General Notices

24th Annual SALISES Conference

Posted Wednesday, February 8, 2023


 

The University of the West Indies (The UWI) commemorates its 75th anniversary in 2023. In celebration of this landmark event, The Sir Artur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) will be hosting its 24th Annual Conference entitled Seventy-Five Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Development Justice - The UWI, the Caribbean and the Global Agenda.

Since 1948, The UWI has been a bastion of hope and resilience, molding and nourishing the minds of the region’s leaders, managers, scholars, creators, inventors and innovators, professionals, and civil society.  With the onset of the 21st century, The UWI continues to demonstrate a heightened capacity to positively impact the human capital needs deemed instrumental in managing the sustenance and growth of other forms of capital labeled as social, produced, natural and financial.

In the global space and especially in the Caribbean region which continues to grapple with the vestiges of conquest, slavery, colonialism, and the concomitant struggles with sovereignty and independence, The UWI refuses to release the baton. Rather, it has persisted with an unwavering commitment to ensuring that all the benefits associated with contemporary and emergent development paradigms redound to favorable outcomes for Caribbean peoples and institutions, now and in the future. Despite its early mission for the advancement of the quality of life of Caribbean peoples and institutions, The UWI of the 21st century has little option but to embark upon quests for reciprocity and development justice in its interaction with major global actors.

SALISES prides itself as a development studies “think tank” with global appeal. It stands ready to embrace the responsibility of development justice and to soar above all regional and international entities. It aims to embark upon tangible thrusts consistent with progressive development goals for all Caribbean territories.

The 24th Annual SALISES Conference will provide opportunities for delegates to critically reflect and evaluate, focusing on historical and contemporary phenomena, and to advance novel ideas and practical solutions that shape future agendas.  Such discourses are relevant for the Caribbean given its multiple identities, and its fortunes in extra-Caribbean spaces.  It underscores the SALISES research agenda which emphasizes people-centeredness and embraces the concept of development justice in an effort to uphold the ideals of diversity, equality, equity, transparency and integrity across human populations within and beyond the Caribbean region. As such, the conference presentations hope to engage both regional and international concerns including environment, energy security, good governance, democracy, sustainable economic development, migration, human capital, food security and health and wellness.

 

Date:  3rd – 5th May 2023

Time: 8:00 am Venue: LRC Auditorium, The UWI St. Augustine

 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Abstracts are invited from of the following categories: (two colums)

·                     Climate Change, Vulnerability, Resilience and Climate Justice

·                     Towards the Attainment of Food Security

·                     Transformative Futures: Social Media, Digital Technologies and New Financial Instruments.

·                     Transformative Agendas for Cultural Industries and Tourism in SIDS

·                     Regional and International Relations (including Trade and Diplomatic Arrangements).

·                     Rethinking Identity: Consideration of Race, Class, Gender and Other Status Characteristics.

·                     Brokering Peace and Stability in Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Issues of Violence and Organised Crime.

·                     Artificial Intelligence, Renewable Energy, and Regional and Global Futures

·                     Revisiting Family Sociology in the 21st Century

·                     Development Justice, Recreation and Sport 

·                     Migration and Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

·                     Human Wellbeing: Consideration to Healthcare Dimensions, Social Protection and Marginalised Populations.

·                     Managing Human Capital in the 21st Century

·                     Innovation, Product Diversification and Economic Growth

·                     Child and Youth Studies in Caribbean and Global Arenas

·                     Law, Courts and Judicial Politics

·                     Alternative Dispute Resolution and Restorative Justice

·                     Managing National Statistical Systems in Response to a Global Data Revolution.

·                     Medical Sciences Agendas as Development Paradigms

·                     Governance Models, Political Systems, Electoral Politics and Sustainable Development in the 21st Century.

·                     Cultural Artifacts: Meanings, Significance, and Contributions

·                     Aggression, Marginalisation, Power and Masculinities

·                     Spirituality and Religion

·                     Work Life Balance and Implications for Mental Health

·                     Vulnerability and Resilience in Small States

·                     Managing and Extracting Wealth associated with Natural Capital

·                     Caribbean Intellectual Movements of the 20th Century – Sir Arthur Lewis, C.L.R. James, and Walter Rodney.

·                     Decolonizing the Development Orthodoxy

 

Deadline for Submission: February 20, 2023

 

Submissions should be emailed to salises@sta.uwi.edu and copied to francine.alleyne@sta.uwi.edu

 

 

Registration and Hotel Accommodation Cost:

Early Bird Registration: No later than 31st March 2023

Late Registration: Later than 31st March 2023

 

Category

Early Bird Registration Fee (All 3 days)

Late Registration Fee (All 3 days)

Daily Registration Fee (Less than 3 days)

UWI Staff (Presenting a Paper)

USD120.00

USD150.00

USD60.00 per day

UWI Staff (Not Presenting a Paper)

USD150.00

USD180.00

USD75.00 per day

Academic Staff (Tertiary Institution Not Affiliated with UWI)

USD200.00

USD230.00

USD100.00 per day

Employee - Public Sector

USD150.00

USD180.00

USD75.00 per day

Employee – NGO/CBO

USD120.00

USD150.00

USD60.00 per day

Employee – Corporate Sector/Inter-governmental Organisation

USD200.00

USD230.00

USD100.00 per day

All Students – Tertiary Institutions/Sixth Form (Need proof of student status)

No Fee

No Fee

No Fee

All Teachers - Secondary School (No more than 2 per school)

No Fee

No Fee

No Fee

Virtual Paper Presenter – Day of Presentation

No Fee

Virtual Paper Presenter – Other Conference Days

USD60.00 per day

Virtual Participant – Less than 3 days

USD60.00 per day

Virtual Participant – All Three Days

USD120.00

Payment methods:

  • Cash/Linx/Credit Card – On Conference Days at on-site registration
  • Trinidad and Tobago nationals can make payments at The UWI St. Augustine Campus Bursary

Interested persons can register using the following link, https://bit.ly/24thsalisesconference

 

For more information, email salises@sta.uwi.edu or visit  https://sta.uwi.edu/salises/

 

For more information, email Francine.Alleyne@sta.uwi.edu or visit  https://sta.uwi.edu/salises/