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    Cruzando las Américas Arte e ideas en movimiento (1500-1800)

    Wed Jul 19 (All day) to Fri Jul 21 (All day)


    This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here.

    In an attempt to move our discipline beyond Eurocentric perspectives, this conference explores connections that artworks express from within the American territories: from California to Aracuaní (North/South), from Acapulco to Río de Janiero (West/East), and from Potosí to Buenos Aires (High/Low). We propose the concept of “crossing” as the analytical framework, aiming to demonstrate not only intra-American hybridity, but also the...

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    Las dinámicas de la crisis multidimensional y duradera de Cuba

    1:00pm to 2:30pm


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    Panelistas: Mayra Espina, Doctora en Ciencias Sociológicas, Profesora e Investigador del Centro de Investigaciones Psicológicas y Sociológicas (CIPS), La Habana; Carmelo Mesa Lago, Catedrático de Servicio Distinguido Emérito en Economía y Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Pittsburgh...

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    Cora Montgomery, the filibuster: Between Cuban Annexationism and U.S Expansionism

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Virtual event

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    Speaker: Daylet Domínguez, Wilbur Martin Visiting Scholar at Harvard University; Associate Professor at the Spanish and Portuguese Department of UC Berkeley
    Discussant: Marial Iglesias Utset, Visiting Research Scholar at the Afro-Latin American Research...

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    Religion and Civil Society in Contemporary Cuba

    12:00pm to 1:30pm


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    Speakers; Margaret E. Crahan, Senior Research Scholar and Director of the Cuba Program at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University; Maha Marouan, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University; Associate Professor, Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African Studies Program, The Pennsylvania State University; Mabel Cuesta...

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    La crisis social vista por los retos del cuidado y envejecimiento en Cuba

    1:00pm to 2:30pm


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    Esta será la primera sesión del Seminario de Estudios de Cuba Harvard-Sorbonne Nouvelle. Este será un seminario transnacional sobre Cuba que fomentará intercambios productivos y rigurosos entre diferentes enfoques de los mismos temas.

    Panelistas: Blandine Destremau, Socióloga y Directora de Investigación, Centro Nacional de Investigación Científica de Francia (CNRS); Juan Carlos Albizu-...

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    El Derecho en Cuba y su relación con el sistema político, de 2019 a 2022

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S030 Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room

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    Speaker: Julio Antonio Fernandez Estrada, Cuban lawyer and historian; Professor of Law at the University of Havana (1999-2016); Visiting Scholar, Scholars Risk Program at Harvard University (2022-2023)
    Moderated by: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Frances Hagopian, Jorge...

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    ALARI Seminar Series with Ofelia Lopez: "After the Skin: Representing Race in Cuban Literature (1882-1991)"

    12:00pm to 2:00pm


    This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here.

    This presentation explores literary representations of racial mixture in the Cuban literary production from the colonial era and the Special Period in Time of Pace (1990), a period of severe economic crisis resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Through critical examination of the national...

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    Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

    4:00pm to 5:30pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Speaker: Stephen Kaplan, Associate Professor of Political Science and Economic Affairs, George Washington University

    This book explores how China’s state-led capitalism affects national level governance. China, as the world’s largest saver, has more than doubled its overseas banking presence since the 2008 global financial crisis...

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    Book Presentation: Ediciones El Puente and the Gaps of the Cuban Literary Canon - Post-revolutionary cultural dynamics

    12:00pm


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    Author: María Isabel Alfonso, Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at St. Joseph’s College 
    Discussant: César A. Salgado, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Graduate Adviser in the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin
    Moderated by: Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams...

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    ALARI Seminar Series with Nohora Arrieta: Poéticas amargas: estéticas y políticas de la plantación de azúcar en Brasil y el Caribe (1990-2018)

    12:00pm to 2:00pm


    This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish.  This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Speaker: Nohora Arrieta Fernandez, 2020-2021 ALARI Research Associate; PhD Candidate in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University; CLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion fellow (2020-2021)

    La plantación de azúcar ha sido una...

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    Rethinking Malaria in the Context of COVID–19: Malaria Governance, Integrated Service Delivery, Training & Capacity Building for Malaria

    Repeats every day until Wed Sep 29 2021 .
    9:00am to 11:30am


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    In keeping with a longstanding academic tradition, multidisciplinary perspectives from diverse stakeholders and discussants will be offered in a neutral and inclusive learning environment during this 2-day, public webinar. Q&A will be available during portions of the proceedings for broader engagement. Together, we will identify and discuss actions—including some of...

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    Guantánamo, Cuba and the Arts

    12:00pm


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    Speaker: Esther Whitfield, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies at Brown University
    Moderated by: Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics; Professor of African and African American Studies, Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Chair, Cuba Studies Program

    This paper proposes...

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    COVID-19 Vaccine development and deployment: The Cuban case

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Speaker: Dr. Vicente Vérez Bencomo, Director of the Finlay Institute of Vaccines
    Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

    Dr. Vicente Verez Bencomo is a scientist with a nationally and internationally recognized trajectory. He is a Chemical Engineer from the “Lomonosov” Institute in Moscow, State Doctor from the University of Orleans (France, 1983), Doctor Honoris causa from the Canadian University of Quebec in Montreal and Member of...

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