Fall 2025 – Spring 2026

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 third Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies, to be held Fall 2025 – Spring 2026.

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 2025-2026, 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.

Register Now

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 chc@miami.edu.

SCHEDULE

• SEPTEMBER 26 (Paper pre-circulated September 12)
  Michael Levine, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Musicology, Christopher Newport University
  “‘Walking the Length of the Island’: Improvised Infrastructure and the Birth of the Reparto Music Industry (2012–2016)”
  Discussant: Ruthie Meadows, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Nevada-Reno and Fall 2025 Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries
• NOVEMBER 14 (Paper pre-circulated October 31)
  Aaron Coy Moulton, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Latin American History, Stephen F. Austin State University
  “Denouncing the ‘Betrayal’: The U.S. Conspiratorial Right and Cuban Exiles Against the Pro-Castro ‘Liberal Plot’”
  Discussant: Geraldo L. Cadava, Ph.D., Professor of History and Wender-Lewis Teaching and Research Professor, Northwestern University
• JANUARY 23 (Paper pre-circulated January 9)
  María de Lourdes Mariño Fernández, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, Temple University
  “‘Castro No! Sex, Sí!’ From Artists of the Revolution to Diasporic Latinx Communities”
  Discussant: Celia Irina González, Ph.D., Visual Artist and Postdoctoral Scholar in Cultural Studies, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco (Mexico)
• MARCH 27 (Paper pre-circulated March 13)
  Magdalena López, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Professor, Kellog Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame
  “Cuba y Angola: Una crítica biopolítica a la identidad ‘latino-africana’”
  Discussant: Andy Alfonso, Ph.D., Teaching Transfer Associate for Community College Engagement, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton University
• MAY 15 (Paper pre-circulated May 1)
  Simon Fagour, Ph.D. Candidate in Contemporary History, New Sorbonne University (France)
  “The Cuban Revolution and Caribbean Nationalism: Independence Movements and Counter-Revolution in French and British Colonial Territories, 1959-1964”
  Discussant: Andrés Pertierra, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison