Paul Niell: “Ritual Space and Afro-Cuban Modernity at the Sanctuary of Regla, Cuba”

September 26, 2013

The UCF Art Gallery presents a lecture by Paul Niell of Florida State University. The lecture is part of the September exhibit Caribbean Expressions: Art, Life and Culture.

Paul Niell is assistant professor of Spanish Colonial and African Diaspora art history and visual culture at Florida State University. His articles have appeared in the peer-reviewed journals, Cultural Landscapes, the Bulletin of Latin American Research, The Latin Americanist, and the Colonial Latin American Review. He is currently writing a book on heritage practices and the transformation of the Plaza de Armas of Havana, Cuba from 1754 to 1828.