tag:cri.fiu.edu,2011:434Cuban Research Institute: News Feed2024-03-13T17:38:08-04:00Cuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, Florida International Universityhttp://cmshared.fiu.edu/fiu-edu/_assets/images/fiu-logo.gifEnterprise Web Services, Casgroup CMSnews:60298Lecture on the Cuban and Puerto Rican DiasporasCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2024-03-13T00:00:00-04:002024-03-13T00:00:00-04:00Join the UCF Puerto Rico Research Hub for a discussion with Dr. Jorge Duany, Director of the Cuban Research Institute at FIU, to discuss "The Cuban and Puerto Rican Diasporas in Florida." The presentation will examine the main demographic, socioeconomic, cultural, and political patterns of these two groups from the Hispanic Caribbean, highlighting their similarities and differences.news:60294New Article | Is the Workforce Prepared to Provide Services for Latino Family Dementia Caregivers?Cuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2024-03-12T00:00:00-04:002024-03-12T00:00:00-04:00CRI Visiting Scholar Elaine Acosta González has coauthored a research article describing the caregiving process for Latino patients with Alzheimer's and related dementias from the perspective of caregivers and service providers to reveal service areas in need of improvement. Providers and caregivers were interviewed through the Miami-Dade County Aging Network.news:60290Interview: The Intertwined Histories of Two ArchipelagosCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2024-03-07T00:00:00-05:002024-03-07T00:00:00-05:00Dr. Jorge Duany, director of the Cuban Research Institute, discusses his latest coedited book, "Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture," with Dr. Lillian Guerra.news:60262New Occasional Paper on Ethnicity and Race in MiamiCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2024-02-06T00:00:00-05:002024-02-06T00:00:00-05:00In this essay, Dr. Alejandro Portes and Ryan Bagwell highlight contrasts and disparities in various neighborhoods within Miami-Dade County, focusing on their ethnic and racial composition, as well as their socioeconomic profiles.news:60257CRI in the News | "'There Was Nothing': Ailing Economy Fueling Record Exodus of Cubans"Cuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2024-01-29T00:00:00-05:002024-01-29T00:00:00-05:00The US Customs and Border Protection agency said it had registered more than 153,000 irregular entries from Cuba in 2023. Another 67,000 entered legally under a humanitarian parole program, introduced a year ago by President Joe Biden's administration. Together with the 313,506 who left in 2022, this mass movement represents "the largest number of Cuban migrants recorded in two years since the beginning of the post-revolutionary Cuban exodus in 1959," said Jorge Duany, director of CRI.news:60256New Occasional Paper on Cuba's Demographic and Socioeconomic CrisisCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2024-01-22T00:00:00-05:002024-01-22T00:00:00-05:00In this essay, Drs. Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos Espiñeira document and discuss how changing
political and socioeconomic circumstances, together with misguided and ill-conceived economic reform attempts within the politico-economic system governing Cuba, have contributed to often overlooked demographic and social dislocations, emigration being but the most visible consequence.news:59891Call for Applications | Fellowship Program for Threatened Cuban ScholarsCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2024-01-08T00:00:00-05:002024-01-08T00:00:00-05:00The Mellon Foundation has awarded a $750,000 grant to FIU's Cuban Research Institute to establish a three-year fellowship program for threatened Cuban scholars. The program will help artists, writers, scholars, and journalists from the island to continue their work in safety. It will substantially broaden and deepen current discussions about intellectual freedom—including freedom of thought and expression—in Cuba, the United States, and worldwide.news:59016Final Program | Fourteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban American StudiesCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2024-01-04T00:00:00-05:002024-01-04T00:00:00-05:00The final version of the program for our biennial conference on "The Latinization of Florida: Economic, Political, and Cultural Repercussions," to be held on February 15–16, 2024, is available here. To register for the conference, please visit https://14th-CRI-Conference.eventbrite.comnews:58965Call for Applications | Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research InitiativeCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-12-11T00:00:00-05:002023-12-11T00:00:00-05:00We invite applications from pre-candidacy doctoral students at FIU for the in-person Summer Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a one-week intensive training on comparative Latino Humanities Studies research methodologies and theoretical frameworks to be held on July 7–13, 2024. This is an all-expense-paid program with the possibility of a one-year pre-doctoral research fellowship as an extra year of funding to any existing assistantship/fellowship funding commitment.news:46130Preliminary