Proposals under review

Thank you to all who submitted paper abstracts.  We will review proposals over the next month and individually notify applicants of the results no later than January 31, 2013.

In the meantime, happy holidays!

Call For Papers (English and Portuguese)

South America’s largest city and the self-proclaimed “modern city” of Brazil, São Paulo is a dynamic site from which to (re)consider a variety of themes important to contemporary scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and public policy.  This conference brings together disciplinary and regionally diverse scholars to present work that adds to historic, ethnographic, political, literary and artistic understandings of São Paulo as well as addresses how the study of the city reflects and/or challenges broader social, political, and theoretical currents.

Proposals may address the following topics: 

São Paulo within and without theoretical frameworks of the urban and the global
São Paulo's place in Latin American Cultural Studies
Shifting urban imaginaries and identities
Emergent economies, circulations, and social practices
Ideologies of modernity
Urban governance and unmanageability
Public/Private Implosions
Cultural policy and the urban quotidian
Aesthetic practices and symbolic economies in the city

Interested presenters should submit their name, institutional affiliation, and 250-word abstract in either English or Portuguese to spsymposium2013@gmail.com by December 15, 2012.  Brazilian and other international scholars are highly encouraged to participate.

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Maior cidade da América do Sul e auto-entitulada "a cidade moderna" do Brasil, São Paulo é um local dinâmico a partir do qual se permite a reconsideração de numerosos temas importantes para acadêmicos contemporâneos nas áreas humanas, de ciências sociais, e gestão pública. Este encontro pretende reunir acadêmicos de diversas áreas e regiões para apresentar trabalhos que acrescentem a compreensão histórica, etnográfica, política, literária e artística da capital de São Paulo, bem como trabalhos que abordem a questão de como o estudo de São Paulo reflete ou desafia correntes contemporâneas sociais, politicas e teóricas.

As propostas podem abordar os seguintes tópicos:

São Paulo dentro e fora de quadros teóricos do urbano e do global
O lugar de São Paulo em estudos culturais da América Latina
A transformação de imaginários e identidades urbanas
Economias emergentes, circulações e práticas sociais
Ideologias da modernidade
Governança urbana e descontrole
A implosão do público e privado
Políticas culturais e o cotidiano urbano
Práticas estéticas e economias simbólicas na cidade

Palestrantes interessados devem enviar seu nome, afiliação institucional e um resumo de 250 palavras em inglês ou em português para o endereço spsymposium2013@gmail.com, antes de 15 de dezembro de 2012.  Solicitamos a participação de acadêmicos brasileiros e internacionais.

Welcome to the São Paulo Symposium

It is with great excitement that we launch the blog for the São Paulo Symposium, the official site for an interdisciplinary conference on the city of São Paulo, to be hosted at the University of Chicago May 10 and 11, 2013.  The idea for the symposium emerged out of conversations between three graduate students at the U of C  who were all doing fieldwork in and on the city of São Paulo.  Coming from different disciplines, each of our work benefited from learning about what the others were doing.  This conference is an expansion of those conversations, where we hope to widen the circle of São Paulo scholars and ask: what does the study of this city contribute and challenge to contemporary social, political, and theoretical currents?  Stay tuned as we send out the call for papers and let you know more about the conference, some of the presenters, and the organizers.

Jay
Danny
Aiala