São Paulo Symposium
May 10-11, 2013 | University of Chicago
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Friday, May 10
2:30pm Opening remarks
Mauricio
Tenorio, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies and Professor of
History, University of Chicago
2:45pm Keynote Address
Heloisa
Pontes, Anthropology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas: São Paulo, metrópole
e produção cultural
3:45pm
Opening reception, sponsored by the Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean
4:15pm Epistemologies of São Paulo
Sarah Townsend, Spanish & Portuguese,
University of California, Santa Barbara: Brazilian
Modernismo and the Operatic Logic of Paulista Exceptionalism
Aiala Levy, History, University of
Chicago: Toward a History of Cultural
Spaces in the Self-Destructive City
Marcio Siwi, History, New York
University: The Making of Ibirapuera Park: Visions of the Modern and
Cultured City in Postwar São Paulo
Josh Shake, Urban and Regional Planning,
University of Michigan: Jane Jacobs and São Paulo: Idea
Flows, Urban Regeneration and Contextual Applicability
Discussant: Cristina Mehrtens, History,
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Saturday, May 11
8:30am
Light breakfast
9:00am Emergent Economies and Persistent Inequalities
Maria Carolina Vasconcelos Oliveira,
Sociology, Universidade de São Paulo: Cultura em São Paulo: onde habita a
cidade global?
Simone Buechler, Latin American and
Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago: The Significance of Economic Growth, Declining Inequality Statistics,
and Social Policies for Faveladas in São Paulo, Brazil
Reighan Gillam, African and Afroamerican
Studies, University of Michigan: Mark My Words: Racializing Space,
Mediating Race in Afro-Brazilian Radio
Discussant:
Tianna Paschel, Political Science, University of Chicago
10:30am
Coffee break
10:45am The Politics of Hazard
Nate Millington, Geography, University of
Kentucky: Impermeable Assemblages: Flooding, Environmental Hazards,
and Stormwater Politics in São Paulo, Brazil
Leonardo Cardoso, Ethnomusicology,
University of Texas at Austin: Sound-politics in São Paulo,
Brazil: Youth and "Pancadões"
Joseph Jay Sosa, Anthropology, University of
Chicago: São Paulo, Pink City: Queer
Protests and the Color of Political Dissent
Sarah Brooks, Political Science, Ohio
State University: Insecure Democracy: Risk and Political Participation
in São Paulo and Recife
Discussant:
Brodwyn Fischer, History, Northwestern University
12:30pm
Lunch, sponsored by the Consulate General of Brazil in Chicago
1:30pm Development Aesthetics
Camila Gui Rosatti, Sociology,
Universidade de São Paulo: Modern Architecture in São Paulo:
The Houses and Clients of Vilanova Artigas in the 1950s
Heitor Frúgoli, Anthropology,
Universidade de São Paulo: Luz District, São Paulo: Shared
Research Practices in an Inner-City Area
Derek Pardue, Anthropology, Washington
University in St. Louis: Reversal of
Fortunes?: São Paulo Youth Redirect Urban Development
Discussant:
Simone Buechler, Latin American and Latino Studies, UIC
3:00pm
Coffee break
3:15pm Contingent Imaginaries
Zeuler Lima, Architecture and Urban Design and History, Washington University
in Saint Louis: Urbanization Without Urbanism?
Bruno Zorek, History, Universidade
Estadual de Campinas: O futuro de São Paulo por Aroldo
de Azevedo e outros geógrafos (1954-1958)
Marcos
Steuernagel, Performance Studies, New York University: Teatro Oficina’s Os Sertões:
Staging Alternative Embodiments in the São Paulo of the 21st Century
Daniel Gough, Music, University of
Chicago: Music in the Metrô: Urban
Imaginaries and Cultural Policy in the Global City
Discussant:
K. David Jackson, Department of Spanish
and Portuguese, Yale
5:00pm
Coffee break
5:15pm
Roundtable: New Directions for São Paulo
Studies
K. David
Jackson, Zeuler Lima, Cristina Mehrtens, Heloisa Pontes
6:00pm
Closing reception, sponsored by the Consulate General of Brazil in Chicago
