China, Latin America, & Cuba: A Look from the Past to the Future
This conference is sponsored by the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) and the Council on East Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center at Yale.
Schedule:
8.30 – 9.00 am. Breakfast
9.00-10.45 am. China and Latin America. Opportunities and challenges
Ariel Armony, University of Pittsburgh
-How China’s National Ambitions Landed in Latin America. And What This Means for the United States.
Cui Shoujun, Renmin University
-Understanding China’s Foreign Policy toward Latin America
Adrian Hearn, University of Melbourne
-China and Cuba: Globalization from Below
10.45 – 11.00 am Coffee break
11.00 am – 12.30 pm. Cuba and China. From colonial times to the present
Kathleen Lopez, Rutgers State University of New Jersey
-A Transnational History of Chinese in Cuba
Mitzi Espinosa Luis, Min Chih Tang Association, Havana
-Sociedad Min Chih Tang de Cuba, pasado y presente de una sociedad centenaria (in Spanish)
Sergio Valdés Bernal, Cuban Academy of Language
-La presencia de China en la lengua y cultura de Cuba (in Spanish)
Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Visiting professor, the MacMillan Center at Yale University
-Cuba between URSS and China. A note about the scientific connections in the 1960s
12.30 – 2.00 pm. Lunch TBD
2.00 - 4.00 pm. China and Cuba today and after (a future) normalization of the Cuba - US relations
Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Brown University
-Hidden in Plain Sight: China in Cuba today
Carlos Alzugaray, Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC)
-Revisiting Cuba’s policy towards China: Opportunities and Challenges.
Arturo Lopez-Levy, Holy - Names University, Oakland California
-China, Cuba and the United States: Is there a triangular logic?
To register your attendance for this conference, please contact latin.america@yale.edu.