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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 4 FEBRUARY, 2018
OBITUARIES
Caribbean
Cinema
Review
In December 2017,
The UWI St. Augustine’s
Film Degree Programme did a preview of
the first edition of its “Caribbean Cinema
Review” publication – a multilingual journal on
Caribbean film, featuring articles, interviews,
reviews, photo essays, podcasts, trailers, etc.
on indigenous and diaspora Caribbean cinema
cultures.
Coordinator of The UWI St. Augustine
Film Programme and “Caribbean Cinema
Review’s” Founding Editor, Yao Ramesar, hailed
it as “a welcome addition to the Caribbean’s
rapidly expanding cinema landscape. Critical
analyses, reviews, interviews and scholarship
are necessary companions to the plethora of film
narratives that we are producing.”
The first edition’s countries in focus are
Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago, and the Review
includes content such as a photo essay from
Ayiti Mon Amour (2016) by Guetty Felin, Haiti’s
entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th
Academy Awards, as well as an interview with
Roger Alexis, the man behind cult sensation,
Santana.
The first edition is being released in 2018.
The Review will be biennial in odd years and
alternate with the UWI FilmProgramme’sWorld
Festival of Emerging Cinema (WOFEC), which
is held in even years.
The inaugural edition of “Caribbean
Cinema Review” will be titled Volume 1 2017/18
to coincide with the inaugural WOFEC, which
was held in 2016. The second WOFEC is slated
for 2018 and the second edition of “Caribbean
Cinema Review” for 2019/20.
For further information please contact:
DR. JOHN CAMPBELL
Dr. John Campbell of the Faculty of Humanities and Education (FHE), Department
of History passed away on January 11.
Dr. Campbell earned his BA and MPhil degrees in History at The UWI. He received
his second MPhil and his PhD from Cambridge University, UK. Dr. Campbell started his
UWI career in 2000 at theMona Campus and in 2004 joined the St. Augustine Campus. He
was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and served as Deputy Dean (Distance
and Outreach) in the Faculty of Humanities and Education from 2014 to 2018.
At the Department of History Dr. Campbell transformed the foundation course
Caribbean Civilisation. He was eventually appointed Regional Coordinator for Caribbean
Civilisation and was instrumental in the University-wide delivery of this course.
From 2007 to 2009 he was Senior Programme Officer, Office of the Board for
Undergraduate Studies (OBUS) with responsibility for quality assurance, the audit of
Foundation Courses and ensuring student wellbeing through the development of a
programme for ‘Model Lecturing and Teaching Strategies’.
Dr. Campbell specialised in contemporary Caribbean civilization and culture and
was the recipient of several awards including the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence
in 2007 and the UWI/Guardian Life Premium Teaching Award 2006. In 2008, in
commemoration of The UWI’s 60th anniversary, he was named one of its top academics.
Dr. Campbell published widely in his areas of interest which included Gender Studies
andHistoriography. He wrote two books and co-authored another. He alsowrote numerous
journal articles, resource reviews and newsletters dealing with issues of Caribbean affairs
and development. His contributions to The UWI Chaplaincy and the University School
will also be remembered.
Dr. Campbell is mourned by his mother; sister, Dr. Sabeerah Abdul-Majid, lecturer
at the School of Education, UWI St. Augustine; other siblings; students and colleagues in
the Faculty of Humanities and Education.
KYNASTON McSHINE
Kynaston McShine, described as one of the most influential curators of the 20th
century, died on January 8, 2018, at the age of 82. Born in Port of Spain in 1935, he
attended Dartmouth College, where he studied philosophy and worked at the school’s
Hood Museum. He did graduate work at the University of Michigan (1958-59) and the
Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (1960-62). He taught at Hunter College
from 1965 to 1968.
Mr McShine was conferred with the Doctor of Letters (DLitt) honoris causa by The
UWI in 2008.
An obituary on the website, Artnet.com had this to say.
“After a stint in the department of circulating exhibitions at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, McShine secured a gig as curator of painting and sculpture at the Jewish
Museum from 1965 to 1967. He served as acting director from 1967 to 1968. There, in
addition to “Primary Structures,” he organized solo exhibitions of work by Gene Davis,
Robert Irwin, and Yves Klein. A statement released by the Jewish Museum described
McShine as a “visionary curator.”
“McShine returned to MoMA in 1968 as associate curator and later served as acting
chief curator of the department of painting and sculpture. In the 1970s, he initiated MoMA’s Projects series, which offered younger
artists—including, early on, Sam Gilliam and Nancy Graves—an opportunity to present experimental new work. He also organized
solo exhibitions surveying the achievements of Andy Warhol (1989), Robert Rauschenberg(1977), and Marcel Duchamp (1973). He
retired from MoMA in 2008 as chief curator at large.”
DR. ANNE MARION OSBORNE
Dr. AnneMarionOsborne former Department of Festival and Creative Arts (DCFA) Lecturer
passed away on January 20, 2018.
Dr. Osborne’s musical education spanned the gamut from the Royal Academy of Music,
London (Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music,
Associate of the Royal College of Music, Associate of the Royal College of Organist, B. Mus.),
University of Western Ontario M. Mus. In Piano Performance and Literature, Kodaly Pedagogical
Institute of Music, Kecskemet, Hungary, Diploma, Kodaly Concept of Music Education, Indiana
University, Bloomington, USA, Ph.D. major inMusic Education, minors inmusic theory and piano.
She came to The UWI in October 1992 as Lecturer and founding Coordinator, of Academic
Music Programmes, in the then, Creative Arts Centre, Department of Literatures in English. She
introduced music as a subject for academic credit at our campus and developed and taught music
in both the BA in Musical Arts and the Certificate in Music programmes.
She had a special interest in the teaching of music using Pan as the medium of instruction
and in 1995 in collaboration with three colleagues, she was instrumental in the conceptualisation,
development and implementation of Graded Examinations in Solo Steelpan Performance. The
syllabus is now in its seventh edition.
As the major consultant in the formulation and introduction of the CXC Music Syllabus and the Chief Examiner for the CXC
Music Syllabus she has influenced the development of music education in the Caribbean in a profound way. She designed the Republic
Bank sponsored Pan Minors Programme for school children, a much respected and influential programme for young pan players.
In addition to her work in educatingmusicians, she has served as adjudicator at many SteelbandMusic Festivals at home and abroad.
Dr. Osborne resigned from the University on August 1, 2015.
