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• 01 / 11 / 2010

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Experts from Cuba, Ecuador, the USA and Panama will take part in the International Symposium on Culture, Science and Nature, to be held from January 19 to 21 in the Convent of St. Francis of Asis in Havana.

To the event will attend Ecuadorian and Panamanian specialists and representatives from the US- Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, said to Cuban News Agency Liliana Nuñez, president of Antonio Nuñez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Humanity.

She pointed out that deliberations will be dedicated to Nuñez Jimenez's multifaceted life and work.

Antonio Nuñez Jimenez founded in 1940 the Cuban Speleological Society; in 1962 headed the organizing commission of Cuba's Science Academy and was later Deputy Culture Minister.

The program includes topics as the current environmental crisis, the local sustainable development that defends the bio cultural diversity, science, culture, technology and education for a new environmental conscience.

Nuñez Jiménez is considered as Cuba's fourth discoverer due to his books on Geography, Speleologist, and Social Sciences. He is author of important archaeological discoveries.

He died on November 13, 1998 at the age of 75.

Source: PL