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UWI Calendar June - July 201214th International Conference on Penal Abolition The UWI’s Institute of International Relations (IIR) hosts the 14th International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA), themed ‘Inspiring Abolition: Strengthening Ourselves for Local/Global Influence.’ ICOPA is a biennial gathering of activists, academics, journalists, practitioners, people currently or formerly imprisoned, survivors of state and personal harm, and others from across the world who are working towards the abolition of imprisonment, the penal system, carceral controls and the prison industrial complex. For further information, please contact Dr. Anthony Gonzales at Anthony.P.Gonzales@sta.uwi.edu or icopa_14@hotmail.com or at (868) 662-2002 Ext 82011. Hydrocarbon Revenue Management The Trade and Economic Development Unit, a research cluster at The UWI’s Department of Economics, hosts a conference on Hydrocarbon Revenue Management in Small Highly Open Hydrocarbon Rich Exporting Economies. This conference will address some of these critical success factors within the context of revenue management. For further information, please contact the Trade and Economic Development Unit, Department of Economics, at 662 -2002 ext 83233 or 83231 or via e-mail at corm.mail@gmail.com. Mathematics Education in the 21st Century: Embracing Possibilities UWI’s School of Education (SOE) hosts a symposium, titled Mathematics Education in the 21st Century: Embracing Possibilities. This symposium will focus on a number of areas, including highlight the contribution of the SOE to mathematics education over the years in celebration of the 50th anniversary of independence of Trinidad and Tobago, provide a forum for teachers to share best practices in mathematics teaching and identify teacher concerns in the content of mathematics, pedagogy and technology. For further information, please contact Nalini Ramsawak-Jodha at ext 83403 or Nalini.Ramsawak-Jodha@sta.uwi.edu, or Elizabeth Greene at ext 84326 or Elizabeth.Greene@sta.uwi.edu. Poeciliid Biologists 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. 7th Caribbean Creative Writers’ Residential Workshop The 7th Caribbean Creative Writers’ Residential Workshop is sponsored by the Cropper Foundation, and organised in partnership with The UWI’s Department of Creative and Festival Arts and Department of Liberal Arts. Ten writers who have not as yet published any of their works will be chosen from across the Caribbean to join this year’s residential workshop which will focus on writing fiction, plays and poetry. The workshop will be facilitated by Professor Funso Aiyejina and Dr. Merle Hodge at a secluded, writing-inducing setting somewhere in Trinidad. For further information, please contact Dr. Dani Lyndersay at 628-4792, Ms. Rhoda Bharath at 779-7457 or Ms. Marissa Brooks 662-2002 ext. 83040, or via e-mail at MarissaUWI@gmail.com. Shifting the Geography of Reason IX 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 Boot Camp The Department of Computing and Information Technology, The UWI , St. Augustine is holding an IT Boot Camp for secondary school students and prospective undergraduates. Interested persons can sign up online. The cost is TT1300, but scholarships are available. For more information, please call 662-2002, ext. 83080, or visit http://sta.uwi.edu/fsa/dcit/bootcamp.asp or Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/dcitbootcamp |
