Digital Commons and Divides (New Directions in Cuban Studies 2023)

Digital Commons and Divides (New Directions in Cuban Studies 2023)
Thursday, October 19, 2023

• Welcome Remarks – Amanda T. Moreno, Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair and Director, Cuban Heritage Collection
  
  
• Revendedores Online: Digital Exchange, Shifting Sociality, and Aspirational Autonomy in Contemporary Cuba
  – Miranda García | University of Michigan
  
  
• The Tropical City: Silicon Valley Imagines Havana’s Urban Landscape After the Obama Boom
  – Maile Speakman | University of Oregon
  
  
• José Jasán Nieves, El Toque (Moderator/Commenter)
  

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries hosted the fifth edition of New Directions in Cuban Studies, a multidisciplinary conference to disseminate new work on Cuba and its global diaspora by advanced graduate students and emerging/early-career scholars. The conference was held in person at the Kislak Center at the University of Miami on October 18 – 20, 2023.

The conference theme is Contours of Crisis: Major Challenges for Cuba Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. The title references tumultuous recent events on the island—e.g., COVID-19, a severe economic decline, new tensions in U.S.-Cuban relations, and historic levels of citizen protest and outmigration—as well as the need for critical perspectives on other major issues of concern in Cuban society.

The Goizueta Foundation generously funds this program with additional support from the Amigos of the Cuban Heritage Collection, the Morrison Fund for Cuban Studies at the University of Miami, the Program in Cuban Studies at the University of Miami, the Institute for the Advanced Study of the Americas at the University of Miami, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington.