Events & Opportunities

DENVER:

Denver Justice & Peace Committee - Salon Discussion

 "Solidarity with the peoples of Ayotzinapa:

 a conversation with Ismael Netzahualtl."

"Solidaridad con el pueblo de Ayotzinapa:

conversando con Ismael Netzahualt."

Thursday, January 21 2016

7-8:30 PM

@ Highlands United Methodist church community Hall

3131 Osceola Street

Northwest Denver

Free parking in church lot at 32nd & Osceola and on street.

Interpretation will be provided

For more info: http://denjustpeace.org/2016/01/salon-discussion-january-2016/

NYC:

The Graduate Center, CUNY

 

February 5, 2016, 12:30-2:30pm

TO RESERVE please send an email to bildner@gc.cuny.edu

 
"The Revolutionary 1930s and Aftermath"
Ariel Mae Lambe (University of Connecticut) is an emeritus professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of CUNY. He was born and raised in Cuba and has written numerous books and articles about the country. His most recent book is Cuba Since The Revolution of 1959. A Critical Assessment published by Haymarket Books in 2011.

"The Racial Debate from the Twenties to the Forties" En la presentación se abordaran panoramicamente las tendencias del pensamiento antirracista de Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969), Juan Marinello (1898-1977), Gustavo E. Urrutia (1881-1958) and Juan Rene Betancourt (1918-1976).  Presentation will be in Spanish.

 
Tomás Fernández (University of Havana) has been a scholar at the José Martí National Library since 1962 where he has studied Afro-Cuban issues. He is also associate professor at the University of Havana and a prolific author on AfroCuban issues. His most recent publication is Antología del pensamiento antirracista cubano (2015). His other publications include: Índice de las revistas folklóricas (1971) Bibliografía de temas afrocubanos (1986), El negro en Cuba: 1902-1958 (1990), Hablen paleros y santeros (1994, 5th.ed. 2008), Cuba: personalidades en el debate racial (2007), Identidad afrocubana: cultura y nacionalidad (2009), Misa para un Ángel (2010), about his friendship with Reinaldo Arenas, Critica Bibliográfica y Sociedad (2011), and El negro en Cuba: colonia, república y revolución (2012). 

Other Participants:

Moderator: Samuel Farber, Brooklyn College

Ariel Mae Lambe (Ph.D., Columbia University) is assistant professor of History as the University of Connecticut. Her areas of specialty include Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuba, social and political movements, and activism. Lambe’s research interests are Cuban antifascism and involvement in the Spanish Civil War; transnational movements, activism, networks, and solidarity; the 1930s in the Atlantic World.  



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