Samuel Far­ber, Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence at Brook­lyn Col­lege, and Car­los Alzu­garay, Vis­it­ing Pro­fes­sor of His­tory at Queens Col­lege and Pro­fes­sor at Havana Uni­ver­sity, will share their per­spec­tives on the Cuban Rev­o­lu­tion. This event will mark the launch­ing of Farber’s new book, Cuba Since the Rev­o­lu­tion of 1959: A Crit­i­cal Assess­ment (Hay­mar­ket Books). For more […]

Guillermo J. Gre­nier, Florida Inter­na­tional Uni­ver­sity, has con­ducted The Florida Inter­na­tional Uni­ver­sity Cuba Poll since 1991.  It pro­vides evi­dence of the changes and con­ti­nu­ity of Cuban-American atti­tudes and behav­iors towards the island as well as towards U.S./Cuba pol­icy. Dr. Gre­nier, will present the most recent results from the 2011 Cuba poll com­pleted in Sep­tem­ber of this year […]

     Car­los Riobó, The City Col­lege of New York and Bild­ner Center, and his col­lab­o­ra­tors will present his book Cuban Inter­sec­tions of Lit­er­ary and Urban Spaces (SUNY Press), an exam­i­na­tion pri­mar­ily of Havana as a cen­ter where urban and lit­er­ary spaces often come together. Some of the areas of study are urban gar­dens, archi­tec­ture, urban […]

Alfredo Pri­eto, Unión de Escritores y Artis­tas de Cuba (UNEAC), will dis­cuss the preva­lence of United States cul­ture in Cuba. During this pre­sen­ta­tion, spe­cific com­po­nents of the US cul­tural pres­ence in Cuba will be high­lighted, par­tic­u­larly from the 1990s until today. Spe­cial atten­tion will be given to the island’s pop­u­lar cul­ture, music, and lit­er­a­ture vis–à–vis recent […]

At our recent inter­na­tional sym­po­sium Cuba Futures: Past and Present we fea­tured dozens of out­stand­ing pre­sen­ta­tions by aca­d­e­mics from around the coun­try and the world. So far, we have pub­lished three vol­umes of papers from this con­fer­ence that you may down­load here for free. Addi­tion­ally, you may view the pre­sen­ta­tions on the econ­omy in Cuba given by the fol­low­ing pan­elists: Hilary […]

Hilary Becker, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of account­ing at Car­leton Uni­ver­sity, Mario González-Corzo , Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of eco­nom­ics and Direc­tor of the Mas­ter of Sci­ence (M.S.) in Busi­ness Pro­gram at Lehman Col­lege, CUNY, and Mauri­cio Font, direc­tor of the Bild­ner Cen­ter for West­ern Hemi­sphere Stud­ies and pro­fes­sor of soci­ol­ogy at The Grad­u­ate Cen­ter and Queens Col­lege, CUNY […]

  The Grad­u­ate Center’s monthly “365 Fifth” pub­li­ca­tion high­lighted the Bild­ner Cen­ter and the Cuba Project last month in two pieces about the project’s recent Cuban Bal­let event and inter­na­tional Cuba sym­po­sium “Cuba Futures.” Rachel Ramírez writes of the spring bal­let event: “It’s a story that I had to tell about my coun­try, and it’s full […]

Wel­come to the brand-new home of the Cuba Project! Since 2001, the Bild­ner Cen­ter for West­ern Hemi­sphere Stud­ies has been home to the Cuba Project,  a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort to study changes in Cuban pol­i­tics, eco­nom­ics, cul­ture, and soci­ety. Today, the project finds a new online home at CubaProject.org. This site will fea­ture and high­light the […]