CLALSIS: Graduate and Undergraduate Research Symposium

11:45 AM – Lunch is served 

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

First Panel: 12:05 PM – 12:35 PM
Exploring livelihoods, culture, health and the environment 
Magdalena Delaporte/Population Studies Center - “Occupational Trajectories and Cognition in Chilean Older Adults: 35 Years of Employment Data” Advisor: Irma Elo

Ashley Acosta (‘26) (Political Science) Constructing Precarity: DACA, TPS, And The Politics Of Temporary Status/Advisor: Michael Jones-Correa
Catalina Bravo/ Population Studies Center - “Cognitive Aging and Environmental Risk: The Association of Air Pollution and Cognitive Performance among Older Adults in Chile” Advisors: Irma Elo and Jere Behrman 

Jasmine Guaillasaca Quizhpi (‘26) /History/LALS/Hispanic Studies  - “Estéticas culturales y autonomía indígena: una investigación sobre las prácticas expresivas históricas y contemporáneas de los Kichwa Cañari” Advisor/Jorge Téllez 
Q&A

Second Panel: 12:40-1:00 PM
Examining literature and culture through the lens of global capitalism and colonialism 
Valeria Seminario/ Spanish and Portuguese - “No Road to Paradise:  María’s Unbuilt Infrastructure”/ Advisor: Ericka Beckman 
Mario Alexis Javier Hernando Cubas/Spanish and Portuguese - “The Chorus of the Deserts: The Hispanophone Beyond the Imperial” Advisor/ Jorge Téllez
Q&A

Third Panel: 1:00 – 1:30 PM
Counter hegemonic resistance across time, literature, arts, language, and borders 
Armando Navarro Rojas/Spanish and Portuguese - “Counter Hegemonic Technologies in Hispanic Postcolonial Narratives under Oppressive Regimes (19th–21st Centuries)” Advisor/Odette Casamayor-Cisneros 
Lucila Rozas Urrunaga/Annenberg School for Communication - “Performing Networked Resistance: A Multimodal Exploration of Transnational Feminist Protest Performance in Peru” Advisor: Sarah Banet-Weiser
Guadalupe Barrientos/ Graduate School of Education - “Co-Constructing an Intersectional Sociolinguistic Knowledge of Self with Bilingual Latine Youth” Advisor/Nelson Flores 
Clara Jimenez/English - “"Border Transformations, Crossings, and the Baca Papers," in case it might be possible to edit this on the flyer." Advisor/ Margo Natali Crawford

Q&A

Closing & Announcement by Cathy Bartch, CLALS Associate Director