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January

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, CBC 153

The Center for International Business Education and Research, together with CRI and other FIU units, will sponsor a one-day series of lectures by FIU faculty and graduate students on art, literature, and national identity for K-12 teachers.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Grahama Center (GC), Room 150

The collector and independent researcher Emilio Cueto will offer a visual tour of the many cities outside of Cuba that remember the apostle of Cuban independence in their publications, streets, statues, schools, philately, music, events, organizations, and commercial products.

February

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Green Library (GL), Room 220

This lecture seeks to imagine postrevolutionary Cuba through a reconstruction of the history of some of the categories in the Western political tradition that the Revolution used to legitimize itself. Dr. Jorge Brioso focuses on the concept of the commons, of great prominence in the revolutionary discourse through categories such as common property, common space, and communism.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Graham Center

CRI continues its tradition of convening scholars and other persons interested in the study of Cuba and Cuban Americans by announcing its Fourteenth Conference. The main conference theme will be "The Latinization of Florida: Economic, Political, and Cultural Repercussions." The event will also examine multiple aspects of the history, economy, politics, culture, society, and creative expression of Cuba and its diaspora.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Graham Center, Room 243

The FIU Exile Studies Program, together with CRI and other cosponsors, invite you to a lecture by Dr. Vanessa García as part of the lecture series "Giving Voice to Exile: The Privileges and Burdens of Inheritance."

March

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Graham Center Ballrooms

Organized by the FIU Department of Modern Languages and cosponsored by the Green School, CRI, and other units, this two-day meeting willl gather internationally known academics and dramatists to discuss literary, visual, sound, and food practices in Latin America and Spain, primarily during the 19th and 20th centuries.

April

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Green Library (GL), Room 220

Dr. Amaya Carricaburu will examine the stylistic and geographic diversity of this popular musical expression, as well as its evolution during the early 20th century through the analysis of various vinyl records and LPs available at FIU's Díaz-Ayala Collection.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Green Library (GL), Room 220

This lecture will trace the pastoral tradition, centered on the symbolic figure of the shepherd, from ancient Greece and the Bible to the Spanish Golden Age, and then to the Spanish American colonies, reaching Cuba's most important ecclesiastical composer, Esteban Salas. It will also analyze the development of the pastoral Spanish village carol from late medieval Spain to the colonies. Finally, it will illustrate how this tradition contributes to the formation of a national type, the "guajiro."

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Graham Center, Room 150

Written and directed by Eliecer Jiménez Almeida, this film documentary focuses on the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, through the voices of its protagonists, the members of the 2506 Brigade. The film explores the military training, the battle in Cuban beaches, the humilitations of imprisonment, and the liberation of most of the combatants.

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Venue:FIU Modesto Maidique Campus, DM 442A

Roger Masson and Alejandra Franganillo conducted a study of micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MIPYMES) in Cuba through interviews of business owners from various sectors to shed a light on their experiences and reflect on policy proposals that empower their work on the island. This project aims to provide qualitative data, with a narrative focus that uses interviews and observational data to document the hard work of MIPYMES owners in Cuba and how they view the future.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Green Library (GL), Room 220

This lecture by Katie Coldiron focuses on "Cuban exile intellectual activism" from the late 1970s until the early 1990s. By "Cuban exile intellectual activism," the author refers to a type of activism that developed through the convergence of newer and older Cuban exile intellectuals and recently released political prisoners at the end of the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Venue:Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, FL

This revised and updated fifth edition of "Immigrant America: A Portrait," by Drs. Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut, provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various forms of their incorporation within US society.

May

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Graham Center, Room 150

Directed by Craig Miller, "Cuba My Soul" explores the heart and soul of Cuban music. Filmed over two eventful concerts in Havana, the director invited many of Cuba's finest musicians to share their passion on and off stage. The result is an immersive documentary on Cuba's rich, untapped musical heritage at a time of great sociopolitical changes.

