2021 Conference Schedule
2019 Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00AM. 2414 Ackerman (Bruin Reception Room)
BREAKFAST AND CHECK IN
9:00-9:05AM Welcome
C. Cindy Fan, Vice Provost for International Studies and Global Engagement, UCLA International Institute
9:05-9:20AM
Opening Remarks by Professor Sherene Razack, Gender Studies, UCLA
Panel I. Education as a Tool for Empowerment
9:30-10:30 am, 2414 Ackerman
"Healing with Education: Fostering Social Change and Equity through Schooling for People Displaced by Conflict"
Bilgehan Ayik, Christine Liboon, Andrew Swindell, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
"Barriers and Progress to Gender Equity in Education"
Joseph Wright, Laurelyn Mynhier, Brooke Phan, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
"Politics of Rights, Representation and Resistance: Vietnamese Nhạc Vàng/Bolêro in the Diaspora"
Brooke Phan, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
(Vietnam)
Moderated by: Robyn Price, UCLA, Archaeology
Panel II. Looking Back to Move Forward (History of Social Movements)
9:30-10:30 AM , 2408 Ackerman
1. "Activating Activism: Utilizing Filipino-American Protest Ephemera as Evidence for Martial Law Reparations Claims"
Alexis Recto, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
(Philippines)
2. "Press and Power in Mexico: For a Mexico without Censorship and Freedom of Press"
Arielle Danielle Steimer-Barragan, California State University, Los Angeles
(Mexico)
3. "Linking the local and the global: epistemic hegemony and the struggle of indigenous people in Ethiopia"
Ayantu Tibeso, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
(Ethiopia)
Moderated by: Olivia Obeso
Panel III. Role of Social Infrastructure in Global Social Justice
10:45 -11:45 AM, 2414 Ackerman
1. "Un-fare: Studying Informal Public Transit and Inequality in Peripheral Bengaluru, India"
Jananie Kalyanaraman, UCLA Anthropology
(India)
2. "Eviction Regimes and Property Rights in Brazil"
Fernanda Verri, UCLA Urban Planning
(Brazil)
3. "Erasure and Resistance in Post-Maria Puerto Rico"
Michiko Soto, California State University, Los Angeles
(Puerto Rico)
Moderated by: Andrew Mitchel
Panel IV. Enlisting the Divine as an Ally: Religious Activism
10:45-11:45 AM , 2408 Ackerman
1. "Doing Civic Engagement in the Squatter Area of Lower Rock Quarry, Baguio City Philippines"
Joel Tejedo, Asia Pacific Theological Seminary
(Philippines)
2. "Anti-Nuclear Religious Voices in Japan"
Paola Camacho-Lemus, UCLA East Asian Studies
(Japan)
3. "Global Influences on Muslim Personal Law: Triple Talaq in India"
Isha Kakar, UCLA Global Studies Undergraduate Honors
Moderated by: Abou Ibrahim-Biangoro
12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH
2414 Ackerman
Keynote Speaker: Professor Ananya Roy
Introduced by Christopher Erickson, Senior Associate Vice Provost and Director of the International Institute
Panel V. Collective Consciousness: Social Movements for Mass Change
1:15-2:15 PM, 2414 Ackerman
1. "Legacies of 1968 and 2018: Social Movements as Hashtags"
Brooke Phan, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Vietnam
2. "How to Breach White Supremacist Indoctrination: Anti-Racist Cross Community Organizing"
Jodi Scofield, California State University, Los Angeles, Latin American & Pan African Studies
(United States)
3. "Groupness as a Political Outcome: Ethnoracial Inequalities, Critical Junctures, and Group-making Practices"
Juan Delgado, UCLA Sociology
(Colombia)
Moderated by: Lupe Davalos Meyers
Panel VI. Migration, Law, and Immigrant Incarceration
1:15-2:15 PM, 2408 Ackerman
1. "Feats of the Feeble: How Vietnamese Fishermen Created a New Migrant Space in Trinidad and Tobago"
Andrew Le, UCLA Sociology
(Vietnam)
2. "Waiting in Liminality: The Spillover Effects of Indefinite Detention on Immigrant Families"
Mirian Martinez-Aranda, UCLA Sociology
(United States)
3. "The documentation process of Mexican immigrants in the United States through the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, California"
Lucrecia Mena Melendez, UCLA Sociology
(United States)
Moderated by: Rigoberto Quintana
Panel VII. The Integration of Social Development, Markets, and Gender
2:30-3:30PM. 2414 Ackerman
1. "The Labor Market Cost of Being Woman, Tribal and Muslim: How Much in India?"
