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Cuba Studies CUBA STUDIES 2014 – 2018 Since its founding in 1999, the Cuba Studies Program (CSP) has sought to facilitate the research and study of Cuba by Harvard faculty and students across the University. To advance this objective, the CSP has developed and consolidated scientific and scholarly exchanges and other forms of academic cooperation with our counterparts among Cuban scholars, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals. Selectively and only when appropriate, the CSP has also established institutional ties to promote such research and study. Between 2014 and 2018, the CSP continued a variety of initiatives, the highlights of which are listed in this booklet. CONTENTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND CUBA...................................................................................................................1 CUBA STUDIES PROGRAM AT DRCLAS .........................................................................................................3 HARVARD AND CUBA'S MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION SIGN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING............................................................................................5 SEMINAR SERIES.............................................................................................................................................................6 SUPPORT OF CUBAN ARTS.....................................................................................................................................9 LOS CUBANOS DE HARVARD DOCUMENTARY......................................................................................11 WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES................................................................................................................12 PUBLICATIONS.................................................................................................................................................................13 CUBA IN THE HARVARD LIBRARY.....................................................................................................................15 CUBA STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM...................................................................................................................17 CUBAN VISITING SCHOLARS...............................................................................................................................19 PEOPLE.................................................................................................................................................................................20 FINANCIAL SUPPORT................................................................................................................................................20 HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND CUBA Harvard University’s relationship with Cuba Harvard’s long-standing interest in Cuba stretches back well over a hundred years. At the is reflected in the number of faculty with re- end of the nineteenth century, Harvard scholars search projects in Cuba, in the comparatively began conducting studies at the Harvard Botani- large number of courses that treat Cuban is- cal Station for Tropical Research in Cienfuegos, sues, and in the University’s extensive library Cuba. The Botanical Station eventually became and museum holdings of Cuban materials. For part of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica instance, the José Augusto Escoto Cuban history Plain, Massachusetts. and literature collection at Houghton Library In 1900, more than a thousand Cuban contains valuable primary documents. Likewise, teachers traveled to Harvard for training in the the collections of the Museum of Comparative American education system in the midst of the Zoology reflect a sustained interest in the study U.S. occupation of the island. Recently, the Cuba of Cuban flora and fauna. Studies Program sponsored the documentary Currently, the number of faculty and The Harvard Cubans to highlight this important students teaching and studying topics related to moment in the history of the relationship be- Cuba includes the humanities, social sciences, tween Cuba and Harvard specifically, and Cuba natural sciences, and the arts, and an interest in and the United States in general. research related to Cuba can be found in almost Following these beginnings, Harvard has all divisions of the university, including the supported research and teaching on Cuba that Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the professional has grown over the course of the twentieth cen- schools of Business, Design, Divinity, Education, tury and into the twenty-first. Government, Law, Medicine, and Public Health. Harvard Jazz Bands students joined the Orquesta Típica Miguel Failde on stage during their 2017 trip to Cuba, supported by the Cuba Studies Program and led by their director, Yosvany Terry. 1 2 CUBA STUDIES PROGRAM AT DRCLAS The Center’s program of scholarly collaboration public events with visiting Cuban intellectuals and exchanges with Cuba has sought to accom- and public figures. DRCLAS has also hosted a plish three important goals: works-in-progress workshop for Harvard un- dergraduate and graduate students working on (a) to facilitate research on Cuba and the devel- theses and dissertations related to Cuba. opment of academic relationships in Cuba by Harvard faculty and students; THE CUBAN STUDIES PROGRAM AT THE (b) to assist Harvard's educational and cultural DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN programs in Cuba; and, AMERICAN STUDIES (c) to strengthen institutional ties between Harvard and Cuban academic, scientific and re- Since its inception in 1999, the Cuba Studies search institutions through visiting faculty and Program at the David Rockefeller Center for researchers as well as jointly organized work- Latin American Studies has evolved into one shops and conferences. of the most extensive and diverse ventures of Aiming to strengthen and deepen initia- its kind. Unlike any other program in the Unit- tives in a broad range of disciplines, a corner- ed States, the program caters to scholars from stone of the Program’s work has been to build areas across the wide spectrum of academic links between research centers in Cuba and fields, namely the social sciences, history, en- Harvard. The Program has worked with sever- vironment, education, chemistry, public health al Cuban academic and scientific institutions, and medical sciences, public policy, the arts including the Instituto Juan Marinello, Revista and humanities, religion, library exchange and Temas, the research institutes of the Universi- urban planning. Components of these collabo- ty of Havana, the Center for the Sociological rations have included workshops and symposia and Psychological Studies (CIPS), the Jardín in Cuba and other countries, the publication of Botánico de Cienfuegos, and the José Martí co-edited volumes, and research stays by Cuban National Library. As part of these endeavors, scholars at Harvard. Guided by the oversight each year during the last decade, many Harvard and leadership of the Harvard University-wide faculty and students have traveled to Cuba for Cuba Studies faculty committee, the Program’s research or other educational activities. work has been sustained with generous support At Harvard, DRCLAS has sponsored from Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foun- hundreds of public events on issues and re- dation, the Open Society Foundation, and the search related to Cuba. The events have includ- members of the CSP Advisory Group. ed seminars with Harvard faculty and Cuban visiting scholars, film screenings, and major 3 4 HARVARD AND CUBA'S MINISTRY OF EDUCATION SIGNED A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING On December 16th, 2017, a Co-Chair Dr. Jorge Domín- different forms of cooperation memorandum of understand- guez, and Associate Director between Harvard and Cuban ing was signed in Havana be- of Academic Programs Erin higher education institutions. tween Harvard University and Goodman. The signing was the Ministry of Higher Educa- widely covered in the Cuban Possible areas of collaboration tion (MES) to expand forms of and international media. include exchange programs mutual cooperation and pursue involving undergraduate and their mutual academic and Under the agreement, the graduate students and profes- research interests. Harvard Vice MES now serves as a host for sors for academic and research Provost of International Affairs Harvard faculty, students and collaboration. Other forms of Mark C. Elliott and MES Vice scholars who wish to conduct cooperation involve training Minister Aurora Fernández research or study in Cuba. and improvement in academic were at the head of the signing. In turn, Harvard University programs on areas of mutual welcomes Cuban graduate interest, and exploring top- Also present were several im- students who are admitted ics for joint research projects. portant Cuban officials, such as to degree programs through Collaborative relationships Minister of Higher Education Harvard’s normal admissions between Harvard and Cuban José Ramón Saborido Loidi procedures. It also welcomes universities in undergraduate and Josefina Vidal, director Cuban scholars who are accept- higher education, postgrad- general of the U.S. Division in ed as visiting researchers or uate education, and scientific the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. visiting professors under Har- research, might include mo- vard’s normal procedures for dalities such as short courses, From Harvard University, the accepting visiting researchers internships, research stays, signing was attended by Cuba or professors. The agreement publication of scientific arti- Studies
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