Graduate Students Symposium ’21

FRIDAY, MAY 21 | In-person and remote

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PANEL 1: 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM
FOREST LOSS AND GOVERNANCE

Deforestation in the Selva Maya – Kass Green

Instituting illegal mining: bypasses, political settlements and coercive conservation in the Community of Andean Nations – Giselle Vila Benites

Tradescapes in Amazonia and Selva Maya – Pilar Delpino Marimon

PANEL 2: 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM
ALTERNATIVES TO DEVELOPMENT

Mining Si o Si: Interrogating Peru’s Tia Maria Project – James Rider

Contested Landscapes, Disputed Realities: An investigation of Socio-Environmental Conflict from Mining in Northern Ecuador – Ian Hirons

(Un)settling Northeastern Energy Transitions: Transmission Lines, Energy Justice, and Indigenous Rights in Quebec – Maddy Kroot

PANEL 3: 04:00 PM- 06:00 PM
BEYOND EXTRACTIVES

Data at the divide: extraction and exploitation in digital platform economies – Julia Wagner

Isthmic articulations, Or the imperial formations of tourism in Central America – Maria José Guillén

More than human legalitites: the resistance against CAFO’s in Yucatán – Karen Hudlet Vasquez