London Metropolitan University Research Institutes
 

Canada and the Cuban Revolution 19/06/09

Picture shows (L-R) Emily Morris (IISC), Raúl Rodríguez (Univeristy of Havana), Cynthia Wright (York Univeristy, Toronto(, Lana Wylie (McMaster University, Ontario) and John Kirk (Dalhousie University, Novia Scotia)

A symposium organised jointly by the IISC and the Institute for the Study of the Americas

Canada and the Cuban Revolution

took place on Friday 19th June

in the
Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
17 Russell Square
London WC1B

More information: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/about/conference.htm

More than 20 people attended this symposium that brought to London three distinguised Canadian scholars and a Cuban specialist in western hemispheric relations to dicsuss the relationship between Canada and Cuba that has been regarded as the best that the revolutionary government has had with any country from the developed capitalist world.

The Programme was as follows

2.15-2:30 Welcome

2:30 - 4:00 Panel on 'Canada and the Cuban Revolution'

Lana Wylie, McMaster University, Ontario: ‘Differences of Perception: Canadian and American Approaches to Cuba’

Cynthia Wright, York University, Toronto: 'Fair Play for Cuba: The Cuban Revolution Meets Cold War Canada'

Raul Rodríguez Rodríguez, University of Havana: ‘Canada and the Cuban Revolution: a perspective from Cuba’

Discussant: Emily Morris International Institute for the Study of Cuba

4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-5:30 Keynote:
John Kirk, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia: "Reflections on Canada-Cuba relations since 1959"





 

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