An Afternoon of Caribbean Poetry Readings and Response

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The GraceKennedy Foundation and The University of the West Indies Press will launch the book,  Environmental Management in the Caribbean: Policy and Practice By Elizabeth Thomas-Hope. The launch will be on September 25, 2014 at 6:00pm at the Council Room, UWI Regional Headquarters.

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The launch hosted by the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) will also include a forum under the theme ‘Gender, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management: The Youths' Perspective’. Contributors will discuss their articles contributed to the Working Paper. The publication which was sponsored by the Freidrich Ebert Stiftung, Jamaica & the Eastern Caribbean, represents the work of former BSc students who were registered in the IGDS’s course: Gender, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management (GEND3032), in the 2011/12 academic year. 

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The book: Commonwealth Caribbean Employment and Labour Law is authored by  Natalie Corthésy former Legal Officer in the Ministry of Labour, who is presently a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and Carla Anne Harris Roper, former Director, Legal Services Division, Ministry of Labour and Social Security who is presently Acting Deputy Director of Legal Reform. 

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The Launch of IGDS Working Paper # 6: Youth Voices: Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean is presented by the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Mona Campus Unit, in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean.
Guest Speaker is Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of the UWI Mona Camnpus, Professor Archibald McDonald.

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The Department of Literatures in English will be launching  Limbo, by Esther Figueroa, on Sunday April 6, 2014 at 11am and is inviting the public to be a part of the experience.

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The UWI Museum and the National Musuem of Jamaica will launch the book, Plantation to Nation: Caribbean Museums and National Identity. The main speaker is Co editor, Alissandra Cummins, Director, Barbados Musuem and Historical Society

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The Hugh Wynter Fertility Management Unit will be launching the book entitled, "Sexual and Reproductive Health in Jamaica: Medical, Ethico-Legal and Social Perspectives", on Thursday February 27, 2014 in the Unit's New Lecture Theatre at 5:00pm.
Please be seated by 4:45 pm
 

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Professor Densil Williams, Executive Director of the Mona School of Business and Management cordially invites you to the launch of the book Leadership Re-Imagination: A Primer of Principles and Practices by Dr. Canute S. Thompson.
Ms. Minna Israel, will be guest speaker. 

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The Department of Literatures in English will host the launch of Professor Emeritus Edward Baugh's latest collection of poetry: Black Sand: New and Selected Poems on Sunday December 1, 2013 at 11am in the Neville Hall Lecture Theatre (N1) Faculty of Humanities and Education. Download event flyer HERE.

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