Program | 14th Conference on Cuban and Cuban American StudiesCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-11-30T00:00:00-05:002023-11-30T00:00:00-05:00More than 110 scholars and graduate students will present papers in our next interdisciplinary and international meeting on Cuba and its diaspora.news:60202New Course on Cuban Literature and CultureCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-11-06T00:00:00-05:002023-11-06T00:00:00-05:00Dr. Delia García, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages, will be teaching "Cuban Voices: Exploring Contemporary Literature and Cinema" (SPW 4930-U01). The course covers a wide range of topics, including the works of renowned Cuban authors, the historical context of Cuba, and the influence of Cuban culture on the global stage.news:60203Announcing the Plenary Session Speakers for the 2024 CRI ConferenceCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-11-06T00:00:00-05:002023-11-06T00:00:00-05:00We're excited to announce the names of the four distinguished participants in the plenary session on the central theme of "The Latinization of Florida: Economic, Political, and Cultural Repercussions."news:60187CRI in the News | The Family Code in Cuba: A Year LaterCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-11-01T00:00:00-04:002023-11-01T00:00:00-04:00Dr. Elaine Acosta González, a Visiting Scholar at CRI, highlighted that the legislation generated one of the largest citizens' mobilizations in Cuba and the emergence of new social actors in recent decades.news:60177Book Launching | 1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the PacificCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-10-18T00:00:00-04:002023-10-18T00:00:00-04:00Drs. Taína Caragol and Kate Clarke Lemay will present their new book on the War of 1898 at the Coral Gables Museum. The book is based on an ongoing exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery documenting U.S.expansionism and its impact on Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, and Hawaii.news:60170CRI in the News | Biden's Measures to Promote Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in CubaCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-10-09T00:00:00-04:002023-10-09T00:00:00-04:00"El Estornudo," an independent Cuban digital journal, reports on the imminent announcement of a series of measures designed to support the private sector on the island.news:58804CRI Conference Will Be Dedicated to Dr. Uva de AragónCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-09-23T00:00:00-04:002023-09-23T00:00:00-04:00We're pleased to announce that the Fourteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies, to be held in Miami on February 15–16, 2022, will be dedicated to Dr. Uva de Aragón, in recognition of her literary and cultural contributions to Cuban and Cuban American studies.news:60141The Cuban Exodus since 1959Cuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-09-17T00:00:00-04:002023-09-17T00:00:00-04:00The Miami-Dade Public Library System, Aventura branch, will sponsor a public lecture by Dr. Jorge Duany about the growing diversity and complexity of the Cuban diaspora and the continued arrivals from the island, who have shaped and transformed the demographic and cultural landscape of Miami over the last six decades. This event is part of the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.news:59695CRI Welcomes New Expert on Cuban HistoryCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-09-14T00:00:00-04:002023-09-14T00:00:00-04:00We're happy to announce that Dr. Guadalupe García has accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Department of History at Florida International University. Dr. García specializes in the history of cities and colonialism in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on free and enslaved blacks in 19th-century Havana.news:60138CRI in the News | Jetblue, Delta, and United Will Cut Down Flights to CubaCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-09-07T00:00:00-04:002023-09-07T00:00:00-04:00"It's possible that current economic conditions on the island and in the United States, as well as the increase in Cuban emigration over the past two years, are reducing travel by Cuban Americans to the island, but it's difficult to verify the impact of those factors on the current and future flow of visitors from the United States to Cuba," said Jorge Duany, a migration expert and director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University.news:58569Call for Panels and Papers | 14th Conference on Cuban and Cuban American StudiesCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-08-18T00:00:00-04:002023-08-18T00:00:00-04:00The Cuban Research Institute continues its tradition of convening scholars and other persons interested in the study of Cuba and Cuban Americans. The main theme of the 2024 conference will be "The Latinization of Florida: Economic, Political, and Cultural Repercussions."news:60121Congratulations to dLOC's New Outreach Program Manager!Cuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-08-16T00:00:00-04:002023-08-16T00:00:00-04:00We're happy to share the announcement that Katie Coldiron, a CRI