Plan­ning and Mar­ket in the Cuban Econ­omy Armando Nova, CEEC, Uni­ver­sity of Havana Social­ists Trans­for­ma­tions in Europe (CEE): Issues and Some Lessons David Janc­sics, PhD Can­di­date, CUNY Grad­u­ate Cen­ter Mauri­cio Font, Bild­ner Cen­ter for West­ern Hemi­sphere Stud­ies Visit the event’s page: http://www.cubaproject.org/events/136/socialist-transformations-cuba-in-comparative-perspective/

The Artist as Cul­tural and Com­mod­ity Pro­ducer Elvis Fuentes Cura­tor, Museo del Bar­rio Cuban Art in the Wake of State Re-structuring Yuneikys Vil­la­longa Cura­tor, Lehman Col­lege Art Gallery Visit the event’s page for more infor­ma­tion: http://www.cubaproject.org/events/133/art-and-transformation-in-cuba/

Click the fol­low­ing link for event details! http://www.cubaproject.org/events/134/cuba-today-change-to-remain-unchanged/

Coun­tries in Latin Amer­ica and the Caribbean are in the midst of a period of pro­found demo­graphic change which will lead to a dra­matic shift in the age struc­ture of the pop­u­la­tion, with sharp declines in the pro­por­tion of chil­dren and increases in the pro­por­tion of older per­sons. Though they are at dif­fer­ent stages in […]

After 2008, the newly installed pres­i­dency of Raúl Cas­tro launched sev­eral ini­tia­tives to revamp the highly cen­tral­ized form of social­ism for which Cuba had been known. Though Cuba’s Actu­al­ización draws from other expe­ri­ences of social­ist reform, it appears to be a dis­tinc­tive approach. The Cuba Project/Bildner Cen­ter col­lo­quium puts the new approach in per­spec­tive and […]

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 […]