MICHAEL “XIAO” CHUA
AS a practitioner of public history, I will be one of the plenary speakers for the Philippine Historical Association annual national conference with the theme “Bridging the Gap: The Role of Academic and Public History in Shaping the Nation” on September 20 at the GSIS Museo ng Sining. I am honored to be chosen by my colleagues in the board to speak alongside professor Ambeth R. Ocampo, who initiated me to the discipline through his work, and the keynote speaker Dr. Maria Serena Diokno, former chair of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, whose legacy in the agency was the modernization of the NHCP museums.