Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
Category: Events
TCD Student Group Photo Treasure Hunt
Join the TCD sg in its first social event of the semester. Bring your cameras and let’s take pictures of ‘nature treasures’ along the trail! Capture the best nature photo and wind a prize! Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 9 am at Sweetwater Preserve East Trail. We would love to see you there!
Workshop Reimagining Fieldwork: Sharing Experiences & Transforming Approaches
This workshop aims to facilitate a discussion about the expectations, challenges, and realities of fieldwork while examining approaches that are more inclusive of local communities and collaborators.Topics to be discussed: WED. NOV. 1, 3:00 – 4:30 pmReitz Union – G330 Happy hour social to follow.@ First Magnitude Brewery!1220 SE Veitch St., Gainesville
Center for LAS Colloquium with TCD Faculty and Academic Advisor Dr. Karen Kainer
Join the Center for Latin American Studies Center for its Colloquia series featuring our own TCD Academic Advisor and faculty, Dr. Karen Kainer. Karen is presenting the seminar “Research agendas and collaborative management of tropical forests in Latin America“. This will take place on Friday, 9/13/23 at 4 pm in Grinter Hall, Room 376.
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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