"The Cold War and the Transformation of Nature in Cuba"
Speaker: Reinaldo Funes-Monzote
Date: February 28, 2020
Time: 1:00pm- 3:00pm
Address: Hamilton Hall 569
Dr. Reinaldo Funes-Monzote is Director of Geo-Historical Research Program at the Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation (Cuba) and Professor of History at the University of Havana. Author of From Rainforest to Cane Field. A Cuban Environmental History since 1492, UNC Press, 2008 (Elinor Melville Prize by Conference on Latin American History). He received the Casa de las Americas Award 2019 with: Nuestro viaje a la luna. La idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría. He is currently visiting professor at the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies at Yale University, 2015-2020. His research focuses mainly on Cuban, Caribbean and Latin America Environmental History, and the History of Science and Technology in Cuba.
