Past Sessions

Fall 2024 – Spring 2025

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

• 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

Spring – Summer 2024

Sponsor: Morrison Fund for Cuban Studies at the University of Miami

• JANUARY 19 (Paper pre-circulated January 5)
  Grethel Domenech Hernández, Ph.D., Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico)
  “Los intelectuales en su laberinto: las relaciones con el poder político cubano (1959-1971)”
  Discussant: Lillian Guerra, Ph.D., University of Florida
• MARCH 8 (Paper pre-circulated February 23)
  William Kelly, Ph.D., independent scholar
  “‘Every Cuban Has the Right to a Decent Home’: Housing Policy, Poverty, and Pathologization in Cuba, 1959-1962”
  Discussant: Brodwyn Fischer, Ph.D., University of Chicago
• MAY 3 (Paper pre-circulated April 19)
  Katie Coldiron, Ph.D. candidate, Florida International University
  “Bridging Divides: Working with Individuals and Institutions in Cuba After 1959 from Miami’s Two Major Research Universities.”
  Discussant: María de los Ángeles Torres, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago
• JUNE 21 (Paper pre-circulated June 7)
  Tara Phillips, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Berkeley
  “Revising Cuba’s Past, Revisiting Its Future: El mito del cafetal in Emilio Bacardí Moreau’s Vía Crucis”
  Discussant: Roseli Rojo, Ph.D., SUNY-Oswego
  Discussant: Olga Portuondo, Ph.D., Universidad de Oriente (Cuba)