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Ignacio Ramonet at London Metropolitan University
Hurry and register now!
The IISC’s launch event, taking place on October 10th is proving very popular. If you intend to come along, please email as soon as possible to ensure a seat.
The event is a lecture by Ignacio Ramonet, the author of a groundbreaking new biography of Fidel Castro to be published in the UK this November. Ignacio, the director of Le Monde Dioplomatique is to talk on his view of the Cuban leader and what his legacy will be.
Full details of the seminar are to be found here
and click here for a downloadable poster for the whole series.
Plans are now well advanced for the publication of the Institute’s International Journal of Cuban Studies. The journal will be online and open access to allow universities from the developing world who are often unable to subscribe to paid-for journals to benefit. The first edition will be published early in 2008. The journal will be inter-disciplinary. Proposals for publication from scholars in all fields, including science and medicine, are now being accepted.
Please visit the relevant page on our website
For updates on progress and to send suggestions for articles in the first instance email us here.
The second seminar in our series features Phil Peters of the Lexington Institute in Washington DC. He is to speak on the US-Cuba relationship. Phil, a former staffer in the Reagan and Bush Snr. State Departments is a leading critic of the current policy. You can read his daily blog here.
To sign up for this please also email to arrange.
The IISC has joined with the US policy think tank, The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), in its project to publish a series of articles on the future of relations with Cuba written by Cuba experts from Canada, Europe, Brazil/Mexico, and the U.S. The idea is to provide a small window into the future of international relations with the island through the eyes of people who are viewed as Cuba experts throughout the world. The IISC Policy Unit Director, Professor Margaret Blunden, has agreed to contribute a section on the UK’s policy towards the island.
