Events

    2023 Feb 09

    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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    2022 Nov 22

    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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    2022 Nov 16

    RFK Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies Lecture - Blacks in Nation Making: Brazil and Cuba c. 1790-1850

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    S-050, CGIS South

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    Speaker: Ronald Raminelli, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, DRCLAS & RLL
    Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages...

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    2022 Sep 20

    Discussion Panel El Pasado Mío / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University

    Limited Seating. Register here

    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,...

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    2022 Sep 16

    El Pasado Mío / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art

    6:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University

    Exhibition Opening El Pasado Mío / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art

    Please RSVP through the registration link.

    This exhibition proposes a new approach to Cuban art through a historical reconstruction built from and...

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    2022 Apr 05

    Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

    12:30pm


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    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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    2022 Mar 31

    A Conversation with Harvard University Jazz Master in Residence Gonzalo Rubalcaba

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Leverett Library Theater, 8 Mill St, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Gonzalo Rubalcaba, multi-Grammy© Winner, pianist and composer was already a young phenom with a budding career in his native Cuba when he was discovered by Dizzy Gillespie in 1985. Since, Piano & Keyboard Magazine selected him in 1999 as one of the great pianists of the 20th century, alongside figures such as Glenn Gould, Martha Argerich and Bill Evans; won two Grammys and two Latin Grammys, and established himself as a creative force in the jazz world.

    Yosvany Terry, Senior Lecturer on Music / Director of Jazz Bands, is an internationally...

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    2022 Feb 11

    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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    2021 Dec 01

    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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    2021 Nov 19

    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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    2021 Oct 15

    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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    2021 Sep 28

    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

    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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    2021 Sep 24

    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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