Faculty Affiliate and Ph.D. student in History, has been named the new Outreach Program Manager for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC). In her new capacity, Katie will provide leadership in outreach and engagement with Digital Library of the Caribbean collections, programming, and scholarly use of collection, including material related to Cuba and its diaspora.news:60117Podcast | Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary ApproachesCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-08-14T00:00:00-04:002023-08-14T00:00:00-04:00In addition to sharing a similar early history, the cultures of Cuba and Puerto Rico are closely intertwined, including their linguistic, literary, food, musical, and religious practices. In a podcast for New Book Networks, Professor Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera interviews Drs. Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany about their recently edited volume on Cuba and Puerto Rico.news:60107German Visiting Scholar to Study Cuban Transnationalism in MiamiCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-08-01T00:00:00-04:002023-08-01T00:00:00-04:00The Cuban Research Institute has appointed Myriell Fusser as a Visiting Scholar during the fall and spring semesters of 2023–24. Myriell is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Sociology of Philipps University-Marburg in Germany. She is currently working on transnational migration and memory in the case of the Cuban diaspora.news:60106Final Program | ASCE ConferenceCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-07-31T00:00:00-04:002023-07-31T00:00:00-04:00View the last version of the program for the conference on "Cuba's Economic Crisis: Domestic, External, and Social Policy Challenges," organized by the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy and cosponsored by the Cuban Research Institute. The three-day meeting will take place at the FIU College of Law on August 4–6, 2023.news:60099Symposium | 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and RevisionsCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-07-17T00:00:00-04:002023-07-17T00:00:00-04:00The National Portrait Gallery will hold a symposium on September 8–9, convening over forty scholars and artists from the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, Hawai‘i, Cuba, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. The symposium accompanies a major exhibition on the War of 1898 (the Spanish-Cuban-American-Filipino War), the Joint Congressional Resolution to annex Hawai‘i, and the Philippine-American War.news:60096Two Years after J11, the Search for Another Cuba ContinuesCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-07-12T00:00:00-04:002023-07-12T00:00:00-04:00A new art exhibition titled "We're Searching for Another Cuba" opened in a Wynwood gallery in Miami, including videos and photographs by Anyelo Troya. The exhibition commemorates the massive protests against the government in Cuba on July 11 and 12, 2021.news:60093Preliminary Program | 2023 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban EconomyCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-07-02T00:00:00-04:002023-07-02T00:00:00-04:00ASCE's Annual Conference will be held on August 4-6 at the FIU College of Law, cosponsored by CRI. The preliminary program features sessions on the current economic situation and prospects; external debt; other external issues; currency markets; agriculture; food availability and cost of living; immigration; governance and legal issues; social vulnerability; and Cuba-Venezuela relations, among others.news:60091CRI in the News | Why Is Cuba Now Applying Migratory Measures Long Awaited by the Diaspora?Cuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-07-01T00:00:00-04:002023-07-01T00:00:00-04:00The launching this July 1st of long-awaited immigration measures by the Cuban diaspora, including the reduction in the price of passports and the end of expensive extensions, is a "desperate" response from the Cuban government to the deep crisis that the country is experiencing, experts say.news:60087CRI in the News | Cuban Research Institute Panel Outlines Community’s Historic Impact on MiamiCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-06-25T00:00:00-04:002023-06-25T00:00:00-04:00PantherNOW reviews our recent webinar, cosponsored by the Center for International Business Education and Research and the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, featuring speakers Alejandro Portes and Sergio Díaz-Briquets discussing how the entrepreneurship of Cuban migrants fundamentally shaped the economic, social, and cultural outlook of Miami.news:60085CRI in the News | "The Eternal Night" Premiered in MiamiCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-06-21T00:00:00-04:002023-06-21T00:00:00-04:00Film critic Alejandro Ríos reviews the film directed by Coco Fusco and dramatizing the personal experiences of poet Néstor Díaz de Villegas and actor José Manuel (Chema) Castiñeira as political prisoners in Cuba.news:60083CRI in the News | Linguists Have Identified a New English Dialect That's Emerging in South FloridaCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-06-19T00:00:00-04:002023-06-19T00:00:00-04:00CRI