Event Date
HIA 2024-25 Graduate Student Conference
The HIA 2024-25 Graduate Students Conference features the work of the recipients of the HIA 2024 Summer Fellowships. Each presentation will have a duration of 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Attendance is open and does not require registration. This is an in-person event.
Program
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast and mingling
10:00 – 10:10 Welcoming Remarks
10:10 – 10:40 Angélica María González Bastidas (Spanish & Portuguese)
“Plain Legal Spanish in Financial Contracts: Comparing the US with Spanish-Speaking Countries.”
10:50 - 11:20 Anissa Joseph (Political Sciences)
“Peeling Back the Layers of Brazil’s Contemporary Racial Landscape: Preliminary Fieldwork in São Paulo.”
11:30 - 12:00 Inés Badin (Economics)
“Self-selection Under Uncertainty: Evidence from Brazil’s Bolsa Familia.”
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch (provided by the HIA)
12:30 – 12:40 Welcoming Remarks (L&S Associate Dean Kathryn Olmstead)
12:40 – 1:10 Luis Hernández Galván (Geography)
“Tactics and Strategies: On the Contestation to the Purported Inevitability of Technological Imaginaries.”
1:20 – 1:50 Brian Moreno (Cultural Studies)
“Swamp Encuentros: the Discrete Object de un Lugar que Aparece.”
2:00 – 2:30 Latrell Broughton (Design)
“BlueBook Magazine: Documenting the African Diaspora in Colombia.”
2:40 – 3:10 Leigh Houck (Spanish & Portuguese)
“Manipulation and Resistance: Horses in the Literature and Iconography of the Spanish Conquest of Peru”
3:20 – 3:50 Nicholas Osoro-Yoder (History)
“Council of Rivers.”
4:00 – 4:30 Caroline Risacher (Anthropology)
“Reinventing Uyuni: Lithium, Tourism, and Local Imaginations.”