"Cuba: Reformas y Desafios"

"Cuba: Reformas y Desafios"

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Noon
3431 Posvar Hall

Eduardo Torres Cuevas is the Director of the Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti in Havana, President of the Cuban Academy of History and Director of the Casa de Estudios Fernando Ortiz, University of Havana, a research and teaching center that he created. He is the author of numerous books, including Esclavitud y sociedad (1986), Obispo Espada. Ilustración, reforma y antiesclavismo (1990), Félix Varela. Los orígenes de la ciencia y con-ciencia cubana (1995), Antonio Maceo: las ideas que sostienen el arma (1995), Historia de la masonería cubana. Seis ensayos (2006), among others.

Presentation will be in Spanish.
Lunch will be provided.

For more information contact: Alejandro de la Fuente at fuente2@pitt.edu or Luz Amanda Hank lavst12@pitt.edu

Sponsored by Department of History and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh