Women and the African Diaspora in the Films of Aida Bueno Sarduy

Authors

Aida Bueno Sarduy

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Description

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 12:30-2:00 pm

Ortega Hall Reading Room (335)

Join us for a talk with Cuban anthropologist and filmmaker Aida Bueno Sarduy, whose work centers on women’s leadership in African and Afro-descendants’ religions in Cuba and Brazil from the perspective of gender and feminist theory and criticism.

Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy's research and documentary work has focused on women’s leadership in African and Afro-descendents’ religions in Cuba and Brazil. She is researching letters of freedom and freedom-purchasing documents of African or Afro-descendant women in Brazil in the 18th and 19th centuries. Dr. Bueno Sarduy has a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid and has completed advanced studies on race relations and black culture at the Center for Afro-Asian Studies at the Universidade Candido Mendes in Río de Janeiro

Publication Date

Spring 4-15-2025

Recommended Citation

Sarduy, Aida Bueno. "Women and the African Diaspora in the Films of Aida Bueno Sarduy." (2025). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/465