Tentative Program for Changing Cuba/Changing World Symposium
This interdisciplinary conference will include over 100 participants from Europe and the Americas. More program information soon to come.
The final program will be posted by the end of January.
PRELIMINARY LIST OF PANELS AND PARTICIPANTS
(As of January 22, subject to change) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12
Registration and Welcome -- Skylight Conference Room (9th Floor)
THURSDAY, MARCH 13
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Registration – Skylight Conference Room
8:30-10:30 a.m. OPENING PLENARY:
“Current Dynamics, Changing Perspectives” – Elebash Recital Hall
10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Section A
I – Cuba’s Art World and Evolving Art Market – Segal Theater
II – US-Cuba Relations– Rooms 9206-9207
III – Energy: Cuba’s Challenges and Opportunities – Room 9204
IV – History, Institutions and Legacy – Room 9205
12:30-1:30 p.m.: LUNCH (Skylight and Segal Theatre)
1:30-3:20 p.m.: Section B
V – Cuba’s Battle of Ideas – Rooms 9206-9207
VI – Contemporary Cuban Art: Museums and Alternative Spaces – Segal Theater
VII – Inside the Revolution – Room 9204
3:30-5:20 p.m.: Section C
VIII – US-Cuba Relations, part II – Segal Theatre
IX – Tourism, Urban Conservation, and Environment, – Room 9204
X – ‘Espejo de Paciencia’ – Room 9205 (ends at 4:45 p.m.)
X.1 – Cuban Writers Read Their Work – Room 9205 (4:45 - 5:20 p.m.)
XI – Cubans in the US: Generational Differences Among Cubans – Room 9206-9207
5:30-6:30 p.m.: (KEYNOTE SPEAKER?) & RECEPTION Elebash Recital Hall
6:45-8:00 p.m. CONCERT, Elebash Recital Hall
Pianist Oriente López and The Cu-NY Latin Jazz Project
FRIDAY, MARCH 14
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Registration – Skylight Conference Room
8:30-10:00 a.m.: Section D
XXII - Organizing Culture: Theory and Practice – Room 9204
XII – Medicine in Cuba: Past and Present – Room 9204
XXI – Cuban Literature from 1990 to the Present, part I – Room 9205
XIV – Race and Ethnicity in Cuba: Beyond Black and White, part I – Rooms 9206-9207
10:15-11:45 a.m.: Section E
XI – Economics, part I – Rooms 9206-9207
XV – Cuban Filmmaking Since 1989 – Segal Theatre
XVI – Non-Heteronormative Cuba – Room 9204
XVII – Intelectualidad y poder en Cuba: Tres estudios – Room 9205
12:00-1:30 p.m.: LUNCH, Skylight
Lunch at Segal Theatre: Discussion of ¡Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today,” Exhibit at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1:30-3:20 p.m.: Section F
XX – Cuban History and Civil Society, part I – Room 9204
XXII – Cuba and the World (Excluding the US) – Rooms 9206-9207
XIX – Visual and Performing Arts in Contemporary Cuba – Segal Theater
XIII – Women and the Cuban Literary Perspective – Room 9205
3:30-5:20 p.m.: Section G
XXIII – Afro-Cuban Cultural Movements – Segal Theater
XXV – Socialism in a Changing Cuba – Rooms 9205
XXX – Economics, part II – Room 9204
P- Cuba and the World: Policy Issues Room 9206- 07 or “Studying Cuba: New Opportunities and Challenges”
5:30-8:00 Reception and PLENARY – Lobby of Recital Hall or Proshansky Auditorium
“Cuba and the Media: Getting In and Getting It Right”
SATURDAY, MARCH 15
8:30-9:00 a.m.: Registration – Skylight Conference Room
9:00-10:30 a.m.: Section H
XXVII – Republican Cuba: Figures, Ideas and Legacies – Rooms 9204
XXVIII – Cuban Music Today – Room 9205
XXIX – Religion and Politics in Cuba – Room 9206-9207
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.: Section I
XVI – Race and Ethnicity in Cuba: Beyond Black and White, part II – Room 9204
XXXI – Cuban Literature from 1990 to the Present, part II – Room 9205
XVIII – Cuba: In Transition? – Rooms 9206-9207
12:30-2:30 p.m.: NEW BOOKS ON CUBA – (Rooms 9204-9207)** |
2:30-4:00 p.m.: Section J
CLOSING SESSION - ELEBASH RECITAL HALL
“Changing Cuba/Changing World: Implications for Research and Policy”
**Special Events:
New Books on Cuba
If you are attending the conference and have published a book on Cuba after January, 2006, we encourage you to participate in the New Books on Cuba: "Book Party" scheduled for Saturday, March 15, 2008.
Authors interested in parcticipating will find a book reviewer, a person who will be attending the conference as well. At the Book Party, the reviewer will present the book by providing the audience with its summary and highlights. Presenters will only have five (5) minutes to make their remarks.
If you would like to participate, please send the following information to Araceli Tinajero: atinajero@ccny.cuny.edu
- Author:
- Institutional Affiliation:
- Book Title:
- Publisher:
- Publication Date:
- Presenter (Name of the person who will present the book):
IMPORTANT: AUTHORS MUST BRING A COPY OF THEIR BOOK AND MUST BE PRESENT AT THE CONFERENCE AND AT THE BOOK PARTY.
Tentative Program for New Books on Cuba
Organizer: Araceli Tinajero (City College, The City University of New York)
• Ruth Behar An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Presented by …
• Anke Birkenmaier Alejo Carpentier y la cultura del surrealismo en America Latina. Frankfurt – Madrid: Iberoamericana–Vervuert, 2006. Presented by Duanel Díaz .
• Sujatha Fernandes Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Presented by Odette Casamayor.
• Alexander Gray and Antoni Kapcia The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society. Gainsville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2008. Presented by...
• Ted Henken Cuba: A Global Studies Handbook. Santa Barbara/Denver/Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2008. Presented by …
• Jacqueline Loss and Esther Whitfield New Short Fiction from Cuba. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2007. Presented by Elizabeth Álvarez-Borland, University of CT
• William Luis Juan Francisco Manzano. Autobiografía del esclavo poeta y otros escritos. Frankfurt – Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2007. Presented by Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University
• Rafael Ocasio A Gay Cuban Activist in Exile: Reinaldo Arenas. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007. Presented by Carlos Riobo, The City College of New York
• Jorge Pérez-López Corruption in Cuba: Castro and Beyond. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006. Presented by Alfonso Quiroz.
• Rafael Rojas Motivos de Anteo. Patria y nación en la historia intelectual de Cuba. Madrid: Colibrí, 2008. Presented by César Salgado, University of Texas
• Araceli Tinajero El lector de tabaquería. Madrid: Verbum, 2007. Presented by Stephen Wilkinson.
• Esther Whitfield Cuban Currency: The Dollar and “Special Period” in Fiction. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Presented by Jacqueline Loss.
• Stephen Wilkinson Detective Fiction in Cuban Society and Culture. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006. Presented by Ted Henken.
• Lisa Yun The Coolie Speaks: Chinese and Africans of Cuba. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007. Presented by Jack Tchen
• Sujatha Fernandes Cuba Represent! Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2006. Presented by Odette Casamayor, University of Conneticut
• Silvia Pedraza Political Disaffection in Cuba’s Revolution and Exodus. West Nyack, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Presented by Jose Moya, Barnard College |
