Under the auspices of the University of Cienfuegos, the sixteenth national colloquium “Carlos Rafael Rodríguez In Memoriam” will take place for two days. Among the participants in the event are several relatives of the Cuban intellectual, including one of his daughters who usually accompanies him in such an important academic space based in the Pearl of the South.
This May 23 and 24, the sessions return for debate on various lines of research in multiple social contexts. It has been a possibility for academics, professors, students as well as scholars of the work of Carlos Rafael Rodríguez who will meet at the sixteenth edition of the colloquium dedicated to the outstanding Cuban intellectual and politician.
His daughter Dania Rodríguez García returned to Cienfuegos to once again take part in the work on commissions in several of the modalities in which the event takes place, such as through panels, symposiums, keynote conferences as well as artistic presentations.
“There is that cultural part that is very attached to my father’s life,” said Rodríguez García and recalled the cultural development of the stage in which Carlos Rafael Rodríguez was one of the founders of the Ariel group, as a participant in SEGUR Magazine and his influence on everyone. youth movement of the time, in which other people from Cienfuegos such as Juan David also stood out, who later became personalities of this territory and were recognized at the country level.
My father’s career is studied here quite a bit and largely from that vision about the economic part that is transcendental today based on the changes in the models that are implemented in the world and the challenges for the subsistence of societies both for the most developed as well as the most precarious economies.
I really see that the figure of Carlos Rafael Rodríguez still continues as a paradigm in the research of multiple topics that also reach young people and they are in charge of its detailed study through the works that propose various lines of study developed by the university that Besides, it bears his name. That is the best legacy, for which I am infinitely grateful, the best tribute that can be paid to my father, said Dania Rodríguez García when she visited the Perlavisión Telecenter yesterday to offer the interview. “That young people read, study and materialize his work is a great honor for me,” said Carlos Rafael Rodríguez’s first-born daughter in Cienfuegos.
Several headquarters in the city capital such as the Roberto García Valdés provincial library, the ANEC headquarters of economists in the territory, the Aida Conde Room of the Dramatic Center as well as the two headquarters of the University of Cienfuegos will constitute important academic spaces for addressing topics core for the socioeconomic development of the country.
Thus, the National Colloquium “Carlos Rafael Rodríguez In Memoriam” began in Cienfuegos, an event that focuses on socio-cultural studies, innovation and science to the challenges that the country faces today.
