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.
8:30-9:00 am | Light Breakfast & Coffee
9:00-10:00 am | Colombia & Panama
Jason Andrés Bedolla Acevado “From Field to Factory: Tracing the Cotton commodity chain in New Spain and New Granada at the end of the Colonial Era (1750-1821)”
Nicolas Chapoy “Vocal communication and dominance in male white-faced capuchins”
Celeste Lam “Monos Jugando en el Parque: Investigating Cebus imitator's response to humans in Sector Santa Rosa”
Cyntoya McCall “Space, Place, and Identities: Examining the Role of Women in Champeta Music and Picó Culture”
Maryluna Santos Giraldo “‘Colombia la Mudéjar?’ A Case Study of the Church and Covent of San Francisco, Santiago de Cali”
10:00- 10:15 am | Coffee Break
10:15-11:15 am | Mesoamerica
Miguel García Mollinedo "Re-Investigating the Olmec Arroyo Pesquero Region, Veracruz, Mexico”
Jordan Kobylt “Built Space and Classic Maya Sociopolitics at La Corona, Guatemala”
Katie Margerison “A Physical Education and the Aesthetics of the National Body”
Keara Sparks “Maya Language Institute: Kaqchikel Study”
11:15- 12:15 pm | Caribbean
Ezra Remer “Dominica Coffee Revitalization Initiative (DCRI)”
Pureum Lee “Another Path to Anticolonial Revolution? The French Caribbean in the World of Decolonization, 1958-1975”
Jordette Cummings “Making Ends Meet: Jamaican Women in Collisions of 20th Century Nation-Building and Industrialism”
María Carrillo Marquina “Reviving the Material Legacies of Black Catholicism and Confraternities in Colonial Mexico and Cuba”
Maria Munoz “Methods for Mapping Social Networks: Strengthening Resilient Food Systems in Puerto Rico”
12:15-1:15 pm | Lunch Break
1:15-2:15 pm | Brazil & Bolivia
Nicole Jozwik “Potosi's Age of Wind”
Sarah Paterno “Llanos de Mojos Landscape and Plant Domestication at the Interface of the Andes and Amazonia”
Jhon Sebastian Ramos Hidalgo “Archive research: Persecution and Resilience of Afro- Brazilian Religions (1889-1930)”
Karla Reyes Carrasco “The rubber fever in the Bolivian-Brazilian border: Community narratives in dialogue with literature”
2:15-3:00 pm | Peru, Ecuador, & Chile
Juliette Maasland “The visibility of mining in community spaces in the Chilean Atacama Desert”
Carlos Gonzalez Orellana “Defying the Regime: Art, Politics and Memory in Chile’s “Escena de Avanzada”
Cassandra DeGaglia “Investigating Chimú Child Sacrifice at Pampa la Cruz, North Coast of Peru
Yan Xuan “Unveiling Territorial Dynamics: Investigating the Interplay between Male Defense Intensity and Fruit Resources in White-Bearded Manakins”
