Updating of Cuban model explained

Cuban academics visit UK

Professor Alzugary

Two leading Cuban academics toured the UK  for a week in April giving talks and lectures at conferences in London and Sheffield.

Professor Carlos Alzugaray of the University of Havana and Dr Rafael Hernandez, editor of Temas magazine, were the guests of the International Institute for the Study of Cuba (IISC). They arrived in the UK on Monday 16 April and carried out an intense programme of activities from the 17 April until their departure on the 22nd.

They were keynote speakers at the Conference: Cuba in the 21st Century organised by the IISC in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) and held at the University of London on Tuesday 17 April. Some 65 academics, scholars, students and members of the public attended the conference.  Prof. Alzugaray spoke on the foreign policy of Cuba in a period of change and Dr Hernandez discussed the latest internal updating of theCuban Socialist model.

Their contributions will be published in the December issue of the International Journal of Cuban Studies.

Dr. Hernandez

The following day they travelled to the northern city of Sheffield to participate in the annual Society for Latin American Studies Conference. This is the conference of the Latin Americanist scholars and academics in the UK and it was attended by 140 specialists from across the UK and Europe. Prof. Alzugaray and Dr Hernandez contributed to two panels and took part in a round table discussion in the final plenary session of the conference.

On Saturday 21st of  April, the day prior to departure, the pair took part in a dayschool on Cuba organised by the Sheffield branch of the UK’s Cuba Solidarity campaign where 60 people came to hear them discuss the latest developments in Cuba.

They left England for Cuba on the 22nd April.