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Dear all,

back in December I promised to send you details of the forthcoming one day
conference on Cuba to be celebrated in Wolverhampton on 20 January 1999.
Sorry for the delay and I hope many of you will want to come.
Kepa 
>
>FORTY YEARS OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
>
>A special Day Conference organised jointly by
> 
>The Forum for the Study of Cuba (School of Languages & European Studies)
>Division of History (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)
>University of Wolverhampton
>
>WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY 1999
>
>Programme of activities
>10.00  Coffee
>
>10.30  Introductory remarks: 
>Tony Kapcia (University of Wolverhampton):  'Forty Years of what exactly?'
>
>11.00-12.30    Two parallel sessions
>
>Session A: Society and Revolution
>11.00   Armando Chávez (University of Havana/University of Wolverhampton): 
>			'La revolución educacional en Cuba: resultados y desafíos'
>11.30   Emma Harris-Curtis (University of Oxford): 'A perspective of NGOs
>in Cuba today'
>11.30   Kepa Artaraz (University of Wolverhampton): 'Towards a socialist
>morality of health?'
>
>Session B: Political and economic dimensions of the Revolution.
>11.00   Ken Cole (University of East Anglia): 'Cuba - the process of
>socialist development'
>11.30   Paul Henderson (University of Wolverhampton): 'Our Man in Havana:
>British diplomacy and 			the early Revolution'
>12.00   Francisco Domínguez (University of Middlesex): 'Cuba at 40: changes
>in the base..... changes 			in the superstructure?'
>
>12.30  Break for lunch
>
>2.00    PLENARY LECTURE: Leonardo Padura Fuentes
>            (prize-winning Cuban author)
>
>3..00  Tea/coffee
>
>Culture and Revolution
>3.15    Verity Smith (QMW, London): 'A formula for hard times - the prose
>fiction of Padura Fuentes'
>3.45   David Wood (University of Sheffield): 'The cinema of Tomás Gutiérrez
>Alea: reflection and 				critique of Cuban society'
>4.15  Conrad James (University of Birmingham): 'Literature and racial
>politics in revolutionary Cuba'
>
>4.45  Concluding remarks
>
>All sessions will be held in Rooms B113 and B215 of the School of Languages
>and European Studies building, Stafford Street, on the Wolverhampton Campus
>of the University. Participants are asked to go directly to B113 (first
>floor) in order to register.
>
>It would help considerably in planning rooming arrangements if those who
>intend to participate would confirm their attendance beforehand by
>contacting either Tony Kapcia (Tel 01902 322455; email [log in to unmask])
>or Paul Henderson (Tel. 01902 323498; email [log in to unmask]).
>
>The campus is conveniently located in the centre of Wolverhampton, a short
>walk from the railway station and easily accessible from the M6.
>
>
>
>
>Dr Paul Henderson
>
>Secretary, Society for Latin American Studies
>
>School of Humanities and Social Sciences
>University of Wolverhampton
>Castle View
>Dudley
>DY1 3HR
>UK
>
>Phone: 01902 323498
>Fax: 01902 323379
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
Kepa Artaraz
School of Languages and European Studies
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford Street
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 01902-322409
Fax: 01902-322739


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