Panel: Cuba on my browser

Classified Information: Advertising and Secrecy in Cuban Underground e-Commerce Adrian Lopez-Denis, University of Delaware Relative to the size of the population, the island has one of the lowest numbers of Internet users and mobile phone subscribers in the region. Some anecdotic evidence suggests, however, that for the first time in decades, young men and women from Havana share with their most globalized counterparts many of the same cultural references and consumer ideals. This presentation is an attempt to map out such a referential universe through a combination of in-depth interviews...

Panel: Departures and destinations of Tania Bruguera´s art

Acclaimed visual artist Tania Bruguera talks about her work.  Introduced by Rafael Rojas (Princeton University). Panel discussion with Professors Gabriela Nouzeilles, Ruben Gallo and Rachel Price. To see the video, follow this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vlgv7pygm646y7p/Beyond%20The%20Hyphen%20-Tania%20Bruguera.mp4?dl=...

Panel: Impossible Features of Identity in Contemporary Music, Literature and the Visual Arts

Beyond the hyphen: Transnational and Alternative CubanidadesEva Silot Bravo, University of Miami My paper examines the circulation of cultural narratives in diasporic music networks and among some authors of the Novísimos generation in Cuba resulting from the economic crisis of the early nineties to the present. I argue that the 1990s Transnational Alternative refers to aesthetic and generational scenes that straddle cultural fields like music and literature resulting in “in-between” spaces of creativity in which narratives about the Cuban nation and cubanidad are reconfigured....