NYC Seminar: Studying Jewish Cuba 2/8; Film 2/9 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - "Mauricio Font" The Cuba Project/Bildner Center (The Graduate Center, City University of New York) cordially invites you to the following CUBA Seminar: "The Predicaments of Studying Jewish Cuba" Professor Ruth Behar University of Michigan Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba and came to New York in 1962 with her family. She received her B.A. in Letters (1977) from Wesleyan University, and her M.A. (1980) and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (1983) from Princeton University. She resides in Ann Arbor and is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Ruth has written several books, among these are The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village: Santa Mar=EDa del Monte (Princeton, 1986; expanded paperback edition, 1991), Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (Beacon Press, 1993), The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (Beacon Press, 1996), she has recently completed a documentary Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love), about the Sephardic Jews of Cuba. As a Cuban woman of the diaspora, Ruth Behar is committed to seeking reconciliation and a common culture and memory with Cubans on the island. In that spirit, she edited Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba (University of Michigan Press, 1995). The anthology paved the way for more interchanges and became a highly praised forum for the voices and visions of Cubans on the island and in the diaspora. She also wrote the Foreword to the anthology Cubana: Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women (Beacon Press, 1998). For more information about her work please go to http://www.ruthbehar.com * (The film "Adio Kerida" (90 minutes), will be shown at the 92nd Street Y on Saturday, 2/9/02 at 7 P.M.) * WHEN: Friday February 8, 2002 @ 4:00 P.M. WHERE: TBA The Graduate Center City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue (Across from Empire State Bldg.) New York, New York www.bildner.org To reserve, please send email to cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu OR call 212 817-2096. The Cuba Project updates its mailing list frequently. Please send instructions to change, add, or remove any of your email addresses. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytnyc-02.08.02-01:58:53-16733