The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University
Speakers: Gertrudis Rivalta; Juana Valdes; Elio Rodríguez; Alberto Lescay, Cuban artists Moderated by: Alejandro de la Fuente, Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute; Chair Cuba Studies Program, Harvard University; Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz, Tanner-Opperman Chair in Honor of Roy Sieber, Indiana University
Conversation with some of the Cuban artists featured on the exhibition El Pasado Mío / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art at The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of...
The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University
Inauguration of exhibition El Pasado Mío / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art
This exhibition proposes a new approach to Cuban art through a historical reconstruction built from and through the production of artists of African heritage. The exhibition provides a critical framework for deconstructing dominant narratives about Cuban art and tells stories that have been left out of Cuban art the canon. The exhibition incorporates key examples of art and artists who are taking on colonial history, identity, and slavery in their work...
Introduction: Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center; Laura Clérico, Independent Researcher, Argentine National Scientific and Technical Council (CONICET), Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Buenos Aires, and Honorary...
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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...
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...
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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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)
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...
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
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...
In the field of health practices enlivened by the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, the emergence of variants of the SarsCov-2 virus, the lack of sufficient vaccines and the uncontrolled infection in Brazil, the response to the pandemic has depended on the participation and production of researchers from various areas and the involvement of community leaders in the social response. The objective of this international seminar, the...
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Speaker: Tania Bruguera, artist and activist Moderated by: Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Director, Cultural Agents Initiative; Karina Ascunce González, Harvard College '22; Co-President of Cuban-American Undergraduate Students Association (CAUSA); Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert...
