6th SILAS Conference (Havana)

NETEC members Teresa Caneda-Cabrera (in the picture, with writer Colm Tóibín) and Martín Urdiales-Shaw participated in the 6th Conference of SILAS (Society for Irish and Latin American Studies) on "Island Relations: Ireland, Cuba, and the Latin World", held in Havana, Cuba, on February 16-18, 2017.

Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, delivered the inaugural keynote address.

The Irish writers Colm Tóibín and Joseph O’Connor, invited to Havana for the International Book Fair, were also part of the official programme.