Jorge Duany
Department: Latin American Studies
Date and Time: January 30, 2017 | 3:00 PM-4:30 PMEvent Location: TBA
Event Details
Jorge Duany, Director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University will lecture on "The Current and Future State of Affairs between Cuba and the United States" at the University of California at Irvine.
Monday, Jan 30, 2017, 3-4:15 PM, Social Science Tower 318, Garcilazo Room (Event will be followed by a reception).
Jorge Duany is the Director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University.He has held visiting teaching and research appointments at several U.S. universities, including Harvard, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and the City University of New York. Professor Duany has published extensively on migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and transnationalism in the Caribbean and the United States. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Puerto Rican Studies, Cuban Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, and Latino Studies. His latest books are titled Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States (2011) and La nación en vaivén: Identidad, migración y cultura popular en Puerto Rico (2010).
Co-sponsored by the UC-CUBA Academic Initiative, the Latin American Studies Center, and the Department of Chicano Latino Studies.