New Voices in Cuba Studies: Graduate Student Symposium

Date: 

Friday, November 15, 2019, 8:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S020 Belfer Room

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Graduate students in the humanities and social sciences explore new directions in Cuba studies through interdisciplinary, transnational, and multi-epochal approaches.

8:30am - Breakfast

9:00am - Welcome remarks by Cuba Studies Program Chair Dr. Alejandro de la Fuente

9:15am – 10:45am - Panel 1: Living the Revolution

Moderator: Marial Iglesias, Visiting Research Scholar, Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University

«Antigonón, un contingente épico»: Acercamiento al tema de la contracultura y el hombre - mito en la nueva dramaturgia y escena cubanas
Diona Espinosa, University of New York at Albany, SUNY

Economies of Aging: Growing Old in Contemporary Havana
Elix Colón, Stanford University

Promotional Strategies in Contemporary Cuban Advertising: Reflections of a Shifting Socioeconomic Landscape
Miranda García, University of Michigan

10:45am – 11:00am - Coffee break

11:00am – 12:30pm - Panel 2: A Changing Diaspora

Moderator: Jennifer Lambe, Associate Professor of History, Brown University

Reagan’s Cuban-American Courtship: A Case Study in Hispanic Campaign Strategy
Caroline McCulloch, Florida International University

The Cuban Diaspora’s Increasing Role in the Context of Changes on the Island
Denisse Delgado Vázquez, University of Massachusetts, Boston

“Cruel and Unusual Banishment”: The Indefinite Detainment of Mariel Cubans in Atlanta and Oakdale
Leah Cannon Burnham, Georgia State University

12:30pm – 2:00pm - Lunch

2:00pm – 3:45pm - Panel 3: The Politics of Afro-Cuban Representation

Moderator: Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Associate Professor of Romance Languages

The Folklorization of Religion, Race and Class: Reading Lydia Cabrera in an Afro-Cuban Sociopolitical and Historical Context
Brandon Mancilla, Harvard University

Folklore, the Appropriation of Afro-Cuban Culture, and Nation Making in Cuba, 1938-1958
Cary Aileen García Yero, Harvard University

“Muñeca sin carga sólo sirve pa bonito”: Problemáticas en torno al aumento de cierto tipo de representación de orichas, entidades espirituales o eggungun en espacios públicos de La Habana
Arisbel López Andraca, UT Austin

Racismo, fotografía criminalista y cine de ficción en Cuba: Una mirada al cambio de siglo (XIXXX)
Alberto Sosa-Cabanas, Florida International University

3:45pm – 4:00pm - Closing Remarks