UC Santa Barbara
Displacements: Peoples, Politics, and Rights
First Latin American and Iberian Studies Undergraduate Student Conference
April 10th– 11th, 2019
Harbor Room, UCen
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10th
8:30 – 9:00 am: Coffee and Pastries
9:00 – 9:30 am: Inauguration and Introductions
John Majewski, Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, UCSB
María Herrera-Sobek, Associate Vice-Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, UCSB
Jeffrey Stopple, Associate Vice-Chancellor for Undergraduate Education, Dean of Undergraduate Education
9:30 – 11:00 am: Indigenous and Colonial Histories
Chair: Prof. Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, History and LAIS, UCSB
Matt Kern, History, UCSB: “Indigenous Autonomy in Sixteenth Century Tlaxcala”
Carol Lizeth Marchante, History and Anthropology, UCSB: “Sixteenth Century El Salvador: The Impact of Conquest and Colonialism on the Issues of Displacement”
Discussant: Mario Tumen, Graduate Student, History, UCSB
11:00 – 11:15 am: Break
11:30 – 1:00 pm: Power, Media and Foreign Policy
Chair: Silvia Bermúdez
Kuvimbanashe Edwin Chikukwa, Political Science, UCSB: “The New Foreign Aid”
Discussant: Prof. Juan Pablo Lupi, Spanish and Portuguese, and LAIS, UCSB
1:00 – 2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 pm: Feminisms and Gender
Chair: Prof. Juan Pablo Lupi, Spanish and Portuguese, and LAIS, UCSB
Viviana González, Global Studies, UCSB: “Una revisión feminista de la educación en Brasil”
Fátima Morán, Global Studies, UCSB: “El simple hecho de ser una mujer en Honduras”
Edgar Ortuño, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside: “Exploring Queer and Feminist Choreographies in Mexican Ballet Folklórico Dance”
Discussant: Prof. Silvia Bermúdez, Spanish and Portuguese, and LAIS, UCSB
3:30 – 3:45 pm: Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 pm: Keynote Address
Introduction by Prof. Kathleen Bruhn, Political Science, and LAIS, UCSB
Dr. Terry Lynn Karl Gildred Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Stanford University: “Massacres, Migration, and the Promise of Change”
THURSDAY APRIL 11th
9:00 – 9:30 am: Coffee and Pastries
9:30 – 11:00 am: Education and Indigenous Languages
Chair: María del Pilar Ramírez Restrepo, Graduate Student, History, UCSB
Maria Amaya-Morfin, International Development Studies, UCLA: “Educational Development in México: The Role of Social Capital in Higher Education”
Fátima Andrade Martínez LAIS, UCSB: “Mexican Indígena Youth in the US Public-school System”
Roberto Young, Sociology, UCSB: “Paraguayan Bilingualism in the 20th and 21st Centuries”
Discussant: Prof. Eric W. Campbell, Linguistics and LAIS, UCSB
11:00 – 11:15 am: Break
11:30 – 1:00 pm: Environment, Women and Health
Chair: Jordan Hallbauer, Graduate Student, LAIS, UCSB
Katherine McCabe, Environmental Studies, UCSB: “The Storm That Caused Displacement: Ecology, Climate Change, and Migration”
Maribel Sandoval, Environmental Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB: “¿Cómo afecta la participación de las mujeres a las cuestiones de planificación urbana? El caso del proyecto planta eléctrica puente “puente power project” en Oxnard”
Erik Salazar, History, UCLA: “Healers of a Changing World: Rural Medical
Response in Central Mexico Amidst the 1850 Cholera Epidemic”
Discussant: Christopher McQuilkin, Graduate Student, History, UCSB
1:00 – 2:00 pm. Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 pm: Migration, Borderlines and Human Trafficking
Chair: Christine Khrlorobian, Graduate Student, LAIS, UCSB
Yvette Linares, History, UCSB: “The Current State of Human Trafficking: Told Through the Tales of Trapped Victims”
Rachel Morris, Global Studies, UCSB: “The Immigration Package: Shipping and Handling Not Included – Chilean Immigration Through a Critical Race Lens”
Guadalupe Mota, History, USC: “Demystifying the Immigrant American Dream”
Discussant: Prof. Alison Brysk, Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance, UCSB
3:30 – 3:45 pm: Break
4:00 – 5:30 pm: Graduate Student Roundtable:
Jordan Hallbauer (LAIS), Christine Khrlorobian (LAIS), María del Pilar Ramírez Restrepo (History), Sarah Zamir (LAIS)
5:30 – 5:45: pm Conclusions and Awards
Prof. Cecilia Méndez, Director, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, UCSB
Prof. Juan Cobo, Vice-Director, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, UCSB
5:45 – 6:00 pm Final Remarks
Prof. Charles Hale, Anthropology and SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences, UCSB
6:00 – 7:00 pm Dinner Reception