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UWI Calendar June 2013 - September 2013

Growing security
June 30 to July 6
Hyatt Regency
Port of Spain

49th Annual Meeting of the West Indies Agricultural Economics Conference, “Agribusiness Essential for Food Security: Empowering Youth and Enhancing Quality Products” in co-operation with the Caribbean Agro-Economic Society, the Caribbean Food Crops Society and the International Society for Horticultural Science.

For more information, please contact Hazel Patterson Andrews at 662-2002 ext. 82445/82308 or via e-mail at info@caestt.com or caesconference@gmail.com.


Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
July 1-6
The UWI, St. Augustine Campus

The UWI in collaboration with the National Entrepreneurship Development Company Limited and the Entrepreneurial Training Institute & Incubation Centre will host the second Entrepreneurship Business Training Series, “Entrepreneurship Boot Camp”. The boot camp will assist graduates in developing entrepreneur-type attitudes. Its focus will be on the significant contributions of small and micro-enterprise economies to economic diversification, building a self-sustainable economy as well as a wide range of business concepts, real life challenges, failures and successes of the entrepreneur. Registration: $500 Registration deadline: June 21, 2013.

For more information, please contact the Office of Institutional Advancement & Internationalisation at 662-2002 ext. 82681 or register online: http://sta.uwi.edu/ebc/.


Crazy for You!
July 4 to July 7
Queen’s Hall

What happens when the heir to a New York banking company who secretly dreams of life on stage is sent to Deadrock, Nevada, to foreclose on the tiny town's only theatre? Must Come See Productions presents the Gershwin comedy classic. Specials for families, couples, school children and seniors

For more information, please contact Jessel Murray at 662-2002 ext.2013/2014 or Jessel.Murray@sta.uwi.edu; info@mustcomesee.com


Mango Conference
July 5, Chancellor Hotel

Mango Festival
July 7, The University Field Station

Hosted by the Network of Rural Women Producers and The Faculty of Food and Agriculture, the Ministry of Food Production and Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, both the Conference and the Festival will show that research and development are the basis of success of the mango industry at the producer and commercial level.

For more information, please contact Chanelle Joseph at chanelle.joseph@sta.uwi.edu; 662-2002 ext 83277


The Rules of the Game have changed: responding to the new dynamics in higher education
July 11 to 13
Hilton Rose Hall Resort & Spa
Montego Bay

12th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Higher Education Administrators (ACHEA)

For more information, please email achea@sta.uwi.edu


Women in Leadership Conference 2013
July 12
The Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre

The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business hosts the "Women in Leadership Conference", featuring Libby Gill - author, leadership and business coach and CEO.

For more information, please email conferencing@lokjackgsb.edu, or contact 645-6700 ext. 299.


1st International Ramleela Conference
July 12 -14
UWI Learning Resource Centre

Co-hosted by The UWI Faculty of Humanities & Education and the National Ramleela Council of Trinidad & Tobago Inc

For more information, please contact Rawle Gibbons at Rawle.Gibbons@sta.uwi.edu


July 9 to August 2
Critical Sexuality Studies: Theory and Practice
Institute of Gender and Development Studies (IGDS)

The 4-week course is created by the Caribbean International Resource Network in collaboration with The UWI IGDS St. Augustine Unit and supported by from The Ford Foundation and the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS)

Sexualities in the Tent: Patricia Gone with Millicent meets VS Naipaul, a queer Trinidadian
July 13th, 10.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m.
Old Fire Station, NALIS, Port of Spain

Celebrate Caribbean lives and loving through calypso and stories - a 2-day event looking at Caribbean sexual citizenship.

For more information on the two events above, please contact IGDS at 868.662.2002 ext.83577/83573 or via email igds@sta.uwi.edu; http://sta.uwi.edu/igds/ | http://www.facebook.com/IGDSStAugustineUnit


The UWI Seismic Research Centre
S3 Mall Tour
July & August

Sixty years of science and safety: The UWI Seismic Research Centre is rolling through shopping malls across Trinidad & Tobago during July and August. Get information on earthquake and tsunami science and safety at the Roving Display.

Contact the SRC at 662-4659 or email info@uwiseismic.com Ask about their Open House days!


UWI Discovers: Academic Immersion – India
August 1-21

Be immersed through UWI Discovers in all contemporary aspects of the global powers of the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The second UWI Discovers tour, led by Professor Kapil Kumar, Professor at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi, leaves for India on August 1 for three weeks. 11 cities; 21 days! Included is an orientation session with a basic language introduction.

For more information, please contact Candace Guppy at 622 2002 x 84184; 224 3708; discoverindia@sta.uwi.edu or visit http://sta.uwi.edu/discover/india2013/index.asp


Inaugural Human Communication Studies International Conference 2013
‘Celebrating the Caribbean in Communication, Culture and Community’
September 26 - 27
Call for Papers: Abstracts by June 30; Full Papers by August 15

Celebrate the works of Stuart Hall, Aggrey Brown and others; celebrate the Caribbean in the verbal and nonverbal communication of its artists in word, music, dance and movement, and theatre in our creative, cultural and communicative spaces. Afterwards, you are invited to submit your conference papers to an international panel for peer review for a proposed publication, The Human Communication Studies Journal in 2014.

For more information, please contact, humancommconference2013@sta.uwi.edu or contact the Department of Literacy, Cultural and Communication Studies, UWI St. Augustine