Last Public Issues Forum

This film series has been created to celebrate the new minor in Caribbean Studies. It invites viewers to reflect on the Caribbean as a space of media creation, as well as to consider social issues of global concern from the perspective of the Caribbean. With films from Colombia, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, this series aims to consider different parts of the Caribbean, allowing for a reflection on how the region is affected by geopolitics at a global scale, national politics, and by social issues including race, gender, sexual orientation and class. It also insists on and highlights the possibility and the power in narrating and creating from the margins, emphasizing the Caribbean not only as a subject matter but also and especially as agent and creator of languages, worlds, and ways of resistance.

These films are part of the LACS UISFL grant, funded by the Department of Education.

The schedule would be as follows:

Monday, September 15 at 6pm - Memorias del subdesarrollo (Tomás Gutiérrez, Cuba, 1968) Monday, September 22 at 6pm - Cocote (Nelson Arias de los Santos, 2017, Dominican Republic) Monday, September 29 at 6pm - La estrategia del mero (Edgar de Luque Jácome, 2022, Colombia)