OLA Graduate Conference On Latin America – April 24, 2014

image OLAConference Program:

 

 

12:00 – 1:30    Session 2 – Urban Policy and Practice
(15 minute student presentations and 30 minute Q&A)

 

Laura Wainer, Milano, GPIA
The Rich Do Not Need Property: Considerations on Urban Land to Change Slum Upgrading Strategies in Buenos Aires


Douglas de Toledo Piza, NSSR, Sociology
The Making of Post-National Spaces: Commerce and International Migration in a Market of the Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay Tri-Border Area


Alexis Obernauer, Milano, GPIA
Smart Favela, Dumb City: Problematizing IBM’s ‘Smarter City’ Initiative in Rio de Janeiro

 

1:30 – 2:00      Lunch

 

2:00 – 3:30      Session 3 – Culture and Development
(15 minute student presentations and 30 minute Q&A)

 

M. Susana Aguirre, Parsons, Fashion Studies

Peru in Vogue: Representation of Ethnicity in Contemporary Fashion Images

 

Maria Cabrera, NSSR, Sociology

Fashion and Cuba’s Socialist Modernity

 

Larissa Ushizima, Milano, GPIA
Rethinking Developmentalist Strategies in Brazil: the case of the Food Acquisition Program

 

Rebecca Hollender, Milano, Urban Policy
Post-Growth in the Global South: The Emergence of Alternatives to Development in Latin America


3:30 – 4:00      Closing Remarks and Awards

 

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