Public Lectures
2025
Harvard Divinity School – Program for the Evolution of Spirituality 2025 Conference on Spirituality and the Arts
“Singing my Way back to the Native Sacred”
Online
Association for the Study of Women and Mythology
“YUTA: Coming Home to Land and Bridging Modernist and Indigenous Knowledges as a Decolonial Approach to Conservation”
Online
Women of Color, Rise
“Connecting with Culture, Spirit and Homeland” (with Analiza Quiroz Wolf)
Online
2024
Climate Change Commission, Philippines
“HUYONG-HUYONG: Bridging Modernist and Indigenous Science Approaches to Peatland Restoration and Utilization as a Decolonial Approach to Conservation”
Carl Jung Circle Center, Philippines
“HUYONG-HUYONG: Bridging Indigenous and Modernist Knowledges as a Decolonial Approach to Conservation”
Greifswald Mire Center and Succow Foundation
“Where have all the Waters Gone? Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in a Wetland Site in Northeastern Mindanao”
Online
Savvy Contemporary, Germany
“Growing Roots, Tending Relations”
Boston College
“Decolonizing Feelings”
Online
Ancestral Medicine
“Decolonization and Art-making in the Philippines”
Online
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, United Arab Emirates
“Decolonizing Voice“
Emirates International Literature Festival, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2024
“It’s a Long Story” (with Nguyễn Phan Quế)“
Emirates International Literature Festival, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2024
The Philippines, Decolonization, and Making Art/Beauty
Ancestral Medicine” (online), 2024
2023
Ateneo University Press
“Understanding Philippine Shamanism: A Webinar on Babaylan Sing Back”
with Apo Mamerto Tindongan, Bae Manyaguyad Lucy Rico, Boi Myrna Pula, Dr. Jesus Insilada, and Dr. Arlene Natocyad
Online
Link: https://web.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=563994502606295
Harvard Divinity School – Center for the Study of World Religions
“Music, Voice, and Healing”
Online
Association for the Study of Women and Mythology
“Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place”
Online
2022
Harvard Divinity School-Program for the Evolution of Spirituality
“The Forest and the Healer: An Ethnography of Human and Nonhuman Relations”
Online
Taginting Sound Healing Festival
“Sound, Music, and Healing in the
Philippine Context”
Online
Asian Sacred Wisdon
Online
2021
Japan Foundation-Manila Golden Realms: Preservation of Mythologies
“Reclaiming Oral Ancestral Ways of Speaking and Singing”
Online
Unitarian Universalist Church-Manila, Sunday Service
“Respect for the Interdependent Web of All Existence of which We Are Part”
Online
The International Association for Music & Medicine IAMM Global Café
“Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Conversations on Music and Healing”
Online
Philippine Society for Music Education
“Saan Tayo Patutungo? Saan Mula Rito? Music, Decolonization, and Personal Stories”
Online
National Historical Commission and the Museum of Philippine Social History
“Babaylan, Gender, and History” with Bae Manyaguyad Lucy Rico and Dr. Jesus Insilada
Online
University of Washington School of Public Health
“Usapang Tao: Colonization, Gender, Arts & Healing” with Bae Manyaguyad Lucy Rico and Dr. Jesus Insilada
Online
2021 International Mother Language Conference and Festival
“On Music, Language, Cultural Revitalization, and Planetary Survival”
Online
2020
7th Inter-Asia Popular Music Conference | Sunway University, Malaysia
“One Woman, Many Voices: Autobiography, Coloniality, Gender and Voice”
Online
Kaya Natin ‘To Festival
“Decolonization, Indigenous Inquiry, and Healing”
Online
National Commission for Culture and Arts 2020 Research Colloquium
“Research and Decolonization”
Online
Unitarian Universalist Church- Manila Homily
Online
2019
Lahi Arts, Sacramento, California
2017
Union Theological Seminary, Cavite
2016
Institute of Spirituality in Asia 16th Spirituality Forum
“Locating the Babaylan: Philippine Shamans and Discourses of Religion, Spirituality, Medicine and Healing”
St. Paul’s University, Quezon City, Philippines
Harvard Divinity School
“Decolonizing Voice”
Center for the Study of World Religions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
University of Michigan – Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Center for World Performance Studies Events
“Decolonizing Voice”
International Institute – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
Center for Philippine Studies – University of Hawaii at Manoa Events
“Decolonizing Voice”
Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Museum of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Indiana University – Southeast Asian and ASEAN Studies Events
“Decolonizing Voice”
Indiana University School of Global and International Studies Auditorium, Indiana, U.S.A.
