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