South America’s largest city and the self-proclaimed “modern city” of Brazil, São Paulo is a dynamic site from which to (re)consider a variety of themes important to contemporary scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and public policy. This conference brings together disciplinary and regionally diverse scholars to present work that adds to historic, ethnographic, political, literary and artistic understandings of São Paulo as well as addresses how the study of the city reflects and/or challenges broader social, political, and theoretical currents.

Proposals may address the following topics:

São Paulo within and without theoretical frameworks of the urban and the global São Paulo's place in Latin American Cultural Studies Shifting urban imaginaries and identities Emergent economies, circulations, and social practices Ideologies of modernity Urban governance and unmanageability Public/private implosions Cultural policy and the urban quotidian Aesthetic practices and symbolic economies in the city

Interested presenters should submit their name, institutional affiliation, and 250-word abstract in either English or Portuguese to spsymposium2013@gmail.com by December 15, 2012. Brazilian and other international scholars are highly encouraged to participate.