# Cuba Studies Program Graduate Student Symposium: New Voices in Cuba Studies #### calendar\_today Date and Time **November 30, 2018** 07:30AM - 07:30PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street** \[\[{"fid":968796,"view\_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"353","width":"470","alt":"CSP Grad Student Conference","class":"media-element file-default"}}\]\] 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” See also:- [ Cambridge ](/locations/cambridge-office) - [ Cuba Studies ](/programs-initiatives/cuba-studies) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.drclas.harvard.edu/node/1288241/event-feed.ics) Copy link link