Event Date
HIA 2023-24 Graduate Students Conference
The HIA 2023-24 Graduate Students Conference features the work of the recipients of the HIA 2022 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
10:00 – 10:10 Welcoming Remarks
10:10 – 10:40 Lucas Ruppel (Spanish and Portuguese) “Queer Care in the Context of Migration: LGBT Migrant Shelters in Tijuana, Mexico.”
10:50 - 11:20 Carla Portillo Delgado (Spanish and Portuguese) “Women’s Experiences in Tijuana Shelters.”
11:30 - 12:00 Carol García (Anthropology) “Wildlife Migration and Conservation in the US–Mexico Borderlands.”
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch (provided by the HIA)
12:30 – 1:00 Fiorella Loli (Geography) “Family Farming and Food Systems in the Peruvian Andes.”
1:00 - 1:10 Remark by Executive Associate Dean John Scott
1:20 – 1:40 Carlos Torres Astocóndor (Spanish and Portuguese) “Bibliographic Rescue of the Cultural Production about Rubber Exploitation in Peru (1920–1965).”
1:50 – 2:20 Julio César Mestanza Rodríguez (Spanish and Portuguese) “Femicidal Fictions. Incest, Power, and Necropolitics in Juana Manuela Gorriti’s ‘Si Haces Mal no Esperes Bien’ and Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Aves sin Nido.”
2:30 – 3:00 Francisca Espinosa (History) “Looking for Childhood in the Chilean Exile: Challenges and Possibilities from an Archival Experience.”
3:10 – 3:40 Emily Nelsen (Spanish and Portuguese) “Teaching Argentina’s Past: A Day with the Project Cartografías Íntimas en Comunidad.”
3:50 – 4:20 Alex Rossi (Music) “Quem foi seu Mestre? Changing Landscapes in Modern Capoeira Practice.”