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CRI Conference Will Be Dedicated to Dr. Uva de Aragón
We're pleased to announce that the Fourteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies, to be held in Miami on February 15–16, 2022, will be dedicated to Dr. Uva de Aragón, in recognition of her literary and cultural contributions to Cuban and Cuban American studies.
The Cuban Exodus since 1959
The Miami-Dade Public Library System, Aventura branch, will sponsor a public lecture by Dr. Jorge Duany about the growing diversity and complexity of the Cuban diaspora and the continued arrivals from the island, who have shaped and transformed the demographic and cultural landscape of Miami over the last six decades. This event is part of the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
CRI Welcomes New Expert on Cuban History
We're happy to announce that Dr. Guadalupe García has accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Department of History at Florida International University. Dr. García specializes in the history of cities and colonialism in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on free and enslaved blacks in 19th-century Havana.
CRI in the News | Jetblue, Delta, and United Will Cut Down Flights to Cuba
"It's possible that current economic conditions on the island and in the United States, as well as the increase in Cuban emigration over the past two years, are reducing travel by Cuban Americans to the island, but it's difficult to verify the impact of those factors on the current and future flow of visitors from the United States to Cuba," said Jorge Duany, a migration expert and director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University.
Call for Panels and Papers | 14th Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies
The Cuban Research Institute continues its tradition of convening scholars and other persons interested in the study of Cuba and Cuban Americans. The main theme of the 2024 conference will be "The Latinization of Florida: Economic, Political, and Cultural Repercussions."
Congratulations to dLOC's New Outreach Program Manager!
We're happy to share the announcement that Katie Coldiron, a CRI Faculty Affiliate and Ph.D. student in History, has been named the new Outreach Program Manager for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC). In her new capacity, Katie will provide leadership in outreach and engagement with Digital Library of the Caribbean collections, programming, and scholarly use of collection, including material related to Cuba and its diaspora.
Podcast | Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches
In addition to sharing a similar early history, the cultures of Cuba and Puerto Rico are closely intertwined, including their linguistic, literary, food, musical, and religious practices. In a podcast for New Book Networks, Professor Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera interviews Drs. Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany about their recently edited volume on Cuba and Puerto Rico.
German Visiting Scholar to Study Cuban Transnationalism in Miami
The Cuban Research Institute has appointed Myriell Fusser as a Visiting Scholar during the fall and spring semesters of 2023–24. Myriell is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Sociology of Philipps University-Marburg in Germany. She is currently working on transnational migration and memory in the case of the Cuban diaspora.
Final Program | ASCE Conference
View the last version of the program for the conference on "Cuba's Economic Crisis: Domestic, External, and Social Policy Challenges," organized by the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy and cosponsored by the Cuban Research Institute. The three-day meeting will take place at the FIU College of Law on August 4–6, 2023.
Symposium | 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions
The National Portrait Gallery will hold a symposium on September 8–9, convening over forty scholars and artists from the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, Hawai‘i, Cuba, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. The symposium accompanies a major exhibition on the War of 1898 (the Spanish-Cuban-American-Filipino War), the Joint Congressional Resolution to annex Hawai‘i, and the Philippine-American War.
