Speaker: Miguel Fraga, First Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Cuba

Graduate students from the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard and Afro-Colombian graduate students from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst invite peers to the first annual Afro-Latin American Graduate Student Conference. The signature themes of the conference are intersectionality; activism in academia; and race, racism, and blackness in art and literature. The conference will examine the dialogues and discourses that inform black political forms, expressive culture, aesthetic ideologies, transnationalism, transculturation, and ethno-racial identity formations in the Read more about Dialogues and Challenges in the Study of the African Diaspora in Latin America

Graduate students from the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard and Afro-Colombian graduate students from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst invite peers to the first annual Afro-Latin American Graduate Student Conference. The signature themes of the conference are intersectionality; activism in academia; and race, racism, and blackness in art and literature. The conference will examine the dialogues and discourses that inform black political forms, expressive culture, aesthetic ideologies, transnationalism, transculturation, and ethno-racial identity formations in the Read more about Dialogues and Challenges in the Study of the African Diaspora in Latin America

Speakers: Marial Iglesias Utset: Translating Cultures: Lydia Cabrera’s Liminal Worlds; Erwan Dianteill: The French Translation of El Monte (2003): Genesis, Difficulties and Reception of a Cuban Classic; Patricia González Gómez-Cásseres, and Ivor Miller: Translating Lydia Cabrera’s La lengua sagrada de los ñáñigos.

Lydia Cabrera’s two decades of ethnographic research among Afro-Cuban communities produced an extraordinary body of publications on Afro Caribbean religions and folklore. Nevertheless, her Read more about LYDIA CABRERA IN TRANSLATION

Join the Harvard Ed Portal for an incredible evening with some of today’s greatest players and singers in the Afro-Cuban bàtá tradition! Afro-Cuban bàtá masters from across the country join Harvard's own Director of Jazz Bands Yosvany Terry in a concert and celebration of Cuban tradition. You won't be able to keep from dancing to this percussive, dynamic music! This concert is co-sponsored by the Cuba Studies Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; the Harvard University Center for African Studies; the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center; the Read more about Afro-Cuban Musical Traditions: Lukumí Bàtá Concert

Join the Harvard Ed Portal for a free screening of Rumba Clave Blen Blen Blen, a compelling, fast-moving film about an exciting genre of music and dance! Highlighting the musical styling of rumba in New York City, the film follows ordinary people and famous musicians through the dances, drums, and clave rhythm of the genre. Learn more about the vibrant Afro-Cuban culture of the city and rumba's African and Andalusian origins. The screening will be followed by a conversation with its director Aristides Falcon-Paradi.

For more information and registration please click  Read more about Rumba Clave Blen Blen Blen: Film Screening + Discussion

This talk will be in Spanish.

Dr. Eduardo Torres Cuevas is the Director of Cuba’s National Library José Martí. He is also a prolific Read more about La Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí y su Sistema de Bibliotecas Públicas: de los Inciertos Orígenes al Mundo Actual de las Tecnologías (1901-2016)

Speaker: Yosvany Terry, Lecturer on Music and Director of Jazz Ensembles

**Please note, this seminar will be held in CGIS South, S-216**

Speaker: Jorge I. Dominguez, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Department of Government, Harvard University

Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University

Fidel Castro died in November 2016. Raúl Castro, 86-years-old in June 2017, has said he will step down as Cuba’s president in February 2018. Read more about Tuesday Seminar Series: Post-Fidel, Post-Raúl: Key Underlying Themes for Cuba’s New Future

Speakers: Tania Bruguera, installation and performance artist; Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study, Harvard University, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University