Asian Studies. Among his research interests are: the Marcos period, transitional justice and reparations, human rights, social movements, agrarian reform and aviation history.

Talakayan is a series which presents how scholarship merges with practice by highlighting innovations, creative solutions, or responses to the complexities, ambiguities, and vulnerabilities we collectively face today. It is produced and shared for the benefit of learners everywhere. Talakayan is available on Arete’s YouTube channel for free.

Talakayan is an Areté Production done in partnership with Loyola Schools Department of Communication and the Eugenio Lopez Jr. Center for Multimedia Communication.