Cuba in the 21st Century: International Conference

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

CUBA IN THE 21st CENTURY

Held on Tuesday 17 April 2012

10am-5pm followed by a reception

Woburn Suite,
Senate House,
University of London
Malet St., London,
WC1E 7HU

In April 2011 the first Cuban Communist Party Congress in over a decade agreed a programme of economic policy measures aimed at what it called the ‘updating of the Cuban socialist model’ heralding the most intensive and extensive change since the earliest days of the Revolution more than 50 years ago. In January 2012, the Communist Party met again in a special conference to discuss and agree political reforms to the way the Party and the country are governed. How will these changes affect the trajectory of the revolution and its relationship with the wider world?

This special one day conference  examined the prospects for Cuba and the Cuban socialist project in the 21st Century.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Carlos Alzugaray Treto, University of Havana

Dr Rafael Hernández, Temas magazine, Havana

Professor Alzugaray, a former diplomat and Ambassador to the European Union is an expert in Cuba’s international relations and has written extensively on Cuban foreign policy. The title of his presentation was: “Cuban Foreign Policy in the era of economic reforms”

Dr Hernández is a prize winning scholar, founder and editor-in-chief of Temas an independent journal of thought and political science. His presentation was entitled: “Cuba: in transition to what?”

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CALL FOR PAPERS

PROGRAMME

PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS