Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the Flemish Agency for Academic Cooperation (VLIRUOS) for the continued support (economic and other) along the two projects involved in this exhibit, Strengthening Digital Research at the University of the Philippines System: Digitization of Philippine Rare Newspapers and Magazines (1850-1945) and Training in DH and Decolonizing media discourses in the Philippines: representations of Chinese and Muslim minorities.
The “Philippines at the Crossroads” Klein Project (2018-2019), funded by the Bijzonders Onderzoek Fonds at the University of Antwerp, made possible the digitization of some of the newspapers and magazines found in Spain. Equally, the “María Zambrano” program has made it possible for Rocío Ortuño to work from Universidad de Alcalá during the final stage of this project and to consult some Spanish sources on-site.
We would also like to thank the Department of Literature at the University of Antwerp, the research group Antwerp Center for Digital Humanities and literary Criticism, the University of the Philippines Library, The Center for International Studies at the University of the Philippines, and the GILCO group at Universidad de Alcalá for making our work possible.
The Decolonial Studies Program of the Center for Integrative and Development Studies of the University of the Philippines at Diliman has offered support and advice in the introduction of content.
Diana Villanueva (Universidad de Extremadura/ Universiteit Antwerpen) has been so kind of giving us the scanning of the original version of Dead Stars, the short story by Paz Márquez Benitez, which she digitized herself from The Philippines Herald at the Library of Congress of the USA.
We are very thankful to our colleagues Mike Kestemont (Universiteit Antwerpen), Anna Sibayan-Sarmiento (University of the Philippines Diliman), and Chito Angeles (University of the Philippines Diliman) who have worked very closely with us as part of the project Strengthening Digital Research at the University of the Philippines System: Digitization of Philippine Rare Newspapers and Magazines (1850-1945) and Training in DH, and to Cristina Guillén Arnáiz, who worked as a part of the Filiteratura project.
Finally a special thanks to our exhibit designer Xavier Ortells-Nicolau (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) who did a great job in organizing all these materials.