HAVANA, Cuba, 15 December 2011 — Participants in the Backpack Documentary Workshop at the Advanced Institute of Art pose for a group photo at a dinner reception following our four-day event. The workshop was an extraordinary success, the last stage of which is a visit to American University by the winning team of Cuban students, […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 15 December 2011 — Our hosts at Casa de las Americas, Cuba’s premier cultural center, held a going-away party for American University students, professors and friends at the end of our fall semester in Cuba. This was the first time that AU Abroad held a semester at Casa. And it was the first […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 21 November 2011 — AU Abroad students and their Cuban contemporaries pose for a group picture during our recent visit to the Advanced Institute of International Relations in Havana. The Institute, known here as the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (ISRI) is Cuba’s premier institution for the study of foreign relations between Cuba […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 8 November 2011 — I gave an afternoon presentation at the Havana headquarters of Prensa Latina, Cuba’s global wire service. Life is curious. When I worked for United Press International (UPI) in Mexico City some three decades ago, we subscribed to Prensa Latina as a key source of information about events in Cuba, […]
HAVANA, Cuba, 5 November 2011 – Students who attended the first-ever Backpack Journalism Workshop at the Jose Marti International Institute for Journalism pose for a group photo with their new diplomas, their talent and their unbridled enthusiasm. A few of the students unfortunately could not make this last day of the five-day event when we […]
OLD HAVANA, Cuba, 2 November 2011 – AU Abroad students on a hunt for images take aim at some of the colonial-era buildings and their inhabitants during our class period on Wednesday. Included in the group are three Cubans who have joined the class. Two are photographers employed by the Casa de las Americas where […]