Bridges Summer Research Symposium

September 29-30, 2004


Symposium Schedule
Tuesday, September 28, 2:00-4:00 pm
2:15 Marlene Clarke, “Preventing Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Bluefields, Nicaragua”
2:30 Katharine French-Fuller, “Gender, Consumption, and Modernity: The Washing Machine in 1950s and 1960s Chile”
2:45 Simeon Tegel, “The Social and Environmental Impact of the Camisea Gas Project on the Peruvian Amazon”
5 minute break
3:05 Rebecca Bodenheimer, “Reimagining Rumba as a Folkloric Practice”
3:20 Samantha Ehrlich, “Contraceptive Distribution Research in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region, Nicaragua”
3:35 Benny Zadik, “The Influence of the Pig in Spain and America during the Colonial Period”
   
Wednesday, September 29, 3:00-5:00pm
3:15 Olivia Maciuceanu, “What does it Mean to be Argentine? Xenophobic Tensions and Institutional Responses to the New Immigration in Buenos Aires”
3:30 Chris Clark, “Effects of Tail Elongation on Accelerational Capacity in Hummingbirds”
3:45 Caitlin Sislin, “Intersections of International Environmental and Human Rights Jurisprudence in Cordoba, Argentina”
5 minute break
4:05 Michelle Kirian, “Evidence-Based, Community-Derived Interventions for Prevention and Control of Dengue in Nicaragua”
4:20 Anita Milman, “The Efficacy of Community Managed Water Systems in Rural Mexico”
4:35 Alexandra Aquino-Fike, “Improving Local NGOs’ Capacity to Advocate for Women’s Land Rights in El Salvador and Nicaragua”

 



 

 



 



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