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May 2009
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UWI Calendar of Events : MAY/JUNEUWI Games 2009Wed 20th- Fri 29th May 2009 It’s UWI Games time again! The St Augustine Campus is in the middle of hosting the 2009 UWI Games, biennial student games which are rotated among the three main UWI campuses Over 400 athletes from the three main campuses at St Augustine, Mona (Jamaica) and Cave Hill (Barbados) are taking part in this year’s Games, which include track and field, football, netball, cricket, volleyball, basketball, 6-a-side hockey, swimming, table tennis and lawn tennis, culminating in a festive Closing Ceremony on Thursday 28th May, 2009. The St Augustine Campus invites you to attend and root for your favourite teams in this event which only comes around to our doors every six years. For further information, please contact UWI SPEC at (868) 662-2002 Ext. 3555. E-Learn 2009 Conference The Elearn 2009 Conference, to be held from June 8th to 11th, 2009, marks ten years since the Educational Technology conference held by The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, in March 1999. Elearn 2009 will provide a forum for the UWI St Augustine Campus to showcase progress, understanding and creativity in using technologies in action in classrooms and libraries. For more information on the Elearn 2009 Conference visit: http://elearn2009.com or call (868) 662-2002 Ext. 3985, 2611, 2214. 3rd Biennial International Conference on Business, Banking & Finance The Third Biennial International Conference on Business, Banking and Finance will be held from Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th May, 2009. This conference is entitled “Financial Services in Emerging Economies: Surviving the Global Meltdown.” This event is a forum for the exchange of ideas on critical business, banking and financial issues facing emerging economies in the context of a global financial and economic meltdown of unprecedented proportions. Presenters and panelists include Mr. David Dulal-Whiteway, Mr. Larry Howai, Senator Mariano Browne and Mr. Ron Allenby. The feature address at the Opening Ceremony on May 27, 2009 will be done by the Hon Prime Minister Mr. Patrick Manning For further information and registration please call (868) 645-1174 Ext. 2549 or email bbf3@sta.uwi.edu CTLPA 12th Annual Conference The Caribbean Tertiary Level Personnel Association (CTLPA) will host its 12th annual conference from the 22nd to 25thJune 2009.The conference will be held at the Grafton Beach Resort & Le Gran Courland, Tobago. The theme of this conference is “The Power to Imagine, The Courage to Act: New Directions in Caribbean Higher Education Development.” For more information please visit http://www.ctlpa.org.jm/About.htm or contact Mr. Chandar Gupta Supersad at 662-2002 Ext 2360 First they must be Children: the Child and the Caribbean Imagination This conference seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue on social experiences and representational patterns related to the Caribbean child and childhood. It invites analysis of ideological perspectives and discursive practices in relation to children as social and imaginative subjects; the roles, symbolic codes and identities they have been assigned; their acts of resistance and transgression as cultural agents; and the multiple meanings of their presence in traditional and contemporary Caribbean mythologies of being and becoming. Presentations will cover a vast range of topics including childhood and the literary imaginary, Citizenship, migrancy and transnationality, being and belonging, the child in Caribbean folk and popular culture, Caribbean parenting, and ways of learning: the school, pedagogy and education. For further information, please visit the website at: http://sta.uwi.edu/conferences/09/first/ or call (868) 662-2002 Ext. 3567, 3028, 3025. ACUNS (Academic Council on the United Nations System) One of the most striking developments of the last 20 years is the redistribution of power in the International system. While the United States remains powerful in many domains, states with burgeoning economic and/or military might, sometimes combined with regional influence, are demanding our attention. The ACUNS Annual Meeting will address this, while giving special attention to the challenges of migration, security, regional prosperity and development, energy, and environmental sustainability in the Caribbean context. Registration for all from the Caribbean is TT$100. For further information please contact the Institute of International Relations UWI, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago (868) 662-2002 ext 2010/2011. To download the programme please visit http://www.acuns.org/programsan/acunsannua
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