Cuba Studies

2023 Jul 19

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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Announcing the 2023-2024 cohort of DRCLAS Visiting Scholars and Fellows

April 4, 2023

Three historians, two political scientists, an engineer, an anthropologist, an economist and a gender studies scholar make up the 2023-24 group of Visiting Scholars at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). The interdisciplinary cohort of nine scholars hail from universities in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Peru and the United States.

The DRCLAS Visiting Scholars and Fellows Program seeks to strengthen ties between Harvard and other global institutions by hosting distinguished academics and...

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2023 Apr 20

Las dinámicas de la crisis multidimensional y duradera de Cuba

1:00pm to 2:30pm


For a recording of this event in Spanish, click here. For a recording in English, click here.

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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2023 Apr 19

Migration Cluster Seminar: "Majority Minority: The Pursuit of a Diverse Democracy" with Justin Gest

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S-050

Speaker: Justin Gest, Associate Professor of Policy and Government, George Mason University

How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of many countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until now, most of our knowledge about large-scale responses to demographic change has been based on studies of...

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2023 Apr 07

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

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Virtual event

For a recording of this event in English, click here. For a recording of this event in Spanish, click here.

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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2023 Mar 31

Religion and Civil Society in Contemporary Cuba

12:00pm to 1:30pm


For a recording of this event, click here.

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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2023 Feb 09

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

1:00pm to 2:30pm


For a recording of this event, click here.

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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