Havana hosts 1st International Symposium on Cultural Research

Dedicated to intellectual Fernando Martinez Heredia (1939-2017) and organized by the Juan Marinello Cuban Institute of Cultural Research (ICIC by its Spanish acronym), the 1st International Symposium on Cultural Research will be held in Havana from today until September 20.

According to a press release from the sponsoring institution, the event represents the continuity and expansion of four national symposiums held by the ICIC in the last decade.

The Symposium includes a colloquium and a training workshop on the work of Martinez Heredia and will offer a state of the art and a balance of current cultural research.

The program highlights topics such as cultural consumption, identities, cultural and creative industries, artistic and literary creation, artistic education, Marxism, Cuban and Latin American thought, studies on the Cuban Revolution, social inequalities, educommunication, cultural policies, social and community development, sociocultural anthropology, heritage and traditional popular culture.

The presentation of the website of the Ethnographic Atlas of Cuba, which will facilitate access to a scientific work, completed by the Center for Anthropology and the ICIC in the 90s of the last century, is expected to take place.

The event will be prestigious with experts and creators such as Miguel Barnet, Virgilio Lopez Lemus, Victor Fowler, Tania Garcia, Mildred de la Torre and Helmo Hernandez, who will give keynote lectures.