The Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies (The Graduate Center, CUNY) and Barnard College’s Forum on Migration are sponsoring a lecture by Consuelo Naranjo Orovio (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain). She will present “From Colonizers to Immigrants: Spaniards in Twentieth-Century Cuba” on Thursday, April 15, 2010, at 4:00pm in Room 9206. The Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street.
Born in Madrid, Consuelo Naranjo Orovio holds an MA in geography and history, with a specialization in anthropology and ethnology of the Americas, and a PhD in contemporary history from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Naranjo Orovio is the main researcher of comparative studies of the Caribbean and the Atlantic World at the CSIC, focusing on the social and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries and, in particular, migratory processes, Spanish Republican exile, cultural and scientific relations between Spain and America, cultural identities, race and discrimination. She has directed numerous research projects and has published widely in these topics.
For more information, see http://cubasymposium.org/
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