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July 20 - 22, 2017

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Welcome to the conference and our beautiful and venerable campus.

Santa Fe College is prepared for the intellectual explorations and understandings promised by the conference. Fifteen years ago we committed to internationalizing the college. Our expectations is that every student knows and develops an appreciation for different customs, religions and geographic regions of the world. That includes respect for human rights and the ability of individuals to decide their future. We want students to be eager to learn how the freedoms we cherish in our country can thrive on every continent and in every province, state, city and hamlet.

To broaden our students’ multinational perspectives, Santa Fe College partners and collaborates with institutions of higher education around the globe. Because of personal and professional relationships that we have cultivated, a door has opened to our closest neighbor to the south. Cuba is a vibrant society with highly educated and artistic people, a distinguished cultural heritage and strikingly beautiful land. We understand why Ernest Hemingway selected this great country for inspiration and a good life.

We encourage you to take time to explore all our college. You will find a community that values intellectual inquiry and embraces new ideas. We appreciate especially you being here and sharing your knowledge about Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hemingway and the richness of mind and ambiance that is Cuba.

Jackson N. Sasser President, Santa Fe College

Santa Fe College Hemingway: Between Key West and Cuba Thursday, July 20 8-9:30 a.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) Registration and Check-in (light breakfast) 9:30-10 a.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) Welcome and Opening Remarks 10:15-11:30 a.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) Masculinity, War and Veterans Rebecca Johnston, “Hemingway vs. The Flagler Railroad” Dennis B. Ledden, “Masculinity, Construction and Inner Strength in Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls” 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. LUNCH (On your own) Campus cafeteria or Coffee 101 at the SF Lawrence W. Tyree Library 1:15-2:30 p.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) Marriage and Extinction Timothy Christian, “Hemingway’s Marriage to Mary Welsh” Lisa Tyler, “Extinction, Genocide, and Atomic Anxiety: Storks in Hemingway’s Under Kilimanjaro” 2:45-4 p.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) Hemingway in Cuba Plenary Session Lisa Sisler, Dick Sisler and baseball in the Old Man and the Sea Gladys Rodriguez Ferrero, Larry Grimes, “Hemingway, Revolution and the Cuban Ethos”

Friday, July 21 8-9:00 a.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) Registration and check-in (light breakfast) 9:15-10:30 a.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) Economics and Religion in To Have and Have Not Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti, “Hemingway Depression-Era Tourism in Key West” Sean C. Hadley, “Reconciling Economics: Hemingway’s Catholicism in To Have and Have Not” 10:45-11:15 a.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) The Hemingway Letters Project Sandra Spanier 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) Nicholas Reynolds “Writer, Sailor, Soldier Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures 1935-1961” 12:30-1:45 p.m. LUNCH Hemingway’s 118th Birthday Celebration 2-3:15 p.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) Two Islands, Two Hemingways James H. Meredith, E. Stone Meredith and Gantt Meredith 3:30-4:15 p.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) To Have and Have Not Kirk Curnutt Reading To Have and Have Not

Saturday, July 22 9:15-10:30 a.m (Fine Arts Hall) Personal and Sociological Approaches in Hemingway’s Works Kim Moreland, “Hemingway’s Protagonists in To Have and Have Not and Islands in the Stream: Deaths in Action or Passive Suicides?”

Larry Smith, “My Journey with Hemingway” 10:45-11:30 a.m.

(Fine Arts Hall) Political Slants and Censorship Ericka Ghersi, “Hemingway’s Odyssey and The Old Man and the Sea and its connection with Afro-Cuban spirituality” Warren Parkin, “Dropping the F-Bomb and Mocking Censorship: Linguistic Code Switching, Scatological Discourse, and Euphemism in the Fiction of Ernest Hemingway” *Advisory: Portions of this panel contain strong language.

Noon (SF Lawrence W. Tyree Library) Donation of Ernest Hemingway photographs from the Villarreal Family Collection 1:30-2 p.m.

(SF Kika Silva Pla Planetarium) Hemingway’s Stars and Constellations (General admission tickets) Screening of short film and planetarium presentation by James Albury, director of the SF Kika Silva Pla Planetarium 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo (Free to presenters and registered panel attendees)

6-6:30 p.m.

(SF Kika Silva Pla Planetarium) Hemingway’s Stars and Constellations Invited guests, presenters and registered panel attendees only.

Screening of short film and the planetarium presentation by James Albury, director of the SF Kika Silva Pla Planetarium 7-8:15 p.m.

(Fine Arts Hall Auditorium) Valerie Hemingway Valerie Hemingway, author of Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways

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NINETY MILES It's early morning in Key West and I am sitting on the balcony at 1800 Atlantic looking at the ocean. To the west I can almost see Sand Key Light. Looking south I know I am looking toward Havana. It's odd to think that 55 years or so ago, I sat looking out from Key West toward a completely unknown island. When I was growing up, I heard stories from my grandparents and great aunts and uncles about Cuba and about Havana in particular. My grandmother on my father's side was born in Guanabaccoa, coming to Key West when she was very young.

