Two Separate Talks on US-Cuba Relations

November 28 and 29
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th ave.
See Room # Below
Graduate School and University Center
365 5th Ave.

EVENT 1:

"What if They Lift the Embargo?
A Cuban Debate on US-Cuba Relations"

Rafael Hernández
Editor, Revista Temas and Visiting Researcher University of Puerto Rico

Rafael Hernández is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana "Juan Marinello", in Havana, and Editor of TEMAS, a Cuban quarterly in the field of social sciences and the humanities. Dr Hernández was director of North American studies at the Centro de Estudios sobre América for 18
years. He has been visiting professor and research fellow at Columbia, Harvard, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Johns Hopkins, the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM). He has published several books and essays on Cuban and U.S. policies, inter-American relations,
international security , migration and Cuban culture, society and politics. His most recent article focused on US-Cuban relations, "Los árboles y el bosque. Políticas cubanas posElián", was published by "Foreign Affairs en Español" (Fall, 2001).

Wednesday, November 28, 7 PM
Skylight Conference Room (Room 9100)

EVENT 2:

"The Helms-Burton Law: A Five-year Balance"

Joaquin Roy
University of Miami

Thursday, November 29, 4 PM
Room C-197

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