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Dear teams, Here is the latest addition to our events calendar. FYI and further dissemination: ________________________________ Panel discussion and book launch: Representing Post-Soviet Cuba: Media, Literature and Cultural Memory<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/post-soviet-cuba> February 7 2018 | 17:30 | Location: UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN Ivan Darias Alfonso (Cuban scholar), Juan Orlando Pérez González (University of Roehampton) and Angela Dorado-Otero (Queen Mary London). The Cuban media has played a central role in shaping ideas of nation and national identity linked to the political system installed after the Revolution. The aim of defending the homeland is still regarded as a mobilizing force and an incentive to safeguard the island's unity. To furnish those discursive strategies, the past is evoked either in epic terms, reflecting on the heroism of the early revolutionary years (Bay of Pigs, Missile Crisis, the Battle of Ideas) or to contrast it with a well-known catalogue of all the ills of pre-revolutionary Cuba. In order to support the status quo and the permanence of the revolutionary present, the Cuban media has directed the country's collective memory to specific targets, to those events and scenarios that have enabled a positive reinforcement of the "authenticity" and legitimacy of the revolutionary government. Read more<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/post-soviet-cuba>. Free registration here<https://post-soviet-cuba-representations.eventbrite.co.uk/> ________________________________ Oscar Martinez Events and Communications Officer UCL Institute of the Americas tel.: 020 3108 9721 | ext.: 59721 | e-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> web: www.ucl.ac.uk/americas<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas> Address for Royal Mail deliveries: UCL Institute of the Americas Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Location and address for courier deliveries: UCL Institute of the Americas 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/contact-us> [Twitter UCL Americas]<https://twitter.com/UCLAmericas> [FB Like] <https://www.facebook.com/UCLAmericas>