Coloquio Internacional El cuerpo y sus economías en la cultura y la historia de mujeres de la América Latina y el Caribe

This is one more in a series of colloquiums being held since 1994 on the subject of women and Latin American and Caribbean culture: some of the topics covered will be: Owner and slave/boss and servant; from housewives to heads of households; Women and Work/ Women and salaries; Marriage/Motherhood/Celibacy/Prostitution; Women, fashion and models; Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda in her day and in ours. There will be master conferences and panels covering the colloquium topics as well as lectures, concerts and exhibitions by Cuban writers and artists.


  • Plenty of Love despite the rain

    Plenty of Love despite the rain  LH 4

    6th International Love In Festival, 2013 The Sixth International Love In Festival had to contend with some vicious weather with tropical downpours more reminiscent of Bognor Regis than Havana. Nonethe …

    The Feria Internacional del Libro

    The Feria Internacional del Libro  LH 4

    The Havana Book Fair is one of the most popular fairs in Havana drawing tens of thousands of people within the walls of the La Cabana Fortress. Don’t be put off by what can at times seem like a mob sc …

    The Elsinore Theater Festival

    The Elsinore Theater Festival  LH 4

    The Elsinore Theatre Festival has been held in Cuba every year for over 30 years. The staging of plays in theaters and open spaces, set design, dramatic texts, criticism and research related to the wo …

    November 16, 1519: Havana’s birth

    November 16, 1519: Havana’s birth  LH 4

    Havana, November 15, 2010. Hundreds of people wait at the door of the former Palace of the Captains General, today Museum of the City, for a curious procession to begin. The motley crowd is composed o …

    Muestra Joven ICAIC 2014

    Muestra Joven ICAIC 2014  LH 3

    An event for stimulating awareness and consideration of new video/filmmakers and getting into contact with daring and inquisitive works usually produced outside the official production. The competitio …

    Premio y Coloquio Internacional de Musicología

    Premio y Coloquio Internacional de Musicología  LH 3

    The Musicology Prize was created to encourage scientific research and to spread knowledge and appreciation of Latin American musical culture; the competition covers unpublished papers on musical histo …

    Festival Internacional de Poesía de La Habana

    Festival Internacional de Poesía de La Habana  LH 3

    A gathering of poets from all the continents on the globe will be engaged in an intense program including seminars, lectures taking place in all of Cuba’s provincial capitals, writing laboratories and …

    Festival Internacional de la Trova Pepe Sánchez

    Festival Internacional de la Trova Pepe Sánchez  LH 3

    The International Pepe Sánchez Trova Festival began in 1962 in homage to local Santiago de Cuba composer José (Pepe) Sánchez (1856-1918), considered the father of Cuban trova (the troubadour genre of …

    Cucalambeana country fair at El Cornito, Las Tunas

    Cucalambeana country fair at El Cornito, Las Tunas  LH 3

    This is a long way from the regular tourist circuit and is an opportunity to see real Cuban country folk. You may not like the cockfighting, but it undeniably has a place and a role in the countryside …

    British Culture Week in Havana

    British Culture Week in Havana  LH 3

    From a muddy football field where an invitational UK team took the veteran Cubans to task 6-1 to a party so secret that the British Ambassador was not let in, British week had the Habaneros wearing th …

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