Event

Maestra (Catherine Murphy, 2011)

Speaker: Rachel Ellis Neyra, Wesleyan University

In 1961 high school girls and boys as young as age 13 left Havana to go up into the interior to teach farmers to read; making it the most literate country in the hemisphere. How will "reglobalization" affect Cuba?

Sponsors: Penn Humanities Forum, Latin American and Latino Studies, Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies, University Museum Library, Cinema Studies, Urban Studies, and Philadelphia Film Society