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Venue:Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, FL

In this fascinating analysis of political discourse in Cuban culture, Dr. María de los Ángeles Torres focuses on how the concept of time has been employed by different political projects. While the past and future are often evoked in rhetoric associated with authoritarianism, Torres argues, an emphasis on human actions in the present is important for a more democratic political culture, and she searches over a century of Cuban thought for this perspective.

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Venue:Green Library, Room 220

On the occasion of the celebration of O Día das Letras Galegas, the musicologist Dr. Estíbaliz Santamaría Cadaval will make a poetic-musical journey between Galicia and Cuba, through the figure of Rosalía de Castro. This will be the first year that Florida International University will commemorate this event.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Green Library (GL), Room 220

In this multimedia presentation, Dr. Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés will share and discuss excerpts of two video works based on her family's experience as Cuban immigrants and their first-generation children in urban New Jersey and later in South Florida. The videos are drawn from photos and home movies, including digitized Super 8 and VHS footage from the 1960s to the 1990s.

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Green Library (GL), Room 220

Historian Bonnie A. Lucero shares a piece of her new book project, "The Land of the Skinny Cow," which interrogates a long-accepted Cold War narrative against historical evidence from archives across Cuba, Spain, the United States, and FIU's very own Leví Marrero Collection. Come find out more about the deep roots of Cuban beef woes through a riveting account of chronic shortages, government expropriation of cattle, seller's strikes, clandestine slaughter, and black market activity before 1959.

June

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Venue:Frost Art Museum, 10975 SW 17th St, Miami, FL 33199

This is the first solo museum exhibition of Cuban artist Juan Carlos Alom, who is recognized for his exploration and documentation of Afro-Cuban culture, displacement, and the environment. Developed in collaboration with the artist, this exhibition will be organized thematically in sections devoted to earth, air, fire, and water.

August

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Venue:Green Library, Room 220

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.

September

Book Presentation | Cuban Fusion: The Transnational Cuban Alternative Music Scene

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Venue:Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, FL

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.

Panel Discussion | Art, Censorship, and Resistance in Cuba

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Graham Center, Room 150

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.

Lecture | Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina Sout

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Venue:The Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach

Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits, made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of "latinidad" in the Sunshine State. Historian Sarah McNamara tells the story of immigrant and U.S.-born Latinas/os who organized strikes, marched against fascism, and criticized U.S. foreign policy.

October

Book Presentation | Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know (Second Edition)

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Venue:Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, FL

In the second edition of "Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®," Dr. Jorge Duany unravels the fascinating and turbulent past and present of an island that is politically and economically tied to the United States, yet culturally distinct. The book provides a succinct, authoritative introduction to the island's rich history, culture, politics, and economy, as well as its diaspora.

Panel Discussion | Afro-Cuban Culture: Contributions to Music, Religion, and Art

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Venue:Frost Art Museum, 10975 SW 17th St, Miami, FL 33199

The Frost Art Museum will hold an exhibition by Cuban artist Juan Carlos Alom, who has focused on Afro-Cuban culture in his photographic work. This panel discussion will bring together several experts to examine the major role of Afro-descendants in the development of Cuban music, religion, and art.

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Venue:FIU College of Law

The theme of the 2024 ASCE conference will be "Cuba in Crisis." While the organizers are specifically looking for papers that assess the current economic situation and suggested reforms, they also welcome 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.

Book Presentation | Murder at Biltmore Way

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Venue:Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, FL

Join us for a panel discussion to celebrate the upcoming release of the English translation of "Crimen en Biltmore Way" / "Murder at Biltmore Way," by Dr. Uva de Aragón. The panel will bring together the author of the detective novel and the translators, Drs. Jeffrey Barnett and Kathleen Bulger-Barnett, to comment on her work as well as read passages from their translation.

November

Film Screening and Discussion | Children of the Diaspora

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Graham Center, Room 150

Directed by Lunes Oña, "Children of the Diaspora" is a documentary that delves into the persistence of Cuban culture in recent generations of the diaspora. Several of the participants have never visited the island or have a vague memory. The documentary explores the experience of living between two cultures, the Cuban home and the host country. The interviewees were born or raised in Miami, New Jersey, Canada, Angola, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Spain, among others.