Lunch & Talk with Cuban Scholar- Wed, Feb 10

Join us for lunch and conversation (in Spanish and English!) with Cuban scholar Armando Chaguaceda, who will discuss political change and civil society in today’s Cuba.  Chaguaceda is a specialist on democracies in Latin America, and follows deliberative/participatory democracy movements.

 

Wednesday, February 10

12:30-1:30PM

Baker Hall 246A

 

Please RSVP to Emily Half, ehalf@andrew.cmu.edu, by Monday, February 8, to reserve your spot at lunch.  Sponsored by the Global Studies major.

 

 

Armando Chaguaceda (La Habana, Cuba). MA, History and MS, Political Science, University of Havana (2004) ; PhD, History and Regional Studies, Universidad Veracruzana (2012). Professor and researcher in History, Political and Sociological Theory, and Comparative Politics. Member, National System of Researchers (UNI) in Mexico. Selected publications:Cuba sin dogmas ni abandonos. Diez aproximaciones a la transición socialista. Editorial Ciencias Sociales: La Habana. 2005;  (Comp.)  Participación y espacio asociativo. La Habana: Editorial Acuario, Publicaciones Acuario, Centro Félix Varela, 2008; “The promise besieged: participation and autonomy in Cuba” in The Revolution under Raúl Castro. (Eds.) Edith P. Brenner, M.R. Jimenéz, J.M. Kirk and W. M. Leogrande. New York: Rowman & Littlefield,  2014; “Entre el deshielo y la democratización”, Letras Libres 161 (febrero 2015): 36-38.