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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:New Voices in Cuba Studies: Graduate Student Symposium
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SUMMARY:New Voices in Cuba Studies: Graduate Student Symposium
DESCRIPTION:<p>	[[{"fid":1015002,"view_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"533","width":"738","alt":"leandro_soto_y_la_nave_va_horizontal","title":"leandro_soto_y_la_nave_va_horizontal","class":"media-element file-default"}}]]</p><p>	Graduate students in the humanities and social sciences explore new directions in Cuba studies through interdisciplinary, transnational, and multi-epochal approaches.</p><p>	8:30am - Breakfast</p><p>	9:00am - Welcome remarks by Cuba Studies Program Chair Dr. Alejandro de la Fuente</p><p>	9:15am – 10:45am - <strong>Panel 1: Living the Revolution</strong></p><p>	Moderator: <em>Marial Iglesias, Visiting Research Scholar, Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University</em></p><p>	«Antigonón, un contingente épico»: Acercamiento al tema de la contracultura y el hombre - mito en la nueva dramaturgia y escena cubanas<br><em>Diona Espinosa, University of New York at Albany, SUNY</em></p><p>	Economies of Aging: Growing Old in Contemporary Havana<br><em>Elix Colón, Stanford University</em></p><p>	Promotional Strategies in Contemporary Cuban Advertising: Reflections of a Shifting Socioeconomic Landscape<br><em>Miranda García, University of Michigan</em></p><p>	10:45am – 11:00am - Coffee break</p><p>	11:00am – 12:30pm - <strong>Panel 2: A Changing Diaspora</strong></p><p>	Moderator: <em>Jennifer Lambe, Associate Professor of History, Brown University</em></p><p>	Reagan’s Cuban-American Courtship: A Case Study in Hispanic Campaign Strategy<br><em>Caroline McCulloch, Florida International University</em></p><p>	The Cuban Diaspora’s Increasing Role in the Context of Changes on the Island<br><em>Denisse Delgado Vázquez, University of Massachusetts, Boston</em></p><p>	“Cruel and Unusual Banishment”: The Indefinite Detainment of Mariel Cubans in Atlanta and Oakdale<br><em>Leah Cannon Burnham, Georgia State University</em></p><p>	12:30pm – 2:00pm - Lunch</p><p>	2:00pm – 3:45pm - <strong>Panel 3: The Politics of Afro-Cuban Representation</strong></p><p>	Moderator: <em>Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Associate Professor of Romance Languages</em></p><p>	The Folklorization of Religion, Race and Class: Reading Lydia Cabrera in an Afro-Cuban Sociopolitical and Historical Context<br><em>Brandon Mancilla, Harvard University</em></p><p>	Folklore, the Appropriation of Afro-Cuban Culture, and Nation Making in Cuba, 1938-1958<br><em>Cary Aileen García Yero, Harvard University</em></p><p>	“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<br><em>Arisbel López Andraca, UT Austin</em></p><p>	Racismo, fotografía criminalista y cine de ficción en Cuba: Una mirada al cambio de siglo (XIXXX)<br><em>Alberto Sosa-Cabanas, Florida International University</em></p><p>	3:45pm – 4:00pm - Closing Remarks</p><p>	 </p>
LOCATION:CGIS South, S020 Belfer Room
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20191115T130000Z
DTEND:20191115T210000Z
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