Patterns and Trials in Everyday Life (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
  
  
• Income and Tactics in the Practice of Daily Life in Havana
  – Miguel Díaz Cervantes | New School for Social Research
  
  
• Artefacto etnográfico de relaciones, conocimientos, y memorias: la libreta de abastecimiento desde La Habana, Cuba
  – Adrian Fundora | Universidad Iberoamericana (México)
  
  
• Religiones cubanas de antecedente africano durante el proceso de reavivamiento religioso reciente
  – Arisbel Lopez Andraca | University of Texas-Austin
  
  
• Waiting as a Way of Life: The Affective Time of the Wait Line in Post-Special Period Cuban Culture
  – Luke Urbain | University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
  
• Hanna Garth, Ph.D., Princeton University (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.