Keynote Speaker: Professor Patricia Mohammed

 

Roundtable

Date: Friday, 25th March,2011 –Time: 2-5pm
VenueL Institute of Critical Thinking

Movie Screening – “Seventeen Colours and a Sitar”, Prof. Patricia Mohammed

Date: Saturday – 26thMarch, 2011
Venue: Engineering Institute – Lecture Theater 1

 

Patricia Mohammed is Professor, Gender and Cultural Studies and Campus Co-ordinator, School for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Her academic publications include Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad, 1917 – 1947, Palgrave UK, 2001, and Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought, (ed)  University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, 2002.  She recently published Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation (Macmillan UK, 2009) and a six part film series “A Different Imagination” of which Coolie Pink and Green, the last in the series, won the Most Popular short film at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, 2010 and was selected for screening at the opening ceremony of the First Pravasi Film Festival in New Delhi, India in January, 2010.  Her film, The Sign of the Loa was shown at the 2007 Trinidad and Tobago film festival. She has won two PASD awards towards film making from the TT Film Company and has produced and directed 10 films among them A Suitable Distance (2007), Engendering Change: Caribbean Configurations (2007) and Becoming Elsa (2008).