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CASA Cuba Series of Hybrid Presentations, "Live from Havana"

September 18, 2026, 11:00am-12:30 EST
"Doing Documentary in Cuba"
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Images of Cuba are everywhere. They can be analyzed, debated, and historicized, but first, they must be created. Following the "Image of Cuba" course taught by Professor Victor Fowler at Casa de las Américas, various short audiovisual projects by CASA students have emerged. These distinct audiovisual perspectives on Cuba will help shape different images of Cuban realities.

Discussing their films will be: Lucas Matthews (Wesleyan University), Becki Marcus (UPenn), Marco Rios (Columbia University), and Thibeaux Hirsch (Wesleyan University). Their projects cover topics such as transportation, Cuban music, life in present-day Havana, and the community of Caimanera, Guantánamo.

Joining the panel as faculty commentators will be: Professor Bernadette Wegenstein (Johns Hopkins University) and Professor Victor Fowler (Casa de las Américas).

Previous events

August 17, 2026
"From Havana to the World: CASA Cuba Alumni and Scholars on Research Across Borders"

Two students who studied during the spring semester in Havana already returned to further research projects begun with CASA Cuba. Jaimee Martin is interested in how Black trans people in Havana use mutual aid and international trans solidarity to build collective power. Bennett Lacerte is following up on questions of food sovereignty and urban farming. Another former student, Sasha Gilles, turned their CASA Cuba experience into a PhD and years of cross-border research and collaboration.
These students presented snapshots of their projects and were in conversation with faculty from Cuba, the United States, and Australia. Faculty commentators included Zuleica Romay (Casa de las Américas), Reinaldo Funes (Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez), Daniel Rodriguez (Brown University), and Adrian Hearn (University of Melbourne).

July 14, 2026
"A New 'No-Man's-Land': Guantánamo from Both Sides"

In A New No-Man's-Land, Brown University Professor Esther Whitfield explores Guantánamo not as a symbol of US power, but as a coherent region. Using a multilingual archive of sources from both the base and surrounding Cuban communities, Whitfield reveals a place where Cuban and American worlds press up against each other and where similar experiences of isolation create unexpected common ground. This virtual book talk featured Whitfield in conversation with Jorge Núñez, Former President of UNEAC Guantánamo, who participated live from Cuba.