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Tag: Cuba
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Rush to stop ‘Havana syndrome’
Intelligence analysts and reporters discuss the enduring Havana syndrome.
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Portrait of the revolutionary as a young man
Jonathan M. Hansen’s biography of Fidel Castro’s early years aims to “get past the demonization and celebration and recover the complex person in the middle.”
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Horror’s human side
Fiction writer and Briggs-Copeland lecturer Laura van den Berg talks about her new novel, “The Third Hotel.”
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A renewed Harvard-Cuba connection
Representatives from Harvard University traveled to Havana last weekend to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education. The agreement signals renewed commitment between Harvard’s 12 Schools and the ministry to support faculty and student research and study in Cuba.
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Harvard jazz leader, amid his Cuban roots
Harvard jazz leader and instructor Yosvany Terry returns to his musical roots in Cuba, where his destiny was formed.
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A Cuba-Harvard connection, with a beat
The Harvard Jazz Bands make and learn music, absorb culture on summer tour of Cuba.
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Shadows of Cuba’s past
An exhibit by Cuban mixed-media artist Juan Roberto Diago at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery folds history into imagery.
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Out of ‘the wolf’s mouth’
Cuban writer and journalist Jorge Olivera is a dissident who was sentenced to prison and eventually released on humanitarian grounds. He’s now a Scholar at Risk hosted by Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature.
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Cuba under Fidel’s long shadow
The Gazette interviewed Jorge Dominguez, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico and a prominent expert on Cuba, about Fidel Castro’s mixed legacy, and the Cuban Revolution.
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Obama in Havana
President Barack Obama will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge traveled there in 1928. Harvard scholars spoke about the trip’s symbolism in the efforts to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba.
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Field notes gathered by ear
Grammy-nominated saxophonist Yosvany Terry is bringing the music of his native Cuba to campus as a senior lecturer and leader of the Harvard Jazz Ensembles.
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Walking in Cuba
A historian’s photographs expose the sedimentary layers of Cuba, a country in flux.
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U.S.-Cuba ties: In from the cold
Harvard faculty members react to the surprising news from President Barack Obama that the United States plans to end 50 years of diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba.
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When Armageddon loomed
A new website at the Harvard Kennedy School marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. In an interview, Belfer Center director Graham Allison outlines the lessons learned from the dangerous yet deft dance of diplomacy.
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Whither Guantánamo
In his new book, “Guantánamo: An American History,” lecturer Jonathan Hansen uncovers the rich and controversial history of an American empire on the tip of Cuba.
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In a land of equality, racism
“Queloides,” an art exhibit visiting Harvard, shows how racial stereotypes prevailed even after the Cuban Revolution.
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Symphonies and salsa
In late May and early June the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra traveled to Cuba for a series of concerts in Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, and Havana.
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When fear took control
More than a dozen high school teachers from around the area attended a workshop this week focused on the Cuban Missile Crisis, bringing new points of view to bear on high school students’ understanding of the event.
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Havana, then and now
A new exhibit at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies pairs historic postcards with visions of current Havana.
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JFK and the Cuban missile crisis — a new assessment
The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 has been called the “single most serious moment in human history.” During the 40 years of the Cold War, it was the closest the United States and the Soviet Union ever came to nuclear war.
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RFK Visiting Professor comes to DRCLAS
Merilee Grindle, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, recently announced the arrival of Cuban scholar Rafael M. Hernández Rodríguez as the 2006-07 Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies. Grindle, who is also the Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development at the Kennedy School…