Brazil: Challenges, Perspectives, Possibilities

Graduate Conference

March 8th and 9th from 2 to 8 pm

@ Albert and Vera List Academic Center - Wolff Conference Room, Room D1103

6 east 16th st

New York, NY

10003

Program

Monday – April 8th

2-3:40pm – Social Policies and Inequality

Eduarda Aun de Azevedo Nascimento (NSSR)

“Improvised Public, Planned Space: urban citizenship and democratic governance of public space in Brasilia”

Gustavo Pereira (NSSR)

“The outcomes of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: a brief literature review on the Brazilian Bolsa Família”

Lis Furlani Blanc (UNICAMP / UC Berkeley)

“The National Food and Nutritional Security Council: a case study to comprehend social participation and the idea of food as a social right”

Ana Paula Barreto (NSSR)

" The complex territory of the favelas: an humanizing approach"

Moderator: Marcelo Medeiros (Ipea / UNB / Princeton)

3:40pm-4pm – Coffee Break

4pm-5:40pm Capitalism, Economy, and Environmentalism

Carmem Leticia (PUC-PR)

“Brumadinho Case: a dialogue between Karl Marx and Ulrich Beck”

Claudia Horn (LSE)

“Building bureaucracies or socio-environmental alternatives? Assessing the conservation programs of European donors in the Brazilian Amazon”

Antônio Albano de Freitas (NSSR)

“An estimate and analysis of the Brazilian economy rate of surplus value between 1996 and 2016”

Moderator: Mayra Cotta (NSSR)

5:40pm – 6pm – Coffee Break

6-8pm Keynote: Marcos Nobre (CEBRAP/ UNICAMP)

“A conservative uprising: How to use Brazil’s institutional collapse to hack its politics”

Chair: Marianna Poyares (NSSR)

Tuesday – April 9th

2 – 3:40pm Cultural Resistance and Political Emancipation

Ana Laura Malmaceda (Harvard)

“A body is a body is a body: transing Linn da Quebrada’s poetics”

Eduardo Gomor dos Santos (UNB)

“Hip Hop and political emancipation in Brazil”

Iuri Bauler Pereira (Columbia)

“Writing at the End of Democracy: Revisiting Antonio Callado's Quarup (1967)”

Sayuri Masukawa Dezerto (PUC-SP/ CUNY)

“Building a proposal for research and teacher education: the development of a transformative activist stance through critical pedagogy and decolonization”

Moderator: Christopher Harris (NSSR)

3:40pm-4pm – Coffee Break

4pm-6pm Keynote: Guilherme Santos Mello (UNICAMP)

“The Brazilian Economy in a global perspective: rebuilding development and its alternatives”

Chair: João Paulo Braga (NSSR)

6pm-8pm Plenary Session


This event is co-sponsored by The New School for Social Research Dean's Office.

When:

March 8th and 9th from 2 to 8 pm

Where:

Albert and Vera List Academic Center.

Wolff Conference Room, Room D1103

6 east 16th st

New York, NY

10003