"Faces, Masks, Bodies: Contemporary Cuban Writing, Art, and Performance,"  lecture series organized by ELIN/LCL Professor Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, LCL Professor Jacqueline Loss, and Spanish Department student, Inileidys Hernandez. More than five Cuban scholars and artists gathered on campus for an in person and virtual lecture series.

 

"The Translation of Letters and Ideas in Cuba's Republic," conference organized by LCL Professor Jacqueline Loss and her Spanish Department student, Reynaldo Lastre. More than a dozen scholars, who reside in the United States, Spain, Cuba, and Mexico, gathered on streaming videoconference platform, attracting audiences that varied between 40 and 60 attendees.

Ricardo Bacallao, Afro-Cuban filmmaker, screened his film Orisha Devotion in Berlin, and answered questions for an audience gathered on the Storrs campus.

 

 

 

 

Cuban actor Lola Amores performed La isla secreta at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, captivating her audience through an energetic performance of characters inspired by Cuban literature.

 

 

 

 

Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas read new works at the Homer Babbidge Library, stimulating a rich discussion on relationships among Cuban exile writers with authors on the island.

 

 

 

 

LCL MA student Lázaro González screened his documentary Villa Rosa, on the thriving LGBTQ culture and surprising tolerance of sexual diversity in the small regional city of Caibarién.

Anna Kushner and Kristin Dykstra presented a roundtable discussion on translation, moderated by Jacqueline Loss.

 

 

 

 

 

“La polis literaria,” lecture by Professor Rafael Rojas on the Cold War political subtext of Latin America’s literary “boom” of the 1960s.