2nd Annual International Institute Graduate Student Conference

2nd Annual International Institute
Graduate Student Conference
Image Credit: Vannessa Alvarado
Please join us at the 2nd Annual International Institute Graduate Student Conference!
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
KERCKHOFF GRAND SALON & STATE ROOMS, UCLA
RECEPTION FOR PARTICIPANTS WILL FOLLOW
The UCLA International Institute Academic Programs Office and Graduate Students have organized this
graduate student conference to present the outstanding research on global issues produced by the UCLA
graduate community. Presentations will cover a diverse array of topics drawing from themes relevant to
Regional and Area Studies, International Relations, International Development, Urban Planning, Education, Health, Culture, and Transnational Approaches to Domestic Issues.
8:30 – 9:00 AM
9:00 – 9:20 AM
CHECK-IN & BREAKFAST (Kerckhoff Grand Salon)
Welcome
Opening Remarks: Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor, UCLA
International Institute (Kerckhoff Grand Salon)
Panel #1:
Crossing Boundaries:
Migration & Transnational Encounters
“The Under-examined Effects of States’ Shift from Entry-point to Remote Control of
Migration”
Jacob Thomas, Sociology
“Study Abroad and White Racial Identity Development in White and non-White
Countries”
Jennifer Nishizaki, Cyndi Tando, Justyna Wojtach
“Visiting 'Riben' (Japan): Disjunction and Bifurcation of 'Chinese Tourists' in Tokyo”
Ryoko Nishijima, Anthropology
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
“Under Pressure: the Devaluation of Cape Verdean Labor-Power on a Lisbon Periphery in Crisis”
Samuel Weeks, Anthropology
9:30 – 10:45 AM
“The Pedagogy of Culture: Cultural Preservation in a Tongan Community”
Alexandra Halpern
Panel # 2:
Education & Cultural
Pedagogy
Kerckhoff Stateroom
131
“Kenyan National Secondary School Placement: A Question of Merit”
Amanda Domingues, African Studies
“Reaching the Unreachable: Providing International Staff Training on Naturalistic
Behavioral Assessment for Challenging Behaviors”
Faisal Alnemary and Fahad Alnemary
“The Portrayal of Indigenous Groups in Taiwan’s English Language
Using Settler Colonialism Theory as a Critical Framework”
Yann-Ru Ho
Textbooks:
"Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom": Media Freedom in Authoritarian Regimes”
Eoghan Stafford, Political Science
Panel #3:
Conflict, Hegemony, &
Power
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
11:00 AM –
12:00 PM
Panel #4:
Environment, Sustainability, & Development
Policy
Kerckhoff Stateroom
131
12– 1:00
“Militarization, and the establishment of AFRICOM as a tool of hegemony in Africa”
James Walker , Geography
“Environmental Sustainability and Social Equity in East Asia”
Haley Zhao and Kana Kudo
“Urban Mobility and Economic Shock: How Bangkok’s Transportation System
Weathered the 1997 Financial Crisis”
David Leipziger
“Sustainable Housing for low-income populations: How effective is Mexico's Green
Mortgage Program?”
Miriam Paloma Giottonini Badilla
LUNCH
Panel 5 :
Diagnoses, Prevention,
& Intervention: Local
Responses to Global
Health Issues
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
1:00 – 2:00 PM
“The Annual Caribbean Pilgrimage of Saint Francis: A Healing from and of Religion”
Erik Pena, Community Health Sciences
“Liberation Medicine, Latin American Liberatory Praxis & Work of Doctors for Global Health”
Sarah Smith, Latin American Studies
‘“They Call it ‘Hokspiks’”: Obstacles to Translating Hospice and Palliative Care in the
Caribbean Region’
Devin Flaherty
Panel 6:
Diagnoses, Prevention,
& Intervention: Local
Responses to Global
Health Issues
“Treatments for Children With Autism in Saudi Arabia: An Online Survey for Parents”
Fahad Alnemary
Kerckhoff Stateroom
131
Social Context of HIV in Russia
Chiao-Wen Lan
“Utilizing Male Circumcision as a HIV Reduction Strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Programs, Challenges, and Future Directions”
Natalie Dickinson, Latin American Studies
“Transmission & Transmutation: The Ideology of Soviet Popular Song”
Alexandra Grabarchuk, Musicology
Panel #7:
Ideology, Propaganda,
and Mixed-Media
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
2:15-3:15 PM
Panel # 8:
Revisiting the Past : Trying Times & Shifting
Paradigms
Kerckhoff Stateroom
131
“Rural Roots and Small-Town Values: National Mythologies and Musical Tropes in
British and American Propaganda Films of World War II”
Breena Loraine
“Reading Ideology: The Case of North Korea and East Germany”
Thomas Stock
“What Lies Beneath: Archaeology During World War I and Beyond”
Ceren Abi
“Religion, State, and Islam in Colonial India”
Mohsin Ali, Islamic Studies
“The Underappreciated Impact of the Imjin War in Early Modern Asia”
Seoyun Shin, East Asian Studies
“Policies of Development and Inequality: A Second Look at Botswana’s Miracle Story”
Erica Anjum, African Studies
3:30—4:15 PM
Panel # 9:
Strategic Policy Approaches:
Planning the City, Planning the State
Kerckhoff Stateroom
131
4:30-5:45 PM
RECEPTION FOR PARTICIPANTS (Kerckhoff Grand Salon)
“Building Capacity to Transform Zambia: What motivates government officials in
Zambia to learn planning-related skills?”
Kana Kudo