Superlative City: Experimental Urbanity in São Paulo: 2019 Workshop

Registration

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Attendees are strongly encouraged to register in advance to receive and read pre-circulated papers.

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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

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