Thursday, September 26, 2019
Location: Luce Hall, Room 203
8:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 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
10:45am – 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, Yale University
Cuba between URSS and China. A note about the scientific connections in the 1960s
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm – 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?
4.00 pm Closing reception