The Faculty of Social Sciences invites you to the FSS 2016 Principal's Awardees Seminar on Thursday March 10th at 2:30pm. 
 
Research Presentations
Most Outstanding Researcher
Prof. Jessica Byron
Regionalism and Caribbean Foreign Policy

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Mona School of Business and Management invites you to its Public Advocacy Series event which will feature visiting scholar Dr David Parker, Senior Lecturer in Business Operations at the University of Queensland, Australia. Dr Parker will deliver a Public Lecture entitled ”Confronting the Implementation Gap: Why do Good Ideas Fail to get Implemented?”

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The 32^nd Annual Elsa Goveia Memorial Lecture

 March 22, 2016

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The Department of Literatures in English, in association with the Faculty of Medical Sciences, invites you to the first in its series of "Reggae Talks" for the month of March.  Mutabaruka will speak on "The Business of Reggae Poetry".  The talk takes place on Tuesday, March 1 at 6:00 p.m. in the Sir Kenneth Standard Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Medical Sciences.  The public is invited to attend and admission is free.

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Jamaican-born dub poet, recording artiste, playwright and educator Michael St. George will speak on Tuesday, February 9 at the University of the West Indies, Mona in the "Reggae Talks" series hosted by the Department of Literatures in English.  Based in Toronto, St. George is a politically engaged activist whose poetry advocates social justice.  St George will focus on "Dub Poetry in Transition". His talk takes place in the N2, Faculty of Humanities and Education, at 7:30 p.m.  Admission is free and the public is invited to attend. 

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Our signature event will be a Panel Discussion entitled:  “Misconduct in Public Office” which will be held on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 5:30 pm in Lecture Theatre 2. Our panellists include: Mr Dirk Harrison, Contractor General of Jamaica and Mr Terrence Williams, Commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM).

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The premier annual event hosted by the Institute of Caribbean Studies & the Reggae Studies Unit at the UWI is the Bob Marley Lecture. Held in Reggae Month, the lecture is intended to commemorate the birth of Marley as Jamaica’s most successful reggae icon and celebrate reggae among the 7 genres of music Jamaica gave the world in the latter half of the C20th. Inaugurated in 1997, the lecture has traditionally focused on a wide range of topics from Marley, Trench Town, Rastafari and psycho-historiography, to Jamaica’s music business and creative products.

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