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2022-23

• Dr Teishan Latner (Thomas Jefferson University): Fugitive from Time: The Life of an American Political Exile in Cuba
• Dr Denise Blum (Oklahoma State University): Educated in Martí: Mobilizing the Cuban Apostle in the Protests of the 21st Century 

2021-22

• Dr Emily Morris (University College London/CricketCIC): The Cuban economy today
• Dr Rosa María Voghon (Universidad de La Habana): Generaciones y activismo transnacional: Avances y desafíos en la era digital
• Dr Takkara Brunson (Texas A&M University): Historicizing Black Women's Political Activism in Cuba
• Dr Emilo J. Gallardo Saborido (Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, CSIC, Sevilla) and Dr Jesús Gómez de Tejada (Universidad de Sevilla): Hacia una poética de la literatura criminal socialista
• Dr Eloise Linger (SUNY Old Westbury Colllege, New York): Cuba's Revolutionary Directorate: Vanguard mobilizer against the Batista dictatorship
• Dr Ernesto Domínguez López (Centro de Estudios Hemisféricos y sobre Estados Unidos (CEHSEU), Universidad de La Habana): La conformación e impacto de la política de Estados Unidos hacia Cuba

2020-21

• Dr Jenni Ramone, (Nottingham Trent): Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace
• Dr Samuel Furé (Facultad de Lenguas Extranjeras, Universidad de La Habana): A pan-African bridge over Cuba
• Dr Sara Kozameh (Princeton University): Cuban Agrarian Reform and the Making of Revolutionary Cuba, 1958-1970
• Professor Guillermo Grenier (Florida International University): Trump, The Republican Party and Cuban Americans: A Love Story
• Professor John Kirk (Dalhousie University, Canada): Cuba’s Medical Internationalism: One of the World’s Best-Kept Secrets

2015-16

• Carlos Alzugaray, Rafael Hernández, Arleen Rodríguez: Round table – Cuba at the crossroads: where next?
• Antoni Kapcia (Nottingham): Identity and the role of ‘history’: investigating national and local narratives in Cuba’
• Professor Jean Stubbs (Associate Fellow, Institute of the Americas, University College London & Bader International Study Centre (UK), Queen's University, Canada): Crossing Borders: Knowledge Networks, Ideas and Values among Cubans in Canada and Western Europe

2014-15

• David Jessop (Managing Director of the Caribbean Council and leader of the Cuba Initiative): Detente: The implications for Cuba, the USA and Europe
• Kate Williams (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González seen within the Cuban Revolution
• Ana Vera (Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello, Havana): La historia oral en Cuba: Los centrales azucareros cerrados en 2002 y los cuentos de la tradición oral popular cubana
• Alberto Martí (University of Nottingham): The invention of the concentration camp

2012-13

• Christabelle Peters (Nottingham): Deciphering the ‘mulatto nation’: Translation, race and cubanidad
• Patricia Calvo (Santiago de Compostela): Imágenes de una rebelión desconocida: los reporteros de la Sierra Maestra
• Raquel Ribeiro (Nottingham): Title to be announced

2011-12

• Stephen Hart (UCL): Politics and Art in Titon's Memorias del subdesarrollo
• Tony Kapcia (Nottingham): Revolution in the Revolution?: Cuba under Raúl
• Christopher Hull (Nottingham): Sex, Drugs and Communism: Graham Greene´s Visits to Cuba, 1954-

2010-11

• Adrian Poole (Open University): Groove Production in Cuban Son-Montuno
• Anna Clayfield (Nottingham), Re-thinking the ‘guerrilla mentality’: foquismo and the shaping of a  ‘rebel people’ in the Cuban Revolution
• Emilio Gallardo (Nottingham), (Super)vivencias grises: intelectuales y politica cultural cubana durante  los años 70
• Michael Chanan (Roehampton), New media in Cuba
• Raquel Ribeiro (Nottingham): O que é determinante para a unidade é a ideologia e não a geografia”: internacionalism and ideology in testimonies of the Cuban “intervention” in Angola
• Manuel Barcia Paz (Leeds): Africa in America: The Collapse of Oyo and Slave Rebellion in Bahia and Cuba, 1804-1844

2009-10

• Steve Ludlam (Sheffield): For equality and against egalitarianism: Cuba's drive to recover the 'socialist principle of distribution'
• Imti Choonara (Nottingham): Child Health in Cuba?”  
• Emilio Gallardo: Canon teatral y política cultural en la Cuba revolucionaria (1959-1976)"
• Stephen Fay (Nottingham): 'Mapping the Cuban Condition in Fernando Ortiz's Un catauro de cubanismos'

2008-9

• Emily Morris (London Met/Economist Intelligence Unit): Where next for the Cuban economy?
• Ricardo Quiza(Instituto de Historia de Cuba): La joven historiografía cubana: un recuento necesario
• Elizabeth Cooper(Nottingham): Race and the Politics of Culture in Post-emancipation Havana and  Bahia
• Fabienne Viala (Sorbonne): European Philosophy and Caribbean Culture: Toynbee and Spengler in Alejo Carpentier's early works
• Thomas Carter(Brighton): Sport: a political and moral necessity for the Revolution
• Kris Juncker (James Madison University): Prop Art: African imagery in 1960s and 1970s Cuban graphic

2007-8

• Helen Yaffe (Institute for the Study of the Americas, London): Che Guevara's  contribution to Cuban economic history and socialist political economy
• Tony Kapcia (Nottingham) & Par Kumaraswami (Manchester): Literature and  Revolution in Cuba: reassessing the evidence
• Talk by Orlando Borrego (former colleague of Che Guevara)
• Meesha Nehru (Nottingham): The meaning of cultural participation in Cuba: the  talleres literarios
• Chris Hull (Nottingham): Our Man in Havana