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"Cuba's Digital Revolution" with Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Cuba's Digital Revolution: A Conversation with Blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Join the Literary Journalism Program, the School of Humanities, Latin American
Studies, the Department of History/ Conversations on Writing and Public Life
Series, and the Krane (www.thekrane.com) for a talk about how bloggers are
changing social activism in Cuba. Both political and literary in scope, bloggers such
as Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo and his peers, among them the superstar dissident
blogger, Yoani Sanchez, are changing what it means to write from, to, and about
Cuba.

Introduced by Vanessa Garcia (UCI English and Literary Journalism) and
Moderated by Anita Casavantes Bradford (UCI Chicano/ Latino Studies and
History)

Free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served. For more
information or for disability accommodations, contact Patricia Pierson at (949) 824-
6876 or piersonp@uci.edu.

ABOUT Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo:

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo graduated as a biochemist from The University of
Havana, where he worked as a molecular biologist. His career trajectory was soon
to change, however. Today, Lazo is freelance artist working in Cuba -- a writer of
fiction and nonfiction; a journalist, photographer, and perhaps, most famously, a
blogger -- not an easy feat under a regime that continuously censors Internet
access on the island.

Lazo is the webmaster of Lunes de Post-Revolución (Post-Revolutionary Mondays
-- orlandoluispardolazo.blogspot.com )
and the photoblog, Boring Home Utopics (vocescubanas.com/boringhomeutopics
).

He also organized the first freelance documentary photography contest in Cuba in
2011, called Pais de Píxeles ("Country of Pixels"); he has received numerous
literary awards in Cuba; and is the author of five short-story collections including,
Collage Karaoke, 2001 and Boring Home, 2009. His photographs have appeared
in the New York Times and other publications, both digital and print.