Tinker Summer Research Symposium

October 12-13, 2006

Symposium Schedule
Thursday, October 12, 1:00-4:00 pm
1:00 Introduction
1:10 Esther Zeledon, “An Integrated Approach to Understanding and Assessing Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in Nicaragua”
1:25 Esha Datta, “User Centered Design of UV Tube Technology”
1:40 Rocio Titiunik, “Determinants of historical mortality patterns in Argentina: 1945-1965”
1:55 Shanti Morell-Hart, “Paleoethnobotanical Approaches to Foodways and Naranjal, Quinana Roo, Mexico (ca. 100 BC - 450 AD)”
2:10 Break
2:40

Tiffany Linton Page, “The Transformation of Agriculture in Venezuela”

2:55 Shana Harris, “HIV, Drug Use, and Harm Reduction in Argentina”
3:10 Mary Murrell, “Pharma and Future-Making in Puerto Rico”
3:25 Jennifer Easterday, “The Promotion, Defence and Implementation of International Human Rights Norms in Latin America”
3:40

Anna Browne Ribeiro, “Sustainability in the Central Amazon: Community Outreach and Archaeology of Terra Preta”

 
Friday, October 13 , 1:00-3:30 pm
1:00 Introduction
1:10

Beth Perry, “Women's Communal Kitchen Leadership and the Peruvian Political System”

1:25 Mirian Lee, “Searching and Tracing New Urban Discourses: Koreans in São Paulo”
1:40 Michael Donovan, “ At the Gates of Legality: Planners, Favelados, and the Titling of Urban Brazil”
1:55

Sintana Vergara, “Improving the Design of the UV Tube and Evaluating its Appropriateness in Baja California, Sur”

5 minute break
2:55 Heidy Sarabia, “Resisting and Recreating the State: Local, National, and Transnational Influence of Zapatista Activists”
3:10 Emily Roberts, “Venezuela: A People’s Perspective on the Social Justice Agenda”


 

 



 



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