The Filipino-Australian Student Council of Victoria (Fastco), together with La Trobe University’s Philippine Australia Studies Centre (PASC), will be holding the 5th International Research Forum on the Philippines (IRFP) on Nov. 23-24 at La Trobe University in Melbourne.

This year’s theme is “Interrogating Paradoxes in the Philippines.” The conference will look into the limitations of understanding Philippine territories, cultures, politics, institutions, and identities in either monolithic or dichotomous terms. The 21st century has been constituted and is constituted by conditions in which the Filipino people’s ways of belonging to the nation, the region, and the world have become more fractal and less predictable than before.

Deadline of submissions is Sept. 15, 5 p.m. E-mail [email protected] with subject “IRFP 2017.” Visit www.fb.com/fastcoVic