A special screening of Danny González Lucena‘s The Harvard Cubans, a rare documentary that unearths a little known event in U.S. and Cuban history. In 1900, more than half of all Cuban public teachers boarded five American military ships to participate in a summer school organized by Harvard University. For the first time, the oldest institution of higher education in the United States opened its doors to 1,273 people born in a foreign country, most of them women. The purpose of the trip was to teach them about modern pedagogical methods in American society.
In the spring of 2016, Cuban journalist and documentarian Danny González Lucena, under the auspices of the Cuba Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, began an investigation that finished with the production of the documentary.
After the screening, there will be a Q&A with the director, moderated by Harvard research scholar Marial Iglesias Utset, whose research was pivotal in the making of the film.