Soumyajit Chakraborty, University of New Mexico
(India)
2. "Moving Beyond the Gender Binary: Alok Vaid-Menon's Poetry and the Promise of a Gender-Fluid Future"
Rishi R. Guné, UCLA Asian American Studies
(South Asia)
3. "The Prodigal Plant: Evaluating the Potential Growth of the Palm Oil Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Max Dunsker, UCLA International Development Studies Undergraduate Honors
Moderated by: Anjana Radhakrishnan
Panel VIII: Undergraduate Perspectives: Policy Change, Development, Immigration, and Climate Change
Undergraduate Honors Presentations
2:30-3:30PM, 2408 Ackerman
1. “Educational Development in México: The Role of Social Capital in Higher Education”
Maria Amaya-Morfin, International Development Studies
2. "Contesting Climate Colonialism: the contentious politics of carbon markets in the Brazilian Amazon"
Alexander Ferrer. International Development Studies
3. "Dams, Development and the Future of Sino-Indian Hydro-politics"
Ronni Ravid, Global Studies
4. "Understanding Innovative Social Welfare Policies in Latin America: The Case of Mexico and Brazil"
Rene Rosas, International Development Studies
5. "The Rise of Right-wing Populism in Germany and the Decline of Immigration"
Kyilah Terry, European Studies
6. Govind Srivastav, International Development Studies Activist Award Recipient
3:45-4:00 PM BEST PAPER AWARD
Presented by Samuel Bersola , Assistant Vice Provost of Graduate Division
Reception in the Bruin Reception Room to Follow
8:30-9:00AM. 2414 Ackerman (Bruin Reception Room)
BREAKFAST AND CHECK IN
9:00-9:05AM Welcome
C. Cindy Fan, Vice Provost for International Studies and Global Engagement, UCLA International Institute
9:05-9:20AM
Opening Remarks by Professor Sherene Razack, Gender Studies, UCLA
Panel I. Education as a Tool for Empowerment
9:30-10:30 am, 2414 Ackerman
"Healing with Education: Fostering Social Change and Equity through Schooling for People Displaced by Conflict"
Bilgehan Ayik, Christine Liboon, Andrew Swindell, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
"Barriers and Progress to Gender Equity in Education"
Joseph Wright, Laurelyn Mynhier, Brooke Phan, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
"Politics of Rights, Representation and Resistance: Vietnamese Nhạc Vàng/Bolêro in the Diaspora"
Brooke Phan, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
(Vietnam)
Moderated by: Robyn Price, UCLA, Archaeology
Panel II. Looking Back to Move Forward (History of Social Movements)
9:30-10:30 AM , 2408 Ackerman
1. "Activating Activism: Utilizing Filipino-American Protest Ephemera as Evidence for Martial Law Reparations Claims"
Alexis Recto, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
(Philippines)
2. "Press and Power in Mexico: For a Mexico without Censorship and Freedom of Press"
Arielle Danielle Steimer-Barragan, California State University, Los Angeles
(Mexico)
3. "Linking the local and the global: epistemic hegemony and the struggle of indigenous people in Ethiopia"
Ayantu Tibeso, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
(Ethiopia)
Moderated by: Olivia Obeso
Panel III. Role of Social Infrastructure in Global Social Justice
10:45 -11:45 AM, 2414 Ackerman
1. "Un-fare: Studying Informal Public Transit and Inequality in Peripheral Bengaluru, India"
Jananie Kalyanaraman, UCLA Anthropology
(India)
2. "Eviction Regimes and Property Rights in Brazil"
Fernanda Verri, UCLA Urban Planning
(Brazil)
3. "Erasure and Resistance in Post-Maria Puerto Rico"
Michiko Soto, California State University, Los Angeles
(Puerto Rico)
Moderated by: Andrew Mitchel
