Symposium

Organizers:

Date:

April 5, 2023

Time:

3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Fee:

Free

Location:

AULA, University of Aruba (click to register)

Location:

Online via Zoom (click to register)

2023 – UAUCU Student Research Exchange Program

Symposium

Introduction

As in previous years, students from the University of Aruba (UA) and from Utrecht University/University College Utrecht (UCU) carried out empirical research in and about Aruba for their thesis research. Like the student cohorts before them, they defined their own guiding principles and goals for their participation in the project, these ideas reflect their hopes of working in ways that could be meaningful to others as well as to themselves. At this public symposium, the students will share their preliminary findings with the Aruban community in short presentations and a poster session.

Program

3:00 p.m. – Eric Mijts
Opening

3:10 p.m. – Myrthe Knip
Small in size, big in culture: exploring cultural celebration and preservation as a tool for strengthening community culture against the dominance of tourism

3:20 p.m. – Robin Prast
Bettering San Nicolas: the communal transformational capacity of church-led initiatives

3:30 p.m. – Thijn Fruijtier
The possible switch from Dutch to Papiamento as the instruction language at schools

3:40 p.m. – Imre Ismen
Through Relations: Identity and belonging of young migrants in Aruba3:50 p.m.

3:50 p.m. – Jasmine Coelho
Murals and the Aruban cultural identity

4:00 p.m. – Alexandra Falcon
Analyzing the CO2 footprint of food imports to Aruba

4:10 p.m.
BREAK / POSTER Session

4:40 p.m. – Alexandra Ulacio
Implementation of a smart waste bin for the improvement of waste sorting: the case of Aruba

4:50 p.m. – Shanisse Franken
How can machine learning predict future climate change impacts on socio-ecological systems?

5:00 p.m. – Siguerd Obispo
TBA

5:10 p.m. – Noemi Pérez Kluin
Challenging the Hedonic Nature of Tourism: Behavioral Interventions in Hotels in Aruba

5:20 p.m. – Hania Siwek
TBA

5:30 p.m. – Jill van Bekhoven, Julia Strijbosch, Steff van den Berg, Zaïda Floren
A closer look at Aruba’s agricultural soil quality and the relationships between local farmers and Santa Rosa

5:50 p.m. – Eric Mijts
Closing remarks and invite to poster session 2

6:00 p.m.
DRINKS / POSTER Session 2