Annual Tobias Center Research Symposium
Friday, December 6, 2024
GISB 1060
9am - 6pm
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9am-10am, Panel 1: Human Development in Conditions of Displacement
Elisheva Cohen and Antonio Ortiz: Exploring the Links between Aspirations and Education for Refugees in Developing Contexts
Daniel Shephard and Eden Zaborowski: Belonging and diversity attitudes as quasi-ties that limit or expand refugee- and native-born social networks of school help
Daniel Shephard and Da'Ja' Askew: Redefining Refugees: The conversion of migrant status to refugee status in Jordan
10am-11am Panel 2: Building Political Coalitions for Sustainable Development
Jen Brass: Who Wins and Loses During a Rapid Clean Energy Transition in the Global South? Climate Change, Green Electricity Access, and Citizens in Kenya
William Decourt: Greenwashing Authoritarianism: Chinese Overseas Development Finance and the Eco-Developmental State in Africa
Nikolina Zenović: Smart and Sustainable: Sustainability Discourses in Astypalaia’s Transition into a “Smart, Sustainable Island”
11am-12pm, Panel 3: State Violence, Control, and Development
Helena Mello: Micro Spaces of Power: An Ethnography of the Civil Police in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Hayden Kolowrat: The Fitafita Guard and a History of Indigenous Military Service in the American Empire
12pm – 1pm, Lunch Internship Roundtable
1pm-2pm, Panel 4: Public Health and Development
Drew Capone and Hafsa Kahn: Developing a Novel Passive Sampler for Fecal Microbes Carried by Flies
Molly Rosenberger and Erika Beidelman: Evaluating cash transfers for cognitive outcomes in rural South Africa
Nishant Buragohain: (Un)Planned Development and Disaster Vulnerability in Assam, India
2pm – 3:15pm: Global Consultants Showcase
3:15pm – 4 pm
David Bell and Abidemi Adeoye: Environment, Sustainability & Governance/CSOs at the Intersection of China and Africa
Grant Morgan: China’s Growing Domestic Challenges: Economic, Social, and Environmental
4pm – 5pm Development at the Margins
Sameeksha Desai and Mahi Patel: Sextortion and Entrepreneurship: A Review and Policy Agenda
Beatriz Lima Ribeiro: How politics travel: the challenges of Indigenous political representation in multi-scale environmental governance
Mike Dwyer and Belle Chatpunnarangsee: Grid geopolitics: An institutional, financial and spatial history of electricity in contemporary Lao
5pm – 6pm Closing Reception