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Central America

Motivating Conservation through Payment for Environmental Services: Not So Simple

Presenter: John Kerr, Michigan State University
Archaeology and National Identity: 200 years of Aztequismo in Service to the Mexican State (Seminar)

Presenter: Helen Pollard, Michigan State University
An Overview of Health Care for the Impoverished at a Community Health Center in the Yucatán

Presenter: Peter LaPine, Michigan State University
Applications of Social Media for Health Emergencies in the Americas

Presenter: Theresa Bernardo, Michigan State University
Re-engaging With Agriculture in Central America: Insights from Recent Research

Presenter: Ricardo Hernandez and David Tschirley, Michigan State University
Language Rights as Immigrant Rights in the United States

Presenter: Jeff Bale, Michigan State University
Politics and Public Health: Costa Rica's Pineapple Plantations

Presenter: Fred Gifford, Michigan State University
Federally Funded Research Opportunities and Projects in the Caribbean and Latin America: 1995-2010 and Beyond

Presenter: James Anthony, Michigan State University
The Last Narco: Inside the World of El Chapo, Mexico's Most-Wanted Drug Lord

Presenter: Malcolm Beith, journalist
Ernesto Cardenal Presents "The Origin of Species and Other Poems"

Presenter: Ernesto Cardenal interpreted by Mark Davis
Traditional Land Use Practices in Mexican Landscapes Promote Conservation of Biodiversity

Presenter: Jorge Leon-Cortes, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal
Economic Impact Evaluation of Improved Bean Varieties in Central America

Presenter: Byron Reyes, Michigan State University
Religion, Art, and Politics in Chiapas: Tools of Resistance for the Indigenous Woman in Southern Mexico

Presenter: Mary DeLuca, Michigan State University
Environmental Justice and Indigenous Communities: The Mediated Debate of Open-pit Mineral Mining in Guatemala

Presenter: Karina J. García-Ruano, Michigan State University
Defying Inequality by Fortifying Communal Life: Experiences of “comunalidad” from Oaxaca

Presenter: Lois Meyer, University of New Mexico, Benjamin Maldonado, Integrated Communal High Schools, Oaxaca, Mexico
Global Reproductive Health Residency Training in Costa Rica: An International Experience for ObGyn residents

Presenter: C. Patricia Obando, Elizabeth Bogdan-Lovis, Michigan State University
Social, Medical, and Spiritual Outreach in the Displaced Community of Cristo Rey Barrio, Nicaragua

Presenter: Colleen L. Knecht, Munson Medical Center, Traverse City, Michigan
Public Health Challenges of Yucatán

Presenter: Cuauhtémoc Sánchez, Secretariat of Health for Yucatán, México
Education as a Public Health Strategy

Presenter: Alvaro Quijano, Secretary of Health for Yucatán, México
Unrealized Rights to Health: The Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Chiapas, México

Presenter: Héctor Sánchez Pérez, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México
Mexico’s Strategy for Diminishing Malnutrition and Poverty

Presenter: Guillermo Storey Montalvo and Ermilo Contreras Acosta, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México
Mexico - Towards being the USA's First Trade Partner: The Necessary Political, Social and Business Conditions

Presenter: José Calderoni, MSU alumnus and business entrepeneur
Afro-descendants and Multicultural Rights in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua

Presenter: Jennifer Goett, James Madison College
Working with Local Experts to Survey Nicaragua's Baid's Tapirs

Presenter: Christopher Jordan, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Sharing Ideas and Resources to Build Capacity: The 2011 MSU/Costa Rica Women's Reproductive Health Conference

Presenter: Libby Bogdan-Lovis, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences and Patricia Obando, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Culture and Development in Cuba

Presenter: Rene Hinojosa, School of Planning, Design and Construction and Ricardo Lorenz, Musi
Mexican Consulate Research Fellows (IME-Becas) Panel

Presenter: Isabel Montemayor
Jazz and Identity in Cuba: Bobby Carcasses's Fifty-Year Music Career

