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		Cuba Report	Issue 11	July 2008

		Forthcoming Events
		IISC invites star Mirtha Ibarra to Cine Cuba Film Festival Thursday 10 July- Thursday 17 July 2008 The Barbican Centre in the City of London is to host a festival of Cuban films from July 10-17, 2008. The IISC has helped with the preparation of the season and has invited the Cuban film actress Mirtha Ibarra to take part in the event. Mirtha will introduce films by her late husband Tomás Guttiérez Alea, one of which, Una Pelea Cubana Contra Los Demonios, is being especially restored to be shown in the UK for the first time. Una Pelea is being restored with the help of Roehampton University and the Unreal project. It will be shown on July 13th on a special day of screenings from Cuba's endangered archives. The day will mark the launch of an appeal to raise funds to save more of the original films that are in sore need of repair. More details are in the programme on our website Contact the Barbican box office to reserve and book seats. Cuba's Engagement with China: Domestic and Regional Implications Wednesday 30 July, 2008 Dr. Adrian H. Hearn Institute for International Studies The University of Technology Sydney Wednesday 30th July, 2008. 6.30pm Henry Thomas Room, North campus, Holloway Road, London, N7 8DB This seminar examines how intensifying economic collaboration between Cuba and the People's Republic of China has impacted the island's domestic development strategies and the character of its relations with Latin America. In 2005 China became Cuba's second largest trading partner (after Venezuela) and Chinese industrial manufacturing firms have identified Cuba as a potential production platform for expanding their Latin American market. Dr. Adrian H. Hearn (pictured) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for International Studies, The University of Technology Sydney. Adrian has conducted research in Cuba (three years) and China (ten months), and is currently undertaking a study of Chinese engagement with Latin America. Entrance to this seminar is FREE but to attend please register by email For full details click here

Forthcoming Events

IISC invites star Mirtha Ibarra to Cine Cuba Film Festival

Thursday 10 July- Thursday 17 July 2008

The Barbican Centre in the City of London is to host a festival of Cuban films
from July 10-17, 2008.
The IISC has helped with the preparation of the season and has invited the Cuban film actress Mirtha Ibarra to take part in the event.
Mirtha will introduce films by her late husband Tomás Guttiérez Alea, one of which, Una Pelea Cubana Contra Los Demonios, is being especially restored to be shown in the UK for the first time.
Una Pelea is being restored with the help of Roehampton University and the Unreal project. It will be shown on July 13th on a special day of screenings from Cuba's endangered archives.
The day will mark the launch of an appeal to raise funds to save more of the original films that are in sore need of repair.
More details are in the programme on our website

Contact the Barbican box office to reserve and book seats.

Cuba's Engagement with China: Domestic and Regional Implications

Wednesday 30 July, 2008

Dr. Adrian H. Hearn
Institute for International Studies
The University of Technology Sydney

Wednesday 30th July, 2008. 6.30pm
Henry Thomas Room,
North campus,
Holloway Road,
London, N7 8DB

This seminar examines how intensifying economic collaboration between Cuba and the People's Republic of China has impacted the island's domestic development strategies and the character of its relations with Latin America. In 2005 China became Cuba's second largest trading partner (after Venezuela) and Chinese industrial manufacturing firms have identified Cuba as a potential production platform for expanding their Latin American market.

Dr. Adrian H. Hearn (pictured) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for International Studies, The University of Technology Sydney. Adrian has conducted research in Cuba (three years) and China (ten months), and is currently undertaking a study of Chinese engagement with Latin America.

Entrance to this seminar is FREE but to attend please register by email

For full details click here

		Lung cancer vaccine team invited to attend the UK-Cuba Biotech conference
		The IISC has invited a member of the team that developed Cuba’s new lung-cancer vaccine to take part a conference on biotechnology in Cuba and the UK in October. UK-Cuba Biotech 2008 Tuesday 21 October 2008 Atlee Suite, Portcullis House, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, SW1A 1AA Followed by a reception Cuba is in a unique position as its Biotechnology industry has developed entirely independently. As such the knowledge and expertise which has developed in Cuba is an untapped resource for countries such as the UK. This is a results orientated conference which will provide an opportunity to explore commercial research and trade opportunities as well as examining the future development of these opportunities between the UK and Cuba. For more information visit our website

Lung cancer vaccine team invited to attend the UK-Cuba Biotech conference

The IISC has invited a member of the team that developed Cuba’s new lung-cancer vaccine to take part a conference on biotechnology in Cuba and the UK in October.

