Institute for Gender and Development Studies

IGDS events
Semester II

Thursday 28 January 2021
Institute of Critical Thinking in collaboration with Pan American Development Foundation 
Webinar on Gender-Based Violence and Child Sexual Abuse
Discussion and launch of the Break the Silence Toolkit

Wednesday 3 February 2021
Alma Jordan Library - West Indiana and Special Collections hosts
First Day Covers: Through a Gender Lens
with Satira Maharaj
MSc in Gender and Development Studies

Wednesday 10 February 2021
IGDS Lunchtime Seminar
The Non-Profit Organisations Act 2019
with Jayanti Lutchmedial, Attorney-at-Law
Recording on IGDS YouTube Channel

Starting Tuesday 16 (6 sessions)
Diverse Genders and Sexualities in the Caribbean
Short Course
with Angelique Nixon, Colin Robinson
and Guest Speakers

Navigating the NPO Registration through the Lens of a Faith-Based Organization 
with Valerie Charles, National Administrator and Strategic Adviser to the General Executive, Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies (PAWI)
Wednesday 5 May, 2021
Recording on IGDS YouTube Channel

Women, Men, Gender and Law
facilitated by Ms Beverly Samuel, Attorney-at-Law
6 sessions, 3 weeks, 3-hour sessions
Thursdays 4:00–7:00 PM Saturdays 10:00AM–1:00PM
15, 17, 22, 24, 29 and 31 July. 

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Short courses and workshops

IGDS events 
Semester I

Wednesday 8 July 2020 | 11:00 Am (ECT) 
IGDS RCO, Mona, Nita Barrow, St Augustine Units
SHOUTS & WHISPERS: Untold Stories from the Caribbean during COVID-19
* Dr Angelique Nixon, Panelist

Wednesday 16 September 2020 |  5PM 
Graduate Studies Orientation 
(For new cohort of graduate studies students)

Saturday 3 October 2020 | 3 PM 
Gathering in honour of Tara Ramoutar
Hosted by CAFRA and IGDS 
*Tara Ramoutar - In her own words - Programme includes Clips from Making of Feminisms in the Caribbean Interview 2014
Programme
* Photo Essay - Tara Ramoutar - Caribbean Feminist and Labour Movement Activist

• Welcome - Gabrielle Hosein
• Crystal Brizan - CAFRA TT National Representative
• Albert Aberdeen - Former President, Transport and Industrial Workers Union and Industrial Court Judge
• Patrica Mohammed - Caribbean Feminist and Gender Scholar
• Mario Als - Former President, Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU)
• David Abdullah - Former General Secretary of the OWTU and Political Leader of the MSJ
• Gabrielle Henderson - Former CAFRA TT National Representative
• Nirmala Chatar - Former CAFRA TT Secretary
• Renelle White - CAFRA TT Youth Coordinator and Gender Advisor for The Silver Lining Foundation
• Margaret Gill - Former CAFRA Regional Chairperson
• Tributes 
• Close and Thanks

Friday 6 November 2020, 10:30 am and 11:30 am 
IGDS Official Research Seminars

Muhammad Saajid Hosein
MPhil in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 
Muslim Men versus Muslim Masculinity: Interrogating Ideals of Muslim Masculinity Among Indo-Trinidadian Muslim men

Renuka Anandjit
PhD in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
Negotiations and Transformations: Charting Indo-Guyanese women’s political participation from 1946-2015

Friday 11 December 2020, 10:00 am 
IGDS Official Research Seminars

Psyche Gonzales
MSc Candidate in Gender and Development Studies
Resisting the Myth of Erasure: Accounts of First Peoples Women in Arima