Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

                        A panel discussion on Martí in the wake of his birthday, led by the distinguished Martí scholar Esther Allen, focusing on the recent publication of Syncing the Americas: José Martí and the Shaping of National Identity. Edited by Ryan Anthony Spangler and Georg […]

                                                  By popular demand, Dr. Federico Justiniani returns this season to share with the non Spanish-speaking audience a reprise of his groundbreaking presentation last year on the history of Cuban medicine […]

In this fascinating documentary  Cuban-American filmmaker Adriana Bosch turns her lens to the legendary Cuban poet José Lezama Lima, one of most influential figures in Latin American literature in the twentieth century. In Bosch’s film, his life story is told through letters written to his sister Eloisa, living in exile, between 1961 and 1976. The […]

A workshop on one of the leading intellectuals of 19th century colonial Cuba, José de la Luz y Caballero (1800-1862), whose teaching influenced many outstanding Cuban thinkers of his time. Among his works are an annotated translation of Volney’s Travels in Egypt and Syria (Paris, 1829); Siegling’s Public Prisons and their Reforms, from the German (1837); and […]