Name: The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold
Start: 2026-06-02T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-02T19:30:00+01:00
Location: MAR.2.04, Marshall Building

The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold

Join us for the first hemispheric history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as Dr Renata Keller speaks on her new book.
About this Event

Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war.

That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba as the central staging ground—a standard account that obscures the shock waves that reverberated throughout Latin America.

Drawing on sources from across the hemisphere, this first hemispheric examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis shows how leaders and ordinary citizens throughout the region caused, participated in, and were profoundly affected by the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Join us to hear Dr Renata Keller discuss her new book on the subject and to answer any questions you may have.