Cuba Studies Program Graduate Student Symposium: New Voices in Cuba Studies

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We invite you to attend the Cuba Studies Program Graduate Student Symposium New Voices in Cuba Studies, where graduate students in the disciplines of History, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Romance Languages/Comparative Literature, Art History, Ethnomusicology, and Performance Studies will present their works as follows:

Date: November 30, 2018

Location: CGIS South S010 - Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, 02138

8:00am: Breakfast

8:20am: Welcome remarks by Professor Alejandro de la Fuente

8:30 – 10:15am: Panel 1
Histories and Legacies of Colonialism and Slavery
Moderator: Marial Iglesias Utset, Visiting Research Scholar, Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University

· Roseli Rojo, Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University – “Challenging the colonial city: petimetres, and hysterical women in the Havana (1790-1850)”

· Liana DeMarco, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Yale University –  

“‘Médicos que acomodar nuestros ingenios’: Slavery and the Making of Medical Education in Cuba, 1790-1861”

· Ayinde Madzimoyo, Ph.D. Student in History, Florida International University – “Kalunga y el Monte: Mountain, Forest, and Marronage in Nineteenth Century Cuba”

· Daniel Fernandez Guevara, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Florida – “Weaponizing Solidarity: Spanish Republican Exiles, Race, and the Cuban Revolution, 1939-1976”

10:30 – 12:30pm: Panel 2
Histories of the 1959 Revolution
Moderator: Jennifer Lambe, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History, Brown University

· Amalia Pérez Martín, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, University of California, Merced – “Entre la redención y la resistencia: el papel socio-histórico y político de la ley en la Cuba posrevolucionaria”

· Emily Snyder, Ph.D. Candidate in Latin American History, Yale University – “Internationalizing the Revolutionary Family: Love, Politics, and Cuban-Nicaraguan Collaboration, 1979-1990”

· William Kelly, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Rutgers University –

“We had the bitter experience of lamenting the loss of a child: Housing and Everyday Life in Camagüey, Cuba, 1976-1980”

· Maite Morales, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Florida International University – “Communal Desires: Consumption and Ideas of Luxury and Leisure in Cuba, 1968-1975”

· Richard Denis, Ph.D. Student in Atlantic History, Florida International University – “‘Una Revista Al Servicio de la Nación’: Bohemia and the Cuban Revolution, 1958-1960”

12:30 – 1:30pm: Lunch

1:30 – 3:15pm: Panel 3
Race, Gender, and Nation in Cuban Arts and Literature
Moderator: Esther Whitfield, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies, Brown University

· Matthew Leslie Santana, Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Harvard University – “Transformismo masculino: Black Lesbian Performance and 'Sexual Revolution' in Cuba”

· Alberto Sosa-Cabanas, Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish, Florida International University – “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Black Bodies and the Iconography of Crime at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”

· Natasha Marcus, Independent Scholar, M.A. in Political Science (2009), Washington University in St. Louis – “Afrocubana femininity in the modern pictorial vocabularies of Amelia Peláez and Mario Carreño”

· Yinett Polanco, Independent Scholar, M.A. in Latin American Studies (2016), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) – “El ensayo cubano y el tema latinoamericano: un modo de pensar y construir el mundo”

3:30 – 5:15pm: Panel 4
Migration, Diaspora, and Citizenship
Moderator: Susan Eckstein, Professor of International Relations and Sociology, Boston University

· Ahmed Correa, Ph.D. Student in Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, University of California, Merced – “Migración y ciudadanía: fundamentos de membresía en la comunidad política de la Revolución”

· Nelson Jaime Santana, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile) – “¿En búsqueda de nuevos horizontes? Trayectorias laborales de profesionistas cubanos en Santiago de Chile.”

· Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Ph.D. Student in Comparative Literature, Washington University in Saint Louis – “Travelers to Utopia: The Cuban Revolution as a Literary Genre”

· Elizabeth Obregón, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago – “Transnational Narratives of Race and Ancestry: on the island and in the diaspora”

5:15 – 5:30pm: Coffee break

5:30 – 7:15pm: Panel 5
Cuba and the US
Moderator: Alan West-Duran, Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Northeastern University

· Fabián Leyva-Barragan, Curatorial Fellow in Visual Arts, Walker Art Center – “Dissecting the desire for an 'utopia': Reflecting upon the presence of past, present, and future Cuban Art exhibitions in American Museums”

· Paloma Checa-Gismero, Ph.D. Candidate in Art Theory, History, and Criticism, University of California, San Diego – “From Anti-imperialism to conciliation: U.S. artists in la Bienal de La Habana since 1984”

· Brandon P. Martinez, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, University of Miami – “An American in Cuba: Remembering the Works and Travels of W.E.B. Du Bois”

· Maile Speakman, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies, Yale University –  “U.S. Share Economies as Affective-Racial Technologies: Tech Markets and AirBnb in Havana”