An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Latin America

Cities, Memories and the Challenges of the Future

July 17th 2009
Venue: School of Architecture & Planning
Room 619, Level 6 Architecture Building

Free admission

PROGRAMME

9:00 Opening. Dr Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Director NZCLAS.

ARCHITECTURE

9:05 Professor Roberto Segre, introduced by Associate Prof. Sarah Treadwell, Head, School of Architecture & Planning (The University of Auckland)

9:10-9:50 Professor Roberto Segre (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro; Doctor Honoris Causa School of Architecture ISPJAE, Havana, Cuba)
Havana: A City as a Museum: Historical Relationship between Art, Architecture and Urbanism

9:55-10:15 Assoc. Prof. Diane Brand (Victoria University of Wellington)
The Ceremonial Appropriation of City and Sea in Rio de Janeiro 1808-1822

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

10:20-10:40 Assoc. Prof. Roberto González-Casanovas (The University of Auckland)
Mediating Cultural Hybrids in Early-Colonial Caribbean and Brazil

MORNING TEA 10:40-11:00

11:00-11:20 Assoc. Prof. Warwick Murray (Victoria University of Wellington)
Globalization, Poverty and Inequality - Miracles of Intervention in Chile

11:25-11:45 Dr Walescka Pino-Ojeda (The University of Auckland)
Forensic Memory, Responsibility and Judgment: The Chilean Documentary in the Post-Authoritarian Era

11:50-12:10 Dr Antonio Díaz-Andrade (AUT Auckland University of Technology)
Accessing and Distributing Computer-Mediated Information in the Rural Andes

12:10-12:30 Dr Kathryn Lehman (The University of Auckland)
The Language of Law and Land in Indigenous Movements for Decolonisation

LUNCH 12:30-13:30pm

13:30-13:50 Dr Dan Bendrups (Otago University)
Music, Media and Migration: Latin America in Pacific Context

13:55 – 14:15 Dr Taciano L Milfont (Victoria University of Wellington)
Making Sense of Brazil: Lessons from Cross-cultural Psychology

14:20– 14:40 Dr Maria Rublee (The University of Auckland)
Brazil and Global Nuclear Disarmament: Challenges and Opportunities

14:45-15:05 Genaro Oliveira (PhD Student Art History, The University of Auckland)
Historians, Artists and the Invention of Brazilian History in the Nineteenth Century.

15:10-16:00 Prof. Roberto Segre
Formal and Informal City in Rio de Janeiro: A New Integration. Interventions in “favelas” Poor Settlements

WINE AND NIBBLES: 16:00-17:00

17:15 – 18:30 Public Recital: Latin American Duet
Voice: Alda Rezende and Piano: Jonathan Crayford
School of Music, Free Entry.

Singer and songwriter Alda Rezende has been a resident in New Zealand since 2004. Alda has released three albums in Brazil and has performed alongside major artists such as Elza Soares and Joao Bosco.
Her vocal work is known by the originality of her voice and the quality of her repertoire, which is both unexpected and tasteful.
In New Zealand Alda participated in the project OE Brazil in 2007, released the album Traveller, produced a project that brought three Brazilian musicians for a tour in 2008, and has performed in several national festivals.
Currently she is a member of the bands Zirigidum and Roda de samba. Alda is also a radio host in Radio Active, produces slots on Brazilian Music for Concert Radio, and gives lectures on the history of Brazilian Popular Music.
Presently Alda is one of the organizers of “Live Brazil”, the first festival of Brazilian arts and culture in Aotearoa.
http://www.jonathancrayford.com/jc/html/jcbio.html