LACLxS Research Grantees Symposium

Description

Join the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLxS) for presentations by the 2025 LACLxS student research grantees.

Schedule:

• 9 a.m. | Coffee and pastries
• 9:30 a.m. | Verónica Ríos Saavedra (Modern Languages and Literatures, Spanish and Portuguese): Film as Fact: On-Location Insights into Female Leadership in Peruvian Amazon Cinema.
• 10 a.m. | Mateus Mendoça (Sociology): Organizing Against the Odds: Strikes of Brazilian Delivery Drivers in the U.K.
• 10:30 a.m. | Ignacio Veraguas Caripan (Modern Languages and Literatures Spanish and Portuguese): The Portentous Nature of Volcanoes: Visuality and Catastrophe in Alonso de Ovalle's Histórica relación del Reino de Chile (1646)
• 11 a.m. | Megan Niclay (School of Nursing): The Right to Health for Individuals Living With Spinal Muscle Atrophy: Perspectives from Young People and Their Parents
• 11:30 a.m. | Alicia Piñar Díaz (Modern Languages and Literatures, Spanish and Portuguese): Rethinking Colonial Memory in Manila
• Noon | Lunch
• 12:30 p.m. | Julia Alves da Costa (Anthropology): Coral Production: On the Edge of Coral Cryopreservation in Brazil?
• 1 p.m. | Alonso Burgos (Sociology): Multicultural Alignments and Cultivated Consensus: Explaining the Political Economy of Peru's Delayed Census Race-Making
• 1:30 p.m. | Noah Nelson (School of Education): Black Radical Pedagogy: The Teachings of the Black Radical Tradition