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August 2018
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UWI Calendar August - November 2018Microsoft Office Skills The Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) Computer Laboratory invites you to register for its upcoming Microsoft Office Intermediate 2016 course which costs $3,000. For more information on the course, please email fss-comp.lab@sta.uwi.edu or call 645-7856, 662-2002 ext.83559. UWI LIFE 2018 –
Orientation Programmes The UWI St. Augustine invites incoming students and their supporters to their official first welcome The UWI family. This is part of the First Year Experience (FYE) year-long programme consisting of a series of orientation activities aimed at helping students transition to UWI Life. The theme for this year’s FYE is Direct Your Story.
Invites are sent via email and via a personal letter to invitees mailing address. EU-CARICOM Law Conference The UWI St. Augustine’s Faculty of Law, Brunswick European Law School of Ostfalia University and Coventry Law School presents the EU-CARICOM Law Conference: Present and Future Challenges. The conference will feature topics on International Economic Law, UN Agenda 2030, EU and CARICOM issues of developing and how to foster trade relations in times of evolutionary development of regional cooperation and their related aspects to other communities. For more information, visit the Campus Events Calendar at www.sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar. Caribbean Energy Policy, Societies and Law Conference This multidisciplinary conference brings participants from diverse academic and practitioner backgrounds for discussions on: Laws and Policies for Sustainable Oil and Gas Development in the 21st Century; Gender, Energy and local Content/Workforce Issues; Environmental Law and Ethics, and more. For more information, visit the Campus Events Calendar at www.sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar. COTE 2018 The UWI St. Augustine’s Department of Economics hosts their annual Conference on the Economy (COTE 2018) under the theme, Economic Development challenges: Looking Towards 2030. This year’s conference honours Professor Emeritus Patrick Watson. For more information, visit the Campus Events Calendar at www.sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar. Call for Papers – Third Regional Mixed Methods Research Conference The Mixed Methods International Research Association-Caribbean Chapter (MMIRA-CC) together with the Schools of Education (Cave Hill, Mona and St. Augustine), Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), Schools of Nursing (Mona and St. Augustine), Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business, Centre for Language Learning, Faculty of Medical Sciences (St. Augustine) and the Department of Government (Mona) present the 2019 Mixed Methods Conference in Trinidad and Tobago. They have issued a Call for Papers with the deadline of October 31, 2018. Registration for the conference opens August 15, 2018 and the conference takes place on March 26 to 28, 2019. For more information, please visit http://conferences.sta.uwi.edu/mmiracc/. Climate Change Impacts on Food and Nutrition Security Conference The Faculty of Food and Agriculture (FFA) hosts the Climate Change Impacts on Food and Nutrition Security Conference which aims to collate and share new research experience and findings in sustainable agriculture and climate change through interactions and publications. For more information, visit the Conference’s website: www.foodsecurity2018.com. 13th Annual Caribbean Child Research Conference The Caribbean Child Research Conference is an annual regional conference which shares research on children and examines the status of children and child rights in the Caribbean. This year’s theme is, Leaving No Child Behind: The 2030 Agenda. Children can attend and make presentations. It is a partnership of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), the Institute of International Relations (IIR) and the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS). For more information, please visit http://www.uwi.edu/salises/ccrc2018.php |
