Public Seminars 2008
Public seminar series Spring 2008
Cuba: Revolution in Flux II
As Cuba approaches the 50th anniversary of its revolution and the passing of power from one generation to the next, this series of seminars examines trends and prospects in key areas of health, international relations and culture.
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12 March 2008
The gaze atrás: Screen memories in Cuban cinema
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Seminars Spring 2008
Seminars 2008
Cuba: Revolution in Flux II
Public seminar series Spring 2008
Cuban health policy: Challenges at home, outreach abroad
Speakers: Professor Patrick Pietroni and Professor Margaret Blunden, International Institute for the Study of Cuba, London Metropolitan University
The Cuban health care system is widely recognised throughout the world, but the controversy surrounding its portrayal in the film ‘Sicko’ by Michael Moore and recent revelations about its failings in the Cuban media have raised questions as to whether it really does deliver the quality of care that is assumed. Meanwhile, Cuba’s outreach to other developing countries appears to be growing to new levels. This seminar examines the current status of Cuba’s health care system at home and the radical nature of its overseas medical aid programme.
Professor Patrick Pietroni, was Dean of General Practice at the University of London. He is now the Director of the International Institute for the Study of Cuba. He has written extensively on Cuba’s health care system and recently returned from a study visit to the Ministry of Health.
6 February 2008
The Chávez connection: Analysing the ‘Bolivarian revolution’
Dr Julia Buxton Centre for International Cooperation and Security, University of Bradford.
The recent hint by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez that Cuba and Venezuela are possibly going to form a confederation has raised the imagination of many in Latin America and the fears of not a few in Washington. In this seminar, two of the UK’s leading experts examine the growing relationship between Cuba and Venezuela and offer informed predictions on the way it might develop into the future.
Dr Julia Buxton is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Cooperation and Security at the University of Bradford. She was visiting professor at the Centre for Latin American Studies, Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington for the Spring semester 2007. She has written extensively on the political and economic developments in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez.
Emily Morris is Senior Editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit and writes the quarterly reports on the Cuban Economy.
12 March 2008
The gaze atrás: Screen memories in Cuban cinema
Professor Michael Chanan, Roehampton University
Professor Michael Chanan is a documentary filmmaker, author of books on both film and music, and Professor of Film & Video at Roehampton University, London. In the 1980s he made a number of films in Cuba for Channel Four, and published a history of cinema in Cuba, of which the second edition came out in 2004 under the title 'Cuban Cinema'. He now visits Cuba whenever he can to teach at the film school at San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV). See www.mchanan.net.
