Events
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January
Workshop | Teaching a Second Language Using Art
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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.
Lecture | Tracing the Footprints of José Martí around the World
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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
Lecture | Reinventing the Common in Order to Imagine the Cuba to Come
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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.
Fourteenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies
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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.
POSTPONED Lecture | "We're Not Nostalgia Junkies, We're Futurists": A New View of the Cuban-American
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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
Conference | Literature and the Senses: Art, Food, and Theater
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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
Lecture | The Punto Cubano: A Study of Its Discography during the Period 1906–1958
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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.
Lecture | Cuban Soundscapes and Oral Tradition: Toward a Creole Pastoral
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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."
Film Screening and Discussion | Veritas
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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.
Lecture | The Voice of the MIPYMES: A Reflection of the New Non-State Actors in the Cuban Economy
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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.
Lecture | The Court of International Opinion: Cuban Exile Intellectual Activism
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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.
Book Presentation | Immigrant America: A Portrait
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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
Film Screening and Discussion | Cuba My Soul
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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.
Book Presentation | Democracy and Time in Cuban Thought: The Elusive Present
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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.
Viernes de Musicalia | Rosalía de Castro: "Sing to You I Will, Galicia, in the Galician Language"
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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.
Lecture | Cultivating a Cuban American Story
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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.
Lecture | The Land of the Skinny Cow: Beef Politics in Cuba before the Revolution
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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.
Lecture | Writing in "Clave": Cuban Popular Music Poetics
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Venue: | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Green Library (GL), Room 220 |
Placing in dialogue poets and composers, Dr. Charlie Hankin will suggest that the African-inspired, asymmetric 3-2 or 2-3 rhythmic key known as "clave" also constituted an important organizing principle for Cuban writing. Dr. Hankin aims to explore how what he calls "writing in clave" shapes a poetics of Caribbean popular music that disrupts distinctions between disrupts distinctions between elite and popular culture and intervenes in debates about race and nation.
June
Art Exhibition | Juan Carlos Alom: Entre los elementos / Between the Elements
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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.
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.
October
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.
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.