Program(Provisional)

Thursday 23rd November

6.30 - 6.45pm	Registration
6.45pm	Welcome: Dr Marko Pavlyshyn, Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Opening Remarks: Dr Stewart King Exhibition Opening: Dr Sarah McDonald
7.00 - 8.00	Cocktail Event
8.30pm	Dinner at The European, 161 Spring Street, Melbourne (If you wish to attend the dinner please r.s.v.p to sarah.mcdonald@arts.monash.edu.au by Friday 17 November)

9.30	Keynote Address John Brotherton
10.30-11.00	Morning Tea
11.00-1.00	Carlos Ux (La Trobe University) Donde hay un blanco no hay un negro. De la literatura ultrarrevolucionaria a la posrevolucionaria. Vek Lewis (Monash University) (Dis)simulations: Orlando Rojas' cinema of camuflaje and transformismo as metaphor in Las Noches de Constantinopla Guy Baron (Nottingham University) The illusion of equality: Machismo and Cuban Cinema of the Revolution David Wakeham (La Trobe University) The Abject in Pedro Juan Gutirrez
1.00-2.00	Lunch
2.00-3.30	Roberto Gonzlez Casanovas (The University of Auckland) The Cuban War of 1898 in the Critique of Globalisation of the 1990s: Divergent Discourses of National Revolution and Imperial Expansion Marivic Wyndham (UTS) and Peter Read(ANU) Havana: where only memory is solid.
3.30-4.00	Afternoon tea
4.00- 5.00	Adrian Hearn (UTS) Cuba's Engagement with China: Some Domestic and Regional Implications Barry Carr (La Trobe University) International Tourism to Cuba and the Special Period: Continuities and Ruptures in Cuban Tourist History
5.00-5.30	Short Documentary Film Sexualidad: un derecho a la vida with an introduction by Vek Lewis