COMMUNISM'S NEGOTIATED COLLAPSE:
THE POLISH ROUND TABLE TALKS OF 1989,
TEN YEARS LATER
A Conference at the University of Michigan, April 7-10, 1999

Maria de los Angeles Torres, Associate Professor of Political Science at DePaul University in Chicago, holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan. Active in community service in Chicago for several years, Torres was Executive Director of the Mayor's Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs from 1983 to 1987. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Cuban American Committee Research and Education Fund (1979-94) and on the Board of Advisors of Catedra de Cultura Cubana of the Pablo Milanes Foundation in Havana (1993-95). A member of the American Political Science Association's President's Task Force on the Status of Latinos from 1991 to 1994, she has been Coordinator of the Latin American Studies AssociationUs Research Working Group on the Cuban American Community since 1990 and its Task Force on Scholarly Relations with Cuba since 1992. Torres is the author of numerous publications on contemporary political and social relations between Cuba and the U.S. and Latino immigration and communities in the U.S.

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