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The Cuba Futures: Past and Present international symposium invites interested academics, both young scholars and established specialists, to submit paper and panel proposals on ideas, actors, processes, institutions, and prospects/outcomes in these efforts. The symposium is organized by the Cuba Project at the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies (The Graduate Center, CUNY). The Cuba Project welcomes participation from academic, artistic, and professional institutions and endeavors. Papers can explore a wide range of historical and contemporary themes. Written by academics and other scholars, they may illuminate the visions, processes, institutions, civil society organizations, social movements, and other actors operating or focused on various contexts and futures.

The list of possible ideas for sessions, papers, and special events includes:

Historical Contexts:

• Revolutionary period and Post-communist dynamics: Cultural, economic, and political dimensions
• Republic Cuba (1902-1959) and 19th Century
  

Themes:

• Creation and demise of utopias and paradigms
• Knowledge of Cultural spheres: Literature, cinema, arts, photography
• Diverse substantive and policy areas:
  Racial & Ethnic Relations, Identity, Education, Health, Environment, Economic reform, Political organization and Democracy
• Cubans living abroad and 'diasporic' communities
• Intellectuals and knowledge
• Transnational actors and processes
• Political mobilization, civil society, state-society relations
• The city of Havana through history, including the character of the culture, politics, cosmopolitism, geography, and urbanization
• Issues about socialism, post-socialism, and participation
• Afro-Cuban culture and society
• New voices and approaches, young scholars
• Technology and internet networks in Cuban cyberspace

*We welcome ideas about panels about these and other themes and contexts*

Proposals should consist of a 1-2 page abstract, with a cover letter indicating the author's professional affiliation and title, biographical sketch and contact information, as well as prior work in Cuba Studies.

NOTE: Although English is preferred, proposals, abstracts, and papers will be accepted in either Spanish or English.

Submission: Please send proposals by email to: cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu; or via fax to: 212-817-1540. Or send a hard copy in a sealed envelope to:

    Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies,
     Attention: Cuba Project
     365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5209
     New York, NY 10016-4309
     United States

Deadlines: We strongly encourage early submission. We will accept proposals starting July 1, 2009. Proposals for sessions, papers, and special events will receive preliminary assessment as they arrive. In any case, final deadlines are as follows:

    Proposals for Sessions and Special Events: December 31, 2009
     Paper Proposals: July 31, 2010
     Final Paper Submission: November 24, 2010

 

*Further Details: To Be Announced*

For comments and inquiries please contact us at cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu.