January 2020
“Colombia after the conflict: Implementing the most ambitious peace deal in the world”
Presented by: Mariana Palau, a Colombian American multimedia journalist based in Bogota, covering Colombia for The Economist. She also writes for other publications including Foreign Policy and The New Humanitarian and has been published in…
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LACIS Spring Lecture Series
Presented by: Tod Dillon Swanson, Andes and Amazon Field School, Founder; Associate Professor, Arizona State University. Description of the presentation:
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Find out more »“Colombia today: Peace, War, and Protests”
Presented by: Tinker Visiting Professor, Jorge Tovar, Associate Professor, Economics Department, Universidad de los Andes Description of the presentation: Colombia is today living in what many refer to as the post-conflict era. After the peace…
Find out more »“Amazon: The Importance of the Rainforest Ecosystem, from the Soils Perspective”
Presented by: Tinker Visiting Professor Mauricio Fontes, Professor of Soil Science, Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil. Description of the presentation: The Amazon biome is the world´s largest remaining tropical forest, hosting around 10% of the…
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LACIS Spring Lecture Series
Presented by: Mariana Palau, a Colombian American multimedia journalist based in Bogota, Colombia. Description of the presentation:
Find out more »“Antropoloops: Open Musical Collages”
Presented by: Ruben Alonso, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Malaga, Spain. While studying architecture in Berlin in the late 1990s, Rubén fantasized about the romantic notion of the traveling ethnomusicologist who collects songs around the…
Find out more »“SUGAR MACHINE: Medical Technologies and Plantation Legacies in the Caribbean Diabetes Epidemic”
Amy Moran-Thomas Presented by: Amy Moran-Thomas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. Professor Moran-Thomas is interested in questions of ecological change and ethnographic approaches to science, technology, and chronic conditions. She received a PhD in…
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Presented by: Mariana Palau, a Colombian American multimedia journalist based in Bogota, Colombia. Description of the presentation:
Find out more »April 2020
“Women’s Voices. New Approaches to Mexico’s Human Rights Crisis”
Presented by: Lucía Melgar (@luciamelp) is a cultural critic and professor of literature and gender studies. After completing her PhD in Chicago and teaching at Princeton University, she returned to Mexico, where she has combined…
Find out more »“Staying Human: Environmental Humanities, Climate Change Adaptation, and Small Scale Agriculture in the Eastern Caribbean”
Presented by: Kevin Meehan, Professor of English & Director, Haitian Studies Project, University of Central Florida Description of the presentation:
Find out more »“Socioeconomical Aspects and Sustainability of Dual Purpose Production Cattle Farms in Central Mexico”
Presented by: Benito Albarran-Portillo, Professor, Centro Universitario UAEM Temascaltepec. Benito Albarrán-Portillo was born in Toluca City. He spent the early part of his youth working at family small dairy farm and was a first-generation graduate…
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Presented by: Mariana Palau, a Colombian American multimedia journalist based in Bogota, Colombia. Description of the presentation:
Find out more »May 2020
LACIS Spring Lecture Series
Presented by: Mariana Palau, a Colombian American multimedia journalist based in Bogota, Colombia. Description of the presentation:
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