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October 23, 2025

UMIH Guest Lecture Series with Karen Dubinsky

Event Date: October 23, 2025
Event Location: 409 Tier Building
Event Time: 2:30 pm

The UM Institute for the Humanities and the Centre for Human Rights Research invite you for a lecture with Karen Dubinsky on her new book, Strangely Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters (Between the Lines Books). The book focuses on the often-neglected network of personal and cultural connections between Cubans and Canadians since the early days of the Cuban revolution.

The event will take place on Thursday, October 23rd at 2:30 pm in 409 Tier Building, University of Manitoba. For information on getting to the University of Manitoba, see: https://umanitoba.ca/about-um/our-campuses/getting-here

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Karen Dubinsky is a historian at Queen’s University. Between 2008 and 2023, she co-taught and coordinated a university exchange program on Cuban culture which brought Canadian students to the University of Havana and Cuban artists and academics to Canada. She is co-host of Cuban Serenade, a podcast about Cuban musicians in Canada and hosts the CFRC radio program Cuban Sounds in Canada. Her previous books include studies of transnational adoption, Canadian cultural history, and Canadian-Global South relations. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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