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UWI TODAY
– SEPTEMBER 2015
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UWI Calendar
of
Events
SEPTEMBER 2015–JANUARY 2016
Critical Thinking
Executive Development Workshops
September 10–11 & October 5–6
Institute of Critical Thinking,
The UWI, St. Augustine Campus
September 10-11
Building organisational efficiency using Emotional
Intelligence – Aligning skills, purpose and strategy. Team
leaders learn strategies for improving awareness and
control of their own emotions; techniques for managing
workplace conflict positively; and more.
October 5–6
Strategies for Handling Aggressive & Other Problem
Personalities. Learn how to identify the difference
between personalities who display difficult behaviours
and those who thrive on conflict; implement a process
for reaching balance and settling tensions between people
within organisations and more.
Both workshops run from 9am to 4pm and cost TT$5000.
For more information,
please visit
.
Human Communication Studies Conference
Identity, Context and Interdisciplinarity
in Human communication Studies in the
Caribbean and beyond
September 24 and 25
The UWI, St. Augustine Campus
Listen to panelists discuss subthemes such as
communication studies education; communication, culture
and gender; communication, culture and conflict; health
communication; popular culture and critical theory and
many other areas.
For further information,
visit
/
humancommunication/registration.asp.
The UWI Research Expo 2015:
Advancing Knowledge, Impacting Lives
September 22–25
JFK Quadrangle, The UWI, St. Augustine Campus
Experience UWI research in action through interactive
displays, mini workshops, networking opportunities, tours,
cultural programming, fun activities for the kids andmore.
For further information,
please visit
Premium Open Lecture
Student Engagement – Back to Basics
and Beyond the Tech Hype
September 25
Daaga Auditorium
The UWI, St. Augustine Campus
The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in
association with the Guardian Group present a Premium
Open Lecture by Dr. Elizabeth F. Barkley, Foothill College,
Los Altos, California.
For further information,
please call 662-2002 ext. 82611 or 224-3736
or email
.
Or visit
.
COTE 2015
Managing Development in Caribbean
Economies: The Key Role of Health,
Public Policy and Social Security
October 8 and 9
Learning Resource Centre,
The UWI, St. Augustine Campus
The Department of Economics’ Annual Conference on
the Economy (COTE 2015) will focus on sub-themes
of Caribbean development like Health and Sustainable
Development, Public Policy: Resource Challenges in
Health, Social Security Challenges & Opportunities and
many more.
For further information,
visit:
.
UWI Graduation 2015
October 22–24
Mark your calendars!
2015 Graduation Ceremonies take place as follows:
October 22
(AM)
Faculties of Science & Technology and Food &
Agriculture; Honorary Graduand and Guest Speaker; Mr.
Hollis Charles.
(PM)
Faculties of Engineering and Law; Honorary
Graduand and Guest Speaker Justice; Jean Angela
Permanand.
October 23
(AM)
Faculty of Social Sciences (Group 1) & ALL
Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business graduands;
Honorary Graduand and Guest Speaker; Mr. A. Norman
Sabga.
(PM)
Faculty of Social Sciences (Group 2); Honorary
Graduand and Guest Speaker Mr. Gerard Besson
October 24
(AM)
Faculty of Humanities & Education; Honorary
Graduand and Guest Speaker Dr. Marjorie Thorpe;
Honorary Graduand and Guest Performer; Mr. David
Rudder.
(PM)
Faculty of Medical Sciences; Honorary Graduand
and Guest Speaker Justice Ralph Narine; Honorary
Graduand; Mr. Rajkumar “Krishna” Persad.
For further information, visit the St. Augustine Campus’
graduation website, closer to graduation dates at
uwi.edu/graduation/.
The History of Investment in the Caribbean
November 4–8
The UWI, St. Augustine Campus
The University of the West Indies and the Caribbean
Economic History Association (Asociación de Historia
Económica del Caribe, AHEC) present the 3rd Annual
Conference of the AHEC.
Listen to panelists discuss the evolution of investment
in the Caribbean from the 15th century to the present;
the movement of capital flows into and out of the greater
region and the incorporation of the Caribbean into global
economies and markets over the past centuries. The
Conference will also address the flow of investments, its
sources and destinations and the impact of these flows
on the region’s economy and society, in micro and macro
terms.
For further information,
please visit
.
2nd Biennial Conference on
Sport Studies and Higher Education:
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Physical Literacy: Gender, Science,
and Sport for Development
January 13–15, 2016
UWI St. Augustine
This conference will contribute to the development of
research and scholarship on sport to support sports
programmes in tertiary and higher education institutions.
Call for Papers – abstracts should be submitted by October
31, 2015 addressing sub-themes including but not limited
to The Role of the State; Sexuality and Gender Identities
in Sport, Anti-Doping Policy and more.
For further information, please email sportstudiesconference@
sta.uwi.edu or visit
THE UWI SPEC International Half-Marathon
October 25, 2015
Sport and Physical Education Centre,
St. Augustine Campus
Registration is open forThe 12th UWI SPEC International
Half-Marathon, which kicks off at 5.30am at The UWI
Sport and Physical Education Centre (SPEC). Registration
closes on September 25 or once the limit of 1,200 entries
has been received. Registration is available at First Citizens
branches.
For further information,
please visit
