The Stone Center is excited to host the Summer Field Research Symposium. Graduate Students who received grants this past summer through the Stone Center for field research, language study, or technical training will be making brief, informal presentations on their summer grant-funded experience. Join us to learn about the fascinating research and study that Latin Americanist Graduate Students across the university are undertaking. It will be a hybrid in-person/online Zoom format.
To access the program: https://tulane.box.com/v/GraduateStudentSymposium2025
To digitally attend: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/98308491575
PROGRAM
8:30-9:00 am | Light Breakfast & Coffee (Provided by Stone Center)
9:00-10:00 am | Humanities
Jacqueline Amezcua, “Bodies and the Legacies of Black Queer Resistance in Brazil”
Ahryeong Hong, “Decoding the Representation of Korean Women Immigrants in Argentine Cinema”
Mila Suzano Fernandes Lima, “Agency and Work of Brazilian Women in Popular Music”
Sebastián Velásquez, “The Reception of Latin American Writers and the Representation of Amazonian Communities in 1960s Spain under Franco’s Regime”
Alba Giménez Sánchez, “Sons of the Land, Foreigners in Defense: The Soldierly Creolization of Havana, Cuba (1648-1700)”
10:00- 10:10 am | Coffee Break
10:10-11:10 am | Art History
Camila Aguayo, “Reframing a "Master:" Race and the Artistic Legacy of José Campeche”
Claudia González-Díaz, “Hand Cut and Crafted: Caribbean Craft and Laborer Identity in Early 20th-Century Machetes”
Nicole Jozwik, “Potosí's Age of Wind: The Art and Material Culture of the Silver City's Indigenous Miners”
Maryluna Santos Giraldo, “Unveiling the Myth of Mudejaricno: A Discussion Through Materials and Embodied Practices of Architecture In the New Kingdom of Granada”
Nathalie Summers, “The Pseudoglyphic Corpus of the Belize River Valley: a preliminary investigation”
11:10- 11:15 am | Coffee Break
11:15- 12:15 pm | Language
Erin Hannahan, “Colombian Inga Language Documentation”
Clare Gucwa | Mayan Language Institute: Kaqchikel
Olivia Shorter | Mayan Language Institute: Kaqchikel
Keara Sparks | Mayan Language Institute: Kaqchikel
Hsin Ju Shih | Mayan Language Institute: Kaqchikel
12:15-1:15 pm | Lunch (On Your Own)
1:15-2:15 pm | Archaeology
MinJoo Choi, “Synchronizing the late Early Horizon in Central Andes”
Samuel Gagnon-Smith, “The Pompeii of Mexico? An early city in the Mesoamerican Highlands”
Miguel Garcia Mollinedo, “Archaeological Survey in the Arroyo Pesquero Olmec Region, Mexico”
Julia Sjödahl, “Reconstructing Local Identity through Material Culture in the South-Central Peruvian Highlands during the Early Horizon (800-400/500 BC)”
Sarah Paterno, “Wetlands Management, Domestication, & Subsistence in Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia”
2:15- 2:30 pm | Coffee Break
2:30-3:30 pm | Environment
Fernando Carranza Melgar, “Entheogens as bridges connecting both past and present in the Andes and Amazonia in South America”
Martha Barta, “Which came first, the fruit or the manakin?: Leveraging a unique reforestation experiment to explore an ecologically significant fruit-frugivore feedback loop”
Andrew Love, “Do Thermal Tolerance Traits Predict Amphibian Community Structure in Tropical Forests?”
Ezra Remer, “Dominica Coffee Integrated Pest Management Guide”
Isdanny Morales Sosa, “Mapping Sugar: Visual Representations and Imaginaries of the Cuban Sugar Plantations in the "Braga Brothers Collection" (University of Florida) and the "Hershey
Community Archive" (Hershey, PA).”
3:30- 3:40 pm | Coffee Break
3:40-4:30 pm | Social Sciences
Juliette Maasland, “Exploring Different Paths to Sustainable Development within the Lithium Triangle: An Analysis of Economic Sustainability Practices in the Bolivian Salta de Uyuni”
Eugenia Aguirre Raftacco, “Multilevel exploration of democratic backsliding in Central America”
Nora Badoui-Rodríguez, “How effective is a co-created nurturing care course in promoting social cohesion and reducing conflict among migrant mothers and mothers from the host community in the parish of Ciudad Bolivar (Bogotá, Colombia) – Exploratory phase”
Emma Ortega, “Dengue Vaccine Acceptance in Iquitos, Peru”
