Cuba Today - Cuban professor's visit will focus on Cuban politics, culture, history, and media

October 4, 2007 - 10:06am

The Cuban Dialogues / Cuba Today with Professor Ramiro Zayas Frutos from the University of Havana, Cuba.


Tuesday, Oct. 16, 7-10 p.m., building 356 room 109.


Worldbridger Film Series.


Screening of Suite Habana


(80 minutes), an award-winning documentary film (2003) by Fernando


Pérez, followed by a discussion of life in Havana, Cuba with Ramiro


Zayas Frutos, professor of English at the University of Havana.  There


will also be a slide show and discussion of Cuban government propaganda


in Havana, taken in 2006 and 2007 by Marshall Soules, Chair of Media


Studies.


By donation.


Wednesday, Oct. 17, 7 – 9 p.m., building 355, room 211.


Cuba Now: Politics, Culture and the Revolution.


Public lecture by Professor Ramiro Zayas Frutos  accompanied by a slide show of Cuban government propaganda and social murals taken in 2006 and 2007 by Marshall Soules.



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