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Funded Projects 2021

Seed Money Grant

1. Ana Balcarcel, Msc., PhD candidate, Paleontology Institute (PIMUZ). Evolutionary Biology program of Life Sciences, UZH.

Project title: Testing the influence of behavioral selection on brain form in the domestic dog model

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2. Roberto Carlos Mejías Méndez, M.A., PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar, UZH.

Project title: Narrativas latinoamericanas de la basurización y el despilfarro / Latin American Narratives of Wasting.

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New Research Formats

1. Pauline Bachmann (UPF-SNF Mobility, postdoc researcher), Dayron Carrillo-Morell (UZH, PhD candidate), and André Masseno (UZH, postdoc researcher).

Project title: Materialismos en América Latina: arte, activismo y cultura crítica.

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2. María Ordóñez, M.A., PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar & Cultural Analysis, UZH.

Project title: Imaginando el río. Des-aparición, prácticas locales y ecologías de la recomposición en Colombia.

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Mobility

1. Bárbara Garrido, M.A., PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar, UZH.

Project title: El contacto lingüístico entre el español y el portugués en
la frontera uruguaya con Brasil
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2. Mónica Rojas, M.A., PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar, UZH.

Project title: Poder y crimen: Mujeres transgresoras de la novela negra mexicana.

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Funded Projects 2022

Seed Money Grant

Virginia Kargachin, PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar, UZH.

Project title: Narrativas de materialidades migrantes: liminalidad y materialidades actantes en producciones literarias y artísticas de migración en el Caribe contemporáneo

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New Research Formats

Dr. Monika Streule, postdoctoral researcher, ETH / London School of Economics Latin America and Caribbean Centre (LACC)

Project title: alterritorios. Encuentros contra Extractivismos y Megaproyectos

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Mobility

Dr. Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, UZH.

Project title: Dating Late Pleistocene human-megafauna interactions in Tropical South America

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Funded Projects 2023

New Research Formats

1. Dr. Gizéh Rangel-de Lázaro, postdoctoral researcher, Paleontology Institute (PIMUZ), UZH.

Project title: Intentional Cranial Modification among Pre-Columbian population in Venezuela: A Digital Exploration into the Caribbean presence of this biocultural practice

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2. Bárbara Garrido Sánchez-Andrade, PhD candidate, Romanisches Seminar, UZH.

Project title: Artigas (Uruguay): una mirada rurubana desde el exterior

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Mobility

1. Gabriel Jorgewich Cohen, Paleontology Institute (PIMUZ), UZH.

Project title: On the evolution of vocal flexibility: What can neotropical reptiles say about the origins of language?

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2. Lukas Becker, PhD candidate, University of Geneva.

Project title: The Legacy of Oil – Petrocapitalism, Labor Resistance, and the Social Struggle for Energy Justice in the Oil Town

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3. Marianna Fernandes, PhD candidate, Geneva Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID).

Project title: Minería 4.0: mining, data-driven technologies, and climate change in Chile

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4. Dr. Siomara Elizabeth Ruckstuhl, ETH / Universidad de Granada.

Project title: Presentación de resultados de la tesis doctoral “Colisión Ideológica en el Muro: Una propuesta de restauración Urbano-Arquitectónica del Centro Cívico de Guatemala”.

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