Thirteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies
Thirteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies CUBA BEFORE AND AFTER J11: POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS Virtual Meeting February 3–4, 2022 CRI continues its tradition of convening scholars and […]
Film Screening and Discussion: Caidije, the Extended Reality
Zoom link: https://fiu.zoom.us/j/96330164782?pwd=UEx6MGJ1a2FsNWRyUXpMZTZoRW0zZz09
Panel Discussion | Cultural Roots: Memory, Presence, and Actor’s Drama
Three academics discuss the African rituals and other magico-religious manifestations that have been a constant aesthetic resource when representing Afro-Cubans in the theater: Drs. Jeniffer Fernández, Ivonne López Arenal, and […]
The Body Never Forgets: una velada con Abel Sierra Madero y Lillian Guerra
Books & Books y FIU's Cuba Research Institute presentan… una velado con Dr. Abel Sierra Madero en conversación con Lillian Guerra The Body Never Forgets: Forced Labor, the New Man, […]
Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels: A Haven in Havana
Virtual film screening of award winning documentary that tells little known story of Jewish refugees who escaped the horrors of Nazi-occupied Europe and found a safe haven in Cuba. Link: […]
FIU Cuban Research Institute: Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels: A Haven in Havana
Virtual film screening of award winning documentary that tells little known story of Jewish refugees who escaped the horrors of Nazi-occupied Europe and found a safe haven in Cuba. Link: […]
Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels – A Haven in Havana
Virtual film screening of award winning documentary that tells little known story of Jewish refugees who escaped the horrors of Nazi-occupied Europe and found a safe haven in Cuba. Link: […]
Film Screening and Discussion | Ruston Academy: From Dreams to Reality
The Ruston Academy was a private bilingual American school founded in Havana, Cuba, in 1920. It was forced to close in 1961, after the nationalization of all private schools on […]
Virtual Book Presentation | The Body Never Forgets: Forced Labor, the New Man, and Memory in Cuba
Dr. Abel Sierra Madero's new work reconstructs the systemic and structural character of forced labor and, more broadly, state violence in Cuba. The book focuses on the Military Units to […]
The Search for Connection: Cuban-American Ties to the Island in Challenging Times
This Briefings on Cuba by Ruth Behar examines a timely issue, the renewed but difficult ties between Cubans on and off the island during the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Behar explores […]
The Search for Connection: Cuban-American Ties to the Island in Challenging Times
This Briefings on Cuba by Ruth Behar examines a timely issue, the renewed but difficult ties between Cubans on and off the island during the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Behar explores […]
Escape from Cuba: An Afternoon with Eloy L. Nuñez and Ernest G. Vendrell
Books & Books and FIU's Cuban Research Institute present… An Afternoon with Eloy L. Nuñez and Renest G. Vendrell Escape from Cuba: Personal Accounts of Those Who Fled Castro's Regime […]
U.S. Merchants and the Foundation of the Cuban-based Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1790-1820
By the mid-eighteenth century, the Cuban elite set the goal of emulating the highly productive colonial plantation economies in neighboring Jamaica, Barbados, and Saint Domingue. As Cuban planters and merchants […]
Rhythms of Revolution: A Cold War History of Cuban-Chilean Cultural Exchange and Political Transformation
“Rhythms of Revolution,” is a sociocultural history of Latin American radical cultural politics, as experienced through music, from the Cuban Revolution of 1959 until the defeat of revolutionary-left horizons in […]
Deporting the Sacred: The Circulation of Abakua Visual and Material Worlds across the Late Spanish Empire (1874-1898)
In Caribbeanist and Latin Americanist scholarship, Africa represents a site of origin for people and cultures trafficked to the Americas. My dissertation complicates this story. I explore their movement in […]
The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy’s Thirty-Second Annual Meeting
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE CUBAN ECONOMY (ASCE) THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING Cuba – What is Happening? Plus, Cuba and the Environment September 15-17, 2022 Cuba is convulsing through its […]