Thursday

December 4
9:00
9:10-9:30
9:30-10:50

Room I

Room II

Inicio de
Ceremonia de
Seccin 1 Explorando la ciudad a
travs de la literatura
Exploring the City Through
Literature I.

Registro/ Registration opens

apertura/ Opening ceremony
Seccin 2 La ciudad y el medio
ambiente
Environment and the City

John Kaiser Ortiz, Millersville

University, Corpulence as PanAmerican Criticism in a Confederacy
of Dunces and The Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao
Chuck Ward, Millersville University,
The Hard-Boiled Detective and Urban
Identity
Derek Shanahan, Millersville
University, Of Alterity and Reality:
Crime and the Construction of Place
in Late Victorian London
10:50-11:10
11:10 12:10
12:10- 1:40

Conferencia magistral/ Key Note

Seccin 4 Explorando la ciudad a
travs de la literatura
Exploring the City through
Literature II.
Elisa T. Di Biase ,Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Material
images of Mexico City: the Hyper
Metropolis and its Myths
Osiris Gonzlez ,CEGE-UNAM, La
ciudad como espacio potico
Reyna Carretero Rangel ,UNAM,

Thomas Simon, Johns Hopkins

University, The Ideology and
Unsustainability of a Philosophy of
the City
Samantha Noll, Michigan State
University, Looking Back in History:
Rediscovering an Urban
Environmental Ethic
Jonathan Maskit, Denison
University, Sustainability and the
Aesthetics of Urban Life: A Tale of
Two Cities
Descanso/coffee break
Achille C. Varzi
Seccin 5 Planeacin y espacio
publico
Planning and Public Space
Gabriel Mosqueira, Ministry of
Agrarian Development, Federal
Government of Mexico; UNAM
Epistemology and Models of Urban
Planning
Rory J. Conces, University of
Nebraska at Omaha, Intimations on
Peacebuilding through Civic Design:

Room III

Seccin 3 Espacios urbanos

Urban Space
Alicia Natali Chamorro Muoz,
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana,
Ciudad, Metaforlogia y habitalidad
Manuel Daro Palacio Muoz,
Universidad de los Andes, La ciudad
del fin de la historia: la ciudad como
espacio apocalptico.
Esteban Gmez y Javier Toscano
(coords.) Seminario de
investigacin Nerivela, Anti-manual
de urbanismo.

Columbia University
Seccin 6 Dimensiones polticas y
sociales de la urbanidad
Social and Political Dimensions of
Urbanity
Alonso Silva Rojas, Universidad
Industrial de Santander.
Bucaramanga: Lmites y
posibilidades de la participacin
poltica local
Luis Rubn Daz Cepeda (UAM-I)
Movimientos sociales urbanos

Metrpolis Aleph

1:40-3:00
3:00-4:20

Seccin 7: Justicia y derechos

humanos
Justice and Human Rights
Daniel Galland, Aalborg University,
The just city and spatial justice as
planning ideals: Is there a role for
planning concepts?
Sharon M. Meagher, Widener
University, Unjust Cities: A
Philosophical Analysis of Kigali City
Tours
Alicia Hopkins (UNAM)
Justicia Comunitaria

4:20-4:40
4:40-5:40
5:40-7:00

Conferencia magistral / Key note

Seccin 9:Cultura indgena y
tensin urbana
Indigenous Culture and Urban
Tensions
Karen Wall, Athabasca University,

From Kosovo to Kosovo 2.0

Susan Dieleman, Dalhousie
University, Secure Cities: The
Militarization of Police in a
Globalized World
Comida/ Lunch
Seccin 8 Capital y Contextos
Urbanos
Capital and the Urban Context
Ibn Daz Parra ,UNAM, y lvaro
Moral Garca ,UNAM, La destruccin
creativa de la ciudad
Jaime Ortega, UNAM, La crtica
marxista a la ciudad
Miriam del Rosario Bautista
Ortega ,UABCS, El florecimiento
humano en un contexto urbano

Descanso/ coffee break

Eduardo Mendieta
Seccin 10 Panel de movimientos
sociales
Social Movements Panel
Integrante del Frente de Pueblos
Indgenas en Defensa de la Madre

Johana Londoo Princeton

University, The Politics of
Abstracting Barrios

Seccin 9 Meta-filosofa y
reflexiones filosficas
Meta-philosophy and
Philosophical Reflections
Shane Epting, University of North
Texas, What can Philosophy of the
City learn from Philosophy of
Technology?
Miguel ngel Rojas Novoa ,UAM, y
Joaqun Zeren Harcha
,Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Espacio Mediatizado en la Ciudad
Posthistrica; reflexiones sobre lo
pblico y privado desde Vilm
Flusser
Mariano Rodrguez Gonzlez,
UNAM, La filosofa es hija de la
ciudad: Una reflexin en torno a la
relacin entre Filosofa y Ciudad
Stony Brook University
Seccin 11: La ciudad en
contextos filosficos
The City in Philosophical
Contexts
Matti Heinonen, University of
Helsinki / CUNY Graduate Center,

Gathering Place: Visioning

Indigenous Presence in Western
Canadian Urban Space
Patricia Andrea Beltrn
Henrquez, UACJ, La sierra
tarahumara en el imaginario de los
raramuris de Cd. Jurez
Irmgard Emmelhainz, BUAP, La
reconversin neoliberal: soberana
calculada y formas de vida
homogneas y diferenciadas.

Tierra, San Francisco Xochicuautla.

