The Latin American Studies Center and U.S. Latina/o Studies Program present:

Cuba and Cuba-America: Panel Presentation and Discussion

How do the current changes in policy and diplomatic relations impact Cubans in the U.S. and in Cuba? How is “home” defined, returned to, escaped from, protested against, and protected? Panelists will discuss what it means to be Cuban and Cubano in 2015.

featuring - 
MAVIS ANDERSON, Latin America Working Group, Senior Associate
NETFA FREEMAN, Institute for Policy Studies, Coordinator and Activist
RAFAEL LORENTE, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Associate Dean, UMD
NANCY MIRABAL, American Studies and U.S. Latina/o Studies, Associate Professor, UMD
RICARDO ORTÍZ, Department of English, Associate Professor, Georgetown University
LAURIE FREDERIK, Latin American Studies and Performance Studies, Associate Professor, UMD

Before and after the panel, enjoy The Art Gallery's new exhibition, "Streams of Being", featuring Latin American artworks drawn from the permanent collection of the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA). The exhibition distills the conceptual breadth of contemporary Latin American art by unraveling visual itineraries that move across space and time. Featuring forty-five artists from sixteen countries across the Americas, including Roberto Matta, Juan Downey, Mario Carreño, José Luis Cuevas, Tomie Ohtake, among others, "Streams of Being" meditates on questions of existence and embodiment through conjunctions of scale and place, animal and human bodies.