Meet Roberto Zurbano Torres
Cuban-Haitian essayist and anti-racist activist
Location
Fine Arts : 011
Date & Time
October 23, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Description
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Meet Roberto Zurbano Torres and learn about his life and legacy in Cuba and beyond through a film and discussion with him.
He has authored multiple books addressing topics such as racial politics, music, and Black writers in the Caribbean and Latin America and works at Casa de las Américas in Havana, a prestigious cultural center that serves as a forum for dialogue in the Americas.
This event is part of the Black in the Americas series hosted by the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program with support from the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Center for Social Science Scholarship; the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts; the departments of Gender, Women’s + Sexuality Studies; Global Studies; Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication; Political Science; and Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health.
