April 21 :: Annual José E. Muñoz Memorial Lecture: WANTON ESCAPES, A PRIMER ON FLIGHT, José Quiroga

Annual José E. Muñoz Memorial Lecture: Wanton Escapes, a Primer on Flight a lecture by José Quiroga April 21, Friday 5 to 6:30 pm José Quiroga, Spanish & Portuguese, Emory University On June 28, 1856, residents of Havana were called upon to witness yet another neighbor who had decided to get himself onto a balloon and fly. …

April 5: Homoerotic Subjectivities Against, With, and Beyond Cubanía

Homoerotic Subjectivities Against, With, and Beyond Cubanía a lunch talk with Margaret Frohlich Friday, April 5 12:30 to 1:45 pm Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 41-51 East 11th Street, Room 741 Margaret Frohlich, Spanish and Portuguese, Dickinson College, and CSGS Visiting Scholar Fidel Castro’s acknowledgement in 2010 of the imprisonment of homosexuals in …

February 7: Queer Cuba

Queer Cuba the second in the series Globally Queer? — a panel discussion with Jafari Allen, José Muñoz, & José Quiroga Thursday, February 7 6 to 8 pm Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Jafari Allen, Anthropology and African American Studies, Yale University “A Black/Queer Cuban: Here & There” José Quiroga, …

2010 New York Fornés Festival: Maria Irene Fornés

March 25th to April 5th, 2010 Presented by INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc)  in association with NYU’s Department of English INTAR (Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) will join New York University’s Department of English and its Program in Dramatic Literature to celebrate the 80th birthday of playwright, director and teacher Maria Irene Fornés. …