Scholarly Presentations

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“GEOGRAPHIES OF COFFEE” 

  • NESTVAL, 10/19, Comparison of Stress on Cuban and Venezuelan Migrants’ Health, poster, Framingham State University
  • AAG, 4/19, Stress and Effects on Cuban Migrants’ Health, poster, Washington, DC.
  • Inwomenhealth, International Women’s and Children’s Health and Gender Group, 6/17, Montreal, Workshop and panel discussions about LBGTQ for HIV/AIDS in Cuba and Belize.
  • 31st Annual Research &I Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health, Tampa, FL, 3/18, Stevens, S., Korchmaros, J. D., Castellanos, E., Pope, C., and Black, C. HIV Risk, Substance Use, and Sex Work among Young Women in Belize: The Need for Prevention Efforts.
  • Association of American Geographers (AAG), 4/17, Invited panelist for Society of Woman Geographers addressing current feminist geography trends
  • Latin American Geographers Association, 4/15, Havana, Cuba, Changing Geographies of U.S.-Cuban Relations from a U.S. Perspective: Opportunities for Collaboration
  • Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2/14, Panelist, Changing Geographies of Cuban Research.
  • New England St. Lawrence Valley Geography Association (NESTVAL), 2012-present, various panels
  • Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2/12, New York City, Confronting Policies of Discrimination: Living with HIV/AIDS in Belize.
  • Association of American Geographers (AAG), 4/11, Seattle, Cybergeography and political change: The case of Cuba
  • Keynote Speaker, Global Citizenship and Academia Lecture Series, Fairfield University, 2/11
  • Invited Speaker, Geography Graduate Society, CCSU, 2/10, International Fieldwork Opportunities
  • Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG), 1/09, Spaces of Discontent: Cyberspace and Social Commentary in Cuba, Granada, Nicaragua
  • Invited Speaker, University of Texas-Austin, Seminar on Migration, Geography Department, 10/08
  • Invited Speaker, University of Texas-Austin, Geography Colloquium,10/08
  • Association of American Geographers (AAG), 4/08, Invited Panelist, Current State of Medical Geography and The Role of International Education in Geography Programs
  • Invited Speaker, Symposium on HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Diaspora, 9/07, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • International Medical Geography Symposium, Bonn, Germany, 7/07, Critical Geographies of ARV  (antiretroviral) Access: The Roles of Gender, Globalization, and Nationbuilding in the Caribbean.
  • June Higgins Gender Studies Conference, CCSU, 4/07, session moderator (Slavery and Gender).
  • Social medicine, medical geography and health care for indigenous populations: Ethnic pathology in Germany, Russia, Latin America and beyond, workshop, Giessen, Germany, 11/06. Marginalization and HIV in Latin America: The case of Mayans and ethnic pathology frameworks of risk in Belize.
  • Keynote Speaker, Yale University, Programs in International Educational Resources (PIER), 11/06, Geographies of Health and Disease in Africa.
  • Northeast-St. Lawrence Valley Geographic Association (NESTVAL), 10/06, Nation Building and HIV Risk in the Caribbean: Case Studies from Cuba and Belize (paper presentation), Chair (Medical/Health Geography Session).
  • Invited Speaker. University of Connecticut Geography Colloquium Series, 10/06. Comparative Research Frameworks and Methodologies in Medical Geography: HIV/AIDS in Belize and Cuba.
  • Invited Speaker. Planned Parenthood Connecticut, 5/05. Collaborating and Building Allies Domestically and Abroad.
  • Invited Speaker, Ball State University Colloquium Series, Dept. of Geography, 4/05. The Politics of Health: Gendered Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Cuba.
  • Association of American Geographers (AAG), 3/06, The Gendered and Cultural Impacts of HIV/AIDS: A geographic analysis of virus transmission in Belize.
  • AAG, 3/06, Moderator and Organizer, The Geography of HIV/AIDS: Sessions I and II.
  • Southern Connecticut State University Gender Studies Conference, 10/05, session moderator (Gender and Health in Southeast Asia).
  • AAG, 4/05, Sex Workers and Wives: Contested Revolutionary and Reactionary Spaces in Havana.
  • AAG, 4/04, Whither Medical Geography? A panel discussion on the state of the subdiscipline. Organizer and participant.
  • International Geographical Union (IGU), 8/04, Sex Work, Negotiation, and HIV Risk: Comparative Strategies in Havana and Jamaica.
  • Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG), 5/04, Rent-a-Dreads and Risk: HIV and implications for human, symbolic, and moral capital in Havana and Montego Bay.
  • Northeast Regional Social Studies Conference (NERSSC), 3/04, Workshop on Medical Geography in the High School Classroom.
  • AAG, 3/04, The Geography of Gender and HIV Risk in Cuba and Jamaica. In addition, I organized two medical geography sessions–Globalization of Health and Disease, and Geographies of HIV/AIDS.
  • NESTVAL (regional association of the Association of American Geographers), 10/03, panel organizer and presenter, Economic Restructuring in Cuba and Its Impacts on Health.
  • AAG, 3/03, Scales of Dependency: The Impact of Development on Women’s Susceptibility to HIV/AIDS in Cuba
  • Women’s World Conference 2002, 7/02, Kampala, Uganda, Politics of Place: Gender and HIV Perception in Havana, Cuba.
  • The June Baker Higgins Conference for Gender Studies, CCSU, 4/02, Women and HIV Prevention in the Caribbean.
  • AAG, 3/01, Mapping Disease and Desire: Gender and HIV Risk in Havana, Cuba.
  • AAG, 3/01, panelist, Sexuality and Fieldwork
  • AAG, 4/00, panelist, Feminist Qualitative Methodologies.
  • AAG, 3/99, Gendered Prevention: Women’s Susceptibility to HIV in Havana.
  • AAG, 3/98, Women’s Mobility for Health Care on the U.S.-Mexico border.
  • Association of Borderlands Studies, 2/98, Gender and Health in Ambos Nogales.
  • Fourth International Conference on the Americas, 1/98, A “Third Culture”: The U.S.-Mexico Border and Border-crossing Traditions.
  • Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 4/97, Women’s Border Crossing Behaviors with Regards to Prenatal and Perinatal Care
  • First Annual Western Geography Graduate Student Conference, 1/97. Initial findings on border-crossing behaviors among women in the Arizona-Sonora context.
  • Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG), 1/96. Conflicting Issues Concerning Construction in the Darien Gap (Panama).

 

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