October 7th, 2015 · The New School · New York
Observatory on Latin America (OLA), The New School | Global Urban Futures Project (Milano)
Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)
Invite you to:
CITIES & SOCIAL JUSTICE:
Human Rights & Public Policy in the Americas
Program
Cities and Social Justice in the Americas
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Welcoming Remarks
Michael Cohen, Director of OLA/The New School
Chair
Margarita Gutman, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and International Affairs, The New School
Speakers
Edesio Fernandes, Brazilian lawyer and city planner, Development Planning Unit of University College, London
Eduardo Reese, Argentine architect, Director of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales,CELS, Buenos Aires
Discussant
Don D. Chen, Director, Just Cities Program, The Ford Foundation
Human Rights and Urban Policies: South and North
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Introduction
Tim Marshall, Provost, The New School
Chair
Mary Watson, Executive Dean, New School for Public Engagement
Speakers
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City (to be confirmed)
Ron Shiffman, Professor of Urban Planning, Pratt Institute, New York
Horacio Verbitsky, President of Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, CELS, Buenos Aires
Discussants
Sakiko Fukuda Parr, Professor of International Affairs, New School for Public Engagement
Joseph Schechla, Coordinator of the Habitat International Coalition’s Housing and Land Rights Network
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 · 4:00pm – 8:00pm
Theresa Lang Center / The New School
55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor (Room I 202)
New York, NY
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The event is, free and open to the public
Seating is limited, reservations are required
RSVP by October 6th to citiesandsocialjustice.eventbrite.com
Brief Bios of the speakers
Bill De Blasio is the Mayor of New York. and has strongly championed the rights of the poor in New York City. His Administration has been pro-active in addressing the inherited crisis in housing, education, and race relations in New York. He also has personal experience working in Latin America and is well-placed to discuss the current issues he faces in the broader context of human rights in cities in the Americas.
Edesio Fernandez is a Brazilian lawyer and social scientist who is a Professor of Urban Studies at University College, London. He has extensive global experience working on urban human rights. Most recently he has been involved in the Right to the City movement which has gathered growing support in Latin America.
Eduardo Reese is an architect and specializes in urban and regional planning. He is Director of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales,CELS, Buenos Aires. He is professor of urban management at the National University of General Sarmiento. He has been a major promoter of the Law on Fair Access to Habitat enacted by the Legislature of the Province of Buenos Aires in 2012. In previous professional positions, he was technical advisor for the master plans of more than 20 cities in Argentina; Secretary of Socioeconomic Policies, Ministry of Human and Social Development of the Province of Buenos Aires; advisor to the Council of Urban Planning of the City of Buenos Aires; and Secretary of Planning in the city of Avellaneda.
Ron Shiffman is a city planner with 40 years of experience providing program and organizational development assistance to community-based groups in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. He received the 2012 Jane Jacobs Medal for a lifetime leadership, awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Trained as an architect and urban planner, he is an expert in the areas of financial packaging, innovative community-based financing, real estate development, and community-based planning. He has had extensive experience bringing together private and public sector sponsors of housing and related community development projects. In 1964, Ron Shiffman co-founded the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development [PICCED]. In addition to his former role as director of PICCED, he is a tenured professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture.
Horacio Verbitsky is one of Argentina’s leading investigative journalists, and a columnist and press freedom activist. Verbitsky has built his distinguished career by fearlessly exposing government corruption and battling restrictive press laws. His best-selling book The Flight contained the first public confessions of an official involved in Argentina’s “dirty war”. Verbitsky has played a front-line role in strengthening democracy and safeguarding press freedoms in Argentina and Latin America.
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This program is supported by the JULIEN J. STUDLEY FOUNDATION
Tags: Housing Crisis, Human Rights, Identity, Inequity, Urban Development, Urban Economy, Urban Governments, Urban Inequity, Urban Planning