Comunera de San Salvador
Atenco,San Salvador Atenco
Movimiento Popular de Pueblos y
Colonias del Sur

The Social Ontology of the City

Roberto Estrada Olgun, UACJ,
Entre el campo y la ciudad
Dan Campana , University of La
Verne, Religious Experience in the
Context of the Postmodern City

Viernes 5 de diciembre/ Friday December 5

Time

Room I

Room 2

Room III

9:30-10:50

Seccin 12 Esttica y la ciudad

Aesthetics and The City

Seccin 13: Urbanidad y el medio

ambiente
Urbanity and the Environment

Seccin 14 Democracia cara a

cara
Face-to-face democracy

Georgia Jules Vlassi, University of

Thessaly, Urban Emptiness as
Wilderness and Wilderness as a
Cradle for New Urban Life
Osimiri Peter, University of Lagos,
On the Ethics of Motorised
Transportation
Ilana Boltvinik, Universidad del
Claustro de Sor Juana; UAMCuajimalpa, Agency of Objects:
Garbage and Public Space

Jules Simon, University of Texas El

Paso, Levinas and the City: A
Phenomenological Interpretation of
Exile and Welcome
Margaux Ruellan Univer ite de
ontreal City and Democracy:
Knowledge, Inclusion and Validity.
Marie-Anne Casselot, McGill
University, The Embodied Interface
of the City

Claudino Ferreira and Slvia,

Damsio, University of Coimbra, The
alchemy of culture-led urban
regeneration. Practical and
representational dimensions of the
relationship between culture, tourism
and city renewal
Brit E. Schulte, The Art Institute of
Chicago Claiming Concrete: Urban
Craft & the Desire for a Participatory
City
Gehad Mohamed Abdelal, Cairo
University, The Experience of Beauty
through the Summer City
10:50-11:10

Descanso/ coffee break

11:10-12:10
12:10-1:30

Conferencia magistral/ Key note

Seccin 15 Poltica, democracia y
asuntos urbanos internacionales
Politics, Democracy and
International Urban Issues
Katherine Davies, Emory University,
The Dangers of the Illusion of
Paradise: Aristotle, Arendt, and
Guatemala Fir t Private City
Miguel ngel Ramrez Zaragoza,
UNAM, Derecho a la ciudad y filosofa
poltica: construyendo una utopa
urbana para el siglo XXI
Jos Lira Rosiles, UAM-I, Derecho
internacional y ciudadana mundial

1:30- 3:00
3:00-4:20

Cynthia Willett

Emory University

Seccin 16 Temas emergentes

Emerging Topics

Seccin 17 La ciudad y la
historia
City and History

Oscar Carvajal, University of

Toronto, HOMO DOMESTICUS: Oneway Ticket from the Cave to the
City?
Alberto Bejarano, University of
Memphis, Border Cities: Moving
Beyond the Apparatus of
Immigration
Giovanni M. Algarra Garzn ,
UNAM IIF , Habitabilidad bsica Vs.
Construccin constante de un
mundo comn

Mara del Carmen Camarillo

Gmez, UAM-I, La plaza mayor
entre la exaltacin del poder y la
fiesta popular en Espaa y la Nueva
Espaa del S. XVII. Una reflexin
contempornea.
Daniel Incln, Observatorio
latinoamericano de geopoltica,
instituto de investigaciones
econmicas, UNAM,
Hitando espacios histricos. La
filosofa de la historia como
filosofa del espacio
Yasser Farrs Delgado, Jorge
Tadeo Lozano (Colombia),
Arquitectura de la liberacin:
contribuciones tericas
decoloniales para una prctica
profesional otra en nuestra
Amrica

Comida/Lunch
Seccin 18 Representacin y
epistemologa
Representation and epistemology
Bruno Cruz Petit, Universidad
Motolnia del Pedregal,
Representacin de la ciudad, lenguaje
e ideologa.

Seccin 19 Identidad de la
ciudad, arquitectura y transicin
City Identity, Architecture and
Transition
Bikramaditya K. Choudhary,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Identities of the city vis--vis
Identities within the city: Does the

Seccin 20 Panel especial

Special Panel
Adeola Enigbokan, CUNY
Graduate Center, Redefining Urban
Research: Artists and Scientists
Collaborate in New York and

Vctor Manuel Hernndez Mrquez

,UACJ, Judith en Krakopolis
Alejandra Olivas Dvila ,UACH,
Ciudad, conocimiento y evidencia

4:20-4:30
4:30-5:50

Seccin 21 Inclusin y espacio

publico
Inclusion and Public Space
Jason Breen, Dalhousie University,
Cities, Sporting Events and Human
Rights
Birge Yildirim, Istanbul Technical
University, Production of a Public
Space: Taksim Square
Bryan Kimoto ,University of
Memphis, Walking While Differenced:
Queer Body Politics, Subjection, and
Internarrativity

6:00-6:20
6:30-8:30 pm

process differ?
Matthew Crippen, American
University of Cairo, Urban
Aesthetics and Intuitive Design.
Juan Hernn III Ortiz Quintana ,
UACJ, Planeacin, legislacin e
incidencia en el desarrollo urbano
de Ciudad Jurez.
Descanso/coffee break
Seccin 22 Identidad y ciudad
City Identity

Mexico City

Andrew Pierce, University of

Kansas, Constructing the Future
City: Architecture, Identity, and the
Future Citizen
Brahma Prakash, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, Between
Architectures of Fear and Spaces of
Hope: Performativity of an Indian
City
Vineetha Nalla, Ashwathy Anand,
School of Planning & Architecture,
Bhopal, Indian Cities in New Global
Economy Engaging nostalgia and
reality through Philosophy of
Symbiosis

Clausura/ closing
Wine toast

& music

@ the patio