In their day, ships and ferries came and went between Havana and Key West. It's not difficult to remember how mysterious Cuba seemed.

Growing up, my first person recollections were quite different. Through the trauma of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis and in spite of the affirming familiarity with the Cuban population here in Key West, Cuba always seemed so far away. I am sitting less than two hundred yards from where the westernmost tomahawk missiles were placed facing south, waiting for the apocalypse that never came.

As it turns out, the two islands were always closer than I could have ever imagined. As it turns out, the two islands, separated by politics were never separated by culture, outlook or temperament. The trees and plants and the smell of the food, the climate and the closeness with the sea, the uniquely Key West Cuban outlook on life, all of these things ran in parallel to the reality just ninety miles away.

It's as if two dancers had separated across the dance floor and taken too long to reunite. As I conjure the sound of the music in my mind, the image morphs into the beautiful Cuban women I have seen in Havana.

Their dancing is sultry and sensual and they seem to always be calling their partner to the embrace.

For the Cuban people, there is the irony and the sadness of having lived for so many years, separated by an argument they didn't start and powerless to overcome the geopolitical strategies of countries so close and yet so isolated from each other. The reality of the limitations of governments become painfully clear as I sit and look out toward Havana. Sixty

plus years of estrangement and sixty plus years of suffering all to prove a point or to accumulate wealth, or power or all of these things.

Now it's different and, for me, the personal stakes are higher. Now I can sit and recall, from personal experience, the two islands and the two realities. If I close my eyes now and listen to the sounds of the sea, the feel of the breeze and the smell of the next meal gently scenting the air, I can imagine myself in both places. This doesn't make the reality of the last 55 years easier; it makes it harder because it has become clear the 90 miles don't really exist. The 90 miles never existed. Only in the minds of ambitious and clever men can the 90 miles seem like an insurmountable journey. Only in the minds of clever and conniving men can the 90 miles seem so impassable.

Yes, it’s early morning in Key West and I am sitting on the balcony two hundred yards from where the beginning of the end of the world sat waiting in the shape of tomahawk missiles. I'm looking toward Havana, thankful those days are long gone, but keenly aware of the new challenges.

From where I sit, looking west past White Street Pier and the Martello Gallery, in my minds eye, I see Harry Morgan making his way in front of the Sand Key lighthouse, inboard Diesel engine humming. He has set a course approximately 201 degrees headed south southwest for Havana, 91 nautical miles in the distance. Between him and the Havana Harbor, lies a river of deep purple water. The slow, steady current will push him to the east, so he will make the necessary course corrections as he moves across the wide expanse of water. He is alone with his thoughts and the hum of the engine keeps him company. He is a reminder to me of how close Key West and Havana, Cuba used to be. He is a reminder to me of my own Grandfather who made his living from the sea.

Now Duval Street has started to stir, and I know the Malecon in Havana has also started to stir. Its clear to me now, in spite of the latest setback, the ninety miles no longer mean anything. Shared history means everything. A sixty plus year gap needs erasing. The courage to start needs fomenting. The hum of Harry Morgan's boat turns into a sultry Cuban

rumba and I can sense the beautiful Cuban dancers have turned and seen each other for the first time in a very long time. The young woman catches her partner's eye and she gazes at him longingly. The distance between them still seems wide, but the music is intoxicating and their movement brings the anticipation of the long overdue reunion, the long overdue embrace.

C. Michael Curry Associate Vice President for Advancement Santa Fe College

Key West and Havana photographs by Matt L. Stamey

Special Gratitude

Santa Fe College Jackson N. Sasser, President Charles W. Clemons, Sr., Vice President for Advancement C. Michael Curry, Associate Vice President for Advancement Teri McClellan, Assistant Vice President for Communications & Creative Services

- James C. Albury - Communications & Creative Services - Robert Fetterman-Ojha and the wonderful staff at the Fine Arts Hall - Melissa Flanagan - Vilma Fuentes - Kathryn Lehman - Susan Miller - Kathryn Russ - Marin Smillov - Dr. Larry Smith - Myra Sterrett and the amazing staff at the SF Lawrence W. Tyree Library - The Institute of Gainesville

Hemingway’s Stars and Constellations Directed by Richard Abella Written by C. Michael Curry and Raúl Villarreal Edited by Richard Abella and David Nicle Visual effect design by David Nicle Original soundtrack by Elio’s Quartet Produced by Santa Fe College and Santa Fe College Foundation Narrated by Raúl Villarreal Voice Characterization by Kate Keskinen and Kyle Novak Production Coordinator in Cuba, Landy Sánchez Still Photography and Key West Footage, Matt L. Stamey Ernest Hemingway photographs courtesy of the Villarreal Family Collection Production Assistant, Kathryn Russ Coordinator of Educational Media Studio, Steven Melendez (teleprompter operator and studio director) Media Services Specialist, Lex Shelton (Audio Engineer) Technician Staff Assistant, Sakib Hossain (Camera Operator 1) Technician Staff Assistant, Esther O’Hearn (Camera Operator 2)

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