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CCGES > Talk: Sun, Sex and Socialism? – Representations of Cuba in DEFA Films

Talk: Sun, Sex and Socialism? – Representations of Cuba in DEFA Films

Posted: March 22, 2009

hosekCCGES is pleased to present Jennifer Hosek, Assistant Professor of German Studies at Queen’s University (Kingston), for a talk examining representations of Cuba in films produced by the East German film studio DEFA.

Prof. Jennifer Hosek studied Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received her Ph. D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkley, in 2004. Her Research Focus was German culture post-1945 as refracted through Cuban culture post-1959.

Support for this talk has been provided by CCGES as well as the German Studies Programme/Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics and the European Studies Programme.

Time: 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: CCGES Meeting Room, 230R York Lanes

If you plan to attend, RSVP to ccges@yorku.ca