Presenter: Roberto Carcasses, legendary Cuban musician
Mayan Resistance through Performance: Indigenous Women Theater in Chiapas

Presenter: Elvira Sanchez-Blake, Associate Professor, Romance and Classical Studies
Latin America- From Allegory to Democracy

Presenter: Robert W. Blake, Michigan State University
The Opportunity Gap in Mesoamerica

Presenter: Alejandro Villanueva, W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Children Between Two Nations

Presenter: Debra Castillo, Cornell University
Ethno-linguistic Fragmentation, Discrimination, and Access to Clean Water in Mexico

Presenter: Marcela González Rivas, Cornell University
Red de Oportunidades: Conditional Cash Transfer Evidence from Panama

Presenter: Irani Arráiz and Sandra Rozo, Inter-American Development Bank
The Chicken or the Egg: Agency and Autonomy in Informed Consent

Presenter: Deon Claiborne, Michigan State University
Social Capital and the Distribution of Household Income in the United States: 1980, 1990, and 2000

Presenter: Lindon Robison, Michigan State University
Indigenous Narrative: Deconstructing the National Discourse of Mexico and Guatemala as Articulated by their Ethnic Other

Presenter: Zenaida Moreno, Michigan State University
A Colonial Legacy in Miskito Turtle Knowledge (Nicaragua)

Presenter: Christopher Jordan, Michigan State University
Experience Latin America (Chiapas, Mexico)

Presenter: Student Panel, Michigan State University
Political Economy of Illness, Death and Violence in Yucatecan Maya Society

Presenter: Judith Ortega Canto, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales
Development and Nutrition Challenges in Highly Marginalized Yucatecan Communities

Presenter: Jorge Andrés Calderón Quintal and María José Ricalde Parada, Integrated Family Development System in Yucatán
Nutrition, Inequality and Agriculture: Contested Models of Degenerative Disease in Chiapas, Mexico

Presenter: Ronald Nigh, CIESAS-Sureste
Addressing Social Inequality in Chiapas through Local, Healthy and Clean Foods: An Agroecological View

Presenter: Helda Morales, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
Indigenous Courts: An Equity Principle in Liberal Mexico (Los juzgados indígenas: Un principio de equidad en el estado liberal mexicano)

Presenter: Ana Luisa Izquierdo y de la Cueva, Centro de Estudios Mayas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Caribbean

Exploring Tourism Value Chains in the Caribbean: Understanding Factors Determining Micro and Small Business Participation

Presenter: Eric Bailey, Michigan State University
Applications of Social Media for Health Emergencies in the Americas

Presenter: Theresa Bernardo, Michigan State University
Reggae Music as an African Diasporic Cosmopolitan Phenomenon

Presenter: Isaac Kalumbu, Michigan State University
Creating a Haiti Resilience System

Presenter: Michael D. McDonald, University of Maryland/Global Health Initiatives Inc.
Federally Funded Research Opportunities and Projects in the Caribbean and Latin America: 1995-2010 and Beyond

Presenter: James Anthony, Michigan State University
Comparative Law in the Caribbean

Presenter: Steven Dow, Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Myths and Truths of Caribbean Tourism (Dominican Republic)

Presenter: Student Panel, Michigan State University

South America

Community Engagement in the Peruvian Andes: An Overseas Study Service-Learning Experience

Presenter: Dennis Corsi, Kathryn Bonnen, Chelsea Yondo, and Celina Wille, Michigan State University
XXI Century Socialism: Venezuela, Realities and Challenges: The Case of the Agricultural Sector

Presenter: Federico Vollmer, Agriplus
Applications of Social Media for Health Emergencies in the Americas

Presenter: Theresa Bernardo, Michigan State University
Federally Funded Research Opportunities and Projects in the Caribbean and Latin America: 1995-2010 and Beyond

Presenter: James Anthony, Michigan State University
A Journey Through Argentina Cultural Agencies: An Interdisciplinary Reading, 1990-2010

Presenter: Zulema Moret, Michigan State University
A Sneak Preview of My Book: Enduring Myths of Brazilian Modernism

Presenter: Saulo Gouveia, Michigan State University
Weaving in Public Spaces: Peruvian Indigenous Women in Social Entrepreneurship Ventures

Presenter: Paola Leon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brazil’s Unified Health System May Promote Social Inequality: Paradox or Dialectic?

