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 …
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentations: Presentation #1: “Solidarity, Mutual Aid and Horizontality in the Anthropocene: Genealogy of Anarchist Thought and Enviromental Crisis in Latin America (20th-21st Centuries)” presented by Tomas Pino. This presentation examines how Latin American …
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Presentation #1: “Writing the Wound: Collective Memory as Resistance — Preliminary Research in Lima, Peru” (Anhele Sanchez Delgado) Presentation #2: “Between Benchwork and the Bay – A Report on Pre-Dissertation Research in Salvador, Brazil” (Logan …
Dr. Jeff Hartman
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: Over the past 25 years, rehabilitation in Belize (PT/OT/Speech) has shifted from primarily a volunteer-driven model to more of a professional system led by local expertise and leadership. This presentation will trace …
Dr. Mariana Pacheco
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: This talk will draw on a Borderlands framework to conceptualize the unique ways of learning, knowing, sensing, living, and being experienced by bi/multilingual Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x youth during a 4-week summer experience …
Tinker Visiting Professor of History, Dr. Orlando Deavila Pertuz
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: The literature on urban Latin America has often reified and naturalized political decisions regarding the production of urban space as racially neutral. While it acknowledges the westernization of Latin American cities since …
Novelist Brenda Navarro
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Please note: This talk will be given in Spanish. About the presenter: Brenda Navarro is a Mexican novelist whose work explores migration, motherhood, and social inequality, delving into the experiences of marginalized communities, particularly women and migrants. …
Dr. Américo Mendoza-Mori
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: How can Indigenous languages and knowledges reshape the ways universities teach, research, and engage with communities? Centering the Quechua concept of ayni—a practice of reciprocity and collaboration—this talk will examine how Indigenous …
Flávia Piovesan
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: The talk will focus on the “Transformative Impact of the Inter-American System”, in the light of the structural and emerging human rights challenges of Latin America. It will discuss the transformative mandate …
Dr. Keith Bechtol
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the nearly-complete Vera C. Rubin Observatory will revolutionize the way we explore the cosmos. Using the largest camera ever built, Rubin will repeatedly scan the sky …