Cuba Forum - 50 years of Revolution: Nottingham, September 2009
Cuba Research Forum: Annual Conference 2009, Part II
7-8 September 2009
50 Years of the Revolution
Thinking and Rethinking the Cuban Revolution: Politics, Ideology and Economics
Willoughby Hall,
University Park,
University of Nottingham
At this conference held at the beginning of September, IISC staff members Stephen Wilkinson and Emily Morris both presented papers. A report on the conference by Professor Michael Chanan of Roehampton University can be found on his blog here:
http://putneydebater.wordpress.com/category/cuba/
Programme
Monday 7 September
11.00- 11.30 Refreshments
11.30-1.00 Rethinking the origins and the 1960s
Steve Cushion (LondonMet): Guantanamo: a new look at working class resistance to Batista
Chris Hull (Nottingham): Our Diplomats in Havana: Anglo-Cuban Relations, 1959-64
Jorge Catalá-Carrasco (Nottingham): Cuban Comics: From Suspicion to ¿Recognition?
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Rethinking the Revolution’s Economics
Helen Yaffe (UCL): Forwards to the old Great Debate
Julia Wright (Ryton Organic Garden): Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba
Emily Morris (LondonMet): Comparing Cuba's special period with other great crashes of modern economic history.
3.30-4.00 Refreshments
4.00- 5.30 Rethinking the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
Liz Dore (Southampton): Ambiguities of Race: Cubans’ Memories of the Revolution
Mervyn Bain (Aberdeen): Havana and Moscow in the Era of Rectification
Fabienne Viala (Sorbonne Nouvelle): The 70s Rhetoric of Culture in Cuba
7.00-8.00 Dinner
Tuesday 8 September
9.30-11.0 Rethinking the Revolution’s values
Anne Luke (Wolverhampton): A quiet majority? Youth and Young People in the Political Culture of the Cuban Revolution
Susan Ramsay (Manchester): Well-being and the Care Arrangements of Older People in Havana
Steve Ludlam (Sheffield): A Rectification by any other name: Cuba’s strategy to revive socialist values
11.00-11.30 Refreshments
11.30-1.00 Ideology, Politics and Culture
Luis Pérez-Simón (Sorbonne): Utopic Hallucinations: Ideology, Censorship and the New Man in Cuba
Jan Fairley (Edinburgh): Cuba at 50: shifts in the Cuban music scene and cultural policy from 1959 to 2009
Kris Juncker (James Madison/Nottingham): Cuba, Deconstructed: Postmodern Responses to Architectural Collapse
1.00-.2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Cuba and the World: Rethinking the External Profile
John Kirk (Dalhousie): 10 Years after Hurricane Mitch: The Impact of Cuban Medical Internationalism in Central America
Diana Raby (Liverpool): The relevance of Cuba to the new radical processes in Latin America.
Kepa Artaraz (Brighton): Cuba's contribution to Latin American solidarity networks: ALBA and Bolivia's national development plan 2005-9.
3.30-4.00 Refreshments
4.00-5.30 Politics and Leadership
Lukas Port (Nottingham): Cuba - Beyond Ideological Bias
Steve Wilkinson (LondonMet): Che, Fidel and leadership in Cuba: A psychoanalytical approach
Antoni Kapcia (Nottingham): The ‘significant others’ of Fidel: looking beyond Fidelcentrism to the Revolution’s leadership
5.30: Close of conference
For further details and application forms to attend please write to Professor Kapcia:
