Contemporary Art from Cuba:
Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island

Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

Department of Languages and Literatures
Center for Latin American Studies
Hispanic Research Center
ASU Art Museum - with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation

anuncian el simposio interdisciplinario / announce the Interdisciplinary Symposium


Cuba: más allá del mito y de la Revolución
Cuba: Myth, Revolution, and Beyond Arizona State University

ASU Art Museum - Multipurpose Room
Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2, 1998


Conferencia Magistral / Key Note Address

Enrico Santí, Georgetown University
"Cuba, arte y milenio"

Adriana Méndez, University of Iowa
"Epifanía en el paisaje: el mito de la isla en femenino"

Antonio Eligio Fernández, TONEL, artista independiente
"Del arte cubano en movimiento: 1980s-1990s"


Presentaciones / Presentations

Alberto Acereda, Arizona State University
"El proyecto modernista en la poesía cubana"

Jose F. Buscaglia-Salgado, SUNY Buffalo
"La Grecia de nuestra decadencia apuntes sobre la poesía de Eugenio Rodríguez"

Madeline Cámara, San Diego State University
"La mujer cubana: entre la realidad y la utopía"

Flora González, Emerson College
"Art and the Necessity of Memory: Spoken Softly with Mama by María Magdalena Campos-Pons"

Robin A. Greeley, University of Connecticut
"The Retelling of Africa: Aspects of Negotiation: Contemporary 'Afro-Cuban' Cultural Identity"

Claudia Hasanbegovic, The Hague, Holland
"Violencia doméstica"

Lisa Pino, Arizona State University
"Prostitution and Other Dilemmas of Havana's Plight: A Perspective Through Iyer Pico's Cuba and the Night

Barbara Riess, Arizona State University
"Narrativa femenina cubana de la revolución"

Ana Serra, George Washington University
"Pablo Armando Fernández's Los niños se despiden: Deconstructing Identity Toward the Revolutionary Utopia"

Juana Suárez, Arizona State University
"Para vestir la calle de mariposas: una mirada inicial a los trasvestis de la Guinera"


For More Information Contact:

Research Symposium on Cuban Culture
Dept. of Languages & Literatures
Box 870202
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tempe, Arizona 85287-0202
480.965.6281

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