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Cuba & Its People

timeFEB. 5-12, 2027 ticketFrom $5,795 activityActivity Level: Moderate Activity diplomaUCLA Faculty on Tour

Overview

pin Havana, Mantanzas

Immerse yourself in fascinating, enigmatic Cuba! Unpack once and stay for seven nights in a privately owned boutique hotel in Havana’s attractive Vedado district. From here, venture out to encounter Cuba’s history and charisma, from colorful Old Havana to culture-rich Matanzas and the beautiful rural countryside. Ride in one of Cuba’s iconic, vintage convertibles along the Malecón seashore drive. Experience Cuba through meaningful exchanges with entrepreneurs, artists, performers, community leaders, and children. Plus, local experts add another enriching layer of Cuba’s history and culture during discussions about the island’s economy, musical roots, 1961 literacy campaign and other compelling topics. Visit Ernest Hemingway’s former house and museum, learn about and delight in Afro-Cuban dance and music, and gain insight at the Ludwig Foundation, which promotes contemporary Cuban artists and culture. This exclusive, small-group itinerary, developed by AHI Travel, is operated in accordance with a People-to-People general license established by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. This small-group program includes a mostly inclusive meal plan and round-trip flights between Miami and Cuba.

Cost: From $5,795
AHI Travel

Activity Level: Moderate Activity

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UCLA Faculty on Tour

Professor Robin Derby
Department of History divider

Lauren (Robin) Derby’s research has treated dictatorship and everyday life, the long durée social history of the Haitian and Dominican border, and how notions of race, national identity and witchcraft have been articulated in popular media such as rumor, food and animals. Her publications include the prize-winning The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo, the co-authored Terreur de frontière: le massacre des Haïtiens en République dominicaine en 1937 (Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2021) and the co-edited Dominican Republic Reader. Her current project is based on oral testimony of demonic animal phantasms in Haiti and the Dominican Republic and considers werewolf encounters in light of the animal turn. It is called Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands and will be published next month with Duke University Press. She is professor of history at UCLA where she teaches courses on modern Latin America and Caribbean history, cultural history and food studies. She has been travelling and conducting research in Cuba since 1995.

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