The International Colloquium “José Martí: For a Culture of Nature” was celebrated in Havana, Cuba, on October 25-27, 2004. On that occasion, hundreds of persons of good will from numerous countries met in Havana to earnestly think and submit ideas to the public opinion and the international community in favor of a world debate that would favor the attainment of fair and efficient solutions for a threatened mankind, in the face of the dangers already anticipated.
Today the situation has become even more earnest, threatening and dangerous as a consequence of the environmental disorder caused by insensitive, spendthrift and voracious societies, together with the sudden climatic changes, desertification, drought and natural catastrophes that originate a dramatic transformation of the habitat of the human race and of all living species on the face of the Earth.
The Second International Colloquium “José Martí: For a Culture of Nature” we are now convoking to be held at the Havana International Conference Center on June 9-11, 2010 has the purpose of insisting in the urgent need of a deep analysis of topics that are essential for the survival of the Planet, in order to favor the wellbeing of mankind, preserve the environment and contribute to a sustainable peace, progress and development.
The organizers have the goal of achieving a multiple, all-embracing participation without distinctions or exclusiones, adding the largest posible number of speakers and attendants to the Colloquium as a way of multiplying its scope and influence on Latin America, the Caribbean and other world regions granting it universal meaning and content.
With man —main transformer of nature— as center of all studies, the economic and social aspects related with a sustainable development will necessarily play a relevant role in the Colloquium as well as every reference to the huge wealth and cultural legacy of mankind.
The drive to implement and favor a universal culture that will analyze the dialectic relation between man and nature through the study and knowledge of the most varied forms of comunal work, the teaching programs of environmental education, the role of the mass media and the creation of electronic networks at both regional and internacional levels as well as the strengthening of cooperation links among organizations and institutions will also be topics to be handled at this meeting.
In like manner, the Second International Colloquium “José Martí: For a Culture of Nature” aims at making a contribution to the necessary link between the different disciplines of knowledge, particularly between the so called social and humanistic sciences and the natural and exact sciences, establishing a contrast between the indivisible unity of the problems and ideas contributed by the relations between human beings and the relations of the latter with the natural environment, source of all life.
A Committee of Honor, an Organizing Committee and a Scientific Committee will be set up and informed shortly, as well as a First Announcement with additional information on the event.
The Second International Colloquium “José Martí: For a Culture of Nature” is part of the José Martí Project of World Solidarity approved by the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) and is sponsored by the organization.
Havana, October 20, 2008
Office of the Martí Program
Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation of Nature and Man
José Martí Cultural Society
Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA)
Center of Martí Studies
