Please join our graduate students (including research grant recipients) as they present their ongoing research!
Friday, Nov 7!
Lucy Stone Hall, A265, Livingston Sub-Campus
10:30-11:00 Coffee and Pastries
Panel One: Indigenous Communities, Power, Resources
11:00 to 12:00
- Leonardo Calzada Local Perspectives and Institutional Bricolage Around Conservation and Development: Sembrando Vida and the Maya Train in the Southern Yucatán Peninsula
- Sandra Acocal The Indian Nobility in Central México in the Sixteenth Century The Institution of the Noble House
- Nathan Darmiento Seeing Like a (Mexican) State: Researching a Peripheral Zone in a National Archive
- Gilson Mateus Indigenous Populations in Jesuit Land Compositions: Legal Arguments for Possession in Colonial Quito
Panel Two: Cultures, Practices, Healing
12:00-12:50
- Javiera Barrientos Religious Archives in the Study of South American Waste Paper
- Ana Llurba Bodies that Consume Bodies: Consumption Anxieties in the Latin American Anthropocene
- Joyce Lu Community health workers or medicine vendors? Middle figures in Guatemala’s therapeutic landscape of antimicrobial resistance
Lunch 12:50-1:15
Panel Three: Mobilities, Politics, Development
1:15 to 2:30
- Gloria D'Alessio The Making and Unmaking of a Migration Corridor: Migration, Labor, and Reconfigurations of Border Life in the Darien borderland
- Laura De Moya Guerra Performing Diplomacy: Taiwan and China Dispute in Colombia During the Cold War 1960-1980
- Jeffrey Aizprua Chaos at the End of the Funnel: How DTOs, poverty, and state capture have channeled drugs and violence to Esmeraldas, Ecuador
- Laurian Rosa Rosa The empire remains: colonial continuities in Puerto Rico’s post-military landscapes
- María Chacón Rendón El éxito de La Calle y los orígenes del Nacionalismo Revolucionario en Bolivia
Download the program here