WELCOME REMARKS

• Chuck Eckman, Dean and University Librarian
• Elizabeth Cerejido, Chair, Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair of the Cuban Heritage Collection
• Michael Bustamante, Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies
• Alejandro de la Fuente, Cuba Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University

POST-SOCIALIST CULTURAL POLITICS

• Democracy and Cuban Realism?
  – Ana Baez | English, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Chicago State University
• Los artistas visuales y el medio digital: las formas del Tecnocimarronaje Artístico Cubano
  – Mónica Ravelo García | Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Valparaíso
• ‘Así está Cuba hoy’: YouTubers, the Commodification of Urban Narratives and the Quest for Visual Agency in Havana
  – Nadia Nava Contreras | Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki
• Musical Contagions: Los Reparteros and the Recuperation of Virality
  – Mike Levine | Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Paloma Duong | Latin American Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Discussant)
• Lillian Manzor | Modern Languages & Literatures, University of Miami (Moderator)

LUNCH BREAK

LEGAL CULTURES / LEGAL CITIZENSHIP

• Vox Populi: Digital Discourses of Citizenship and Republicanism in Contemporary Cuba 
  – Christopher A. Jensen | Political Science, University of Utah
• Compliance and Defiance at the Twilight of the Cuban Revolution
  – Michal Kofman | Sociology, University of Louisville
• How Does Law Matter in Revolutions? Legal Mobilization, Legal Repression, and Oppositional Identities in Cuba
  – Amalia Pérez Martín | Sociology Department, University of California – Merced
• Julio César Guanche | Independent Scholar (Discussant)
• Elizabeth M. Iglesias | Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law (Moderator)

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

• Ada Ferrer, Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean History, New York University
  Lecture: Cuba: An American History

WELCOME REMARKS

• Elizabeth Cerejido, Chair, Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair of the Cuban Heritage Collection

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON FILM & MEDIA STUDIES

• Migración, identidad y reconciliación en el cine Cubano
  – Jorge Luis Lanza Caride
• Sangre y fuego contra las drogas: representación de la figura del narcotraficante como sujeto residual de la sociedad cubana en “Tras la huella” (2018) y “Corazón cubano” (2014)
  – Lidia Hernández Tapia | Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures (LAILAC), The Graduate Center, CUNY
• Commonwealth and Revolution: The Cinema of Óscar Torres
  – Pedro Doreste | Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
• Cine-verdad, afrocubanismo y disidencia politica: Néstor Almendros en Cuba, 1959-1962
  – Breixo Viejo | Film Studies, English Department, Barnard College, Columbia University
• Irene Rozsa | Center for Latin American Studies, University of Tulane (Discussant)
• Sallie Hughes | School of Communications, University of Miami (Moderator)

BREAKOUT SESSION

• Taking the UMAP Online: Notes on Building a Digital Archive
  – Andy Alfonso | Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University
  – Lázaro Gonzalez | Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley
• Amanda Moreno | Archivist, Cuban Heritage Collection & Martin Tsang | Librarian, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami (Moderators)

LUNCH BREAK

REVISITING ICONIC TEXTS AND AUTHORS

• Between Memory and History: Cuban American Theatrical Tropicanas
  – Lilianne Lugo | Department of Theater Arts, University of Miami
• Beat Deafness, or The Polyrhythm of Paradiso’s Chapter XII
  – Yoán Moreno | Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami
• Negotiating Conflicting Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Textual Tensions in Nicolás Guillén’s Theater for Young Audiences Play Poema con niños
  – Nicholas Sheets | Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami
• Nicolás Guillén and Reinaldo Arenas: Memoirs of the Masses
  – Elise Arnold-Levene | Literature Language, Mercy College
• Caridad Svich | Playwright and Independent Scholar  (Discussant)
• Ernesto Fundora | Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami (Moderator)

WELCOME REMARKS

• Elizabeth Cerejido, Chair, Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair of the Cuban Heritage Collection

ON THE INTERSECTION OF RACE AND THE VISUAL ARTS

• “A Well-Integrated Culture”? The Arts and the Cuban Revolution’s 1959-1961 Antiracism Campaign
  – Cary Aileen García Yero | Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• The Artistic Resonance of Afrocubana Painter, Uver Solís
  – Natasha Marcus | Recipient, ALARI Certificate in Afro-Latin American Studies, Harvard University
• Race-Making and Heritage Work Through the Racialized Cuban Body
  – Elizabeth Obregon | Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Odette Casamayor-Cisneros | Hispanic and Portuguese Studies, University of Pennsylvania (Discussant)
• Alejandro de la Fuente | Cuba Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University (Moderator)

LUNCH BREAK

CUBA DESDE LOS DESPLAZAMIENTOS Y RETOS DE LA MIGRACIÓN: LA EXPERIENCIA DE TRES INVESTIGADORAS CUBANAS

• El relato de la emancipación de la mujer cubana post 59 desde el trabajo académico de Aurette Séjourné y Margaret Randall
  – Anaeli Ibarra Cáceres | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
• Pensar Cuba con los mayas macehuales: Apuntes sobre una antropología contra-estatal
  – Hilda del Carmen Landrove Torres | Estudios Mesoamericanos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• Redes intelectuales y revolución cubana: una aproximación desde la historia transnacional (1959-1972)
  – Grethel Domenech Hernández | History, Universidad Iberoamericana
• Pedro Enrique Moya | Doctorado en Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco (Discussant)
• Elizabeth Cerejido | Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries (Moderator)

CLOSING EVENT

• Cuban Studies Journal: A Roundtable Discussion
  – Alejandro de la Fuente | Cuba Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
  – Lillian Guerra | History, University of Florida
  – Lauran Krebs | History, University of Florida
  – Carmelo Mesa-Lago | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh

CLOSING REMARKS

• Elizabeth Cerejido, Chair, Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair of the Cuban Heritage Collection