Announcements from the Forum for the Study of Cuba, University of
Wolverhampton, England:
1. New internet resource & URL for Cubanists
2. Forthcoming Bilateral Conference 'Cultura y Sociedad en la Cuba Moderna'
********** New Internet Resource *************
The Forum for the Study of Cuba has a new web address, and now hosts a
FULLY SEARCHABLE ON-LINE BIBLIOGRAPHIC INDEX of over 1400 titles pertaining
to the study of all aspects of Cuban culture, history, politics, society
and economics:
http://asp2.wlv.ac.uk/hlss/research/Cuba/
All titles in this index are actually held within the FSC's Hennessy
Collection at the University of Wolverhampton, and are available for
research use to FSC members and by special arrangement to other
researchers. For further details email <[log in to unmask]>
*************Conference Announcement **********
The Forum is also pleased to announce its forthcoming Bi-lateral conference
"Cultura y Sociedad en la Cuba Moderna", Thursday 4th July 2002, at the
Institute of Latin American Studies, London, starting at 1pm.
Conference Programme
1.00 Registration
1.15 Opening Remarks
I. Pre-Revolutionary Cuba
1.20 David Raby (Liverpool): The 1933 revolution and the 26th of July
Movement
1.50 Paula Ortiz Guilián (Havana): Los espacios culturales de los
comunistas cubanos en la década del 40.
2.20 Antoni Kapcia (Wolverhampton): Elites, culture and identity in
Republican Cuba: the view through‘Bohemia’
2.50 Break
II. Revolutionary Cuba
3.15 Steve Wilkinson (Cuba Business): The importance of being irreverent:
Irony, parody and satire in Cuban art during the Special Period
3.45 Parvathi Kumaraswami (Wolverhampton): La importancia y el olvido del
testimonio Cubano
4.15 Juan Azahares Espinal (Havana): Cultura y Política desde la
perspectiva de las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales (ONG)
4.45 José Carlos Vázquez López (Havana): La Revolución Cubana: un hecho
cultural
5.15 Closing remarks
Conference attendance is free and open to all researchers. To attend,
please email the FSC on <[log in to unmask]>
For further information about these announcements and the Forum for the
Study of Cuba, please email <[log in to unmask]>, or visit our website
http://asp2.wlv.ac.uk/hlss/research/Cuba/
Sally Gainsbury
Research Assistant,
Forum for the Study of Cuba,
School of Humanities, Languages & Social Studies,
University of Wolverhampton,
Stafford Street,
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
England
http://asp2.wlv.ac.uk/hlss/research/Cuba/
email <[log in to unmask]>
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