HIA 2025 Graduate Student Conference

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Location
L.J. Andrews Conference Room (SSH 2203)

HIA 2025-26 Graduate Student Conference

The HIA 2025-26 Graduate Students Conference features the work of the recipients of the HIA 2025 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.

 

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HIA 2025-26 Graduate Students Conference

Andrews Conference Room, 2203 Social Sciences & Humanities Building, UC Davis

Friday, Nov 14th, 2025

9:30 am - 2:30 pm

The HIA 2024-25 Graduate Students Conference features the work of the recipients of the HIA 2025 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   Carlos L. Paredes (History)

“Dusting Off Food Distribution: Archival Reflections on State Policy and Communal Strategies in Late Twentieth-Century Peru.”

 

10:50 - 11:20   Mara Uriol Gárate (Spanish & Portuguese)

Coordinates of Silence: Martín Roca Casas, Tarata, and the Negative Archive in Lima.”

 

11:30 - 12:00   María Paula Medina (Economics)

Maternity Leave and Informality: Evidence from an Eligibility Expansion in Peru.”

 

12:00 - 12:30   Lunch (provided by the HIA)

 

12:30 – 1:00    Nyah Mallak (International Agricultural Development)

Is Chocolate Always Sweet? Perceptions of Production Variables Across Small and Large Scale Cacao Farms in Colombia.”

 

1:10 – 1:40      Ricardo Aguilar (Spanish & Portuguese)

El Vuelo del Águila y el Cóndor: Visiting the Mural at the U.S.-Mexican border, Cherán and Stories of Indigenous Resistance.”

 

1:50 – 2:20       Sylvia Oguna (Plant Sciences)

Understanding the Role of Social Norms in Women’s Access to Agricultural Production Resources in Southern Mexico.”