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An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba

2010

May

Friday, May 7-Sunday, April 9, Participant in symposium, "Creative Academic Writing," Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Wednesday, May 26-Friday, May 28, Keynote Speaker, "Qualitative Research and Interpretation," Third International Qualitative Research Conference, Universidad de Guanajuato, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Departamento de Lenguas, Guanajuato, Mexico.

July

Tuesday, July 13-Friday, July 16, Invited Speaker, International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Los Angeles, California.

Saturday, July 24-Saturday, July 31, Macondo Writers Workshop, San Antonio, Texas.

Fall 2009

October

Wednesday, October 21 – Invited lecture and film screening, “Adio Kerida, Shalom Ruti,” Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Senate Hall, Beersheva, Israel, 4pm, followed by Q & A.

Saturday, October 31— Keynote lecture, “Latina and Latino Studies Silver Anniversary Symposium: Past, Present, and Future of the Discipline,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 3700 Haven Hall, 6pm.

November

Thursday, November 12 -- Invited speaker for panel, "Unlikely Neighbors? The Jewish Experience in the New World, Historic perspectives on Jewish life in Spain, New Mexico, Argentina and Cuba,"  in conjunction with University of New Mexico, Latin American and Iberian Institute, Student Union Building, 1-5pm. Register through http://laii.unm.edu/events/.

Thursday, November 12 – Screening of Adio Kerida, “¡Celébrate! The Jewish Experience in Spanish-Speaking Countries,” National Hispanic Cultural Center, Bank of America Theatre, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 7pm, followed by Q & A.

Wednesday, November 18-Thursday, November 19—Invited lectures, Northwestern University.

December

Thursday, December 3-Sunday, December 6 – American Anthropological Association Meetings, speaking in invited panels, “Exploring the Boundaries of Expressive Media in Anthropology” (12/3) and “Purposes, Challenges, and Futures of Ethnographic Research and Writing” (12/6), and reading at “Coming Close: Literary Readings in Ethnography” (12/5), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

2010

April

Thursday, April 8— Speaker on panel, “Sacred Art: Writing to Change the World,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Denver, Colorado.

Thursday, April 15- Friday, April 16— Invited Lectures, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Wednesday, April 21— Invited Lecture, Latina/Latino Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.