Schedule

2026 Latin American & Latinx Studies Symposium at Rollins College: Program

REGISTRATION, 8:00am-2:00pm (Location: Alfond Inn)

BREAKFAST, 8:30am-9:30am (Location: Alfond Inn, Park 3)

FIRST BLOCK, 9:30am-10:45am

PANEL 1A – Brazil: Democracy, Religion and Institutions | Moderator: Dr. Jessica Doyle (Location: Alfond Inn, Park 2)

Fixing the Foundation:K–12 Finance and Access to Public Universities in Brazil – Ana Mentucci (Rollins College)

Dilma’s Impeachment: An Already Weak Democracy – Jack McFann (Rollins College)

Combatting Racial Religious Intolerance: Understanding Evangelical Intolerance, State Response, and Ancestral Resistance – Marcus Gray (Rhodes College)

Amid Modernity and Massacre: Evangelicals in the Gap of the Brazilian Penal System – Daniel Velazquez (Rollins College)

PANEL 1B – IMF, Neocolonialism, and Crisis | Moderator: Dr. Rosana Díaz-Zambrana (Location: Alfond Inn, Park 5)

IMF, Neocolonialism and Latin America, Ricardo Pierre (Rollins College)

The Enduring Debt Trap: Neoliberalism, the IMF, and Austerity in Haiti – Falland Delice (Rollins College)

Building an Empire: United Fruit Company’s Habitual Influence over Politics, Infrastructure, and Labor in Panama and Costa Rica, 1910s-1950s – Madelyn Wilkie (Presbyterian College)

SECOND BLOCK, 11:00am-12:15pm (Location: Alfond Inn)

PANEL 2A – Governance, Conflict and Rights in the Andes | Moderator: Dr. Jorge Varela Yepes (Location: Alfond Inn, Park 2)

Executive Overreach and Democratic Fragility: Peru’s 1992 Autogolpe and the Limits of International Democratic Defense – Alexandra Jorge (Rollins College)

Transitional Justice in the Colombian Civil War: Peace, Justice, and the Limits of Accountability – Juliana Abeid (Tulane University)

Post-Conflict Paradox:Land Rights, Conservation, and Deforestation after the 2016 Peace Accord – Michelle Angel Polo (Rollins College)

Decolonizing Childbirth: Midwifery and Obstetric Care in Colombia – Lauren Todisco (Tulane University)

PANEL 2B – Mexico: Community, Culture, and Development | Moderator: Dr. Barry Allen (Location: Alfond Inn, Park 5)

Fostering Entrepreneurial Agency Through Responsible Tourism in Oaxacan Communities – Jasmeen Santos-Ramirez (Florida State University)

El tren no es nuestro: the Mayan train as a feature of Mexican Nationalism – Ioel Katz (University of Florida)

La Delgada Línea Amarilla: Una Película Con Varios Valores – Cassidie Gomez, Adriana Salazar and Gerardo Ortiz (Southwestern University)

The impact of colonization, globalization, and the emergence of biomedicine on traditional Nahua obstetric practice – Riley Harwod (Rollins College)

LUNCH & KEYNOTE, 12:15pm-1:45pm (Location: Alfond Inn, Park 3)

Keynote: “At the Sea’s Edge of the Pacific,” by Professor Macarena Gómez-Barris, Brown University.

THIRD BLOCK, 2:00pm-3:15pm (Location: Alfond Inn)

PANEL 3A – Art, Film, and Identity in Latin America | Moderator: Dr. Cristina Gonzalez Martin (Location: Alfond Inn, Park 2)

Redefining Historical & Art Historical Traditions: An Analysis of Gran Colombian Identity Building in the Independence Period – Ana Ortega (Rollins College)

El lenguaje cinematográfico en la construcción de lo humano y el deterioro de las instituciones en la película Un Hombre Mirando al Sureste – Abigayle Stubby-Kern (Southwestern University)

A Comparative Study of the Cholq’ij [‘Mayan Sacred Calendar’]and the Âm Lịch [‘Vietnamese Lunar Calendar’] – Ngoc Diep (Tulane University)

PANEL 3B: Panel F – Citizenship, Belonging, and Power | Moderator: Dr. Andrés Romero (Location: Alfond Inn, Park 5)

An Emotional Analysis of Youth Migration from Central America to the United States – Tahmina Emu (The University of Tampa)

El deporte como guerra subsidiaria: una lectura política de los medios deportivos chilenos y cubanos (Trans. Sport as a Proxy War: A Political Reading of Chilean and Cuban Sports Media) – Billy Flukinger (Rhodes College)

Heidi and Nacho: A Story of Community Organizing in the midst of Nationwide Immigration Detentions – Amor Poalasin Pogyo (Rollins College)

Mass incarceration in Argentina – Katie Kubiak (Rollins College)

MUSEUM TOUR, 3:30pm-4:30pm (Location: Rollins Museum of Art, Rollins College) led by Dr. Gisela Carbonell

RECEPTION, 4:30pm-6pm (Location: Dave’s Boathouse, Cornell Campus Center, Rollins College)