Dinner Conversation with Flora Lu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz

Perspectives on Sustainable Development in Latin America Working Group invites students to a dinner conversation with Flora Lu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. With a specialty in Ecological Anthropology, Flora studies the interrelationships between human societies and the natural environment, with a geographic emphasis on the Amazon. She integrates social and natural science approaches to study resource use and conservation among indigenous peoples and migrant populations in Ecuador with a focus on land use, social change, cultural resilience, and household economic strategies. Working with theoretical frameworks from ecological anthropology, political ecology, and human ecology, Flora's primary areas of research include common property regimes, conservation politics, environmental justice, indigenous resource use, and household economics. 

Students will have the chance to participate in an informal discussion with Flora in an intimate setting and ask questions about her current work, career path, and visions for sustainable development.  Please RSVP to ensure enough food!  (RSVP to adeaconu@stanford.edu).