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*Newsletter 29 November 2011*
IISC is relaunched as a membership association The International Institute
for the Study of Cuba
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been reborn as a membership association and is now open to anyone who
shares its aims and objects to join.
The Institute has severed all ties with London Metropolitan University and
is now an independent body with the goal of supporting and maintaining the
publication of the International Journal of Cuban
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organising public events in which academic research on Cuba can be
discussed and disseminated, and encouraging the serious study of the
island, its history, culture and scientific achievements.
The Institute is relaunched with the announcement of a major conference in
April 2012. Paper proposals are now being accepted for "Cuba in the 21st
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one day conference to be held at the Senate House, University of
London
on 17 April 2012.
The conference, in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of the
Americas
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count on the participation of two of Cuba's leading scholars. More details
of this and other activities are to be found on the new website
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Call for papers
*CONFERENCE – CUBA IN THE 21st CENTURY
Tuesday 17 April 2012*
Venue:
Woburn Suite,
Senate House,
University of London
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London,
WC1E 7HU
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In April 2011 the first Cuban Communist Party Congress in over a decade
agreed a programme of economic policy measures aimed at what it called the
‘updating of the Cuban socialist model’ heralding the most intensive and
extensive change since the earliest days of the Revolution more than 50
years ago. In February 2012 the Communist Party is to meet again in a
special conference to discuss and agree political reforms that are likely
to be equally profound in their effect. Just what are the prospects for
Cuba and the Cuban socialist project in the 21st Century? How will these
changes affect the trajectory of the revolution and it relationship with
the wider world?
This one day conference is for all those interested in answering these
questions.
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Reforms do not threaten socialism, says research The current reforms
being undertaken by the Cuban government to increase the non-state sector
and introduce market solutions do not threaten the socialist nature of the
revolution according to research published this month in the International
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Professor Michael O’Sullivan of Brock University in Ontario, Canada,
interviewed Cuban young people about their attitudes to the revolution,
socialism and their future following the reforms announced by Cuban
President Raúl Castro in 2010 and implemented by the Cuban Communist Party
in April this year.
His findings conclude that the reforms are part of a continuing process of
renewal of the revolution that has gone through four distinct phases since
1959 and is now entering its fifth:
“Each of these phases constitute a continuation of the historical process
and does not constitute a rupture with that process,” says O’Sullivan. “The
most obvious of the ongoing characteristics is the socialist character of
the country which is not threatened by creating a large non-state sector.”
‘Educated Cuban youth and the 2010 economic reforms: reinventing the
imagined revolution’ is published in Volume 3 Number 4 of the IJCS. To
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