The CUBA Seminar

Graduate School and University Center
City University of New York

La Historia Oficial en los Primeros Años de la República

Ricardo Quiza
Instituto de Historia de Cuba

Tuesday
November 7
12:30 PM

Room 8201 (Dining Commons)
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (@34th ST., across from Empire State Bldg.)

Pre-registration is required:
Phone 212 817-2096 or Send Email to:
cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu

This event is organized by the Cuba Project, with support from the Ford Foundation and the Christopher Reynolds Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.

The CUBA Seminar

Graduate School and University Center
City University of New York

Caracteristicas Sociodemograficas de la Poblacion Cubana y la Produccion Social de la Salud

Rolando García Quiñones
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Gilberto Javier Cabrera Trimiño

Rolando García Quiñones (Director, CEDEM) has coordinated a series of projects on population and development including: Internal and International Migrations, Mortality in Cuba and its Counties, Populations Projections, National Fertility Survey, Community Development, Health and Environment in Cuba, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Demographic Trend and Aging in Cuba, Perspectives of the Human Resources in Cuba between 1995 and 2050. His publications include: Mortality Transition in Cuba (CEDEM, University of Havana, 1997) Population and Society (CEDEM, University of Havana, 1997) Populations Perspectives in Cuba (CEDEM, University of Havana, 2000).

Gilberto Javier Cabrera Trimiño's (Professor, University of Havana) primary areas of interests include: issues of environmental education, teacher and researcher training, and professionalization of the ecological economics preparation of specialists and of community work as a function of the relationship between population, environment and development. Among his most recent publications are: Ecological Economy and Desertification (CEDEM, University of Havana, 1998) Ecological Economy and Local Administration (CEDEM, University of Havana, 1999) Economy, Ecology and Human Development (CEDEM, University of Havana, 2000) Economy and Environment: Challenges and Perspectives (CEDEM, University of Havana, 2000) Economy and Ecology to ten years of Rio 92 (CEDEM, Univesity of Havana, 2001) * Presentation will be largely in Spanish.

Friday, at
September 14, 2001
2:00 PM
Location: C 203 (Councorse Level) Center for Demographic Studies
CUNY Graduate Center

Pre-registration is required:
Phone 718 997-2846 or Send Email to:
cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu

This event is organized by the Cuba Project, with support from the Ford Foundation and the Christopher Reynolds Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.

The CUBA Seminar

Graduate School and University Center
City University of New York

Social Consequences and Prospects of Economic Restructuring and Reform in Cuba

Claes Brundenius

Claes Brundenius, Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Center of Development Research Copenhagen, Denmark Claes Brundenius is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Development Research, (Copenhagen, Denmark) since 1997. He is at present working on problems of economic restructuring in transition economies, notably Cuba, Vietnam and China. Between 1976 and 1996 he was Research Fellow (and between 1987 and 1992 Deputy Director) at the Research Policy Institute of Lund University, Sweden, where he was directing studies on Science and Technology Policies in the Third World. He has a PhD in Economic History from Lund University and has also done undergraduate studies at Brandeis University, USA. He has been serving on various Research Councils and Editorial Boards and is at present member of the Reference Group of the Swedish Research Council for Development Research and of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Development Research. He has written extensively on problems of developing countries and his books include: Globalization and Third World Socialism: Cuba and Vietnam (with John Weeks), Palgrave, London and New York, 2001. Reconstruction or Destruction? Science and Technology at Stake in Transition Economies (with Bo Göransson and Prasada Reddy), Universities Press/Orient Longman, Hyderabad and London, 1999. New Technologies and Global Restructuring. The Third World at a Crossroads (with Bo Göransson), Taylor Graham, London, 1993. The Cuban Economy. Measurement and Analysis of Socialist Performance (with Andrew Zimbalist), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1989. Revolutionary Cuba. The Challenge of Economic Growth with Equity, Westview Press, Boulder, 1984.

Tuesday
September 11, 2001
2:00 PM
Location: Room 9205 (Ninth Floor)
CUNY Graduate Center

Pre-registration is required:
Phone 718 997-2846 or Send Email to:
cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu

This event is organized by the Cuba Project, with support from the Ford Foundation and the Christopher Reynolds Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.