Event

Dept of History Presentation on 'Field Trip to El Callao'

Event Date(s): 01/06/2015

Location: AV room, 3rd Floor, Alma Jordan Library, UWI St. Augustine


The Department of History presents an Audio-visual presentation on “A Field Trip to El Callao – a forgotten Trinidadian exclave in Venezuelan Guayana.”

This event takes place from 6 to 8pm. 

The field trip to the forgotten Trinidadian exclave El Callao in Eastern Venezuela was a project of the Department of History at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus. The project, initated by our Principal Prof. Dr. Clement Sankat and Dr. Christian Cwik, Lec­turer at the Department of History, in cooperation with Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Reginaldo Gomes de Oliveira from the Federal University of Roraima in Brazil, strenghtened the aca­de­mic and cultural ties between Brazil, Venezuela, Suriname, Guiana and Trinidad and Tobago in a sustainable way.

For a printable version of this information, please click here

Admission:Free

Open to: | General Public | Staff | Student | Alumni |


CONTACT

  • Christian Cwik

  • Faculty/Department

    History,  Faculty of  Humanities & Education

  • Tel.: 662-2002 ext. 82021
  • Email: christian.cwik@sta.uwi.edu