Three Grenades in August: Fifty Years since the Bombing of Plaza Miranda in the Philippines 

Webinar: Three Grenades in August: Fifty Years since the Bombing of Plaza Miranda in the Philippines 

Date and Time: Wednesday, March 3 5:00 p.m. PST (3:00p.m HST)

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Speaker: Dr. Joseph Scalice Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanyang Technological University

The 1971 bombing of the Liberal Party election rally at Plaza Miranda remains one of the most controversial events in Philippine history. The Plaza Miranda bombing, and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus that followed, was a critical step in the series of events that culminated in President Ferdinand Marcos’ imposition of martial law in 1972. This talk will examine the heated disputes over culpability and the continuing political relevance of the bombing.

Joseph Scalice is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Drama of Dictatorship: Martial Law and the Communist Parties of the Philippines (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022). He received his Ph.D. in South & Southeast Asian Studies from UC Berkeley in 2018.

Moderated by: Lisandro Claudio, Assistant Professor of South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley