The Miami Herald reports that 10 percent of Cuba's population—more than a million people—left the island between 2022 and 2023. The numbers released by the Cuban government might be a "very conservative" estimate of the demographic crisis, CRI Director Jorge Duany said.
Denisse Delgado Vázquez has successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The topic of her dissertation was remittance behaviors among Cuban migrants in Miami and Madrid.
The Cuban Research Institute is pleased to announce that this year's recipient is Maria Zyla, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in history at FIU. She currently studies U.S.-Cuban cultural and transnational history, exploring gender, sexuality, and migration in the Havana-Harlem Renaissance of the early twentieth century, with a focus on music, literature, and art.
Join us for an illustrated lecture by dancer and choreographer Clarita Filgueiras on the historical development of rumba and guajira music in Cuba, as well as their intertwining with flamenco in Spain. Since the 1800s, Spain has embraced these back-and-forth rhythmic journeys, weaving them into the fabric of flamenco's soulful expression through song, instrument, and dance.
Surveying the impact of Cuba's economic crisis after the demise of the eastern socialist block, Dr. Eva Silot Bravo documents a relatively unexplored transnational network of collaborations among Cuban musicians who migrated to many different countries from the 1990s forward. The book's main argument is that in light of the 1990s crisis in Cuba, new transnational and alternative narratives emerged, resulting in creative "in-between" spaces that reflect a postsocialist aesthetic condition.
This lecture by Jonathan de Oleo Ramos will focus on "El Gagá," a religious cult practiced in the Dominican Republic and other Latin American countries. Many interpret "El Gagá" as an expression of folklore and Carnival, but it is more than that. It is a set of rural socio-religious relations linked to sugarcane mills on the island of Santo Domingo. It is also the synthesis of cults such as Voodoo, spiritualism, "Santería," and Catholicism.
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