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Damaris Puñales-Alpízar
Dr. Damaris Puñales-Alpízar will present a lecture titled “Cuba: The Soviet Flavor of a Tropical Island, a Visit 20 Years Later” on campus at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, 2011 in Ogden P. Confer Hall, Room 128.
Puñales-Alpízar will discuss the Soviet influence on Cuban popular culture in the 1990s. She will look particularly at the film industry and will discuss Cuban and Russian co-productions like “Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba.”
As a member of the generation of Cubans born between 1960-80, Puñales-Alpízar holds the unique experience of growing up in what she refers to as a “sentimental imagined Soviet-Cuban community.” Growing up in such a community included learning Russian in school, watching Russian cartoons, and studying the Soviet Union.
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