Event Host: Center for Historical Research, History Department, Center for Latin American Studies
Professor Louis A. Pérez will explore Fidel Castro's use of history and national identity in mobilizing Cubans for revolution in "A Past to Look Forward To: The Cuban Revolution as History Foretold," Friday November 30, 3-4:30 p.m., 165 Thompson Library, presented by the Center for Historical Research.
Louis A. Pérez, Jr., is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History and Director for the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina. Professor Pérez's research centers on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean, especially Cuba. An award-winning author, Dr. Pérez has published five books on the Cuban history, including The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past (2013); Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (2014; and Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos (2008). A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Pérez is in demand as a commentator on U.S./Cuban affairs for CNN, Democracy Now! and Newsday.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the U.S. Department of Education through a Title VI grant.
