BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 RDATE:20190310T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 RDATE:20191103T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190321T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190321T170000 LOCATION:Miller Hall\, Room 102 GEO:45.450858;-122.668265 SUMMARY:The Art of Solidarity: An Introduction to Visual History in Cold War Latin America through Cuban Political Posters DESCRIPTION:Please join Visiting Assistant Professor of History\, Ashley Black\, and her Hist 400 Reading Colloquium students for a talk by Jessic a Stites Mor\, Associate Professor of History at The University of Britis h Columbia. \;Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) was created to champion a Latin Ameri can\, tricontinentalist vision of Third World solidarity between these re gions. Through this organization\, Cuba used visual and media arts to fra me and reframe historical events\, utilizing OSPAAAL as a conduit of pro- Cuba revolutionary ideas\, as it circulated updates on national liberatio n struggles and calls to action for internationalist solidarity. OSPAAAL produced visual art in solidarity campaigns that allowed Cuba to promote a particular interpretation of the Cold War as ongoing colonialism to gen erate transnational support for national liberation struggles in the Midd le East and Africa\, as well as to promote the Cuban revolution itself. T his presentation examines the way that the visual approach used by the ar tists working with OSPAAAL intersected with other modes of transnational solidarity activism to promote revolutionary ideals and commonalities bet ween distant participants and specifically in order to influence internat ional cooperation at the United Nations and in advancing Castro's profile within the Non-Aligned Movement. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Please join Visiting Assistant Professo r of History\, Ashley Black\, and her Hist 400 Reading Colloquium student s for a talk by Jessica Stites Mor\, Associate Professor of History at Th e University of British Columbia. \;
Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples o f Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) was created to champion a L atin American\, tricontinentalist vision of Third World solidarity betwee n these regions. Through this organization\, Cuba used visual and media a rts to frame and reframe historical events\, utilizing OSPAAAL as a condu it of pro-Cuba revolutionary ideas\, as it circulated updates on national liberation struggles and calls to action for internationalist solidarity . OSPAAAL produced visual art in solidarity campaigns that allowed Cuba t o promote a particular interpretation of the Cold War as ongoing colonial ism to generate transnational support for national liberation struggles i n the Middle East and Africa\, as well as to promote the Cuban revolution itself. This presentation examines the way that the visual approach used by the artists working with OSPAAAL intersected with other modes of tran snational solidarity activism to promote revolutionary ideals and commona lities between distant participants and specifically in order to influenc e international cooperation at the United Nations and in advancing Castro 's profile within the Non-Aligned Movement.
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