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January 2014
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UWI Calendar January 2014 - April 2014World of Work The World of Work (WOW) programme is an initiative of The UWI geared primarily towards equipping final-year UWI students with the necessary tools for succeeding in today’s work environment. For further information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/wow River Mechanics The UWI hosts a Professorial Inaugural Lecture by Professor Gyan Shrivastava titled “River Mechanics - Linking Engineering and Society”. The lecture takes place at Engineering Lecture Room 1, Block 13, Max Richards Building, Faculty of Engineering from 5.30pm. All are invited. For further information, please contact Ms Christine Nanton, Marketing and Communications Department, UWI, St Augustine at 662 2002 ext 83726. Brasil - UWI Fete 2014 UWI Fete’s theme for this year is Brasil. The annual fund-raising fete benefits students in the form of bursaries. It takes place at the Grounds of the Office of the Campus Principal. For more information, please visit http://sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar/event.asp?id=2069 Carnival Crossings Professor Milla C. Riggio, the James J. Goodwin Professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, presents a lecture titled, “From There to Here - Arkansas to Harvard to Trinidad.” For further information, please contact Ms Christine Nanton, Marketing and Communications Department, UWI, St Augustine at 662 2002 ext 83726. A Retrograde Step? This professorial inaugural lecture by Rajendra Ramlogan, a Professor of Environmental Law, is Environmental Democracy in Trinidad and Tobago: A Retrograde Step? The lecture takes place at 5.30pm and all are invited. For further information, please contact Ms Christine Nanton, Marketing and Communications Department, UWI, St Augustine at 662 2002 ext 83726. The Old Yard February 23 Department of Creative and Festival Arts Agostini Street, St Augustine The UWI’s Department of Creative and Festival Arts presents its carnival heritage fair and showcase for Carnival, “The Old Yard”, a meeting of the masquerade traditions. The Old Yard, which begins at noon, offers a showcase of carnival masquerade traditions of Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean and the Americas as a way of extending these traditions beyond their historical location and stimulating contemporary imaginations. For more information, please contact Mr. Joseph Drayton at 645-1955, or Joseph.Drayton@sta.uwi.edu Community School of the Arts The 2014 edition of the Department of Creative and Festival Arts’ Community School of the Arts once again features classes for the public in Adventures in Art, Recorders, Singing, Piano, Steel Band, Dance and Drama among others. It runs from January 25 to April 5, 2014. Registration takes place Jan 20- Feb 5, 2014, at the DCFA, Gordon Street, St. Augustine. For more information, please visit http://sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar/event.asp?id=2073 Daniel Pink The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business (ALJGSB) hosts its 12th annual Distinguished Leadership and Innovation Conference (DLIC) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Daniel Pink is the speaker. For more information, please visit http://sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar/event.asp?id=2074 |
