Between The Eastern Bloc and the Global South. Reframing Research on Cuba

Organizer:
José M. Faraldo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid / z.Z. Fellow am ZZF
Thomas Lindenberger, Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung (HAIT)
Annette Vowinckel, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF)

The Workshop is supported by the Researchgroup „HistGlobal“

Workshop language: English

This exploratory workshop wants to explore Cuba through Eastern European eyes, applying the research experience on the European communism to a socialism that is still active in its most structural aspects. By presenting some new projects, we also want to think about where historical research on communist Cuba can go in the global context. The seminar is aimed at all those interested in the history of Cuba, the Caribbean, state socialisms in general and exchanges between East, West and Global South.

Programm

10:00
Presentation: Annette Vowinckel (ZZF)

10:30-12:30
Discussant: Ellen Spielmann (HAIT)

Pablo Martínez Sánchez (Moscow):
Housing in the era of revolutions: the cases of Moscow (1918-1935) and La Havana (1960-1980) (online)

Gabriela Martinez Betancourt (San Juan de Puerto Rico):
The transculturality of Puerto Rican cinema and poster: the DIVEDCO and Cuba in the 1950s

Javier Pinilla Palomino (Madrid):
Religious resistance against Franco and Fidel. Spain and Cuba in the 1960s

15:00-17:00
Discussant: Thomas Lindenberger (HAIT)

Diego Ruiz Panadero (Madrid):
Impact and influence of the Cuban Revolution on the Communist Party of Spain (1959-1968)

Claudia Martínez Hernández (Vienna):
The framing of the Cuban personnel circulation within the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) by the organizations of the Communist Party of Cuba, 1972-1990 (online)

María A. Gutiérrez Bascón (Helsinki):
Postsocialist Assemblages: Urban Redevelopment, Spatial Justice and the Right to the City in Havana (online)

Conclusions: José M. Faraldo (UCM / ZZF)