10:00 - 10:30 AM Registration and breakfast

10:30 - 10:40 AM Welcoming words

10:40 - 11:15 AM OPENING CONFERENCE AND ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION CREATIVITY, RHETORIC AND REALITY Michael Alan Hanchett Hanson (Teachers College, Columbia University)

11:20 - 12:20 PM NEW WINDOWS - EDUCATION MINDFULNESS INTO ACTION. A NEW EDUCATIONAL APPROACH Mariana Vergara (Teachers College, Columbia University) PULSO DOCENTE: RESHAPING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHILE Raimundo Larraín (Teachers College, Columbia University) SOCIAL JUSTICE ARTS EDUCATION IN A TALENT PROGRAM Andrea López (NYU)

12:20 - 12:40 Coffee break

12:45 - 1:45 PM PANEL: EDUCATION AND CREATIVITY STUDENT PRESS INITIATIVE Erick Gordon (Teachers College, Columbia University) THE LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE AS A PEDAGOGICAL SPACE FOR SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING María Eugenia Lozano (Barnard College) CREATIVITY TWICE: CREATIVITY AND THE ARTS Richard Jochum (Teachers College, Columbia University)

2:00 - 3:00 PM Lunch

3:00 - 4:00 PM NEW WINDOWS – CULTURE INTERNATIONALIZING BRAZILIAN CONTEMPORARY ART: THE ROLE OF ART FAIRS Bruna Fetter (NYU) LOS RETOS DE LAS POLÍTICAS CULTURALES ANTE DESARROLLO DE LAS INDUSTRIAS CULTURALES Y CREATIVAS David González Tolosa (Universidad Autónoma de México) THE BOGOTA INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL Oscar Ardila (Teachers College, Columbia University)

P R O G R A M

4:05 - 5:05 PM PANEL: CULTURE, POLITICS AND CIVIL SOCIETY OPENING THE GOVERNMENT OF CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA: PRELIMINARY LESSONS FROM LOCAL AND NETWORKED EXPERIENCES IN CULTURAL POLICY CONTESTATION Mauricio Delfín (McGill University) COMMUNITARIAN PROJECTS: ARTICULATING ARTS AND POLITICS Graciela Montaldo (Columbia University) REFLECTIONS ON CULTURE WORKS Arlene Dávila (NYU)

5:05 - 5:25 PM Coffee break

5:30 - 6:30 PM PANEL: CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA THE ORANGE ECONOMY IN LATIN AMERICA Felipe Buitrago (Interamerican Development Bank – IDB) SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IMPACT OF THE PRODUCTION OF TELENOVELAS Juan Piñón (NYU) FILM INDUSTRY IN LATIN AMERICA TODAY Richard Peña (Columbia University)

6:30 - 7:00 PM Informal conversation with FELIPE BUITRAGO Informal conversation with MAURICIO DELFÍN

7:15 PM Closing reception with Nyack College’s Jazz Ensemble

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B I O G R A P H I E S

Michael Hanchett Hanson Is a developmental and cognitive psychologist who specializes in the roles of cognitive semantics in creativity. He received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Columbia University. Currently, Dr. Hanson is the Director of the Masters Concentration in Creativity and Cognition at Teachers College, Columbia University.

R. Erick Gordon is the founding director of Student Press Initiative at Teachers College, Columbia University and the former director of the New York City Writing Project. He comes from a background in small press publication that later led to classroom teaching, first in Northern California and then New York City. He was a full-time instructor in the Teaching of English Masters Program at Teachers College, where he also earned his doctorate in English Education. He has facilitated hundreds of workshops and lectures in schools across the USA, and has published numerous articles about the teaching of writing, student publication and genre theory in English Journal, English Education, and Teachers and Writers. In his current role as Senior Research Fellow for Innovation at CPET, his many projects include eGutenberg, a new project that helps students and teachers explore the potential of eBook authoring software to publish multimedia editions of public domain texts.

Richard Jochum is a conceptual artist working in a broad variety of media with a strong focus on video, video installation, peformance, and photography. He is a studio member at the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts and an associate professor of art and art education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has worked in various media since the late 1990s and has had more than 100 international exhibitions and screenings. Richard received his PhD from the University of Vienna (1997) and an MFA in sculpture and media art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2001). Richard’s art practice is accompanied by publications and research in the field of cultural theory, new media, and contemporary art and he has been awarded several grants and prizes. One of his recent public art installation is a flip book with 30 light boxes in a public railroad tunnel in Austria.

Maria Eugenia Lozano research interests include second language acquisition, language maintenance among immigrants, and the use of Web 2.0 technologies for language teaching. She currently teaches at Barnard College beginner and intermediate, and advance Spanish courses. Maria Eugenia Lozano joined Barnard's faculty in 2010. Previously, she taught at Columbia University, University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Holyoke Community College, and Washington State University.

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Graciela Montaldo is a professor at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University. She specializes in Latin American Culture from nineteenth Century to the present. She is co-editor of The Argentina Reader:History, Culture and Politics (2002), Esplendores y miserias del siglo XIX (1996) and Yrigoyen entre Borges y Arlt (1989, 2006). She has published articles on Independence writers, Latin American Fin-de-siècle, modern culture, contemporary literature, culture industry and institutions in Latin America in various anthologies and journals.

