04/22/2022
Today, hoy en KU, starting at 4:30 pm-7 pm.
The Graduate Research Symposium is meant to be an informal opportunity to learn and socialize. Please join CLACS and LAGO on Friday, April 22, 2022 at 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Memorial Union (in-person event). Organized into panels, speakers have approximately five minutes for each presentation, and an additional five minutes for questions and comments from the audience. Brief intermissions will divide panels, and light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided.
Schedule:
4:30 Introductions
4:35 Panel 1: Environment and Resource Management
Angela Rocio Torres Zamora, Geology
“Controls on Deposition and Reservoir Character of the Miocene Cicuco Field, NW Colombia: A Low-latitude Shallow-water Transitional Carbonate System (TCS)”
Bryan Javier Rodriguez-Colon, Geology
“Ciencia Boricua: Investigating the Occurrence of Modern Microbialite Systems in Puerto Rico”
Trevor Lies, Psychology
“Cultural Psychology, Conceptions of Environmentalism, and Climate Change ”
5:10 Panel 2: Crime and Justice
Valentina Rivera-Rodriguez, Latin American & Caribbean Studies
“Symbols of Justice: Latin American Literature and the Sexual Abuse by Catholic Clergy Crisis”
Robert Cajas, Latin American & Caribbean Studies
“Gender Roles in Relation to the Brazilian Drug Trade”
5:35 Panel 3: Indigenous Rights and Representation
Taylor Tappan, Geography and Atmospheric Science
“Reclaiming Indigenous Land: a Subtle Success Story from the Costa Rican Talamanca”
Silvia Sanchez Diaz, Anthropology
“Entering the Marketplace: Shifting Indigenous Identities from Maya Kaqchikel Women's Standpoint”
Guillermina Laura Peña Sandóval, Spanish & Portuguese
“Sovereignty and Pluricultural (Self)representation of Indigenous Women in Middle American “Nahualismo” (1300-2018)”
Daniel Bagheri Sarvestani, Anthropology
“Indigeneity In Transition: Maya Chorti Evolving notions of Identity and its Intersectionality with Indigenous People's Rights Discourses (IPRD) ”
6:20 Panel 4: Technology, Politics, and the State
Rafael Gonzalez, Geography and Atmospheric Science
“Raramuri in the City & Virtual Homeland”
Claudia Salas-Forero, Spanish & Portuguese
“Freemasons and Leadership in Colombia, During the Times of the Illustration and the Cartagena de Indias Holy Inquisition in America, from the Colony to the Independence”
John Paul Henry, Geography and Atmospheric Science
“Geopolitics of Cuban Sousveillance: Challenging Authoritarianism through Video Activism of Public Space”
