In conmemoration of el Grito de Bayre, the 1995 uprising which unleashed Cuba’s last war against Spain, the CCCNY honors the life and legacy of Juan Gualberto Gómez, one of the most outstanding figures in the Island’s struggle for independence and its first decades as a new republic. This illustrated lecture by Clara Caballero Caraballo, his great granddaughter, sheds new light on his development as thinker and revolutionary.
GENERAL ADMISSION: FREE
TO WATCH THE PRESENTATION, CLICK HERE ON THE SCHEDULED DATE AND TIME:
https://youtu.be/NusRE6uJd0Q
To participate in the Q&A via Zoom after the streaming, click here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89526024766
This event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in Spanish.
Clara Caballero Caraballo is an architect, librarian, and research scholar. She has done extensive research on the architecture and urban development of the sugar worker towns in Cuba. In 1980, after being temporarily expelled from Havana University’s School of Architecture for ideological diversionism, she earned a degree in Library Science and worked as a librarian for the Sugar Ministry before resuming and finishing her studies in Architecture. After emigrating to Spain in 1989, she earned a degree in International Cooperation for Development and Migration at the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, subsequently teaching at Universidad Autónoma and Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and supervising Master theses at Universidad Pontificia Comillas. She is a member of the team of diversity advisors at CIDALIA and is affiliated to the Asociación Española de Africanistas. Her many publications include: Mujer y Desarrollo (with Antonia Santos), CIDEAL, Madrid (1994); La sacarocracia cubana del siglo XIX y sus estructuras urbanas y arquitectónicas, Demografía y Geografía Estudios Iberoamericanos, Sevilla, (1995); La interculturalidad, una vía para la integración, Sistema Económico Mundial, editorial THOMSON, (2005); Ruindad y triunfo de reinos. Hábitat y población de la sacarocracia cubana, Antología de la literatura hispano-africana y afrodescendiente, Edit. Diwan África (2020), among many other essays. She is a frequent speaker at national and international scholarly colloquia. In recent years, her research has delved mainly into the legacy of her great grandfather, Juan Gualberto Gómez Ferrer, within the context of society, slavery, and race.
This event is being presented in celebration of Black History Month, and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature.
With the promotional cooperation of Rialta, 14yMedio and Diario de Cuba
