Antoni Kapcia, Director of the Cuba Research Forum, University of Nottingham
6-8 September 2016, University of Nottingham, Great Britain.
I am proud to be among the presenters.
My paper:
Analyzing Cuba-US Relations in the New Scenario: Political Methodology.
PROGRAMME
Tuesday 6 September 2016
11.30-1.00
The next generation: targeting youth
Anne Luke (Derby): Rebels, Sleeping Beauty and an Imp: reviewing children’s popular culture in Revolutionary Cuba through a study of Pionero magazine for children in the 1960s
Rosi Smith (Nottingham): The universalisation of higher education in Cuba
Dunja Fehimovic (Cambridge): Ciertas Conductas: Childhood, Education, and Nation in Sara Gómez’s De cierta manera (Sara Gómez, 1974) and Conducta (Ernesto Daranas, 2014)
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30
Oral History and Cuba
Elizabeth Dore (Southampton): The Politics of Money and Power in Cuba, Life History Narratives
Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla (Aston): Sensitive Topics in Oral History testimonies: Humour as a coping mechanism
Olga Lidia Saavedra Montes de Oca: Sensitive Topics: Transgender narratives in Cuba
3.30-4.00 Break
4.00-5.30
Special panel: culture in Cuba today
Fernando Jacomino León (La Jiribilla and former president of Instituto Cubano del Libro); Sandra Almaguer (former editor of editorial de Ciencias Sociales); Diego Gutiérrez (trovador)
6.00-7.00 Reception
7.30-8.30 Dinner
Wednesday 7 September 2016
9.00-10.30
Images of Cuba: desde fuera
Christopher Hull (Chester): British literary & journalistic visits to Havana: 1920s & 30s
James Kent (Royal Holloway London): Take me to Fidel!” – Burt Glinn, Magnum Photos and the Cuban Revolution
William Rowlandson (Kent): Sartre, Castro, and the existentialist revolution
10.30-10.50 Break
10.50-12.20
Images of Cuba: dentro de la Revolución
Sjamme an de Voort (Nottingham): Repeating Cuba: approaches to reconciliation and reappropriation
Sara García Santamaría (Sheffield): Cuban media constructions of ‘the people’ in times of national crisis
Félix Lossío (Newcastle): Cuba as a brand. Tensions and meanings of the “Auténtica Cuba” nation branding campaign (2012-2016).
12.20-1.15 Lunch
1.15-2.45
The very political economy
Steve Ludlam (Sheffield): End of an Era? Market challenges to the ‘socialist state of workers’
Emily Morris (UCL and IADB): Macroeconomic mysteries
Helen Yaffe (LSE): Is Cuba still socialist? Analysing recent socioeconomic changes in Cuba
2.45-3.00 Break
3.00-5.00
Beyond Havana and the nation? Peripheral identities and literary culture in Cuba
Par Kumaraswami (Reading): The periphery of the periphery: literary capital in Granma, Cuba
Miranda Lickert (Reading): Preservation, transmission, and storage: issues of cultural identity in Granma
Tony Kapcia (Nottingham): Within the national narrative: Oriente, Granma – and Bartolomé Masó
Armandina Maldonado Deller (Nottingham): Espiritismo de cordon in Granma: Religiosity in Cuba
5.00-6.30
The International Dimension
Miriam Palacios-Callender (UWL): Beyond the network analysis of scientific collaboration: meeting the Cuban scientists in Cuba and abroad
Chiara Cochetti (Regional Manager, Latin America, IMS Health): The impact of Cuba opening to international business on its healthcare system
Arnold August (Canada): Analyzing Cuba-US Relations in the New Scenario: Political Methodology
6.30-7.30 Performance by Diego Gutiérrez
7.30-8.30 Dinner
Thursday 8 September 2016
9.00-10.30
History: three contested moments
Fernando Padilla (Bristol): The Cuerpo de voluntarios: an overview
Patricia Calvo González (Santiago de Compostela): La rebelión mediática. El papel de la dimensión pública en la insurrección cubana (1953-1958)
Steve Cushion (UCL): Recovering Embezzled Property, Cuba 1959
10.30-10.50 Break
10.50-12.20
Culture in transition?
Kjetil Klette Boehler (Oslo): Somos la mezcla perfecta, la combinación más pura, Cubanos, la más grande creación”: Grooves, Pleasures and Politics in today’s Cuba
Lizette Mora (FLACSO, Mexico): Dialéctica del deshielo: entre la cultura pop y la estética de la ruina o ‘Cuba está demoda”.
Guy Baron (Aberystwyth): Cuban cinema, crisis or transition? The current state of Cuba’s film industry
12.20-1.15 Lunch
1.15-2.45
Space and spaces
Jenni Ramone (Nottingham Trent): Adapting contemporary spatial theory for neocolonial Cuba
Alberto Martí (Nottingham): Geographical information for Cubanists: a practical tool kit
Ranu Basu (York, Canada): Education, Revolution and Public Space in the City: Celebrating International Solidarity and Peace from Havana
2.45-3.10 Break
3.10-4.40
Representation and representations
Raquel Ribeiro (Edinburgh): Military but not so militant? Some considerations on Cuban military testimonials about the Angola War
Raul Marchena (Reading): Fifty shades of masculinity in contemporary Cuba
Lauren Collins (Nottingham): Rectification without end: Los procesos de perfeccionamiento.
4.45: Close of Conference