Several CLAS affiliated faculty, PhD candidates, and PhD students presented at the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) Conference held on March 28-29, 2025 at the University of Delaware. The conference theme was "Writing to the Future: Emerging Trends in Latin American Studies". PhD Candidate Laura De Moya-Guerra and PhD Student Nathan Darmiento were also presented with the Christina Turner Graduate Student Travel Award.
The presentations are listed below:
- "Everyday Life in the Migrant Crisis: Perspectives from a Soup Kitchen near the Darién Jungle, Colombia"
Gloria D’alessio, Anthropology PhD Student - "Insurgent Feminism: An Empirical Comparative Analysis of the Colombian FARC and Kurdish PKK-YPG"
Vierelina Fernández, CLAS Postdoctoral Associate - “Para muestra, con un botón basta”: The Controversy about the “Falda-Pantalón” (1911)
Antonio Hernández-Matos, CLAS Affiliated Faculty - “No More Vietnams”: The Legacy of the Vietnam War and U.S. Intervention in El Salvador, 1981-1989
Nathan Darmiento, History PhD Student - "Sport and Diplomacy: Taiwan's Diplomatic Games in Colombia during the Cold War 1960-1980."
Laura De Moya-Guerra, History PhD Candidate - "Huitzilopochtli’s Elder Sisters: Rethinking the Use of Kinship Terminology in Nahua Myth"
Clio Isaacson, History PhD Candidate
