Presentations
Latin American Studies Association (LASA international Congress) 2022 - May 5–8, 2022
Paper topic "Taming nature in Costa Rican Seasonally dry Neotropical forest" as part of the panel: Forest Managements Conservation and Agricultural Production into the Track: Environment, Nature and Climate Change for the LASA2022 Hybrid Congress: Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias taking place May 5–8, 2022, virtually and on-site in San Francisco, California.
Latin American Studies Association (LASA international Congress) 2021 - May 26 - 29, 2021
Paper topic "We are invisible. Patrimonial violence against peasant women in state-made peasant settlements of Costa Rica" as part of the panel: Violencias Múltiples Contras las Mujeres en Territorios de Inseguridad into the Track: Feminism and Gender Studies for the LASA2021 Virtual Congress: Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida taking place May 26 - 29, 2021.
AUGUST 5TH, 2020. Scholar’s Hub York University. The everchanging food landscape or our city.
Part of the Scholars' Hub @ Home Speaker Series. features discussions on a broad range of topics, with engaging lectures from some of York’s best minds. The Scholars’ Hub events are done in partnership with Vaughan Public Libraries, Markham Public Library, and Aurora Public Library. The topic of the presentation was the accessibility of food and food security in the Toronto GTA through critical GIS techniques.
MAY 2019. CALACS (Canadian Association of Latina American and the Caribbean Studies) 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONGRESS
Panel "Historical Perspectives on Space and Place in Urban and Rural Settings." Presentation "State planned peasant settlements in Costa Rica - A history of half a century."
MAY 2019. CALACS (Canadian Association of Latina American and the Caribbean Studies) 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONGRESS
Chair of the Panel on Agrarian Transformations: farmers' strategies and movements. The panel met relevant research about agrarian transformations and farmers' strategies in Latin America.
March 2017. XI CONGRESS OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY NETWORK, SAN PEDRO, UNIVERSITY OF COSTA RICA, COSTA RICA
"Water for peasants: the social production of social space and nature in two peasant settlements of Guanacaste province, Costa Rica." Paper accepted as part of a set of panels on "Environmental Anthropology: Communities, Environment and Wellbeing facing the Anthropocene and Climate Change."
February 2016. NATIONAL FORUM FOR INITIATIVES FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN BIOLOGICAL CORRIDORS IN COSTA RICA
"Sharing multilayered Sense of Space" opening the discussion about the impact of rural tourism initiatives on Ngäbe Blugé (Costa Rica/Panama Native Nation) rural workers in the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor, San Isidro, Costa Rica.
September 2014. XIV CENTRAL AMERICAN CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY, PANAMA
Trans-disciplinary studies on place and its social meanings: continuity, change and persistence of the rural world in some peasants' communities of Costa Rica.
July 2010 XII. CENTRAL AMERICAN CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY, COSTA RICA
Sociological Interpretation of snakebite incidence in children and teenagers in Costa Rica for the period of 1990-2007 as an indicator of rural child labour.
February 2008. 1ST. NATIONAL CONGRESS OF INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA
Member of the Scientific Committee. Hosted a discussion panel on "Experience on wildlife conservation and social participation in biological corridors initiatives."
June 2007. INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM "SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF HABITAT" SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA
Conference panel on the social production of public spaces as spaces of resistance and organizational tools for promoting social engagement and participation in "La Carpio" (the biggest precariously owned neighbourhoods of San Jose).
September 2005. SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCEMENTS IN NEOTROPICAL HERPETOLOGY 2005 – UNIVERSITY OF COSTA RICA
1) Discourse analysis of the national news press on serpent-related events and scientific communities 1969-1999. S. Vázquez Olguín. Clodomiro Picado Institute.
2) Analysis of the incidence of snakebite accidents in Costa Rica using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). M. Zinder, S. Vázquez Olguín, M. Sasa. Clodomiro Picado Institute and Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)