Event

Institute of International Relations & The Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of Internal Affairs

Event Date(s): 27/11/2009

Location: Boardroom, IIR, UWI, St Augustine


The Institute of International Relations, in collaboration with The Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of Internal Affairs, will host a seminar on "The Contemporary Commonwealth," on Friday 27th November, 2009, from 3-6:30 p.m. at the Boardroom of the Institute of International Relations, UWI, St Augustine.

The agenda for the event follows:

3-4:30 p.m. - The Contemporary Commonwealth: an assessment, 1965-2009*

Chair: Timothy M Shaw (Director, IIR)

Speakers: Professor James Mayall (Cambridge & book editor), Richard Bourne (Chair, Round Table), Sir Ronald Sanders (former Caribbean diplomat; now author & columnist)

Discussant: Dr Victoria te Velde (Director, Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit)

4:30-5 p.m. coffee & juice break

5-6:15 p.m. The Caribbean & the Commonwealth

Chair:       Richard Bourne (Chair, RT)

Speaker: Sandra McIntyre-Trotman (Director, Policy & Planning Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, T&T)

Discussant: Zoe Ware (Commonwealth Affairs Manager, Royal Commonwealth Society)

6:15 p.m. The Round Table @ 100

Speaker: Dr Venkat Iyer (Editor, Round Table)

 

*copies of James Mayall (ed) The Contemporary Commonwealth: an assessment, 1965-2009 (Routledge, 2009) available at UWI Bookstore at a special discount.

 

Open to: | Staff | Student |


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