Panel IV. Enlisting the Divine as an Ally: Religious Activism
10:45-11:45 AM , 2408 Ackerman
1. "Doing Civic Engagement in the Squatter Area of Lower Rock Quarry, Baguio City Philippines"
Joel Tejedo, Asia Pacific Theological Seminary
(Philippines)
2. "Anti-Nuclear Religious Voices in Japan"
Paola Camacho-Lemus, UCLA East Asian Studies
(Japan)
3. "Global Influences on Muslim Personal Law: Triple Talaq in India"
Isha Kakar, UCLA Global Studies Undergraduate Honors
Moderated by: Abou Ibrahim-Biangoro
12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH
2414 Ackerman
Keynote Speaker: Professor Ananya Roy
Introduced by Christopher Erickson, Senior Associate Vice Provost and Director of the International Institute
Panel V. Collective Consciousness: Social Movements for Mass Change
1:15-2:15 PM, 2414 Ackerman
1. "Legacies of 1968 and 2018: Social Movements as Hashtags"
Brooke Phan, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Vietnam
2. "How to Breach White Supremacist Indoctrination: Anti-Racist Cross Community Organizing"
Jodi Scofield, California State University, Los Angeles, Latin American & Pan African Studies
(United States)
3. "Groupness as a Political Outcome: Ethnoracial Inequalities, Critical Junctures, and Group-making Practices"
Juan Delgado, UCLA Sociology
(Colombia)
Moderated by: Lupe Davalos Meyers
Panel VI. Migration, Law, and Immigrant Incarceration
1:15-2:15 PM, 2408 Ackerman
1. "Feats of the Feeble: How Vietnamese Fishermen Created a New Migrant Space in Trinidad and Tobago"
Andrew Le, UCLA Sociology
(Vietnam)
2. "Waiting in Liminality: The Spillover Effects of Indefinite Detention on Immigrant Families"
Mirian Martinez-Aranda, UCLA Sociology
(United States)
3. "The documentation process of Mexican immigrants in the United States through the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, California"
Lucrecia Mena Melendez, UCLA Sociology
(United States)
Moderated by: Rigoberto Quintana
Panel VII. The Integration of Social Development, Markets, and Gender
2:30-3:30PM. 2414 Ackerman
1. "The Labor Market Cost of Being Woman, Tribal and Muslim: How Much in India?"
Soumyajit Chakraborty, University of New Mexico
(India)
2. "Moving Beyond the Gender Binary: Alok Vaid-Menon's Poetry and the Promise of a Gender-Fluid Future"
Rishi R. Guné, UCLA Asian American Studies
(South Asia)
3. "The Prodigal Plant: Evaluating the Potential Growth of the Palm Oil Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Max Dunsker, UCLA International Development Studies Undergraduate Honors
Moderated by: Anjana Radhakrishnan
Panel VIII: Undergraduate Perspectives: Policy Change, Development, Immigration, and Climate Change
Undergraduate Honors Presentations
2:30-3:30PM, 2408 Ackerman
1. “Educational Development in México: The Role of Social Capital in Higher Education”
Maria Amaya-Morfin, International Development Studies
2. "Contesting Climate Colonialism: the contentious politics of carbon markets in the Brazilian Amazon"
Alexander Ferrer. International Development Studies
3. "Dams, Development and the Future of Sino-Indian Hydro-politics"
Ronni Ravid, Global Studies
4. "Understanding Innovative Social Welfare Policies in Latin America: The Case of Mexico and Brazil"
Rene Rosas, International Development Studies
5. "The Rise of Right-wing Populism in Germany and the Decline of Immigration"
Kyilah Terry, European Studies
6. Govind Srivastav, International Development Studies Activist Award Recipient
3:45-4:00 PM BEST PAPER AWARD
Presented by Samuel Bersola , Assistant Vice Provost of Graduate Division
Reception in the Bruin Reception Room to Follow
