Events

    2020 Sep 18

    Seeing Things as They Are: Annotating African in Cuban Art

    12:00pm to 2:00pm


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Speaker: Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz, 2020-2021 Mark Claster Mamolen Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute and the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University

    The lecture will cover a global debate on Western representations of...

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    2020 Sep 17

    CHC's El efecto Mariel Series - Before, During, and After: The Exile Community Responds: Solidarity and Stigmatization

    11:00am


    This event is virtual, to register click here.

    Speakers: Siro del Castillo, Human Rights Advocate and Community Leader on Immigrant Issues; Danielle Clealand, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latino Studies, University of Texas at Austin; Monika Gosin, PhD, Associate Professor...

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    2020 Aug 13

    CHC Mariel Webinar Series - The Boatlift Unfolds: Perspectives from both sides of the Florida Straits

    11:00am


    This event is virtual and a portion will be presented in Spanish. To register, please click here.

    Join us for the second in our webinar series addressing the antecedents, unfolding, and aftermath of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift. In this program, panelists will offer unique perspectives on the unfolding...

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    2020 May 20

    Elections 2020: Implications For US-Cuba Relations

    1:00pm to 2:30pm

    Location: 

    Virtual

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    Speakers: Dr. Margaret E. Crahan, Columbia University; Prof. Philip Brenner, American University; Prof. William Leogrande, American University

    Moderator: Prof. Arturo Lopez-Levy, Holy Names University

    The Columbia University Cuba Program of the Institute of Latin American...

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    2020 May 01

    The Cuban Economy in the Context of COVID-19

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Zoom Webinar

    The recording of this event can be found here

    Speaker: Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh

    Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics; Professor of African and African American Studies; Chair, Cuba...

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    2020 Feb 28

    CANCELED: The Resurgence of the Right: Evaluating the impact of the Trump policies on the opinion towards Cuba and its government within the Cuban diaspora of South Florida

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Room S-216, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Speaker: Guillermo J. Grenier, Professor of Sociology and Chair in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University

    Moderator: Alejandro de la Fuente, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History; Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University

    The work presents the results of the most recent Cuba Poll, (November 2018) and compares the details with the opinions compiled by the research...

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    2019 Oct 04

    Music Workshop / Síntesis: Una visión de la herencia musical afro-cubana

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Library Theater in McKinlock Hall (Leverett House) 25 Mill Street, Cambridge MA 02138
    Image of Sintesis

    Síntesis is one of the emblematic ensembles of contemporary Cuban music, due to the richness, variety and conceptual structure of their sonic style. Sintesis music pioneered the fusion of Afro-Cuban musical traditions with contemporary jazz and rock in the late 1970s. They are among the...

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    2019 May 23

    Cuba y los nuevos desafíos del sector privado, en el marco de las actuales transformaciones de la nación

    (All day)

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Harvard University, pre-LASA 2019 Conference

    La iniciativa privada constituye una bisoña experiencia en la Cuba actual. Aun cuando persisten un gran número de limitaciones legales, económicas y políticas para su desarrollo, muchos cubanos han decidido apostar por la creación de un negocio propio. Con el desarrollo del sector privado en los últimos años, se ha percibido un aumento de su peso en la economía nacional y su rol como actor social.

    El sector vive un nuevo periodo de cambios, las regulaciones que rigen su funcionamiento han sufrido modificaciones, con...

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    2019 Apr 12

    Puente Musical: Celebrating Chucho Valdés

    8:00pm to 10:00pm

    Location: 

    Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street

    Harvard University Jazz Master in Residence Chucho Valdés in concert with Harvard Jazz Bands

    A concert featuring pianist Chucho Valdés, the 2019 Harvard University Jazz Master in Residence, with the Harvard Jazz Bands. The Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés is one of the most influential figures in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Latin Grammy Award Winner. Born into a family of musicians in Quivicán, Havana province, Cuba, Dionisio Jesús "Chucho" Valdés Rodríguez, has distilled elements of the...

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