Dr. Lisa Naughton
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: The world’s most biodiverse and carbon-heavy forests grow where land ownership is ill-defined, and people are poor. Last year development agencies redoubled their investments in titling land to alleviate rural poverty and …
Dr. Sarli Mercado
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Please note this lecture will be given in Spanish. About the presentation: What does it mean to think about ecology from a poetic perspective (saber poético)? The color blue has the tint of a wounded …
Elsa Cardenas Canales
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: Vampire bats are among the most misunderstood animals in the Americas. They are feared for their blood-feeding habits and for the role they play in transmitting rabies to livestock and humans. Because …
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: This study examines whether news media consumption is related to affective and political polarization, and, in turn, whether these forms of polarization are associated with increased turnout in presidential elections and whether they tend …
Dr. Ángel F. Adames Corraliza
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: Esta presentación ofrecerá una introducción a la atmósfera tropical. Discutiremos datos históricos, por qué el trópico es diferente a las latitudes medias y polares, por qué no la entendemos tan bien como …
Dr. Marcella Hayes
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: I argue that Black men and women living in seventeenth-century Lima, Peru (a majority Black city) created their own political corporations that governed themselves and effectively negotiated with authorities. Based on a …
Nave Visiting Scholar, Dr. Ruy Braga
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presenter: Nave Visiting Scholar, Dr. Ruy Braga has a degree in Social Sciences (1993), a master’s degree in Sociology (1996; dissertation on Contemporary crisis and restoration of capital: from criticism of dominant economism to …
Dr. Diana Rodríguez-Gómez
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: This presentation examines how the Colombian state asserts its presence in a public school located in a guerrilla-controlled area. It focuses on three specific modes of governance: the relentless extraction of data …
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: The relationship between Argentina and the U. S. has entered into a new phase, anchored by a political and economic philosophy shared by Donald Trump and Javier Milei, president of Argentina. My …
Dr. Ruth Goldstein
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: This paper examines the gendered and racialized politics of natural resource extraction in Peru and Brazil’s Amazon. In Peru’s region of Madre de Dios, the struggle surrounding the application of quicksilver (liquid …