Daniela Ortiz dos Santos: LASA 2019: Scenes of the World to Come: Lucio Costa and Le Corbusier as Filmmakers

24.-27. Mai 2019, Boston

In the Latin American Studies Association Congress 2019, Daniela Ortiz will co-chair the panel on Architecture and Archives and will hold a presentation on films in the architectural collection of the Fondation Le Corbusier and the Brazilian Architectural Foundation Casa de Lucio Costa.

The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest professional Association in the world for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America. With over 12,000 members, over 65 percent of whom reside outside the United States, LASA is the one association that brings together experts on Latin America from all disciplines and diverse occupational endeavors, across the globe.

LASA Congress “Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion” signals the challenges of social, economic, racial, ethnic, gendered, sexuality-based, and other forms of inequality; the need to promote creative solutions for overcoming them; the importance of scholarship, activism, and policy in this regard; the relevance of changed demographics that make historically marginalized peoples a majority in the continent and recognition of their wide-ranging cultural, linguistic, political, social, and economic contributions; an inclusive definition of justice that relies on truth and facts and incorporates respect and dignity for all peoples; and a broad understanding of rights, both collective and individual.

Participants of the panel are: Margareth da Silva Pereira (prourb-UFRJ, Brazil), Priscilla Alves Peixoto (FAU-UFRJ, Brazil) and Mário Magalhães (USU, Brazil).