Lives in Motion: Human and Animal Migration in Times of Environmental Change

Disruption of animal migratory patterns, decline of itinerant farm workers and a growing number of displaced peoples worldwide pose a major challenge for the well-being of human societies and natural ecosystems. This program will explore migration from this wider perspective, focusing on Quindío, a region in the Colombian Coffee Axis, and the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. Benefiting from faculty and partners’ work in Latin American studies, language pedagogy, visual arts and environmental studies, students will transform this learning experience abroad and effect greater global awareness through storytelling.

Faculty team members: 

• Adela Pineda, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts, and Director of The Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies 
• Octavio Kano-Galván, Assistant Professor of Practice, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communications 
• Boris Corredor, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts 

International partners: 

• Ximena Londoño-Pava, founder and director of El Paraíso del Bambú y la Guadua, Montenegro, Colombia 
• Isabel Ramírez Ramírez, Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in affiliation with Alternare, Michoacán, Mexico 
• Dr. Camila Gómez M, Director of Education, SELVA: Investigación para la Conservación en el Neotrópico