Oct 20
Woven in Olive Green: The Fabric of Cuban Revolution and its Discontent
María Antonia Cabrera Arús, Ph.D. in Sociology (New School for Social Research), studies the impact of fashion and domestic material culture on regime stability and legitimation, especially in the Caribbean, during the Cold War years. Her research has been published in the peer-reviewed journals Kamchatka, Theory & Society (forthcoming 2017), and Cuban Studies (forthcoming 2018). Cabrera Arús is the author of the New Challenge Award for Social Innovation winning project Cuba Material, a virtual archive of Cuban material culture from the Cold War era, and co-curator of the exhibitions Pioneros: Building Cuba’s Socialist Childhood in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design (September 17 – October 1, 2015) and Cuban Finotype and Its Materiality, at Cabinet magazine (October 21, 2015).