April 1 Modernization Takes Command? Latin American Cities During the Cold War
Modernization Takes Command? Latin American Cities During the Cold War
A taller urbano de las américas conference
Sponsors: NYU (History), UConn (History & El Instituto), Purchase
College SUNY (Latin American Studies & Casa Purchase)
Location:
King Juan Carlos Center Auditorium, New York University
53 Washington Square S., New York, NY
1 April 2015, 9am – 5pm
9.00 – Breakfast
9.15-9.30 – Welcome Remarks
Mark Healey and Leandro Benmergui
9.30-11.00 – Session 1: Crossways Interchanges
Adrián Gorelik (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes/ CONICET)
The rise and fall of the Latin American city:
crossways exchanges between North and South
Geoff Burrows (CUNY Grad Center)
Slum Clearance and the Limits of Transnational Public Policy:
The Puerto Rican New Deal as a Leading Case for Latin America
Leandro Benmergui (Purchase College, SUNY)
Building the Alliance for Progress:
Encounters in the Construction of Housing Complexes in Rio de Janeiro, 1962‐67
Mark Healey (UConn)
Discussant
11.00-11.30 – Coffee Break
11.30-1.00 – Session 2: Housing Urban Modernity
Amy Offner (University of Pennsylvania)
What are Homes For? Self-Help Housing and Midcentury Economic Planning
Mark Healey (University of Connecticut)
Colombia as Cold War housing laboratory
Marcio Siwi (New York University)
Transnational circuits of urban renewal after World War II:
New York and São Paulo
Patricio del Real (Museum of Modern Art)
Discussant
1.00-2.00pm – Lunch
2.00–3.30pm – Session 3: The Informality of Ownership
Helen Gyger (Columbia University)
Every Man a Home Owner: Exporting Wichita to Cold War Peru
Ed Murphy (Michigan State University)
Insurgent Ownership: In/Formality and a Right to Housing in Cold War Chile
Jorge Francisco Liernur (Universidad Di Tella)
The cultural construction of the “Villas Miseria”: Argentina, 1946-1962
Nicholas D’ Avella (Cooper Union)
Discussant
3.30-4.00 Coffee Break
4.00-5.00 – Roundtable Discussion