Author: Juan P Acevedo

Juan P Acevedo

  • Cuba/Mexico, Mexico/Cuba Una Conversación con Rafael Rojas

    MARCH 28 6:00PM – 8:00 PM | SKYLIGHT ROOM 9100 GRADUATE CENTER CUNY El Cuban Studies Group y el Mexican Studies Group de la City University of New York (CUNY) se complacen en invitarles a un conversatorio con el destacado historiador y ensayista Rafael Rojas. Este evento cuenta con el apoyo de CLACLS y será…

  • 34 & 5 Podcast: The History of the Brazilian Communist Party

    In this interview (in Portuguese) CLACLS Associate Director, Mila Burns talks with Jean Rodrigues (Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) about the history of the Brazilian Communist Party from its beginnings in 1962 to its arrival in power in 2002. Through a bibliographic approach to the history of communist parties and Brazilian left-wing movements,…

  • Book Presentation: Lanallwe with Ángeles Donoso Macaya

    APRIL 10 | 6:00-9:00 PM ROOM 9205 CUNY, GRADUATE CENTER 365 FIFTH AVENUE EVENT IN SPANISH – EVENTO EN ESPAÑOL   Lanallwe is an autobiographical essay. Drawing from a collection of inherited instant photos, the narrator attempts to reconstruct the history, or her own history, of the house on Lake Lanallwe, where she spent summers…

  • Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean

    MARCH 19 | 6:00-8:00 PM SKYLIGHT ROOM CUNY, GRADUATE CENTER 365 FIFTH AVENUE Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world’s largest oil refineries. To bolster…

  • Ñai’ũpo Rape: a dialogue of ancestral ethnoknowledge, with author Celeste Escobar

    MAR 11 2024 – 6:30 PM SOCIOLOGY LOUNGE (ROOM 6112) CUNY GRADUATE CENTER 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK