The World Has Turned Upside Down and Is Not Likely to Turn Right Side Up Again
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Provost’s Seminar Series is hosting Dr. Luis Martínez-Fernández, Pegasus Professor of History at University of Central Florida. Dr. Martínez-Fernández will lead "The World Has Turned Upside Down and Is Not Likely to Turn Right Side Up Again" talk on Thursday, March 12, 2026, 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m., in AB9 (The Water School), Room 106.
More about the speaker: Dr. Luis Martínez-Fernández is a historian, university professor and professional speaker, whose fields of expertise include international affairs, Latin America, the Caribbean, education and Latino/Hispanic studies. He is Pegasus Professor of History at the University of Central Florida where he has taught since 2004. Between 2020 and 2023 he was a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate.
Born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Lima, Peru and San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dr. Martínez-Fernández is recognized as one of the most prolific and influential scholars in the field of Caribbean history. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in History from the University of Puerto Rico and a Ph.D. in History from Duke University. His publications include articles in Cuban Studies, Slavery and Abolition, Latin American Research Review, The Americas, Caribbean Studies; and the books When the World Turned Upside Down: Politics, Culture, and the Unimaginable Events of 2019-2022, Revolutionary Cuba: A History, widely acclaimed as the most comprehensive, balanced, and systematic study on the subject ever written and Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba, winner of the 2018 Florida Book Awards’ Bronze Medal for General Nonfiction and 2018 International Latino Book Awards Gold Medal, History Category.
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