The Havana-based institution Casa de las Américas invites the public to participate in a series of lectures that will explore a theme related to cultural colonization, a phenomenon linked to fascism, each month.
The program is titled “Paths to Decolonization: Thought, Art, and Cultural Action from Casa de las Américas,” and the next lecture, led by Cuban essayist and researcher Jorge Fornet, will be held on Tuesday, March 3rd at 10:00 a.m. local time in the institution’s Manuel Galich Room.
The expert, who is also the director of the institution’s Center for Literary Research, will lead the discussion on “Decolonization Under Debate: Casa de las Américas as a Hub for Reflections and Proposals.”
The lecture series began yesterday with a talk by the intellectual and president of the institution, Abel Prieto, and will continue until the end of this year.
His lecture, “Reasons and Objectives of a National Program to Confront Cultural Colonization,” was crucial in understanding that the world is facing an ancient phenomenon that cripples the inherent intellectual capacity of human beings, our culture, and our values.
In his presentation, Prieto warned about the consequences of being colonized and reflected on the role of social media in this, the battle for history, and the profound cultural and ethical crisis facing humanity, among other topics.
Cuba should make the fight against cultural colonization a matter of instinct, opined the Cuban writer, who is also the coordinator of the national training program against this scourge called “Sowing Ideas, Sowing Conscience.”
