Imagined Cities: Art, Culture, Politics and
the Invention of Urban Spaces in Latin America
Friday 09 November, 2012
10am - 7:30pm, $0
NYU, King Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
Organized by Beatriz Jaguaribe de Mattos
10:00 p.m.- 12:00 p.m.: Alternative Modernities and the Latin American City
This panel explores how urban imaginaries were shaped by the modernist intelligentsia, popular culture and the media in the 20th century and how they are currently being remade in contemporary Latin American cities. Through specific case studies we discuss the differences between modernist landscapes and contemporary metropolitan mappings.
Panel Members: Jean Franco (Columbia university), Ruben Gallo (Princeton University), and Nicolau Sevcenko (Harvard University). Discussant: Professor Mary Louise Pratt (NYU).
3:00pm - 5:00pm: Writing the City: Literary Narratives and the Urban Experience
How do writers create their urban imaginaries? What is the relationship between the lived experience of the city and narrative strategies? How does the literary imagination dialogue with audio-visual culture? These are some of the questions that will be addressed by writers and literary scholars in a panel session that focuses on different Latin American cities.
Panel members: Antonio José Ponte (writer) and Gustavo Guerrero (École des Hautes Études). Discussant: Professor Ana Dopico (NYU).
5:30pm – 7:30 pm: Through the Eyes of the City: Photography and the Urban Imaginary
This final session consists of a slide show presentation by two prominent Latin American photographers and a discussion of new currents in Latin American photography.
Panel members: Claudia Jaguaribe (photographer), Cassio Vasconcellos (photographer), Mauricio Lissovsky (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – to be confirmed), and Bruno Carvalho (Princeton University).
Reception to follow.
10:00 p.m.- 12:00 p.m.: Alternative Modernities and the Latin American City
This panel explores how urban imaginaries were shaped by the modernist intelligentsia, popular culture and the media in the 20th century and how they are currently being remade in contemporary Latin American cities. Through specific case studies we discuss the differences between modernist landscapes and contemporary metropolitan mappings.
Panel Members: Jean Franco (Columbia university), Ruben Gallo (Princeton University), and Nicolau Sevcenko (Harvard University). Discussant: Professor Mary Louise Pratt (NYU).
3:00pm - 5:00pm: Writing the City: Literary Narratives and the Urban Experience
How do writers create their urban imaginaries? What is the relationship between the lived experience of the city and narrative strategies? How does the literary imagination dialogue with audio-visual culture? These are some of the questions that will be addressed by writers and literary scholars in a panel session that focuses on different Latin American cities.
Panel members: Antonio José Ponte (writer) and Gustavo Guerrero (École des Hautes Études). Discussant: Professor Ana Dopico (NYU).
5:30pm – 7:30 pm: Through the Eyes of the City: Photography and the Urban Imaginary
This final session consists of a slide show presentation by two prominent Latin American photographers and a discussion of new currents in Latin American photography.
Panel members: Claudia Jaguaribe (photographer), Cassio Vasconcellos (photographer), Mauricio Lissovsky (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – to be confirmed), and Bruno Carvalho (Princeton University).
Reception to follow.