Presenter: Naomar Almeida Filho, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
The Prevalence of Cervical Human Papillomavirus Infection in Brazilian Amazonia

Presenter: Hellen Fuzii, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
Seroprevalence and Risk Factors of Hepatitis B and C in Riverside Families of the Brazilian Amazon

Presenter: Amanda Alves Fecury, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
Gastric Cancer in Brazilian Amazonia: An overview and thoughts on intervention opportunities

Presenter: Paulo Assumpçao, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
Tropical South America, the US Dollar, and the Sourcing of Food and Environmental Degradation in an Era of Globalization

Presenter: Pete Richards, Department of Geography
In the Shadow of the Forest: Visual Anthropology in the Amazon

Presenter: Hilton Pereira da Silva, Artist and Professor, Universidade Federal do Para, Belem, Brazil
Latin America- From Allegory to Democracy

Presenter: Robert W. Blake, Michigan State University
Children Between Two Nations

Presenter: Debra Castillo, Cornell University
The Chicken or the Egg: Agency and Autonomy in Informed Consent

Presenter: Deon Claiborne, Michigan State University
Social Capital and the Distribution of Household Income in the United States: 1980, 1990, and 2000

Presenter: Lindon Robison, Michigan State University
Global Development Policies and Social Injustice

Presenter: Anna Malavisi, Michigan State University
Testimony and Literature in Latin America

Presenter: Elvira Sánchez-Blake, Michigan State University
Cordel do Fogo Encantado: ‘Jackhammering’ Sedimented Representations of the Brazilian Northeast

Presenter: Daniel Sharp, Tulane University
El Pueblo Unido, Jamás Será Vencido: Denying Pinochet’s Plebiscite and Reclaiming La Via Chilena

Presenter: Tina Kosiorek, Michigan State University
Integrating Service Learning and Field Research into a Community Engagement Experience in Huamachuco, Peru

Presenter: Student Panel, Michigan State University
Perspectives for Universities in the Global South: A Brazilian Point of View

Presenter: Emílio José de Castro e Silva, Universidade Federal da Bahía

North America

Applications of Social Media for Health Emergencies in the Americas

Presenter: Theresa Bernardo, Michigan State University
Language Rights as Immigrant Rights in the United States

Presenter: Jeff Bale, Michigan State University
Emotional Creolizations: National Identity in Dominican Narratives of Migration in Puerto Rico

Presenter: Danny Mendez, Assistant Professor, Romance and Classical Studies
Children Between Two Nations

Presenter: Debra Castillo, Cornell University
Social Capital and the Distribution of Household Income in the United States: 1980, 1990, and 2000

Presenter: Lindon Robison, Michigan State University

Global

Student Learning in International Development Programming Abroad: A Structured Dialogue on Practices and Challenges

Presenter: Panel, Facilitated by Brett Berquist
Pre-natal Influences on Acute and Chronic Diseases Later in Life: Global Health Crises Resulting from Biological and Cultural Evolution Collisions

Presenter: James Trosko, Michigan State University
A Traditional Mediterranean Diet Reduces Breast Cancer Risk through Changes in Metabolic Profiles of Endogenous Estrogens

Presenter: Giuseppe Carruba, University of Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Roundtable Discussion and Closing Comments

Presenter: Facilitated by Reza Nassiri
International Drug Control System: Structure, Functions and Efficacy

Presenter: Melvyn Levitsky, Ambassador (retired)
BRICS: a Reality or Fantasy? The Efforts and Conflicts between Foreign Policies of Brazil and the other BRICS

Presenter: João Martins Tude, Fulbright Fellow from Brazil

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