Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
Author: Patricia Delamonica Sampaio
Thanks to faculty that served on TCD selection committees!
As we begin the Fall 2023 semester, we want to shout out and give thanks to all of the incredible people that served on TCD Selection Committees in 2022-2023. Our TCD community cannot function without you and the reviews and guidance you provide to TCD students from across campus are invaluable. THANK YOU!! TCD Reviewers
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Helicopter Science Workshop Series: Power Dynamics in International Research
What can we learn from researching the researchers? Anthropologist Johanna Crane spent over a year studying a US-Uganda HIV research partnership as an ethnographer. In this talk, she’ll describe how international power dynamics can be embedded in mundane, taken-for-granted aspects of research like data management, grants administration, and indirect cost reimbursement. Using ethnographic examples from
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TCD Students among winners of Fieldwork Festival
Congratulations to the TCD students that have received an award at the Center for LAS Fieldwork Festival on March 10th. It was great to see all the posters from the LAS and TCD FRG awardees from the previous years. We can’t wait to see what you will have to share next spring from your 2023
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GIA 2 Working Group Intercultural Education: Lessons from La Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo
Biocultural Conservation is premised on collaborative exchange of knowledgeamong plural worldviews and perspectives. The Universidad Intercultural Maya deQuintana Roo (UIMQRoo), Mexico has been a leader in Intercultural Educationthat combines Indigenous language, culture, ways of thinking and cosmovisionwith the western scientific method. This webinar will present both the conceptual underpinning and practicalexperience of UIMQRoo in carrying
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Congratulations to our amazing graduate student facilitators for hosting UFIC/LAS/TCD Event
Congratulations to our amazing graduate student facilitators for hosting a student hands-on workshop to share experiences related to conducting field research internationally as part of UFIC’s Helicopter Science series (to promote meaningful and mutually beneficial international collaborations in research) and the Center for Latin America’s Fieldwork Festival. Shout out in particular to Ana Meiga, Ana
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Special Lecture “Odors, ontologies, and the age of Covid: Ethnobotany for the 21st Century”
Please join us for a Special co-sponsored event by TCD and UF Ethnogarden “Odors, Ontologies, and the Age of COVID: Ethnobotany for the 21st Century” By Dr. Glenn H. Shepard Jr., Goeldi Museum, Brazil Thursday, March 9th, 4:00 – 5:15 PM McCARTY HALL B, Room 2102 Odors represent an important but little studied aspect of indigenous
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