At a recent symposium held at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, scholars and diplomats examined the first year of closer relations between the U. S. and Cuba. The U. S.-Cuban Relations Symposium was held on Nov. 9. It consisted of two events; a talk entitled “U.S.-Cuban Relations: A View from Havana,” given by Carlos Alzugaray […]
Come join us at this lecture by Kia Lily Caldwell!
Diasporic Imaginations: The Political Mobilization of the Syrian-Lebanese Community in Brazil and the Syrian Civil War
Our colleague, Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, has made a film! After decades of feeling overlooked by the literary establishment, in April 2014, the Brazilian poet Chacal is invited by Harvard to spend a week in the US, where he presents his art as a poet and performer. He engages in a revision of memory, linked to the Mimeograph Generation, Marginal […]
Join us for a lecture by Dr. Carlos Blanco, Senior Research Associate at Boston University and Consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank Wednesday, November 4th from 6 to 7 PM Pardee School of Global Studies, 152 Bay State Rd., Room 220 Dr. Blanco has had a distinguished career in the academy, public policy, and journalism. He […]
On Friday, November 6, our colleague Linda Heywood will speak on “Rethinking the 1975 African-Cuban War” at NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Forty years ago, the Cuban government launched Operation Carlota, a large-scale military intervention in Angola while this African country was on the eve of its independence from Portugal. The Cuban […]