MORNING
Wurster 112 Auditorium
8:30 Registration
9:00 Start of Symposium
9:00 Welcome - Anthony J. Cascardi, Dean, Arts & Humanities, UC Berkeley and Jennifer Wolch, Dean, College of Environmental Design
9:10 Orientation - Susan Moffat, Project Director, UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative
9:15 Keynote Talk - Ruben Gallo
9:45 Break
9:55 Panel 1: Modernity in Process: Creative Practice, Urban Experience and the City
Tatiana Flores, Rutgers: "Mexico City—Avant-Garde City?"
Ed McCaughan, San Francisco State University: "Art, Activism, and New Ways of Being Mexican"
Daniel Hernandez, Vice News "Me Encanta la Ciudad!: The Perils of a More User-Friendly Mexico City"
Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkeley (Discussant)
Q&A
11:25 Break
11:35 Introduction of exhibitions - Susan Moffat
Margaret Crawford and Winnie Wong, UC Berkeley: Art+Village+City (Pearl River Delta)
Jonathan Crisman and Dana Cuff, UCLA: Now Shanghai
Kirsten Larson and Karin Shankar, UC Berkeley: Participatory Urbanisms
Mia Narell and Lawrence Yang, UC Berkeley: Urban Pilgrimage
11:50 Exhibition tours—Wurster Gallery and Wurster Lobby
12:30 LUNCH—Wurster Courtyard
1:30 Exhibition tours—Wurster Gallery and Wurster Lobby
Wurster 112 Auditorium
2:00 Panel 2: Insurgent Cities: Politics, Space and Urban Action in Mexico D.F.
Juan Carlos Rulfo, Filmmaker: “Searching for Identity”
Minerva Cuevas, Artist: "Disidence, Mapping Resistance in Mexico City"
Jesusa Rodriguez, Theater Director and Actor: "Mexico City: The Insatiable Mouth"
Gaston Alzate, California State University, Los Angeles (Discussant)
Q&A
3:50 Break
4:05 Closing Remarks
Maite Zubiaurre
Michael Dear
4:30 Audience discussion