Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
Category: Events
Fall 2024 TCD Orientation & Gathering
Join us to learn about the TCD Program and TCD Student Group and hear about events , opportunities and reconnect / meet current and new students and faculty! More information coming in the beginning of the Fall semester. Stay tuned!Friday, August 30, 2024@ 12-4 pm in Smather’s Library, Room 100Join us for lunch
Thank you from the TCD Student Group
We would like to thank the TCD community very much for attending our Taste of the Tropics on Sunday, April 28th! As expected, it was a great gathering. We shared good food and had lots of fun while collaborating as a community with the TCD program. We want to thank our TCD program coordinators, faculty
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TCD Student Group Officer Nominations for 2024-2025
The academic year is about to end, and we are looking for new officers for 2024 – 2025! If you are interested in taking an active role to lead and serve the TCD student community, this is your chance! We are looking to fill positions for President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Communications Officer, Regional Representatives
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Upcoming Conservation and Development Forum: Language, Knowledge and the Environment: Implications for Biocultural Conservation
APRIL 19, 2024 Language, Knowledge, and the Environment: Implications for Biocultural Conservation Virtual panel (3:00-5:00 pm EST) Dr. Luisa Maffi — Co-founder and Director, Terralingua Dr. David Stringer — Associate Professor of Second Language Studies, Indiana University Dr. Marianne Ignace — Professor of Linguistics and Indigenous Studies, Simon Fraser University For more information, please contact
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Tropilunch 4/23/24: 360 Community led-change: Supporting indigenous peoples and local communities to lead on their agenda of their wellbeing.
You can find the presentations lined up for this semester and check past semesters’ lists, on the Tropilunch page. Tropilunch presentations are recorded weekly when possible and posted to TCD’s YouTube Channel. Tropilunch is a weekly seminar run by graduate students from the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program. It provides a forum for a
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Mini workshop “Sorting cards in social-environmental research: Sharing experiences about Q methodology”
Q Methodology combines qualitative and quantitative techniques to study ‘subjectivity’. Using Q techniques researchers are able to uncover and interpret shared views, perspectives, opinions, values and beliefs. Those shared viewpoints can then be described in rich detail. Let’s learn about experiences from UF graduate research. Opening by Dr. Catherine Tucker and discussion by Dr. Vanessa
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