1 Curriculum Vitae Luis Castañeda Department of Art and Music ...

2003-2005 Dean’s List, University of Houston
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Luis Castañeda, CV December 2011
Invited Lectures and Conferences
2012
-“Scenographies of Miraculous Mexico.” Quadrant Lecture, Institute for Advanced
Study, University of Minnesota, February 9.
2011
- “Museum, Monument, City: Archaeologies of Power in Modern Mexico”, Colloquium on
Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, New
York, December 1.
-“Our Man in Peru: A Cold War Story.” Latino-Latin American Studies Program,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, November 14.
-“The Small Field Complex,” in Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American
Art in the 21 st
Century, Getty Research Foundation, Museum of Latin American Art
(MOLAA) and Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, November 3 rd
.
-“Travels in Olmec Time.” Art and Music Histories Colloquium Series, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, October 24.
-“Diplomacy by Design: Architecture and Latin America’s Cold War.” Clarence Ward
Seminar, Oberlin College, Ohio, April 21.
2010
-“Burdens of Representation: Miraculous Mexico and the Hyperbolic Paraboloid.”
Parsons School of Design, New York, December 6.
-“Choreographing the Metropolis: Networks, Circulation and Spectacle in Mexico City.”
School of Art, University of Houston, November 3.
Conferences (Panels Chaired/Respondent)
2013
Panel co-Chair, with George Flaherty
-“Arts of Transition: Visual Culture, Democracy and Disillusionment in Latin America”,
College Art Association 101 st
Annual Conference, New York, February 13-16.
2011
Panel Chair, “Street Art and the Use of Spray Paint.” Syracuse University School of Art,
Syracuse, September 13.
Respondent, Works in Progress in Latin American Society and History, NYU Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, May 6. Paper: “Todos Somos Narcos:
Mexican Necropolitics at the 2009 Venice Biennale.” Christopher Fraga, New York
University.
2010
Panel Chair, “The Predicament of Proclamation: Architecture as State Image and
Instrument,” at Architecture and the State, 1940 to 1970, Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, April 3.
Respondent, Works in Progress in Latin American Society and History, NYU Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, April 30. Paper: “Essays, Ensayos and
Rehearsals of the Tragi-Cosmic Race.” Sarah J. Townsend, New York University.
Respondent, Works in Progress in Latin American Society and History, NYU Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, October 21. Paper: “'Harnessing Blind but
Powerful Forces': Architecture's Encounter with Self-Help Housing in 1950s Peru.”
Helen Gyger, Columbia University.
Conference Papers Delivered
2012
-“Architecture’s Cold Warriors: Rethinking Latin American Modernism,” Society of
Architectural Historians 65 th
Annual Meeting, Detroit, April 19.
-“Development’s True Colors: The Architectural Interventions of Carlos Cruz-Diez.” In