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Seminar in Cuba on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis.
The Cuban missile crisis:when the world stood on the brink of a nuclear war.
Period: October 14-28, 2012 (14 days)
Content:
On Sunday the 14th of October 1962, the so called Cuban missile crisis began, a crisis, which represents the absolute climax of the Cold War. Together with experts of the Department of History of the University of Havana, the University of Cologne and Cuban contemporary witnesses, we will reconstruct the events in a 14 days seminar which includes a trip to Guanajay, San Cristobal, Pinar del Río, Isla Juventud and Playa Girón (Bahía de Cochinos)
Direction:
Christian Cwik (University of Cologne) ccwik@uni-koeln.de
Sergio Guerra Vilaboy (University of Havana)
Michael Zeuske (University of Cologne)
Further information and inscription:
office@konak-wien.org
Deadline:
15th of September, 2012
www.konak-wien.org
The study trip is organized by the Society for Continental American and Caribbean Studies in cooperation with the Department of Iberian and Latin-American History of the Historian Institute of the University of Cologne (Germany) and the Department of History of the University of Havana.
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