Organizer: Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program
Description:
In May 2022, fifty years after his father declared martial law, Ferdinand Marcos Jr was elected president of the Philippines. The martial law regime of Marcos Sr was a brutal military dictatorship that ruled for more than a decade. How have the perpetrators and representatives of this regime been rehabilitated?
This lecture will detail the extraordinary events and political crisis that culminated in the 1972 declaration of martial law, examining what we now know about how it was carried out. A historical assessment of the Marcos dictatorship is fundamental to understanding the rhetoric, policies, and social significance of the Marcos Jr government.
