Students studying undergraduate Hispanic Studies programmes, alongside students from the School of Music and Fine Art (SMFA), will be travelling on a study trip to Cuba on Thursday 5 January for just over a week, following a successful bid to the Faculty of Humanities Internationalisation Fund.
Dr Montserrat Roser i Puig, Dr William Rowlandson and Dr Richard Lightman are making the final preparations to take the group of 19 students to Havana, the Cuban capital.
Hispanic Studies students will be able to immerse themselves in a Spanish-language culture and gain a first-hand look at the country at the heart of the modules Barcelona and Havana: Icon, Myth and History and Writing the Cuban Revolution. The music students from SMFA will visit local recording studios, see live performances, and have the opportunity to engage with dancing and percussion workshops.
Photos and stories from the previous trip to Havana are available here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/cuba-trip
Cuba has recently been at the centre of global news stories, following the death of Fidel Castro and the election of Donald Trump.