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Cuba Research Forum, Nottingham, September 2008

Cuba Research Forum 11th Annual Conference: 8-9 September 2008

University of Nottingham (Willoughby Hall)

Dr George Lambie of De Montfort Universty and a member of the IISC steering group presented a paper at this conference.

IISC assistant director Dr Stpehen Wilkinson attended and chaired one of the panels.

The conference took place in the Machicado Suite, in Willoughby Hall, on the University Park campus of the University.


Programme
Monday 8 September
5.00-6.15 p.m.

The Long View: 1959 and all that
William Rowlandson (Kent): La Revolución como era imaginaria. Lezama y la política mítica…
Antonio Nestor Álvarez Pitaluga (Havana): La cultura y la Revolución cubana: 50 años de una historia inmediata
Par Kumaraswami (Manchester) and Antoni Kapcia (Nottingham): Cuban literary culture and the crisis: reassessing the 1990s

Tuesday 9 September

9.00-10.35
History
Edelberto Leiva Lajara (Havana):Estudios coloniales cubanos: una visión de la historiografía reciente
Margaret Brehony (Galway): Los irlandeses in Cuba: Irish labour and the construction of the first railroad in Latin America, 1835-1845
Christabelle Peters (Nottingham): The African Museum: Black Cultural History and the Public Sphere in Cuba
Chris Hull (Nottingham): Egypt: A British model for the US occupation of Cuba,
1898-1902?

11.00-1.00
Economy and Society
George Lambie (De Montfort): Cuba and globalisation
Steve Ludlam (Sheffield): Cuba's Universidad del Adulto Mayor: origins and progress of a great 'work of love’
Susan Ramsay (Manchester): Ageing and wellbeing in Cuba
Raúl Marchena (Manchester): Las locas y el proyecto revolucionario cubano

2.00- 3.15
Literature
Jill Ingham (Wolverhampton): Race, Rape and Revolution: Romelia Vargas and Critical Evasion
Luis Perez-Simon (Sorbonne): Rescue or Revaluation? - On the Resurgence of Blackamoors, Runaway Slaves and Mulatos in Post-Revolutionary Cuban Literature.
Meesha Nehru (Nottingham): Writers of the the future? The Centro de Formacion Literaria Onelio Jorge Cardoso

3.45-4.15
Cinema
Guy Baron (Nottingham): Postmodern. Post-feminist. Post-Marxist? The Cultural Logic of Late Marxism. Cuban cinema at the threshold of change. The case of Mujer transparente.
Glenda Mejía (RMIT, Melbourne): The Debate between machismo and class in three Cuban films

4.15-5.00 Final discussion

5.00 END OF CONFERENCE





 

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