Upcoming Events
The Study of the Americas Initiative presents and promotes film screenings, musical and other cultural events and talks showcasing the work of artists and artistic expressions from different regions of the Americas.
PROGRAM
In the “Aquí y ahora”: Trans-American Experiences Across Spatial and Social Intersections 24th
Annual Tri-University Graduate Research
Friday, April 10th, 2026
Keynote Address: Dr. Eyal Weinberg, Assistant Professor of History, FAU
FamilyPlanning, Demographic Development, andReproductive Politics in Cold War Brazil
Eyal Weinberg is an assistant professor of history at Թ whose research expl
ores health, medicine, and authoritarianism in Cold War Latin America, with a focus on Brazil. His work appeared in journals such as the The Americas, International Labor and Workin
g-Class History, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina, and The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History.He recently served as the guest-editor of a special issue on the histories of health in modern Latin America, published in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina. Weinberg's book manuscript, Tending to the Body Politic: Health, Dictatorship, and Transitional Justice in Brazil (1960s-1990s), is expected to be published later this year by the University of Texas Press.
PROGRAM
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 – Welcome: Dr. Michael J. Horswell, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Թ
9:15-10:30 Panel 1: Politics, Institutions and External Influences in Latin America
Shannon Patron, FAU, “The U.S. and State Repression in the 1968 Mexican Student Movement”
Kent Waller, UM, “Influence of the Cuban Revolution on Peronist Youths”
Carlos Ricaurte, FIU, “On Comparative Independence and Stability: A Study on Latin American Central Bank Independence and their currency stability”
Martin Brown, FIU, “From Diplomacy to Dual-Use Infrastructure: Understanding China’s Global Security Initiative in the Americas”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Panel 2: Education, Literature, and Poetry—Interdisciplinary Engagement Across Systems
Aloha Balza, FAU “Innovation Through Lesson-Drawing: Community Engagement Strategies in Higher Education”
Jocelyn Colon, FAU “Embracing impossibility: The Coming-of-Age novel as resistance literature for the Queer, U.S. Latino”
Kaly Smith, FIU, "La tiradera como poética de confrontación: micropolítica, discurso y resistencia en el rap de Al2"
Arley Parra, FIU, “Futuros imaginados: ciencia ficción y crítica de la modernidad urbana en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XIX”
12:00-12:30 View Posters
Veda Chand, FAU, “Thrice Migration and Proximity to Entitlement: Theorizing Gendered Power in Indo-Guyanese Hindu Communities”
José Cunill Flores, UM, “Vacíos regulatorios en la exposición ocupacional a floraciones algales nocivas (HABs) en trabajadores latinos al aire libre en la Թ”
Claire Scozzari, FIU, Interpreting Silence: HIV Stigma and Trust in a Transnational Clinical Relationship
Cristina Fayad Martinez, UM, “Comparison of Indoor Dust Characteristics Between Volcanic and Non-Volcanic Regions”
Juan José Medina Martínez, FIU, “The Paz Administration and the Democratic Dilemma in a Post-MAS Bolivia”
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Panel 3: Sociopolitical Effects of Migration Patterns Across the Hemisphere—Patterns, Media, and Policy Responses
Lucas Sastre, FIU, “The Mitigation of Migration: How external and displaced migratory patterns can affect democratic institution stability in Colombia”
Agustina Alonso, FIU, “When Migration Becomes a Threat: Media, Politics, and the Securitization of Latin American Migration in the United States.”
Sebastián E. Ballestas Buelvas FIU, “Sensing Migration: Affective Atmospheres and Everyday Emotions in Venezuelan Migration to Colombia”
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:30 Keynote Address: Dr. Eyal Weinberg
3:30-4:30 Panel 4 Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Encounters across Territories
Kathy Rubio, UM, “Regenerative Tourism Practices in Guadeloupe”
Filipi Barbosa, UM, “Encounters Across the Atlantic Coastline”
Jeison Oviedo Mercado, FIU, “Communication and Territory: The Role of Community Media in Territorial Claims”
Logan Freed, “Peacebuilding and Land Inequality: A Colombian Perspective"
4:30-5:00 Prizes Awarded
Judges: Dr. María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles (FAU), Dr. Barbara Ganson (FAU), Dr. Gabriela Hoberman (FIU), Dr. José Miguel Cruz (FIU), Dr. John Twichell (UM), Dr. Lilian Manzor (UM).
Parking Garage 2, Floors 1-3
Sponsored by the Studies for the America’s Initiative (SAI)
and the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature (LLCL)