Brandeis University – Heller School for Social Policy and Management Events
“Keeping the Fire Alive: Contributions to Cultural Revitalization Initiatives in the Philippines”
Brandeis University Heller-Brown Building, Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Philosophy, Poetry and Religion Seminar Panel
“Indigenous Cultural Revitalization”
Harvard-Mahindra Humanities Center Barker 133, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Columbia University Music Conference
“A Woman Shaman’s Voice: Listening and Healing in the Philippines”
Columbia University Music Department
2015
Public Lecture – Harvard Divinity School
“A Woman Shaman’s Voice: Hearing and Healing in the Philippines”
Harvard Divinity School Andover Hall- Braun Room, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
2014
Talk & Performance – Boston College
“Philippine Shamanism, Sacred Chant, and Cultural Revitalization”
Boston College Gasson 305, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Kapwa Sensing Ourselves in One Another
“Pagbubuong-loob: Piecing the Fragments of Ourselves Together”
Liu Institute for Global Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Talk & Performance – St. John’s Cathedral
“Philippine Ancestral Knowledges: Remembrance, Reclamation, Transmission”
St. John’s Cathedral, Toronto, Canada
Seminar on Philosophy, Poetry and Religion
“Philippine Shamanism, Sacred Chant, and Cultural Revitalization”
Harvard -Mahindra Humanities Center, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
2013
Song of the Babaylan New York Book Launch
“Song of the Babaylan”
Topaz Arts, New York, U.S.A.
2nd International Babaylan Conference
“Song of the Babaylan”
Sonoma County, California, U.S.A.
Song of the Babaylan California Book Launch
“Song of the Babaylan”
Los Angeles Public Library, Echo Park Branch, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Buhay Babaylan Ritual Series
“Tinig ng Babaylan”
University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
Song of the Babaylan University Tour
“Song of the Babaylan”
Far Eastern University, Manila, Philippines
Song of the Babaylan University Tour
“Song of the Babaylan”
Lyceum of the Philippines University, Manila, Philippines
Song of the Babaylan Book Launch
“Song of the Babaylan”
College of Social Work, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
2011
NHK Japan Documentary Project
“Community and Identity: Roots and Change”
Agusan del Sur State College of Agriculture and Technology, Agusan del Sur, Philippines
2010
Babaylan Conference
“The Babaylan and Her Song”
Sonoma State University, California, U.S.A.
2009
IX Spirituality Forum
“Chant, Spirit, Healing among Philippine Shamans and other Ritualists”
Institute of Spirituality in Asia, Quezon City, Philippines
Asia-Pacific Cultural Center for UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Training Course
“Intangible Cultural Heritage – the Tao Foundation Experience”
Kyoto, Japan
2009 Arts Congress
“Indigenous Knowledge as Wellspring of Artistic Expression and Environmental Action”
De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
Singapore National Museum
2008
UCLA WORLD ARTS AND CULTURES
2006
ASEAN Peoples Assembly Conference
“The Role of Artists in Building an ASEAN Community”
Shangri-la Hotel, Mandaluyong, Philippines
Art Therapy Workshop for Teachers in Agusan del Sur (a UNICEF activity)
“Music and Healing”
Almont Inland Resort Hotel, Butuan City, Philippines
2005
Babaylan Conference
“An Artist’s Reflection of the Babaylan”
St. Scholastica’s College, Manila, Philippines
Korea-ASEAN Conference
“Building East Asian Identity and Consciousness Conference – A Philippine Artist’s Perspective and Recommendations”
Seoul, Korea
AICHI Expo on Nature’s Wisdom
“Arts, Environment and Community”
Aichi, Japan
Conference on History
“Ang Mga Etno- Linguwistikong Grupo sa Pag-aaral ng Etnisidad (Ethno- linguistic Groups in the Study of Ethnicity)”
Miriam College, Quezon City, Philippines
Ugma-ugma: Creative Musical Expressions as Tradition, Art and Social Communication
“Music and Identity in Motion”
University of the Philippines Music Conservatory, Quezon City, Philippines
2004
Philippine Daily Inquirer Talk Series
“Defining the Global Filipino”
Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
Pagkataong Filipino Conference
“Finding My Voice”
University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
Sining Salubungan
“Identity and Dialogue”
Quirino High School, Quezon City High School, Masambong High School, E. Rodriguez High School, Quezon City Science High School, Caloocan High School, Mariano Marcos Memorial High School – Manila, Malabon National High School, Pasay City West High School, Pedro Diaz High School, Valenzuela Schools Division, Makati Elementary School, Philippine High School for the Arts, Philippines
2003
UST Speakers Series
“The Filipino Oralist”
University of Sto. Tomas, Manila, Philippines
2002
EXPO 2005 Consultative Talks
“Nature’s Wisdom: The Philippine Experience”
Tokyo, Japan
Harvard Divinity School – Center for the Study of World Religions
2023
2021 International Mother Language Conference and Festival
March 3, 2021
Golden Realms: Preservation of Mythologies
Japan Foundation – Manila
December 11, 2021
The International Association for Music & Medicine IAMM Global Café
June 2, 2021
Usapang PSME Philippine Society for Music Education
May 8, 2021
National Historical Commission and the Museum of Philippine Social History
April 5, 2021
Together with Bae Manyaguyad Lucy Rico and Dr. Jesus Insilada
7th Inter-Asia Popular Music Conference
Sunway University, Malaysia
December 4, 2020
Kaya Natin ‘To Festival
University of Washington School of Public Health
March 31, 2021
Harvard Divinity School
November 12, 2015
Unitarian Universalist Church – Manila
June 27, 2021
2022 Taginting Festival
February 13, 2022
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