[SydPhil] Book launch of Resilience and the Brown Babe’s Burden: Writings by Filipina Philosophers (4 December at Macquarie University)

[Danna Patricia Aduna]

Dear colleagues,

You are warmly invited to a book launch of Resilience and the Brown Babe’s Burden: Writings by Filipina Philosophers (Routledge, 2025).


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When: Thursday, 4 December 2025, 11am–12:30pm
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Where: Macquarie University (unceded Dharug land) — in-person only, light refreshments will be served

Please register at the link below to receive the in-person venue:
Book launch of Resilience and the Brown Babe’s Burden at Macquarie University – Fill out form<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/-25uCD1vlpTJ0EkjmtWfDCjhLct?domain=forms.office.com>

This volume has been edited by A/Prof Tracy Llanera of the University of Connecticut, who received her PhD in Philosophy from Macquarie University.

We are delighted to be joined by the following contributors to the volume at the launch:

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Danna Aduna (Macquarie University) – "Time’s Up Ateneo: Moving from Institutional Complicity to Courageous Institutional Resilience in the Face of Sexual Violence"
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A/Prof Jacklyn A. Cleofas (University of the Philippines Los Baños) – "Can Brown Women be First-rate Philosophers?"
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A/Prof Darlene Demandante (University of Sto. Tomas; PhD in Philosophy, Macquarie University) – "Resilience or Resistance? Investigating Resilience and Resistance as Strategies Against Workers’ Oppression"
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Olivia S. Mendoza (Centre for Deliberative Democracy, University of Canberra) – "Emotions and Filipino Resilience"

About the volume
This volume examines the concept and practice of resilience from the perspective of Filipina philosophers. It investigates the double-edged nature of resilience and other key assumptions and ideas about human resilience and resilient cultures and institutions. The chapters in the collection are intersectional in approach, drawing from feminist theory, social and political philosophy, critical theory, pragmatism, virtue theory, social epistemology, and decolonial theory in their engagement of the theme.

For more information and the table of contents, please visit: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/XK58CE8wmrt0MvN1GiwhpC7EfCR?domain=routledge.com

This book launch is being funded by the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre.

For any queries about this event, please contact danna.aduna at mq.edu.au or katrina.hutchison at mq.edu.au.

We look forward to seeing you there!