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Center for Cuban Business Studies
Location: Ohio Northern University, US
Description: Founded at Ohio Northern University in 2004, the Center for Cuban Business Studies (the Cuba Center) conducts Cuban business and policy research, executes educational and advisory projects and serves as a network of Cuba policy experts. Its website provides information on its current research, and links to institutions working on Cuba.
URL: http://www.onu.edu/cuba/ (English)
Center for Cuban Studies
Location: New York, US
Description: Founded in 1972 by a group of scholars, writers, artists and other professionals, the Center for Cuban Studies works towards normalizing relations between the United States and Cuba. Its activities include educating the public about Cuba and organizing tours to Cuba. It produces Cuba UPDATE, a quarterly magazine, with emphasis on US-Cuba relations. The web site is comprised mainly of information about the organization.
URL: http://www.cubaupdate.org/ (English)
Cornell Abroad, Cornell University
Location: Ithaca, New York, US
Description: Study program in Latin America, including Cuba.
URL: http://www.cuabroad.cornell.edu/ (English)
Cuba Project, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)
Location: New York, US
Description: Program that studies Cuba’s international relations and its economy, culture, society and polity. Activities include seminars, periodic conferences and research. Web site includes many synopsis of events and research papers commissioned by the project.
URL: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/bildn/CubaProject/cubaHome.htm (English)
Cuba Project, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
Location: New York, US
Description: The Bildner Center’s Cuba Project is a collaborative effort to study changes in Cuban politics, economics, culture, and society. It focuses on developments in Cuba in an international context. The web site provides information on its seminars and events, conferences, publications and links. It also includes a directory of Cuba-related organizations and web sites.
URL: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/bildnercenter/cuba/index.shtml (English)
Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, Tulane University
Location: New Orleans, US
Description: Established in 1997 to promote academic and cultural exchange between Cuba and the United States. The Institute also organizes an annual summer study session in Cuba. In addition to containing information about the institute, the web site contains web links and an extensive bibliography on Cuba.
URL: http://cuba.tulane.edu/index.html (English)
Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University
Location: Miami, US
Description: Founded in 1991, the CRI supports research and academic programs on Cuban and Cuban American issues. It draws upon the Cuba-related expertise of more than 30 FIU faculty. Since its foundation, the CRI has maintained a program of academic exchange and research collaboration with Cuban scholars, supporting trips to and from Cuba by FIU faculty and students and colleagues on the island. The CRI is the editorial office of the academic journal, Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos. The web site includes a description of the CRI’s research and academic programs, as well as other activities, including periodic events and workshops, and a Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies, held every 18 months. It also contains the Díaz de Ayala Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music. The project CubaInfo, http://cubainfo.fiu.edu/, provides information on Cuba, the Cuban American community and the section “Ask the Expert”, which allows visitors to send questions on Cuba to FIU professors.
URL: http://lacc.fiu.edu/centers_institutes/?body=centers_cri&rig ... (English)
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
Location: Cambridge, US
Description: Promotes collaboration between the US and Cuban academic communities, from a wide spectrum of academic fields, including the social sciences, environment, education, public health/medical sciences, humanities, and urban planning and library sciences. The web site includes detailed information about its various Cuba projects as well as some articles and research papers.
URL: http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/index.pl/programs/cuba (English)
El Centro Cubano
Location: Florida, US
Description: Promotes intellectual freedom inside Cuba. Web site includes links to news sources, articles by a number of intellectuals, artists and academics from inside and outside Cuba, and a discussion forum.
URL: http://www.cubancenter.org/ (English)
Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies (ICCAS), University of Miami
Location: Miami, US
Description: The ICCAS is an academic centre dedicated to the study of Cuban and Cuban-American topics. In addition to containing information about the program and various events it sponsors, the web site offers extensive information, in English and in Spanish, such as research papers and data, about a wide range of Cuba issues. It contains various sections, including: the Cuba Transition Project, which studies the Cuban transition and makes recommendations for the reconstruction of the island; the Bacardi House, an interactive centre that focuses on history and culture; Cuba Online, a database that contains business, political, economic, political and demographic information on Cuba; a database of legal texts; a database of foreign investment on the island; treaties and accords; and organizational charts.
URL: http://www.miami.edu/iccas/ (English)
Instituto de Estudios Cubanos (IEC)
Location: Miami, US
Description: The IEC promotes dialogue among Cuban intellectuals with different points of view on the fundamental problems facing the island and its diaspora. It hosts a yearly conference. The web site includes information about the institution and its activities as well as various articles and papers.
URL: http://iecubanos.org/ (English)
International Agricultural Trade and Development Center, University of Florida
Location: Gainesville, US
Description: The Center produces economic analyses of Cuba’s agricultural sector and assessment of impacts and opportunities for the state of Florida and US agriculture in general in the event of a normalization of relations between the US and Cuba. The web site provides information about research on sectors of Cuban agriculture like, sugar, citrus, vegetables and fruits, livestock, and others.
URL: http://www.cubanag.ifas.ufl.edu/ (English)
Latin American and Latino Studies Program
Location: University of Indiana
Description: A site with well-organized and up-to-date information on different topics of Cuba’s history, institutions, society, migration, publications, ecology, economy, exile community, and extensive Cuba-related links.
URL: http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuba.htm (English)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA), University of Pittsburgh
Description: The largest professional Association for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America. It includes a section on Cuba. LASA hosts a conference every 18 months in which academics from Cuba often participate. The web site includes a brief description of its activities.
URL: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/sections.htm (English)
Social Science Research Council
Location: New York, US
Description: The Working Group on Cuba is aimed at deepening scholarly relations between Cuba and the United States. They award grants for collaborative research between scholars of both nations.
URL: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/cuba/ (English)
The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)
Location: Maryland, US
Description: Established in 1990, the ASCE is dedicated to the broad study of the Cuban economy, with particular emphasis on the financial, economic, social, legal and environmental aspects of Cuba's process of transition. Activities include a lecture series, joint forums at the Brookings Institution with the Cuban Research Institute, an annual conference, a clippings service, and various publications, including a newsletter, occasional papers and special studies, and proceedings from ASCE’s annual conference. The web site includes information about the institution as well as all of its publications.
URL: http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/project/asce/ (English)
The Center for Defense Information
Location: Washington DC, US
Description: The CDI is a research organization that monitors military and foreign policy affairs throughout the world. It houses a US-Cuba Cooperative Security Program that organizes a yearly meeting between a delegation of U.S. military experts and Cuban military and political officials in Havana to explore ways the two countries might cooperate on regional security concerns. This web site includes information about the issues covered during these meetings.
URL: http://www.cdi.org/ (English)
The Social Science and Research Council
Location: New York, US
Description: In 1997 the SSRC established an academic Working Group on Cuba devoted to extending and broadening scholarly relations between Cuba and the United States. The primary focus of the Working Group at present is its Initiative on Cuban Libraries and Archives. Extensive information about the SSRC’s activities is available in its web site.
URL: http://www.ssrc.org/ (English)
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Location: Buffalo, New York
Description: In coordination with Cuban academic centers, the Cuba Program offers qualified students the opportunity to live for three months in Havana.
URL: http://www.buffalo.edu/studyabroad (English)
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