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.
We're glad to share the news that Richard Denis successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in history and has been appointed a postdoctoral fellow in the History Department for the academic year 2024-25. His dissertation explores the evolving relationship between the Cuban state and key sectors of the national commercial press on the island during the late republican era (1940-1958).
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.
Conflicts between the Cuban government and intellectuals intensified with the passing of Decree 349 in April 2018, a law restricting the freedom of expression of artists and requiring them to obtain permission from the government for performing in both public and private spaces. This panel will gather several threatened Cuban scholars who have received a Mellon fellowship at FIU, to share and discuss their experiences with state repression and persecution on the Island.
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