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July 2014
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UWI Calendar July - August 2014Looking In, Looking Out The Institute for Gender and Development Studies is hosting a one-day media workshop designed to respond to the desire expressed by Caribbean journalists to hone their analytical and writing skills in such a way as to represent gender issues accurately and to avoid misrepresenting them through learned techniques which produce sensationalist texts which are biased and damaging. For more information, please contact the IGDS at 662-2002 ext. 83566/83572, or igds@sta.uwi.edu The New Urgency The 13th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Higher Education Administrators (ACHEA) takes place from July 10-12, 2014, at the Roy Marshall Teaching Complex, UWI Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.Theme - Creating a Sustainable Lens for Higher Education: The New Urgency. For more information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/ACHEA/conference2014 The UWI’s Discover Series – Brazil The UWI’s DISCOVER series takes you on an exciting journey through the BRICS. The St. Augustine campus presents study tours that provide immersion in the culture, history, politics, architecture and people of promising economies and rich cultures, led by expert academic tour guides. From August 3-16, The UWI let’s you discover Brazil. For more information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/discover Music Therapy Conference The UWI Musical Arts Unit in conjunction with the Music Therapy Association of Trinidad and Tobago hosts the Inaugural Music Therapy Conference: Healing through Rhythm and Sound,at the UWI Open Campus Auditorium.Registration deadline is Saturday July 26, 2014, at 4pm.Early registration: $25 (students), $50 (general public), $75 (registration at the door). For further information, call 776-8756 (Mr. Satanand Sharma), or 464-2870 (Ms. Martina Chow). Amazonian Wildlife The 11th XICIMFAUNA Conference onManagement of Amazonian Wildlife will take For further information,michele.singh@sta.uwi.edu 662-2002 ext. 83328 UWI Life Support 6pm-8pm August 28, 2014 The UWI St. Augustine UWI welcomes all new students to the Campus with its official annual orientation programme, UWI Life. The UWI Life Support Network targets the parents, guardians and spouses of all first-year students, to equip them to better assist the students as they make the transition into university life. For more information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/fye UWI Life Student and Information Village The UWI Life Student and Information Village orientation session targets all first-time undergraduate, evening, part-time and postgraduate students. This event is meant to ease students' transition to campus life by providing them with relevant and timely information, as well as a relaxing and enjoyable atmosphere. For more information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/fye UWI Life Prime
For more information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/fye Conference on the Economy The UWI St. Augustine’s Department ofEconomics Annual Conference on the Economy(COTE) 2014 is scheduled for October 9-10,2014, at the Learning Resource Centre (LRC) Auditorium, UWI St. Augustine Campus. A call forpapers has been issued and all interested personsare invited to submit abstracts by August 31 onany of the sub-themes. For further information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/conferences/14/cote/ |
