A round-table discussion on the role of the blogosphere in contemporary Cuba and its potential contribution to the construction of civil society on the island. Featuring the most prominent Cuban bloggers in and outside of Cuba:
Yoani Sánchez is best known for her blog, Generación Y (Generation Y), and she is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, El País, among others. She received the Ortega y Gasset Prize for Journalism in 2008; she was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time Magazine; and one of the “10 Most Influential Latin American Intellectuals” by Foreign Policy Magazine. She also received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
Orlando L. Pardo Lazo is a free-lance writer, photographer and dissident blogger. He founded the independent opinion and literary
e-zine Voces. He also produces the blogs, Boring Home Utopics and Lunes de Post-Revolución. He is the author of Boring Home (2009). He currently works as a contributing columnist for Sampsonia Way magazine.
Ernesto Hernández Busto is a Cuban essayist and blogger. Since 2006, he has edited and published Penúltimos días, which is widely recognized as among the most authoritative and comprehensive websites covering events in Cuba. He is the author of Perfiles derechos. Fisonomías del escritor reaccionario (2004), and Inventario de saldos. Apuntes sobre literatura cubana (2005). His critical essays have appeared in Letras Libres, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, among others journals.
Moderator: Ted Henken runs the Cuba-themed blog El Yuma and teaches Sociology and Latin American Studies at Baruch College, CUNY. His research focuses on Cuban micro-enterprise and the emergent Cuban blogosphere.
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (& 34th Street), NYC
Skylight Room: 9100
Free Admission
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This event is co-sponsored by CUNY’s Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center, and the Department of Black and Latino Studies of Baruch College.
