The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries will host the fifth "New Directions in Cuban Studies" conference in the Kislak Center at the University of Miami on October 18–20, 2023. A platform for critical thinking and the presentation of innovative scholarship, the multidisciplinary conference will disseminate new work on Cuba and its global diaspora by advanced graduate students and emerging and early-career scholars.

This year's 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 United States-Cuba 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 conference keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, associate professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Cultural Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and inaugural Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished Presidential Fellow at the Cuban Heritage Collection.

The Goizueta Foundation generously funds this program with additional support from the Amigos of the Cuban Heritage Collection, the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas at the University of Miami, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

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2023 New Directions in Cuban Studies