WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., October 27, 2009 -- Julia Sweig, the Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, will give a lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in Griffin Hall, room 7 on the Williams College campus. This event is free and open to the public.

The talk, titled "U.S.-Cuba Relations in the Twenty-First Century," is the third lecture in a series on "The Cuban Revolution: 50 years later." The series is sponsored by the Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy and the Oakley Center.

Sweig is the author of numerous books; her most recent, "Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know," was published in June 2009. Sweig has also written numerous publications on Latin America and American foreign policy. Her book, "Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground," received the American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Award for best book of the year by an independent scholar.

Sweig serves on the international advisory board of the Brazilian Center for International Relations. From 1999-2008, Sweig served as a consultant on Latin American affairs for The Aspen Institute's Congressional Program.

She received her B.A. from the University of California and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

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Event: Meira Bernstein