Fall 2024 – Spring 2025

Sponsor: Wilbur L. and Jean L. Morrison Endowment for Cuban Studies at the University of Miami

The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries is pleased to announce its second Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies, to be held Fall 2024 – Spring 2025.

The seminar provides a virtual forum for works-in-progress that explore issues in Cuban and Cuban diaspora studies, irrespective of period, discipline, or approach. We also welcome comparative and interdisciplinary topics. The seminar is open to faculty members, graduate students, and independent scholars.

The seminar meets via Zoom select Fridays in fall/spring 2024-2025, from 2 to 3:30pm EST/EDT. To maximize time for discussion, papers are circulated electronically in advance. Each session begins with brief opening remarks from the paper author and comments from an invited discussant. Conversations will be held in English and Spanish, in accordance with the language in which the pre-circulated paper is authored.

Registration

Register to attend the entire series or individual sessions.
Papers and Zoom log-in information will be sent to registered participants 2 weeks prior to each session.

Our goal is to foster a community of scholars that gathers to read, debate, and celebrate new scholarship.

If you have questions, please contact Cuban Heritage Collection Program Manager Annie Sansone-Martínez a.sansone@umiami.edu or Program Coordinator Sofi-Nicole Barreiro s.barreiro9@miami.edu.

SCHEDULE

• SEPTEMBER 20 (Paper pre-circulated September 6)
  Elizabeth Mirabal, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia
  “Nostalgia e intimidad: añoranza sentimental y discursos epistolares en el Caribe español del siglo XIX”
  Discussant: César Salgado, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin
• NOVEMBER 15 (Paper pre-circulated November 1)
  Michelle Chase, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of History, Pace University
  “A Workers’ Critique of the Revolution, 1960-1967”
  Discussant: Daniel Fernández-Guevara, Ph.D., Fulbright Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)
• JANUARY 31 (Paper pre-circulated January 17)
  Chasitie Brown, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin
  “Queloides: Primera Parte: Visualizations of Race in Contemporary Cuban Art”
  Discussant: Alejandro de la Fuente, Ph.D., Robert Woods Bliss Professor Latin American History and Economics and Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Harvard University
• MARCH 28 (Paper pre-circulated March 14)
  Laurine Chapon, Ph.D. candidate, CREDA – Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle (France)
  “‘Una casa en Cuba’ – Vivienda y migración en un contexto de crisis”
  Discussant: Denisse Delgado Vázquez, Ph.D., Research Coordinator, La Familia: Latin American Health Research Collaboratory, University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston
• MAY 16 (Paper pre-circulated May 2)
  Alexander Hardan, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Music, Brown University
  “Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Soviet-Cuban Musical Alliance”
  Discussant: Jacqueline Loss, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Literature, Cultures, and Languages, University of Connecticut