
Event Date
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.

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.”