Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Time: 11 am and 4:30 pm
Place: Place: Deutz Room in the Copley Conference Center and Room 4 in the Gildred/CILAS building Institute of the Americas Complex, UCSD

Panel 1 11 am to 12:30 pm. Moderator: To be announced.
Presentations:
(1) “Las Anarquistas: The History of Two Women of the Partido Liberal Mexicano in Early 20th Century in Los Angeles” by Nathan Ellstrand,
(2) "The Political Economy of Electoral Fraud" by Francisco Cantu,
(3) “A Pilot Study of Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation and HIV Vulnerability along the Mexico-U.S. Border” by Shira Goldenberg.

Panel 2 11 am to 12:30 pm. Moderator: Professor David Mares, Director of CILAS.
Presentations:
(1) “The Face of Organic Family Farming and Sustainability in Spain” by Courtney Kilian, (2) “The Ecology of Empire:
Environmentalism and Cultural Genocide in Nicaragua” by Ryan Heryford,
(3) “Conducting Global Health Research on Smoking and Tuberculosis in Rio de Janeiro: Lessons Learned in the Initial Phases of Research” by Ryan Lindsay.

Panel 3 1 pm to 2:30 pm. Moderator: To be announced.
Presentations:
(1) “Quienes son para Decirnos Quien Somos: Transnational Indigenous Identities among Zapotec Youth in Oaxaca and Los Angeles” by Brenda Nicolas,
(2) “El Baguazo: A New Indigenous Movement Moving the Amazon Forward” by Daniella Aviles,
(3) “Bilingual Spaces: Socialization to Spatialized Practice in Spanish and Juchitán Zapotec” by Melanie McComsey.

Panel 4 1 pm to 2:30 pm. Moderator: Professor John McMurria
Presentations:
(1) “Independent Mexican Cinema and the Dream of a National Cinema in 1970s México” by Erika Ramírez,
(2) “Beyond the Waves: The Economic and Cultural Effects of the Global Surf Industry in a Salvadoran Beach Pueblo” by Briana Iatarola
(3) “Urban Interventions in Neoliberal Buenos Aires” by Leonora Paula.

Panel 5 3 pm to 4:30 pm. Moderator: Professor Ariana Hernández-Reguant.
Presentations:
(1) “Weaving a Community: Pursuing Gender and Age Dynamics Through Tiwanaku Burial Textiles by Elizabeth Plunger,
(2) “Printmaking (lithography, etching, woodcut, etc.) in Oaxaca City” by Hannah Gibson,
(3) “Dancing Afro Brazil: Race, Embodied Authenticity, and the Cannibalization of ‘Africa’ in Bahia” by Meredith Ahlberg.

Panel 6 3 to 4:30 pm. Moderator: Professor Kirstie Dorr
Presentations:
(1) “Embodied Parenting in Social Spaces” by Genevieve Okada,
(2) “Burlando la Migra: Shifting Conceptions of the US/Mexico Border” by Michaela Walsh
(3) “La Mixteca, Migration and Place” by Silvia Nasheili González.