[03/05/2004] Paris São Paulo 450 years Colloquy starts today
The Colloquy that took place in São Paulo on January 26 to 28, 2004 at Sesc Vila Mariana continues at the Maison de L'Amerique Latine, in Paris this coming Monday and Tuesday May 3 and 4, 2004. The event aims to strengthen interchange between intellectuals, architects, urban policies specialists and artists from the two Cities and also to debate big urban centers managing question.
Besides Marta Suplicy, São Paulo Prefect, Danilo Santos de Miranda, SESC Regional Director and also Global Cultural Forum Counselling Director and Alain Touraine, sociologist, Latin American specialist - Ecole Nationale des Hautes Etudes will attend the event.
Objecting a bind reflexion on the future of both Cities, the event will try to discuss their evident different confronted difficulties. In such a context Danilo Miranda will present the Global Cultural Forum.
The Colloquy is organized in debates and will be enriched by questions proposed by the audience during the event and also by questions sent by Internet and saved in the Colloquy site to be given to the tables by its coordinator.
Program
Maison de L' Amérique Latine
217, boulevard Saint Germain, Paris 7 ème
tel: 00 33 14 95 47500
Paris
May 3
10 am
Colloquy Opening
Marta Suplicy, São Paulo Prefect
Jean-Pierre Caffet, Paris Vice-Prefect in charge of urban planning
Alain Rouquié, Maison de L' Amérique Latine President
10 am to 1 pm - table 1
What is the political project to a big city?
The table will present different points of view of the urban problem policies. Is it possible to conceive a political project to a big city? What are the obstacles? What is the Municipality responsibility, what is the private sector participation and the population involvement in such process? This table will also present experiences and urban policies proposals, and above all on cultural policies sector in Paris and São Paulo.
Jean-Pierre Caffet, Paris Vice-Prefect in charge of urban planning
Marilena Chauí, philosopher and ex-Culture Secretary to the City of São Paulo
Claude Lefort, philosopher - Ecole Nationale des Hautes Etudes
Alain Touraine, sociologist, Latin American specialist - Ecole Nationale des Hautes Etudes
3 to 6 pm
table 2
Living in a big city
This table proposes to examine problems linked to big cities citizens' life. What does it mean to live in a big city? Is it possible to imagine a (re)definition to City to answer its inhabitants concerns? What are the architect and the urbanist specific role in a city like São Paulo and Paris? How to define individuals in such cities?
Jorge Wilheim, architect, Urban Planning Municipal Secretary
Jean-Baptiste Vaquin, APUR Director, Paris Urban Municipal Agency
Guy Burgel, geographer, Urban Geography Laboratory Director at the Paris X University
May 4
10 am to 1 pm - table 3
Immigration in Paris / Miscegenation in São Paulo: identity questions
São Paulo was the stage of strong immigration and migration flux contributing to an identity process with very particular characteristics. Paris also presents particular peculiarities at its identity process with historical influences and immigration. This table proposes to examine how to define "natives" and "foreigners" to both cities and how they integrate races, culture and different nationalities populations.
Khédidja Bourcart, Vice-Prefect in charge of Integration
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro, Historian, Brazilian History Professor at Sorbonne University
Helena Hirata, researcher - National Research Center
Serge Gruzinski, researcher - National Research Center and "Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales"
3 to 6 pm
table 4
Creation in the City: actors and public
The mega lope phenomenon stimulates artist's fascination emerging in the city searching for images and random plastic richness, present in profusion at the urban exhibition. On the contrary, others, run away from the urban weight and shelter themselves on a molded subjectivity also alive in the city. The table objective is to question about the creation act in emblematic cities such as São Paulo and Paris.
Christophe Girard, Vice-Prefect in charge of Culture
Yves Saint-Geours, in charge of culture at the French Exterior Affair Ministry Office Danilo Santos de Miranda, sociologist, SESC-SP Regional Director
Olgária Matos, philosopher (USP)
Jacques Leenhardt, philosopher and cultural sociologist
Colloquy closing with:
Jean Gautier, Brazilian Year in France French President (2005)
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