Upcoming Conferences
Latin American Migration: Transnational Perspectives, Regional Realities, March 25-27, 2010, UNC Chapel Hill
The conference will examine the transnational impacts of Latin American migration to the United States in the current era of local immigration governance, with a focus on lessons learned in North Carolina, the Southeast region, and migrant source communities in Latin America.
The Measure of a Revolution: Cuba, 1959-2009, May 7-9, 2009, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
The Cuban Revolution was one of the most important hemispheric events of the twentieth century, with both a regional and a global impact; and the country had to re-imagine itself. The conference, “The Measure of a Revolution: Cuba, 1959-2009”, will assess the Cuban Revolution on its 50th Anniversary through a variety of lenses: international relations, culture, gender, the economy, environment, sexuality, politics, migration, race, education, health and religion. Learn more. Program.
Previous Conferences
Annual UNC and Duke Consortium Conference, February 13-14, 2009
This year the conference title was "The Idea of the Americas: Representation and Reality." Program.
United States and Cuba: Rethinking Reengagement
In September 2008, the Institute for the Study of the Americas hosted a conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the theme, “The United States and Cuba: Rethinking Reengagement.” The conference brought to Carolina scholars, advocates, activists, and lobbyists in the United States to discuss the prospects and contemplate the strategies for changing the 50-year old U.S. policy toward Cuba. A transcript of Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson (the previous Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002-2005) is available here.
Conference website.
