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Abel Sierra Madero 25/06/08

Sexuality and the Cuban Nation

Abel Sierra Madero

On Wednesday June 25, 2008 award-winning Cuban ethnologist Abel Sierra Madero gave a talk on his work at London Metropolitan Univeristy. Around 30 poeple attended.

Abel Sierra Madero, (b. Matanzas 1976) is an essayist and researcher who has lectured widely in Mexico and the United States. He currently serves as a researcher at the Fernando Ortiz Foundation in Havana where he is also editor of its Journal Catauro: The Cuban Review of Anthropology.

Abel is a member of UNEAC the Cuban authors and writers union. In 2006 he won the Casa de las Americas prize in for his book: Del otro lado del espejo. La sexualidad en la construcción de la nación cubana (From the other side of the mirror. Sexuality and and the Construction of the Cuban Nation)

The seminer he gave at Londonmet was entitled:

Sexual Otherness in the construction of the Cuban nation"

The seminar will explore the zones of otherness in the Cuban nation and reflect upon the means by which the Cuban sexual subject has been constructed. It will also discuss Cuban institutions and their methods of regulating and controlling sexuality in Cuba from the 19th Century to the present day.

"La otredad sexual en la construccion de la nacion cubana".

Este conferencia explorara otras zonas de la nación cubana y se reflexionara acerca de los modos en que se ha construido el sujeto cubano sexuado y las instituciones y dispositivos de regulacion y control de la sexualidad en Cuba, desde el siglo XIX, hasta la actualidad.

The seminar was facilitated with the kind support of Roehampton University

This event was recorded and a DVD is available. To obtain a copy please send a cheque for £5.00p made payable to 'London Metropolitan University', a return address and a note saying that you want the film of this event to the following address:

IISC
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry St.,
London
EC3 2NY

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