Arlene Davila is a Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at New York University whose research spans urban ethnography, the political economy of culture and media, creative economies and consumption, immigration and geographies of inequality and race. In particular, her work has focused on the ethnographic study of the local, national and global dynamics of Puerto Rican and contemporary Latino/Latin American cultural politics. Foremost, she is committed to producing ethnographically rich and politically engaged interdisciplinary work. Twitter: @arlenedavila1

Mauricio Delfin received a Joint Honors in Anthropology and International Development Studies from McGill University, and an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from NYU. His current work combines research on ICTs with activism and advocacy in cultural policy issues in Latin America. He is interested in the role of digital technologies in the advancement of democracy and the role of cultural policies in social development. As Associate Researcher for the Trauma and Global Health Program at McGill University he worked on various projects that studied violence and global health. Founder and director of the Peruvian National Summit of Culture and of Culturaperu.org, an organization that promotes new technologies for civic engagement in cultural policies. Research Associate for Tándem GCD, a cultural policy think-tank, and R&D Strategist for La Factura, an award-winning civic software company.

Felipe Buitrago is a consultant at the IDB’s Culture, Solidarity and Creativity Affairs Division. For over twelve years, he has worked on the development of the Orange Economy from various angles: as advisor in the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, program manager in the British Council, director of the Ibero-American Observatory of Copyright (ODAI), independent consultant and university professor. His experience in over a dozen countries around the world includes research, multilateral negotiation, and the design and evaluation of public policy and development programs. Twitter @pitragor

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Richard Peña was the Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Director of the New York Film Festival 1988 through 2012. Beginning in 1992, he organized with the Spanish Ministry of Culture the annual “Spanish Cinema Now” series at Lincoln Center, as well as “Rendezvous with French Cinema” with UniFrance since 1996. A frequent lecturer internationally on a wide variety of film topics, he is a Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University, where he specializes in film theory and international cinema. He is also currently the co-host of Channel 13’s weekly Reel 13.

Juan Piñon is particularly interested in the intersection of Latin American transnational media corporate dynamics with the established mode of production of U.S. Latino media and the effects on Latinos’ representations. His research interests are globalization, political economy, television studies and social and cultural practices. He holds a Ph.D. in Media Studies from the Department of Radio, Television and Film from the University of Texas at Austin, and a master degree in Communication Sciences from the Universidad Iberoamericana at Mexico, City. Currently, Piñon is an Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU Steindhardt and is the U.S. coordinator of the Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory (OBITEL) an international research project on television fiction.

Raimundo Larrain is co-founder of Pulso Docente, a new non-for-profit that aims to train teachers working in the most challenging classrooms in Chile, providing in-service professional development that combines teaching essential skills, coaching and intensive practice. After receiving his B.S. in Biochemistry, Larrain taught Science for two years as part of the 4th cohort of Enseña Chile, a Teach for All partner program. Afterwards, he trained teachers in Chile and Ecuador. He is particularly interested in teacher training and the creation of learning conditions to support teachers’ growth. Sponsored by a scholarship from the Chilean Government, he is studying a M.A. in International Educational Development with a concentration in Education Leadership from TC.

Mariana I. Vergara teaches “Mindfulness into Action” approach through the BRIDGE® Model of Transformational Learning. This is an innovative methodology with learning techniques, and indigenous ancient knowledge practices that help shape and change behavior in participants through new awareness. The goal is to find solutions to personal and society-level issues. She is a Global Core Member of World Dignity University (WDU). She is leading the WDU Amazon Rain Forest Initiative that aims to co-create a Global Community. In 2009, the model was implement with the Kichwa Indigenous community of Rio Blanco in the Amazon rainforest. Mariana has been working with this model of transformational learning over the past fifteen years and continues to do so through her current doctorate research at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Andrea López is a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership at New York University. Prior to attending NYU, Andrea served as Academic Coordinator and Teacher at PENTA UC, the Educational Program for Kids with Academic Talent of Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, and participated in educational support programs for public schools. Andrea has a bachelor's degree in Psychology and in Aesthetics, from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She earned a Masters in Human Resources Management from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a Masters in Art Theory and History from Universidad de Chile. Her research interests include citizenship education, civic engagement, social justice art education, and K-12 school reform.

Oscar Ardila, holds an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University, where he focused in strategy, management and finance for the arts. He has been featured in radio interviews, TV and the press in New York, Hong Kong and Colombia for his work with the Bogota International Piano Festival. Mr. Ardila founded the Bogota International Piano Festival in 2010. The festival invites every year young artists from around the world to Colombia to share their experiences and knowledge with Colombian young artists. In 2015 the Bogota International Piano Festival will be held for the sixth time and will present pianists from three continents. He completed his MA at Teachers College, Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar and has a BA with honors in Music Pedagogy.

Bruna Fetter is a PhD candidate researching processes of valuation in contemporary art at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She was awarded with a Fulbright Scholarship and is spending one year (2014-15) as a Visiting Researcher at NYU Steinhardt. Recently she curated the group show From the Sensitive Matter (2014), at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul (MAC/RS) and also The Seventh Continent, an individual exhibition of Fernanda Valadares at Zipper Galeria, in São Paulo (2014), among other group shows. Currently she is part of the Committee of Collection and Curatorship of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul.

David González Tolosa holds a Masters in Social Sciences and Humanities from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Unidad Cuajimalpa, where he is currently pursuing a PhD in the same program. Tolosa has been a literature editor for the independent Mexican publisher Textofilia and as a University professor, he has collaborated in several online platforms with reviews, essays and articles. He is interested in Cultural Industries, particularly Musical and Editorial industry, and in shaping youth identity in Mexico City. His current research focuses on exploring the relationships between cultural industries and the national government with an emphasis on the Book Industry and cultural and reading policies

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Sponsored by the Teachers College Vice President’s Diversity and Community Initiatives Grant Fund, the President’s and Provost Students Initiative Fund, the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) at Columbia University, the Arts Administration program at Teachers College (ARAD), the Teachers College Office of Student Activities and Programs, and the Teachers College Student Senate

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