AMUN 2010
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Guest Speaker
Yesenia Barragan is a Ph.D. Student in Latin American History at Columbia University, where she is a recipient of a Richard Hofstadter Faculty Fellowship. She graduated with Honors, Magna Cum Laude, from Brown University in 2008, where she majored in Political Philosophy and Ethics and Latin American History. She is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including the Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium Prize in History, the Beinecke Scholarship, the David Putter Scholarship, the Union Plus Scholarship, the C.V. Starr Fellowship for Public Service at Brown University, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and various others. Upon graduating, she spent a year abroad serving as an ESL Instructor at Xi’an Siyuan University in Xi’an, China, a rural elementary and middle school in Caldas, Colombia, and a local public school in Hackensack, her hometown. Yesenia has also twice served as a Resident Teaching Assistant for the New Jersey Governor’s School of International Studies at Ramapo College, where she oversaw student research on Latin American and African international relations. At Columbia, Yesenia primarily studies modern Latin American History, with an emphasis on social and political environmental history, gender and sexuality, violence and conflict, and the African Diaspora in Colombia and Latin America. She is the co-founder of the Workshop on Critical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity, a project that serves as an interdisciplinary scholarly space for graduate students and faculty members working on projects related to the critical consideration of race and ethnicity in their research. She is also working with fellow graduate students in Latin American History in organizing a conference at Columbia University on "Overt and Discreet Violence," marking the bicentennial of the beginning of Independence movements in Latin America. For her Masters Thesis, she is examining the historical development of the Green Revolution in US-Colombian foreign relations, where she analyzes the links between biofuels, human rights abuses, and land displacement in current Colombian policy. Awarded a Graduate Winter Field Research Grant from the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, Yesenia will spend a month in Bogotá, Colombia researching in the National Archives.Sample AMUN Conference Schedule
This schedule is provided as an example only. This schedule was used for last year's conference.
| Thursday January 28th, 2010 | |
|---|---|
| 1:30 - 1:45 | Outside Delegate Registration (Faculty Advisors only) |
| 2:00 - 3:15 | Opening Ceremonies |
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Committee Session A |
| 3:30 - 6:30 | Committee Session B |
| 5:30 - 6:10 | Dinner A |
| 6:30 - 7:10 | Dinner B |
| 6:10 - 8:30 | Committee Session A |
| 7:10 - 8:30 | Committee Session B |
| Friday, January 29th, 2010 | |
| 2:00 - 3:15 | Keynote Speaker TBD |
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Committee Session B |
| 3:10 - 6:30 | Committee Session A |
| 5:30 -6:10 | Dinner B |
| 6:30 - 7:10 | Dinner A |
| 6:10 - 8:30 | Committee Session B |
| 7:10 - 8:30 | Committee Session A |
| Saturday, January 30th, 2010 | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Light Brunch (Optional) |
| 9:30 - 11:30 | Committee Session A |
| 9:30 - 12:30 | Committee Session B |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Lunch A |
| 12:30 - 1:15 | Lunch B |
| 12:15 - 3:30 | Committee Session A |
| 1:15 - 3:30 | Committee Session B |
| 3:45 - 4:30 | Closing Ceremonies |