CLALS Student Research Symposium

We hope you can join us on Friday, April 25 from 12-2PM in McNeil 473 for the CLALS Student Research Symposium.  Please RSVP Here to attend. 

The Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies Graduate and Undergraduate Student Research Symposium

Resistance and Change in Arts, Culture, Society, and Politics

Program

11:45 AM – Lunch is served

12:00 PM Welcome by CLALS Director, Dr. Jorge Téllez

12:05 PM – 12:30 PM

Seeking environmental justice via political, socioecological, legal and artistic actions

Gustavo Alejandro Valenzuela Merino/ Anthropology – “The Making of a Flammable City: Political Ecology of Fire Management in Valparaíso, Chile”/ Advisor: Kristina Lyons

Clara Inés Secaira Ziegler / Anthropology – “Navigating the Uncertainty of Algal Blooms: Collaboration and Conflict Among Lake Atitlán Basin Actors in Shaping New Environmental Future” / Advisor: Kristina Lyons

Seo Yoon (Yoonie) Yang (’25) / Wharton - “Environmental Personhood in Ecuador: A Case Study of the Napurak Achuar Indigenous Community”

Amanda Renee Rodriguez (’26) /History of Art/ LALS -  “Texas Minimalist Landscapes in Conversation with the Border Patrol Surveillance State.” / Advisor: Hannah Feldman

Moderator: Amanda Wessel, CLALS Coordinator

12:35 PM – 1:05 PM

Reshaping culture and society through literature, sports, policies, and perspectives

Hugo Salas / Spanish and Portuguese – “Modern Traditionalism: Refurbishing gauchos, llaneros, and charros”/ Advisor: Ericka Beckman

Wilson Hernandez / Criminology - "Playing Safe" against gender-based violence: An impact evaluation of a soccer- based program for boys and girls

Yenny Paola Rueda Guevara / Demography – “Associations between Body Composition Trajectories during Adolescence through Mid-Adulthood and Cognition Performance”/ Advisor: Jere Behrman

Jacqueline Guerrero (’25) / International Relations –  “Who Deserves to Live: How Anti-Refugee Policies Threaten Social Cohesion and Human Security”/ Advisor: Valeriya Kamenova

Janeth Zaldivar (’25) / Political Science - “Tolerance of Corruption in Honduras”/ Advisor: Catherine Bartch

Moderator: Jorge Téllez, CLALS Director

1:10 PM – 1:35 PM

Exploring and reconsidering colonialism, dispossession, and other forms of domination via literature and the humanities

Astrid López Méndez / Spanish and Portuguese - “Readings on Dispossession and Colonialism: the Case of Servando and de las Casas”

Ana Paula Nadalini Mendes / History – “Recaptives in Brazil: Between Freedom and Tutelage”/ Advisor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

Logan Saenz (’25) / History of Art – “Insurgent Figurations: “the (formal) contours of anti-imperialist subjectivities in visual culture produced in/about Nicaragua (since 1979)” / Advisor: Hannah Feldman

Gwendalynn Roebke / Philosophy – “Coherence and Hermeneutic Illness: Interrogating Colonial Rupture in the Americas”

Moderator: Cathy Bartch, CLALS Associate Director

1:35-1:50 PM- Additional Q&A

1:50 PM – Closing & Announcement by Cathy Bartch, CLALS Associate Director