Faculty Affiliate Phillip M. Carter writes about a language variety that came about through sustained contact between Spanish and English speakers, particularly when speakers translated directly from Spanish. This form of language contact involving Spanish and English has been going on in Miami since the end of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.news:60076CRI in the News | How Important Is the Hispanic Vote?Cuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-05-23T00:00:00-04:002023-05-23T00:00:00-04:00Experts like Sebastián Arcos with the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University explain that, in 2014, only 53% of Cuban Americans were registered Republicans. It was the lowest majority ever seen, but things have changed.news:60064CRI in the News | Cubans Win Mellon Fellowships from FIU for Threatened Artists and AcademicsCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-05-07T00:00:00-04:002023-05-07T00:00:00-04:00The four winners were poet Katherine Bisquet, anthropologist Marialina García Ramos, art historian Omara Ruiz Urquiola, and artist Lía Villares. Each will be able to pursue their individual projects while in residence at FIU during the academic year 2023–24.news:60062CRI Spring 2023 NewsletterCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-05-02T00:00:00-04:002023-05-02T00:00:00-04:00During the spring semester, the Cuban Research Institute sponsored or cosponsored twenty-nine public events, including panel discussions, lectures, book presentations, film screenings, and an art exhibition. We're planning many upcoming events to advance Cuban and Cuban American studies.news:60060Announcing the Recipients of the Mellon Fellowships for Threatened Cuban ScholarsCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-05-01T00:00:00-04:002023-05-01T00:00:00-04:00CRI's fellowship program will help artists, artists, academics, and journalists displaced from the island to continue their work at FIU. It will substantially broaden and deepen current discussions about intellectual freedom—including freedom of thought and expression—in Cuba, the United States, and worldwide.news:60035National Portrait Gallery Presents Major Exhibit on 1898Cuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-04-10T00:00:00-04:002023-04-10T00:00:00-04:00The first major Smithsonian exhibition to examine the U.S. intervention in Cuba and U.S. expansion into Guam, Hawaiʻi, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines will open on April 28, 2023. Through the lens of portraiture and visual culture, this exhibition of more than 90 objects presents the perspectives of those who advocated for overseas expansion, those who opposed it, and those who tried to have agency over their political futures after the War of 1898.news:47779Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Díaz-Ayala Library Travel GrantsCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-04-05T00:00:00-04:002023-04-05T00:00:00-04:00The Cuban Research Institute, the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, and the FIU Libraries are pleased to announce the winners of this year's competition. The grant recipients will spend a week consulting FIU's extensive collections on Cuba and its diaspora, and give a lecture on their research topics.news:60012Legalis: A New Tool to Access Cuban Legal NormsCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-03-24T00:00:00-04:002023-03-24T00:00:00-04:00The online Cuban journal "El Toque" has just launched a new digital tool that provides access to Cuban legislation and legal information in general. The service includes a search engine of legal norms published in Cuba's "Gaceta Oficial," as well as a glossary of legal terms, a FAQ section, and an assistance chat for consultations.news:60010Call for Papers and Panel Proposals | Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)Cuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-03-21T00:00:00-04:002023-03-21T00:00:00-04:00ASCE is issuing a call for papers and panel proposals to be presented at its 2023 Annual Conference, which will be held in Miami, at the Modesto Maidique Campus of Florida International University (FIU), August 4-6. 2023. While the focus will be on economic reforms, ASCE also welcomes Cuba-focused papers dealing with the political or social economy, economic history, lessons from other countries, international commercial relations, demography, labor market issues, and the diaspora.news:59949Briefing on Cuba | Cuba's Electric Grid: Challenges and OpportunitiesCuban Research Institutehttp://cri.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Cuban Research Institute2023-03-15T00:00:00-04:002023-03-15T00:00:00-04:00Energy industry expert Jorge R. Piñón documents the multiple challenges faced by Cuba's National Electric System (SEN), including an obsolete and collapsing infrastructure, as well as the lack of maintenance capital and the high contaminating effects of its current operation. During the summer of 2022, the power grid was on the threshold of total collapse. Piñón advocates a decentralized model of economic planning and decision making to rebuild Cuba's electrical system.