Event

The UWI, St. Augustine hosts a Professorial Inaugural Lecture by Professor Béatrice Boufoy-Bastick, titled “An Examined Life: From Culture to Culturometrics”. 

The lecture takes place on Thursday September 25, 2014, at 5.30pm, at the Centre for Language Learning (CLL) Auditorium. 

All interested persons are welcome.  

Read Professor Boufoy-Bastick’s bio here.  

For further information, please call 662-2002 ext. 83726 

Presentation abstract 

This lecture is an auto-ethnography describing in pictures and life-stories some of the fascinating cultural and linguistic experiences – spanning five continents and five decades - that have shaped and motivated a life of research enquiry into the experiential richness of cultures and their languages. In the first part of this lecture Professor Béatrice Boufoy-Bastick vividly recalls cross-cultural imprint moments of surprise, linguistic milestones of new meanings and delightful discoveries of becoming new and of being different that trace the paths of her research developments and give insights into her culture-based language teaching theory, her cultural research on government language policies, and her concerns about major current educational changes and cross-cultural education practices and policies at the local and global levels. As part of the lecture Professor Boufoy-Bastick has agreed to present the historical background to the field of Culturometrics which she initiated during four-years of anthropological studies on the islands of Fiji and which is now so prolifically used in culturally responsive research investigations and empirical policy support for current educational, social and political issues.