CLAS Symposium: Class of 2017 Capstone Presentations
Join us as our graduating MA students share their research from their Capstone projects.
Light breakfast and lunch will be served. Time schedule and topics are as follows:
8:00-8:30am: Breakfast
8:30am: Welcome Remarks by CLAS Director, Alberto Díaz-Cayeros
8:40am: The Journey Stops Here: Treatment of Haitians in Mexico at the United States Border in Tijuana
Marie Lefebvre
9:00am: Importing Poisonous Fruits: The Ninth Circuit in Munoz Santos Fails to Fully Resolve U.S. Incompliance with the Convention Against Torture Resulting from the Rule of Non-Contradiction
Kai Medeiros
9:20am: Strategies for Resilience: A Socioecological Analysis of Climate Change Adaptation in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca
Holly Moulton
9:40am: Women and Violence in Peru During the Internal Conflict, 1980-2000
Maria Elizabeth Mendoza Walker
10:00-10:10am: 10 minute break
10:10am: The Human Abroad: Legal and Social Challenges
Andrea Garza Erdmann
10:30am: The Feminicides of Juárez: A Multi-Faceted Violence
Jessica Linet Sánchez Flores
10:50am: Participatory Governance and Water Security: The Case of Thirteen Indigenous Communities in Defense of Water in Morelos
Sandra Oseguera Sotomayor
11:10am: The Roots of Racial Inequality: An Intellectual History of Scientific Racism in Brazil
Andrea Hale
11:30am: Silencing the Taíno: Narrative and Resistance Movements in the 16th Century
Graciela Milagros Gómez
11:50am: Oil Entanglements, Indigenous Peoples, and Human Rights in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Marjory Hidalgo Ruiz
12:10-12:40pm: Lunch
12:40pm: The Violent Arm of the State: The Origins of Police Violence in Rio De Janeiro
Vanessa Melo
1:00pm: Why Put a Face to the Movement?: An Analysis of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional’s Changing Mobilization Strategies
Karen Camacho
1:20pm: Responding to Terror Tactics in the Era of Transitional Justice: Lessons from Los Desaparecidos of Guatemala and Argentina
Lenica J. Morales–Valenzuela
1:40pm: Dangerous Deals: Can Pacts with Criminal Organizations be a Violence-Reducing Policy in Latin America?
Gustavo Lisbôa Empinotti
2:00-2:30pm: Closing Remarks and Toast to the Graduates