Levering Conference Room A

Join us for presentations by the 2023 LACLxS student research grantees!

Featuring:

12:30 – 12:45 pm, Maximiliano Vejares, Political Science: “The Origins of State Authority: Theory and Evidence from Chile.”

12:55 – 1:10 pm, Halle Mackenzie-Ashby, History: “Bound by the Womb: Reproduction, Kinship & Freedom in Barbados”

1:20 – 1:35 pm, Joao Gabriel, History: “Between the State and Capital: prison reform, the abolition of slavery and the French imperial nation-state (1830-1851) Martinique and Guadeloupe”

1:45 – 2:00 pm, Sophie D’Anieri, Anthropology: “Growing with Toxicity: Nourishing Agricultural Lives and Livelihoods along a Polluted River in El Salto, Mexico”

2:10 – 2:25 pm, Miranda Bain, International Health: “Why does abortion access vary so greatly between Jujuy and La Rioja provinces, Argentina, despite similarly anti-abortion politics?

2:35 – 2:50 pm, Melissa DeSantiago, Environmental Health and Engineering: “The METALES Study: Measuring Exposures To Agrochemicals and their Link to rEnal diSease: Using a novel method to assess exposures to chemicals in agricultural work and their role in chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology, Chile”

3:00 – 3:15 pm, Fernando López Vega, Anthropology: “Youth dreamworlds in the Orinoco River. Education, energy, and plantations in rural Colombia.”

3:25 – 3:40 pm, Pyar Seth, Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies Program: “Diagnosing Dreadlocks: Rastafarianism and Medicalization, Jamaica”

4:15 – 4:30 pm, Arman Majidulla, International Health: “What about the community? Examining clean cookstove research among Indigenous communities in the rural Peruvian Andes”