Join us for a discussion of The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez on Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 7 p.m. Featuring Julian Urrutia, Candidate for PhD in Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health and Cristina Garcia, PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures.
Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University, and the Harvard Global Health Institute.
This session, focusing on Dreaming Cuban, was hosted on December 4th, 2013 by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. It featured Rainer Schultz, Fellow, DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program.
Join the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) for a discussion of Cristina Garcia's novel, Dreaming in Cuban. The session will be moderated by Rainer Schultz, Fellow, DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program.
Garcia's first book, Dreaming in Cuban is about three generations of del Pino women who are seeking spiritual homes for their passionate, often troubled souls. Celia del Pino and her descendants also share clairvoyant and visionary powers that somehow remain undiminished, despite the Cuban revolution and its profound effect upon their lives.... Read more about Dreaming in Cuban Webinar
This session on In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez was hosted by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies on December 5, 2012. The program featured Julia Alvarez herself.
Book description: It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the...
Jeff Griffiths, Director, USAID Innovation Laboratory and Nutrition Eunjee Lee, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Science, Harvard University
Join the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) for a discussion of Cristina Garcia's novel, Dreaming in Cuban. The session will be moderated by Rainer Schultz, Fellow, DRCLAS Cuban Studies Program.