Calendar of events.If your organization is sponsoring an upcoming event, please let our readers know! Fax details to CubaNews at (301) 365-1829 or send an e-mail to larry@luxner.com. Feb. 17: Shared Vision: Photos of Baracoa, Cuba, on exhibit at Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art. Details: Soledad McIntire, St. Augustine-Baracoa Friendship Association, PO Box 861086, St. Augustine, FL 32086-1086. Tel: (904) 461-3175. E-mail: sole@aug.com. Feb. 17: Antonio J. Molina presents his book "Mujeres en la Historia de Cuba" (Women in the History of Cuba Cuba, the largest of the Caribbean islands, was first inhabited by Indigenous peoples known as the Taíno and Ciboney. On 27 October 1492, Christopher Columbus sighted the island during his first voyage of discovery and claimed it for Spain. ). Details: Institute of Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University. The University of Miami (also known as Miami of Florida,[2] UM,[3] or just The U , 1531 Brescia Ave., Coral Gables Coral Gables, city (1990 pop. 40,091), Miami-Dade co., SE Fla., SW of Miami; inc. 1925. Founded at the height of the Florida land boom, Coral Gables is a noted planned city, with tree-lined boulevards and Mediterranean-style buildings. , FL 33134. Tel: (305) 284-2822. Feb. 24: "Homenaje a Juan Manuel Several Spanish and Portuguese princes wore this name:
FIU Financial Intelligence Unit FIU Fingerprint Identification Unit (Sony) FIU Fire Investigation Unit FIU Fraud Investigation Unit (UK) FIU Facsimile Interface Unit professor Uva de Aragon, journalist Alberto Muller. Details: Institute of Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami, 1531 Brescia Ave., Coral Gables, FL 33134. Tel: (305) 284-2822. Mar. 3: Cuban Film Poster & Arts Festival, Kensington, Md. "World-class collection of Cuban film posters from the late 1950s to mid-1980s." Details: Banning+Low, 3730 Howard Avenue, Kensington, MD 20895. Tel: (301) 933-0700. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : www.banningandlow.com. Apr. 27: Cuba Action Day, sponsored by Emergency Coalition to Defend Educational Travel. This newly formed group opposes Bush administration's most recent restrictions against academic travel to Cuba. Details: ECDET, Washington. Tel: (220) 232-3317. Fax: (202) 232-3440. E-mail: tiana@ciponline.org. URL: www.ciponline.org/cuba/ecdet.htm. May 25-Jun. 24: Intensive Program of Cuban Studies, University of Miami. Objective of program "is to introduce university students from throughout the U.S. to the history, culture and politics of Cuba Politics of Cuba take place within a framework of a socialist republic. Cuba is constitutionally defined as a "socialist state guided by the principles of José Martí, and the political ideas of Marx, Engels and Lenin". ." Local field trips included. Details: University of Miami School of Continuing Studies. Tel: (305) 284-3183. URL: www.miami.edu/miamisemester. Jul. 3-10: 5th Int'l Convention for Environment and Development, Havana. Themes include environmental business management, tourism, hydraulic resource management and coastal ecosystem management. Cost: $1,900 from Cancun. Details: JoJo White, Global Exchange, San Francisco. Tel: (800) 497-1994. E-mail: jojo@globalexchange.org. |
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