Written Arts Program and The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard
invite you to a conference April 17-18
Cuba Today and Tomorrow:
The Individual Caught Between Nations
Tuesday, April 17th
Film showing:
Adio Kerida, 5 pm, Hegeman 102
Film by Ruth Behar on Cuban Jewish (Sephardic) community and exile
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
All events in Campus Center
MPR
1-1:15 Cuban Bard students talk of coming to Bard
1:20-1:40 Study Abroad Office/University of Burlington/Marist and Bard students who have studied in Cuba discuss experience, opportunities, show videos
2-3 pm History of Cuban music/salsa with live ensemble with singing led by conservatory musician Jose Agustin and samba leader Carlos Valdez
WEIS
3:30 pm Filmmaker Brin-Jonathan Butler discusses and shows clips from his film SPLIT DECISION, in conversation with Edie Meidav and S.L. Price.
Film details the American nightmare currently being lived by Afro-Cuban boxer and defector Guillermo Rigondeaux, considered greatest amateur in the sport’s history.
5:15 pm Reception and books available for sale outside Weis
5:30 pm Keynote address with Carlos Eire (Yale professor and author of WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA) and MacArthur Fellow and anthropologist Ruth Behar (University of Michigan, THE VULNERABLE OBSERVER)
6:30 pm Panel with S.L. Price, Brin-Jonathan Butler, Ruth Behar, Carlos Eire, and other guests, moderated by Edie Meidav
7:30 pm Reception and book-signing outside Weis
Sponsored by TLS, IILE, Dean’s Office, Human Rights Program, LAIS, La Voz, Anthropology Program, Jewish Studies, Written Arts and The Arendt Center






