FRIDAY,
DEC. 9
6:00 pm: OPENING RECEPTION
6:30 pm: FILM SCREENING OF STEVE FAGIN's FILM "TROPICOLA"
Q&A session with filmmaker
8:30 pm: DINNER AND RECEPTION FOR PARTICIPANTS
SATURDAY,
DEC. 10
Location
for all panels: Deutz Conference Room. IOA complex, UCSD.
9:00-11:45.
PANEL 1: COMMODITY CULTURE
Esther Whitfield (Comparative Literature, Brown University). Truths
and Fictions. The Economics of Writing, 1994-1999
Cristina Venegas (Film Studies, UC-Santa Barbara). Filmmaking with Extranjeros
Ariana Hernandez-Reguant (Communication, UCSD). Revolutionary Dissonances:
On Radio Taino.
Ivor Miller (Africana Studies, Columbia College). Abakuá Rhythms
for Sale..
Kevin Delgado (Music, SDSU). Santeria as Spiritual Capital.
Discussant:
Dick Hebdige (Film Studies, UC-Santa Barbara)
11:45- 12:45. LUNCH
12:45-3:30. PANEL 2: CITIZENSHIP AND SUBJECTIVITY
Laurie Frederik (Anthropology, U Chicago). La Batalla for Cuban Identity:
Option Zero Theater.
Lillian Manzor (Literature, U. Miami). Theater in Two Shores.
Marc D. Perry (Anthropology and African American Studies, U Illinois).
Hip Hop and the Making of New Black Critical Difference
Lisa Maya Knauer (American Studies, U Mass, Darmouth). HAV/NY: Rumba,
translocality and publics
Denise Blum (Education, CSU-Fresno). Schooling Cuban Pioneers in the
ideals of Che: New meanings.
Discussant:
Emilio Bejel (Spanish, UC-Davis)
3:30-3:15. COFFEE BREAK
3:45-5:30. PANEL 3: ALL THAT DANCE! TWO VIDEOPRESENTATIONS.
Berta Jottar (Latino Studies, Williams Col). Rumbeando with the Iremes.
Central Park Rumba.
Jennifer Paz (QBA Media). I am Cuban, I am Popular The Musical Politics
of David Calzado and the Charanga Habanera.
SUNDAY, DEC. 11
Location
for all panels: Deutz Conference Room. IOA complex, UCSD.
8:30-11:00. PANEL 4. CONTEXTS OF EXPRESSION
Antonio Eligio Fernandez “Tonel” (Spanish, U Texas, Austin).
Dialogues on Pedro Alvarez
Ernesto Menéndez (Romance Languages, Duke U). Cold stridency:
Kitsch appropriations in Cuban art of the 1990s.
Jacqueline Loss (Comparative Literature, U Connecticut). Wandering in
Russian
Ana Maria Dopico (Comparative Literature, NYU). Dentro de la Fotografia,
Todo: Politics and the Imaginary of Photography in the Special Period.
Discussant:
Betti-Sue Hertz (SD Museum of Art)
11:00-12:15. ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION AND CLOSING REMARKS Can We
Speak of a Late Socialism a la Cubana?
