Cuba's Life Task: Combatting Climate Change (Documentary Screening)

Date
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Event Sponsor
Center for Latin American Studies
Location
Building 200, History Corner450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 200, Stanford, CA 94305307

The film screening of Cuba's Life Task: Combatting Climate Change will take place in-person with a postscreening Q&A with co-Producer Dr. Helen Yaffe via Zoom. The documentary premiered at COP26, and includes interviews with Cuban leadership, citizens, and more as Dr. Yaffe learns about Tarea Vida, the state plan for climate change, adaptation, and mitigation.

Dr. Helen Yaffe is a Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Fellow at the Latin America and Caribbean Centre at the London School of Economics. Since 1995, Dr. Yaffe has spent time living and researching in Cuba. Her newest book, We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World was published by Yale Press in 2020. She also co-produced Cuba & Covid-19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity, which was released in 2020.

For more information contact Prof. Mikael Wolfe mikaelw [at] stanford.edu (mikaelw[at]stanford[dot]edu)