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June 2012
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UWI Calendar June - July 2012Last Train The Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI St. Augustine, hosts In The Fires of Hope: 50 Years of Independence in Trinidad and Tobago with a panel discussion, The Last Train to San Fernando??? featuring Historian, Michael Anthony, San Fernandian, Pennelope Beckles, Journalist, Louis Homer and businesswoman, Diane Seukeran. There will also be a special exhibition by the National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago, Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism. For further information, please contact Dr. Debbie Mc Collin at debbie.mccollin@sta.uwi.edu or at 662-2002, ext. 83079 Poeciliid Conference The Department of Life Sciences hosts the 5th European Conference of Poeciliid Biologists. This conference is held every two years and this year, for the first time since its inception, it will be held outside of Europe. Approximately 100 delegates from USA, Canada, Mexico, South America, Britain, Europe, India and Australia will visit The UWI St. Augustine Campus to attend the conference, scheduled to take place from 8 am-5.30 pm each day. For further information, please contact Dr Amy Deacon or Professor Indar Ramnarine via e-mail at poeciliid2012@sta.uwi.edu. Hairspray The Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) and Must Come See Productions present the 8th annual Broadway musical, “Hairspray.” The musical begins at 7.30 pm on the following days: 29th, 30th June; 1st July and 4th to 8th July. For further information, please contact Ms. Marissa Brooks at 645-1955 or via e-mail at marissa.brooks@sta.uwi.edu. Cluster Mapping The Caribbean Centre for Competitiveness (CCfC) hosts a workshop entitled “Building Technical Capacity in Cluster Mapping,” the first initiative of a series of exercises, as part of the CCfC’s Cluster Development and Technical Capacity Building Project. For further information, please contact the CCfC Office at 224-3715 or 662-2002 ext. 83938/84134/84135, or via e-mail at ccfc@sta.uwi.edu. Geography of Reason The UWI collaborates with the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) to host the CPA’s 2012 annual meeting, themed “Shifting the Geography of Reason IX: Racial Capitalism and the Creole Discourses of Native-, Indo-, Afro-, and Euro-Caribbeans.” Under this broad heading, the CPA will examine the impact of the global capitalist crisis on old and new thinking in the Creole discourses of the region. For further information, please contact the Caribbean Philosophical Association via e-mail at caribphil@gmail.com. DCIT Computing Boot Camp 2012 UWI’s Department of Computing and Information Technology (DCIT) hosts its Computing Boot Camp 2012 at The UWI St. Augustine Campus. The camp is open to all Secondary School Students and Prospective Undergraduates, and aims to introduce them to the Computing and IT fields at UWI. Campers will participate in a range of fun and intellectual activities conducted by lecturers, postgraduate students and professionals in the industry. For further information, please contact the DCIT Office at 662-2002 ext. 83080 |
