Presentations

Timing the Action: Mobilization and the Chrono politics of Democratic Resistance in Central America

X Semana Científica

October 2025 — Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala.


Living in Guatemala: origin, transnational links and social integration of Central American and Venezuelan immigrants.

Latin American Studies Association Conference

June 2024 — Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.


Panel Organizer: «Public and Social Policies for the troubled Central America of yesterday and today»

Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference.

March 2024 — University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA


«A Region at Risk: Opportunities, Gaps, and Challenges for Social Disaster Research in Central America»

Eastern Sociological Association Conference.

March 2024 — Washington DC


«A Region at Risk: Opportunities, Gaps, and Challenges for Social Disaster Research in Central America»

National Conference on Climate Change.

February 2024 — Quetzaltenango, Guatemala .


«Authoritarian Consolidation: Loss of Democracy and Resistance in Nicaragua»

Central American Politics Consortium (CAPC) Workshop

January 2024 — Tulane University, New Orleans, LA .


«Migration as a result of Authoritarianism in Nicaragua»

Jesuit Migrant Accompaniment Network

October 2023 — Universidad Centroamericana, San Salvador, El Salvador


«The Catholic Church and the 2018 wave of protests in Nicaragua»

American Political Science Association Conference

September 2021 — Online


«The Catholic Church and the 2018 wave of protests in Nicaragua»

American Sociological Association Conference

August 2021 — Online


«The Catholic Church in the Negotiation process in Nicaragua«

Invited Talk at United States Institute of Peace

September 2021 — Available here


«Catholic Church in Nicaragua Democracy«

Invited Talk at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

November 2019 — Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA.


«Education stakeholders for democracy in Nicaragua«

Invited Talk at Center for Latin American Studies

October 2019 — University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA


«The 2018 Nicaraguan Wave of Protests: Triggering processes, mechanisms, and results«

Invited Talk at Universidad Javeriana

August 2019 — Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia


«The 2018 Nicaraguan Wave of Protests: Triggering processes, mechanisms, and results«

Invited Talk at Instituto de Investigaciones sociales UCR

May 2019 — Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica


«Qualification mismatch in Call Centers in Nicaragua«

Invited Talk at Fundación Nicaraguense para el Desarrollo Económico y Social

December 2017 — Managua, Nicaragua


«Vox Populi: Collective actions in Nicaragua in 2016«

Mexican Association of Political Sciences

September 2017 — Quintana Roo, Mexico