New Books in Cuban Studies: Featuring Paloma Duong and Jennifer L. Lambe

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New Books in Cuban Studies

Featuring Paloma Duong, Ph.D., Author, "Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes After the End of History" and Jennifer L. Lambe, Ph.D., Author, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" with disscusant Walfrido Dorta Sanchez, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish Studies, Susquehanna University.

Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 2 p.m. (EST)

Join us for a discussion with Dr. Paloma Duong and Dr. Jennifer L. Lambe, as we celebrate the publication of their recent books that explore various facets of Cuban history, including politics, culture, media, and more.

Each author gives a short presentation followed by commentary from Dr. Walfrido Dorta Sanchez and a question and answer session with the audience.

Please note that portions of this event will be conducted in Spanish.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Dr. Paloma Duong is associate professor of Latin American studies and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of "Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes After the End of History" (University of Texas Press, 2024), a book-length study of Cuba’s changing mediascape and an inquiry on the postsocialist condition and its contexts. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Art Margins, and Cuban Counterpoints: Public Scholarship about a Changing Cuba. Learn more »

Dr. Jennifer L. Lambe is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at Brown University. She is the author of "Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History" (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) and "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (University of North Carolina Press, 2024). Together with Michael Bustamante, she is also the co-editor of "The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980" (Duke University Press, 2019). Lambe was the recipient of a Goizueta Dissertation Fellowship at the Cuban Heritage Collection in 2011–2012. Learn more »

ABOUT THE DISCUSSANT
Dr. Walfrido Dorta Sanchez is an associate professor of Spanish studies at Susquehanna University. His research and teaching interests focus on 20th and 21st century Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Latin American and Caribbean cinema, ecocriticism, visual and media studies, and critical and political theory. He was the recipient of a Goizueta Graduate Fellowship in 2013–2014. Learn more »

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