Cuba’s internationalism with Africa and the Middle East during the Cold War has gathered a lot of attention by Western scholars in the last two decades. Most well-known missions took place in Portuguese Guinea, Angola, Argelia, and Syria. However, there are no academic historical publications regarding these episodes written by Cuban scholars due to the difficulty of getting records from the different archives in Havana. In contrast, several testimonies of people who fought in these conflicts have been published in the island in the past years. During this presentation different narratives and testimonies of Cuban internationalists in Africa and the Middle East during the Cold War will be presented, contextualized and analyzed in order to find out their main characteristics and reflect on the uses of memory of which they are a part.
Speaker:
Dr. Fernando Camacho Padilla is a researcher at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Moderation:
Dr. Natália Ayo Schmiedecke is a researcher at the Universität Hamburg.
Information on participating / attending:
We would like to ask you to register for this event. The registration is free of charge.
Date:
05/12/2022 18:30 - 05/12/2022 20:00
Event venue:
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, ESA W221, Flügelbau Westen (hybrid format)
20146 Hamburg
Hamburg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
History / archaeology, Politics
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
05/06/2022
Sender/author:
Verena Schweiger
Department:
Fachabteilung Kommunikation
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event71569
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