Thursday, April 11, 2013

The Program!


We're excited to share with you the program for the São Paulo Symposium, which will take place in Classics 110 (1010 E. 59th St., Chicago, IL 60637). Please note the corrections made on April 22.

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 St. 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, Professor, 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