Talk: “Libraries and Literary Culture: An Inside View of Cuba’s Information Revolution” by Marta Terry Gonzàlez

• Event Date: Thursday, October 15, 2015
• Time: 4:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Part of the CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series

Hear from a leading protagonist in Cuba’s ongoing transformations: from a primarily oral culture, through a 1961 leap in literacy, to a literary culture where ordinary Cubans read—and write—books, essays, stories, poetry, and more. Cubans built literary institutions to their own specifications, libraries in particular. A digital culture got underway. All while a US blockade separated Cuba from most trade and cultural contacts, and while Cuba took aim at its own racism. What might happen next? Why?

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the Graduate College of Library and Information Science in conjunction with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of History, Department of Latina/Latino Studies, Spurlock Museum, and the University Library.