Smith began his diplomatic career in 1957 with the State Department and served in the Soviet Union, Argentina, Brazil and in Cuba. In 1982, while the department's leading expert on Cuba and chief of mission at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, he left because of fundamental disagreements with the Reagan administration's foreign policy. D.C. Smith currently directs The Johns Hopkins University's academic exchange program with the University of Havana. This lecture is part of the Wednesday Noon Series presented by the university's Office of Special Events. All programs in the series are held at noon in the Clipper Room of Shriver Hall on the Homewood campus at 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore.
Admission is free.