Cuba in Transitions: Perspectives on a Hispanic Caribbean Society

An examinatin of various critical turning points in Cuban history from the Spanish conquest in 1511 to the present. Specific areas of exploration will include but not be limited to: slavery, race, gender, politics, Cuba-US relations and the Cuban economy.

Features: 

• Franklin Knight, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Emeritus: "Cuba in Times of Transitions"
• Jane Landers, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University: "African Transitions: From Chattel Slavery to Homesteading on the Cuban Frontier"
• Joseph Clar, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University: "Havana and Veracruz in the Making of the Spanish Caribbean Urban System in the Seventeenth Century"
• Henry Lovejoy, Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin: "Slavery and Freedom in Cuba during the Age of Revolution: The Biography Juan Nepomuceno Prieto of the Lucumi Nation, 1773-1835"
• Daniel A. Rodriguez, Ph.D., Brown University: "From Colonial Medicine to Medical Inernationalism: The Poliics of Healthcare in Cubs, 1898-2015"
• Takkara Brunson, Ph.D., Morgan State University: "An assessment of U.S.-Cuba Relations through the work of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1900-1961"
• Anthony Maingot, Ph.D., Florida International University, Emeritus: "Cuba After Castro"