Lecture on Cuba's Periodo Especial by Elzbieta Sklodowska

Elzbieta Sklodowska, who has just published Invento luego resisto: El Periodo Especial en Cuba como experiencia y metáfora (1990-2015),  will give a lecture focusing on the material culture of the “Periodo Especial” on Wednesday November 8 at 4:30 pm, Gibson 211.

  The title is “Post-Soviet (Re)collections: From Artifact to Artifice in the Wake of the ‘Special Period’ in Cuba”.

 

Elzbieta Sklodowska is Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a specialist on Caribbean literature and culture, especially Cuba, and “testimonio” literature. For more information on our guest go to

https://rll.wustl.edu/people/sklodowska

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and the Latin American Studies Program.

 

Location: 
Gibson Hall Room 211
Academic Year: 
2017
Event Photo: 
Eiabieta Sklodowska
Event Date: 
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 4:30 PM