Cuba to Host U.S. Latino Colloquium
Havana, (RHC) The 5th International Colloquium ‘Latinos in the United States’ will be held in Havana from 15 to 17 October, with the participation of artists from nine countries.
Promoted by Casa de las Américas, the event will bring together around 48 intellectuals from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Puerto Rico, Salvador, Brazil, Spain, the United States and Cuba.
One of the participants is Alicia Arrizón, professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of California, USA; and María José Buchanan, scholar of the Higher Middle Division at the University of Monterrey, Mexico.
Cuban historian Jesús Arboleya and Cuban-American narrator and university professor Sonia Rivera, creator of the non-profit cultural organization Latino Artists Round Table (LART), will also attend.
The program brings together some 15 papers, which will focus on the management of Latino cultural industries in the northern country and their transnational spaces.
The academic activities are linked to the artistic and literary creation of those who, coming from Latin America and the Caribbean, seek recognition in U.S. society, overcoming xenophobic and racist behaviors.
The colloquium will take place in a context of forced reflection on the fascist escalation of Donald Trump’s government on migrants.
The event also includes a space dedicated to music, this time with a special invitation to the American pianist Arturo O´Farrill, in charge of the closing ceremony on the 17th.
The International Colloquium ‘Latinos in the United States’ was born from the Program with the same name, an initiative of the president of Casa de las Americas, the Cuban intellectual Roberto Fernández Retamar (1930-2019).
(Taken from RHC in Spanish)
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
