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
