Graduate School of Social Sciences
Barriga, Maria Cynthia Batistiana

Papers

1. Humanising Bordered Histories: Japanese Locals in Guam’s War Memorial (Peer-reviewed)
2024.9
2. Polarized War Histories of Davao: Filipino-Japanese Local Relations during the War (Peer-reviewed)
The Journal of History Vol.LXIX,pp.348-377 2023
3. Book Review: Coral and Concrete: Remembering Kwajalein Atoll between Japan, America, and the Marshall Islands, by Greg Dvorak
Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia Vol.58,No.1,pp.162-165 2022
4. Reorienting Japanese Studies with Views from the Nan’yō
New Voices of Japanese Studies Vol.13,pp.60-72 2021
5. The Japanese in Postwar Guam: Towards a Reconciliation (Peer-reviewed)
Pacific Asia Inquiry: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Vol.12,pp.272-301 2021
6. Towards an Interconnected Pacific: An Historiography of Guam in Japan (Peer-reviewed)
Pacific Asia Inquiry Vol.9,pp.21-35 2018
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7. Asia-Pacific War in the Davao Settler Zone, December 1941 (Peer-reviewed)
Kasarinlan Vol.30,No.1,pp.56-90 2015
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Presentations

No. Name of subject/Conference Name Year Site
1. Peace Memorials in Davao and Guam: Imbricated Histories in the Overlap of the US-Japan Empire(University of Guam, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Annual Research Conference)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2024.3.8
2. Transforming Tutor Trainings: Waseda Writing Center(The Thirteenth Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia, organized by Writing Centers Association of Japan)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2023.2.18
3. Polarized War Histories of Davao: Filipino-Japanese Local Relations amid Successive Empires, 1940s(43rd National Conference on Local and National History, organized by the Philippine National Historical Society)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2022.8.27
4. Unpacking and Repackaging Japanese Migrants in the US-Ruled Philippines: Alternative Perspectives in History and Deep Film Indexing(Association for Asian Studies 2022 Annual Conference)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2022.3.24
5. Reorienting Japanese Studies with Views from the Nan'yō(Japanese Studies Association of Australia 2021 Conference: “Sustainability, Longevity and Mobility)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.10.1
6. Davao, in the Roundtable "Archiving Forgotten Communities: Japanese Migrant Communities in the U.S. Colonial Philippines"(The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars - Crafting a Global Future)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.8.25
7. Narrating Davao’s World War II History(HISTORYa Kita, organized by Hijos Tours)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.8.14
8. Davao, in the Roundtable "The 1920-30s Footage of the Philippines Taken by Japanese Migrants: A Roundtable Discussion on Potentials of Film Archiving for New Research"(The 26th Young Scholars’ Conference on Philippine Studies in Japan)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.7.17
9. "Filipino-Japanese Local Relations in Wartime Davao"(Forging ahead Together for Peace and Development of Mindanao)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.3.2
10. "Toward an Interconnected Pacific: Conversing Beyond Japanese Studies"(Beyond Japanese Studies Symposium: Challenges, Opportunities And COVID-19)
Holding date : 2021.2.19
Presentation date : 2021.2.18
11. "Japanese Names in the Asan Bay Overlook Memorial Wall: Reconciling Divided Histories"(Contesting Memorial Spaces in the Asia-Pacific, Kyushu University Border Studies)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2020.11.6
12. "The Japanese Locals of Davao: Reconciling the Polarized Histories of a Hybrid Settler Zone"(Japanese Presence in Mindanao Writing Workshop)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2020.10.17
13. "Pacific War in Mixed Localities: The Davao Locals as People in Between"(International Conference on Japanese Studies)
Holding date : 2020.2.1
Presentation date : 2020.1.31
14. "Pacific at War: The Japanese Locals of Davao"(Center for Philippine Studies Conference University of Hawaii Manoa)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2019.10.6
15. "Pacific at War: The Japanese Locals of Guam"(Marianas History Conference)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2019.9.1
16. "Pacific at War: Shifting Social Spaces of Japanese Residents in Davao Settler Zone"(Young Scholars Conference on Philippine Studies in Japan)
Holding date : 2019.6.23
Presentation date : 2019.6.22
17. "Japanese Mestizos in the Asia-Pacific War, December 1941"(International Graduate Student Conference, East-West Center)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2018.2.16
18. "War in the Philippines: View from a Settler Zone Davao, Philippines, 1941-1945"(Occupation and Liberation: An International Conference on the Pacific War in the Philippines.)
Holding date : 2015.9.5
Presentation date : 2015.9.3
19. "War in the Philippines, December 1941: View from the Davao Settler Zone"(1st ACAS Graduate Students Symposium, Ateneo de Manila University)
Holding date : 2015.7.17
Presentation date : 2015.7.16
20. "War in a Settler Zone: Changes in the Social Relations among Filipino and Japanese Residents in Davao Province, 1941-1945"(10th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore)
Holding date : 2015.6.26
Presentation date : 2015.6.24
21. "War in a Settler Zone: Filipino and Japanese Settlers in Davao Province during the Asia-Pacific War (1941-1945)"(Young Scholars Conference on Philippine Studies in Japan)
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Presentation date : 2013.7.6
22. The Japanese Names in the Asan Bay Overlook Memorial Wall: Humanizing Histories(The 6th Marianas History Conference)
Holding date : 2023.9.1 - 2023.9.3
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23. Asia-Pacific War in Southeastern Mindanao: Comparing Japanese and Filipino Stories in Davao City and NLSA(The 5th Philippine Studies Conference in Japan)
Holding date : 2022.11.26 - 2022.11.27
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24. Cracks in the Moving Curtain: Davao beyond Dabao-kuo(The 5th Philippine Studies Conference in Japan)
Holding date : 2022.11.25 - 2022.11.27
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Research Projects

No. Research subject Research item(Awarding organization, System name) Year
1. Sites of Contestation or Connection? Japan's imperial heritage and borders of memory
基盤研究(B)
( Awarding organization: 日本学術振興会 System name: 科学研究費助成事業 )
2023.4 - 2027.3
2. Reconstruction of Japanese immigrants in the Philippines under the US rule through films and photographs: Memory, Representation and Relations
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
( Awarding organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science System name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research )
2021.4 - 2024.3