Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Registration + Program

Registration for Superlative City is now live! Please RSVP here so that you can receive pre-circulated papers.

More details can be found on the event page.


Friday, February 22
3:30pm     Welcome
3:45pm     Protest Worlds: Aesthetics and Affect of Countercultural Crowds in Sao Paulo
Joseph Jay Sosa, Bowdoin College
discussant: João Biehl, Princeton
4:35pm    Music Workers, Sustainability, and São Paulo's Music City Legislation (Or, Who Gets to Make a Living in a Cultural Capital?)
Daniel Gough, Tulane University
discussant: Aaron Shkuda, Princeton
5:20pm break
5:30pm     The Battle Against Traffic Noise in São Paulo
Leonardo Cardoso, PLAS Fellow
discussant: Cristina Mehrtens, UMass Dartmouth

Saturday, February 23
8:30am light breakfast
9:00am     “Elegance” and the Aestheticization of a Paulistano Public ca.1910
Aiala Levy, Princeton Mellon Fellow
discussant: Barbara Weinstein, NYU
9:50am     Performing São Paulo: Flávio de Carvalho and the Experimental City, 1930-31
Adrian Anagnost, Tulane University
discussant: Sarah J. Townsend, Penn State
10:35am break
10:50am   The Park and the Favela: Visions of the Progressive City in Post-WWII Sao Paulo
Marcio Siwi, Bowdoin College
discussant: Cristina Freire, PLAS Fellow
11:40am   I Africanize São Paulo: Afro-Paulistano Visual Culture
Reighan Gillam, USC
discussant: Jaira J. Harrington, Villanova
12:30pm lunch
1:30pm     Who Wants Money? Performing Radical Aesthetics Amid the Conservative Turn
Marcos Steuernagel, University of Colorado Boulder
discussant: Daniel Aldana Cohen, IAS/UPenn
2:20pm     Introduction
Gough, Levy, Sosa
3:05pm    Closing Roundtable: São Paulo Studies