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UWI Calendar February 2011 - March 2011

Jouvay Ayiti
January-March 2011
Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA)
UWI St. Augustine

The Faculty of Humanities and Education will present a transformative Carnival Project: Jouvay Ayiti: Transformation through Celebration, Celebrating Haiti’s Past, Encouraging Her Future. Jouvay Ayiti approaches the task of creating a discussion of Haiti amongst the national community through five main experiences:

  • A small Carnival band of individual characters that will take part in 2011 regional carnival competitions under the theme: ‘Haiti: Gods, Villains and Heroes.’
  • A Haitian RaRa band within “The Old Yard”
  • A Jouvay band that references historical and contemporary realities of Haiti
  • A virtual mas camp
  • A theatrical production

For further information, please contact Marissa Brooks at the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, at marissa.brooks@sta.uwi.edu or Tel: (868) 662-2002 ext.3792

CLL Open House
25-26 March, 2011
Centre for Language Learning
UWI St. Augustine

The UWI Centre for Language Learning (CLL) will host its second triennial Open House, themed ‘Go global. Learn a language.’ At this Open House, students will find out how they can learn up to 10 foreign languages with the CLL, including Hindi, Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. The event will underscore the importance of foreign language proficiency for global citizenship, with cultural displays and activities.

For further information, please contact Vanessa Williams at 662-2002 ext. 3896, or via email at vanessa.williams@sta.uwi.edu.

Leadership and Innovation
Friday 25 March, 2011
8.30am-5.30pm
Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain, T&T

The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business presents Professor Michael E. Porter as the feature speaker for its Distinguished Leadership and Innovation Conference 2011.

Professor Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and is an authority on competitive strategy, the competitiveness and economic development of nations, states, and regions, and the application of competitive principles to social problems such as health care, the environment, and corporate responsibility.

For further information, please contact the conference team at 645-6700 ext 299, or via email at conferencing@lokjackgsb.org, or conferencing@gsb.tt.

New Geographies
Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 March, 2011
Daaga Auditorium, CTI & Engineering Department.
UWI, St. Augustine

The New Geographies: Studies in Postcoloniality and Globalization Conference proposes to work with a more flexible understanding of postcolonial studies. Keynote speakers are Prof. Arjun Appadurai and Gisèle Pineau, while Guy DesLauriers and Patricia Mohammed will screen their films followed by a post-screening Q&A session.

For further information, please Email: postcolandglobal@gmail.com or telephone 662-2002- ext 3039, or visit the website at http://sta.uwi.edu/conferences/11/postcoloniality/contactus.asp

Baptist Liberation Concert
Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 March, 2011
7pm
Daaga Auditorium, UWI, St. Augustine

The UWI Arts Chorale and UWI Steel present a concert in honour of Baptist Liberation Day.

For further information, please contact Marissa Brooks at the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, at marissa.brooks@sta.uwi.edu or Tel: (868) 662-2002 ext.3792