UK-Cuba Biotech 2008
Tuesday 21 October 2008

Atlee Suite,
Portcullis House,
Houses of Parliament,
Westminster,
London,
SW1A 1AA
Followed by a reception

Cuba is in a unique position as its Biotechnology industry has developed entirely independently. As such the knowledge and expertise which has developed in Cuba is an untapped resource for countries such as the UK.
This is a results orientated conference which will provide an opportunity to explore commercial research and trade opportunities as well as examining the future development of these opportunities between the UK and Cuba.

For more information visit our website

		IISC launches the International Journal of Cuban Studies
		The IISC launched the first edition of its International Journal of Cuban Studies in June. It is now available to read free and online at www.cubastudiesjournal.org In the words of the journal’s founding executive editor, Professor Patrick Pietroni: “Our central question is to ask what the lessons are that Western and other societies can learn from interrogating and analysing the Cuban social experience? “The International Journal of Cuban Studies is one of the academic vehicles through which this open analysis and discussion will occur.” The first issue contains articles on Cuba cultural politics, health care, education, south-south cooperation and US policy towards the island. In addition, there is a section on Cuban science and society, along with book and film reviews, and other reports of interest. A regular feature will be a ‘classic paper’ in each edition. The first is a chapter on Cuba by Winston Churchill, describing his visit when he was a young soldier during Cuba’s Second War of Independence at the end of the 19th Century.

		Londonmet delivers in Havana
		The International Institute for the Study of Cuba arranged for Dr Christine Nunn of London Metropolitan University to travel to Havana in June and give a series of two one week courses in bioinformatics to a total of 50 students at the Cuban Center for Scientific Investigation (CNIC) Londonmet gave the students a certificate of attendance and Christine (pictured centre with a group she taught) has been invited back to Cuba to take part in the CNIC congress of 2010. More details on our website

		Medical Tour filling up Four participants are already enrolled to take part in the IISC study tour for Medical and primary health professionals and academics departs on Virgin Atlantic for Havana on November 26. The expanded programme includes participation in a major international conference on Medical Education in the 21st Century. The tour is aimed at Health professionals and academics and will be led by Professor Patrick Pietroni. Visits will look at all aspects of Cuban medical care, including the system, its ethos, treatment regimes, institutions, research and facilities. Full details and the cost of participation can be found on our website. For further information email Dr Stephen Wilkinson Discover Cuba: December 6 Following the success of last year's London Metropolitan study tour to Cuba, the International Institute for the Study of Cuba has arranged another itinerary for 2008. The Discover Cuba tour has been organised in conjunction with the tour company Old Havana Ltd and departs for a week on December 6. Full details are posted on our site here The tour has been arranged for students and staff at London Metropolitan University but participants from other institutions are welcome. It will be accompanied by Dr Stephen Wilkinson, Assistant Director of the IISC. To read what last year's group thought of the experience, click here Conferences/Call for Papers The IISC will be participating in a major international conference in Ontario, Canada next year that will assess the record of the Cuban Revolution in its 50th anniversary year. The Measure of a Revolution: Cuba, 1959-2009 Understanding the Past, Considering the Future May 7-9, 2009 Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Call for papers				Cranfield MBAs have a swell time The second IISC organised tour for Cranfield Univeristy School of Management returned from Havana on June 16th after a highly successful week of visits. The group of 20 MBA students were accompanied by IISC assistant director Dr Stephen Wilkinson. Pictures and feedback are on the website. Publications An article by IISC Assistant Director Dr Stephen Wilkinson: ‘Cuba’s Tourism Boom: A curse or blessing’ is published this month in the Third World Quarterly


						Discussing sexuality in Cuba
						On 25 June, the IISC was host to award-winning Cuban academic Abel Sierra Madero, who gave a seminar on sexuality and the construction of the Cuban nation. 30 people attended the event held in the Henry Thomas room

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Wednesday 30th July, 2008. 6.30pm Henry Thomas Room, North campus, Holloway Road, London, N7 8DB

Wednesday 30th July, 2008. 6.30pm
Henry Thomas Room,
North campus,
Holloway Road,
London, N7 8DB