Conference Program

Download our conference poster here.

 

Friday, April 3, 2015

 

Tentative Schedule

 

9:00-9:30am:  Registration and Breakfast

 

9:45-10am:     Opening Remarks: Deborah Poole, Johns Hopkins U

 

10am-12pm:   Panel 1: Articulating Space: Built Environments and Social Change

 

                         “Urbanism as Warfare: The Architecture of Urban Sovereignty in Bogotá,” Federico Pérez,

                         Harvard U

 

                         “Three Scales of Economic Participation in Medellín's Transformation Model,” Luis Diego

                   Quiros, U of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

 

                         “Mirrored Images: Buenos Aires, Montevideo, & the Modern Spaces of the City, 1910-1930,”

                          Daniel Richter, U of Maryland

 

                          “From Margin to Center: A Paradigm of Restorative Justice in the Negotiation and Design of

                          Villa El Salvador,” Adriana B. Rojas, Eastern Mennonite U

 

                          Discussant: Valeria Procupez

                          Chair: Joseph M. Clark, JHU

 

12-1pm:           Lunch

 

1-2:45pm:        Panel 2: The Urban Construction of National Identity

                   

                         “From Guides to Guías: Girl Guiding in Mexico City, 1930-1945,” Maryann Kelly, U at Albany,                          SUNY

 

                         “Salvadoran Heavy Metal and the Questioning of National Identity,” Christian Pack, Johns

                         Hopkins U

 

                         “Neoliberal Cities Also Die: The Tensions of Indigenous Presence in Urban Lima,” Gustavo

                   Valdivia, Johns Hopkins U

 

                         Discussant: Emma Cervone, JHU

                         Chair: Dexnell Peters, JHU

 

2:30-2:45pm:  Coffee break

 

3:00-4:45pm:  Panel 3: The City Goes Global: Modernity, Globalization, and Resistance

 

                         “The Peruvian Caliph’s Last Sigh: Piérola, Leguía, and the Popular Rebellion of May 29, 1909,”

                         Roberto Sánchez, Gallaudet U

 

                         “Evicted from Paradise: Tourism, Urban Development, and “Patrimonialization” in Cartagena,

                         Colombia during the Mid-Twentieth Century,” Orlando C. Deavila, U of Connecticut

 

                          Discussant: Lauren Judy, JHU

                          Chair: Katherine Boníl Gómez, JHU

 

4:45-5pm:        Coffee break

 

5-6pm:             Keynote: Daniella Gandolfo, Wesleyan U

                         "Lumpen Politics?: A Day in 'El hueco'"

 

6:30pm:           Dinner at Sweet 27