Latin American Meeting of Studies about Gramsci continues in Cuba

The Latin American and Caribbean Meeting of Gramscian Studies continues today in Havana with a variety of research workshops that include the thought of Italian philosopher and former deputy Antonio Gramsci.

The event will run until May 30 and is organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Gramscian Studies Network, the Juan Marinello Cuban Institute of Cultural Research (ICIC, for its acronym in Spanish), and Casa de las Américas.

The IV Latin American and Caribbean Gramscian Studies Workshop-School continues this Friday and concludes on May 28 at the ICIC, where the topic: The Theory of Hegemony and the Gramscian Conception of Revolution: Developments and Controversies, is addressed.

Twenty-eight international scholars from various Latin American countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Italy, and Peru, are participating in the Latin American and Caribbean Meeting on Gramscian Studies. The aim is to strengthen the study of Gramscian thought and its application to Latin American reality in a context of global change and challenges.

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party, founded in 1921, and later its secretary, as well as one of its leading figures.

Imprisoned in Turi under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini in 1926, he is considered one of the most prominent theorists of Marxism for his contributions to concepts such as cultural hegemony, the hegemonic bloc, and postmodernism in relation to consumer society.