Books & Books, FIU's Cuban Research Institute, and Miami Book Fair present… An Evening with Melissa Fuster Caribeños at the Table: How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City (University of North Carolina Press, $29.94) Monday, November 1, 7 PM ET Please note this is a free event! However, if you would like […]

Visiting Cuban scholar at Florida International University, Justo Planas, will discuss the origin and impact of Frenchman Frédéric Mialhe’s rendering of Havana that defined European views of the nineteenth century Havana.   In addition to analyzing May’s plagiarism, this presentation by Dr. Justo Planas will examine his work as a critical reinterpretation of Frédéric Miahle's […]

Books & Books, FIU's Cuban Research Institute and Miami Book Fair present… An Evening with Elizabeth B. Schwall  Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba (University of North Carolina Press, $41.94)  Tuesday, November 9, 7 PM ET Please note this is a free event! However, if you would like to make a contribution to […]

This volume, edited by Dr. Elaine Acosta González, helps to understand the challenges facing Cuban society in terms of care and well-being, through an interdisciplinary and diverse perspective regarding different theoretical and methodological approaches on the subject. The book covers various groups that require care (the elderly, children, and people with disabilities), to show some […]

The San Isidro Movement (MSI, for its Spanish initials) has often been pictured as a new artistic and political movement in Cuba. This lecture by Dr. Marie Laure Geoffray will present a tentative genealogy of the MSI and then focus on what's actually new as far as this movement. https://fiu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xt4U0BuiSpWaRlSQw3TmtA

Presentation by Dr. Manuel A. Gómez, FIU College of Law, on: The exodus that occurred during the first few years of the Cuban revolution brought to the U.S. more than 250 thousand people, mostly from the upper and middle strata of Cuban society. This early wave of immigrants included many lawyers who initially were under […]

What do Cuban men and women do to make ends meet in a country where their salary is insufficient to satisfy their needs? Drawing on eighteen interviews in Havana, Matanzas, and Sagua la Grande, this presentation investigates the strategies used by ordinary Cubans to gain their livelihoods and survive until the end of the month. […]