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DRCLAS Announces 2017-2018 Visiting Scholars and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professors

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Each year, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) welcomes a group of academics who study Latin America for a semester or two of research and writing at Harvard. The Visiting Scholars hail from across the globe, and their fields...

The Harvard Cubans Documentary Premiere Shares Untold Story of US-Cuba Relations with a Harvard Twist

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By Julia Cohn '15 The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) hosted the world premiere of the documentary Los Cubanos de Harvard (The Harvard Cubans) last Monday, October 23, during the inaugural Worldwide Week at Harvard (October 22...

New Book on Cuban Economy Available for Pre-Order from Harvard University Press

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The latest book publication of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) in partnership with the Harvard University Press (HUP) covers the current economic situation in Cuba and will be released to the public next month. The book is...

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Announces 2022-23 Visiting Scholars and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professors

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The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies announces its 2022–2023 Visiting Scholars and Fellows and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professors, a group of scholars and practitioners who bring multidisciplinary perspectives to the challenges...

The Harvard Cubans: Film screening and Q&A

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[[{"fid":910041,"view_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"326","width":"960","style":"width:760px;height:258px;","alt":"Los Cubanos de Harvard","class":"media-element file-default"}}]] The Harvard Cubans ( Los Cubanos de Harvard ) is a...

125th Anniversary of the Cuban Teachers Expedition of 1900

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In celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Cuban Summer School, you are invited to join the Harvard University Archives, in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Hutchins Center for African and African American...

The Cuba Studies Program welcomes Visiting Fellows for the 2020-2021 Academic Year

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The Cuba Studies Program is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Petra Kuivala, Ambassador (ret.) Jeffrey DeLaurentis, and Professor Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz as Visiting Fellows at Harvard University. Their work is closely related to Cuba and they will...

Religion and Civil Society in Contemporary Cuba

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For a recording of this event, click here. Speakers; Margaret E. Crahan, Senior Research Scholar and Director of the Cuba Program at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University; Maha Marouan, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars...

Cora Montgomery, the filibuster: Between Cuban Annexationism and U.S Expansionism

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For a recording of this event in English, click here. For a recording of this event in Spanish, click here. Speaker: Daylet Domínguez, Wilbur Martin Visiting Scholar at Harvard University; Associate Professor at the Spanish and Portuguese Department of UC...

ALARI Seminar Series with Ofelia Lopez: "After the Skin: Representing Race in Cuban Literature (1882-1991)"

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This event is virtual and will be held in Spanish. To register, click here. This presentation explores literary representations of racial mixture in the Cuban literary production from the colonial era and the Special Period in Time of Pace (1990), a...

Catholics and Communists: Rethinking Religion in Revolutionary Cuba

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This event is virtual, to register click here. Speaker: Petra Kuivala, PhD, Associate at the Department of History at Harvard University and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki Discussant: Jorge Duany, Director of the Cuban Research...

El Derecho en Cuba y su relación con el sistema político, de 2019 a 2022

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For a recording of this event, click here. Speaker: Julio Antonio Fernandez Estrada, Cuban lawyer and historian; Professor of Law at the University of Havana (1999-2016); Visiting Scholar, Scholars Risk Program at Harvard University (2022-2023) Moderated...