CEM promotes international seminar on Metropolis and Inequalities

The Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) organized the international seminar Metropolis and Inequalities, from 25th to 26th March, 2010, in São Paulo (Brazil). The meeting is aimed at discussing recent findings of CEM's researchers and their international partners.

Job market, public policies, electoral behaviour, afirmative action and sociability in metropolitan contexts. Social scientists from Princeton, Brown and Universi ties of Edinburgh, Warwick and Southern California are among the participants. All the sessions will be held in English.

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR METROPOLIS AND INEQUALITIES
25th to 26th, March 2010

March, 25th
• 10:00 am-10:15 am: Opening session
Marta Arretche (CEM Director), Nadya Araujo Guimarães (INCT Director), Paula Montero (CEBRAP President)

• 10:15 am-12:00 am: Session 1: Jobs in metropolitan regions
Chair: Marta Arretche (CEM)

-Alvaro Comin (USP/CEM): City and economy: changes in Sao Paulo metropolitan context
-Nadya Araújo Guimarães(USP/CEM): Access to Jobs: Metropolitan Dynamics
-Kate Purcell (University of Warwick): Flexible employment, student labour and the changing structure of the UK labour market in university cities

• 12:00 am-1:30 pm: Lunch time

• 1:30 pm-3:30 pm: Session 2: Public Policies in metropolitan regions
Chair: Argelina Figueiredo (IUPERJ/CEM)

-Vera Schattan P. Coelho (CEM), Alexandre Ferraz (CEM), Fabiola Fanti (CEM): Fighting inequalities in the access to health services: A study of the role of decentralization and participation
-Jefferey Sellers (USC): Place, Inequality and Metropolitan Governance: A Framework for Comparative Analysis
-Marta Arretche (USP/CEM): Territorial Justice and Governance: Inequality in Brazilian Metropolitan Regions

• 3:30 pm-4 pm: Coffee break

• 4 pm-6 pm: Session 3: Poverty, region, and voting behavior
Chair: Eduardo Marques (CEM/USP)

-César Zucco (Princeton University): Cash transfers and voting behavior: Poorest voters vs poorest places
-Charlie Jeffery (University of Edinburgh): Why do voters vote differently in regional as compared to national elections? Evaluating competing explanations

March 26th:
• 10:00 am-12:00 am: Session 4: Race, inequality, and Social inclusion
Chair: Nadya Araujo Guimarães (CEM/USP)

-Antonio Sergio Guimarães (USP/CEM): Social inclusion in Brazilian universities
-Marcia Lima (USP/CEM): "Race" and Class Dynamics in Metropolitan Contexts
-Edward Telles (Princeton University): New Findings on Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

• 12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch time

• 1:30 pm-3:30 pm: Session 5: State, social ties and public policies
Chair: Celi Scalon (UFRJ)

-Adrian Gurza Lavalle (USP/CEM) e Natália Salgado Bueno (CEM): Political institutions and civil society organizations in two Latin American metropolis
-Eduardo Marques (USP/CEM): Social networks, poverty and neighborhoods in two Brazilian cities
-Patrick Heller (Brown University): Democratic Deepening in Brazil, India and South África: Towards a comparative framework

• 3:30 pm-4:00 pm: Coffee break

• 4:00 pm-5:30 pm: Conclusion session

• 6:00 pm: Happy hour (at CEBRAP)