#  New Voices in Cuba Studies: Graduate Student Symposium 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 15, 2019** 

 08:00AM - 04:00PM EST 

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 **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



 

 



 

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- [ Cuba Studies ](/programs-initiatives/cuba-studies)
 
 

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