UW-Stevens Point hosts first lecturer from Cuba in public forum
9/24/2014
 

How has Cuba – a country often accused of being frozen in time – actually embraced innovation at home, particularly since the end of the Cold War? Find out from a leading expert in U.S.-Cuba relations in a lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Ernesto Domínguez López will present “The Revolution Endures? Cuba’s Relevance in the 21st Century” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in Room 101 of the Collins Classroom Center. It is free and open to the public. 

Domínguez López specializes in Cuban foreign affairs, U.S.-Cuba relations and U.S. politics at the University of Havana. While UW-Stevens Point has organized study-abroad programs to Cuba since 2013, this is the first time the university welcomes an official guest from Cuba.  

Domínguez López acknowledges that not all agree with Cuba’s path and official U.S.-Cuban relations remain poor. Yet he envisions areas in which the two countries can work together for positive change, particularly once the U.S. embargo of more than 50 years is lifted. 

His talk is part of an interdisciplinary Latin American/Caribbean Speaker Series at UW-Stevens Point. It began in 2011 to promote awareness of political, social, economic, environmental and cultural issues in Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. 

For more, go to www.uwsp.edu/cols/Pages/Latin%20American%20and%20Caribbean%20Speaker%20Series/elopez.aspx or contact Jennifer Collins, associate professor of political science at UW-Stevens Point, at 715-346-2439 or jecollin@uwsp.edu

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