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Graduate Seminar
The Department of Literatures in English will be hosting another seminar in its Staff/Postgraduate Series this Friday, December 5, 2014.
The presenter will be Mr. Bryan Chitworth, a PhD Candidate from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr Chitworth's topic is "Towards a Fiscal Sociology of Anglophone Poetry: the Congress for Culutral Freedom and the Institute of Jamaica".
Email litsengmona@gmail.com or call 927-2217/ext 2396 for further information.
Professorial Guest Lecture: "Cornerstone of Global Health Innovative Solutions: Academic Partnerships - Ghana-Yale Model"
You are invited to attend the distinguished professorial guest lecture by Dr. Elijah Paintsil from Yale University entitled "Cornerstone of Global Health Innovative Solutions: Academic Partnerships - Ghana-Yale Model" on Dec 10 at 5 pm in the Main Lecture Theatre of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) .
Mergers & Acquisitions in the Telecoms Sector: Implications for Competition
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Digicel v Lime How Will Consumers Fare?
The Department of Economics presents a public lecture on Tuesday November 25, 2014 at 4:00pm at the Undercrof: Digicel v Lime How will Consumers Fare?
The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Abdullahi Abdulkadri
The Demonstrated High Blood Sugar and High Blood Pressure Lowering Constituents of a local Eucalyptus species
The Natural History Society of Jamaica presents a seminar on: The Demonstrated High Blood Sugar and High Blood Pressure Lowering Constituents of a local Eucalyptus species
Speaker: Dr. Trevor Yee, recently retired Director of the Natural Products Institute, UWI, Mona
Compounds isolated from Eucalyptus camaldulensis have the demonstrated ability to lower both high blood sugar and blood pressure levels, and have been identified as constituents of some well known foods.
UWI/UNESCO Philosophy Day: "Shaping tomorrow through thinking today: the role of marijuana in Jamaica's future"
The Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy invites you to attend the UWI/UNESCO Philosophy Day:"Shaping tomorrow through thinking today: the role of marijuana in Jamaica's future" on November 20, 2014 at the Undercroft.
Presenters include:
- Professor Oswald Harding
- Dr. K'adamawe Knife
- Dr. Leahcim Semaj
- Dr. Michael Miguel A. Lorne
- Mr. Delroy Chuck
Graduate Research Seminar on Ebola Crisis and JSIF Poverty Reduction Program
There will be two (2) presentations:
i) Dr. Anne Bailey, Visiting Research Fellow - “The Ebola Crisis and its Impact on African Diaspora Studies” Click here for details on presentation
ii) Ms. Shinique Walters, PhD Government candidate – “The appropriateness of the EU’s Project Management Model for Social Development in Jamaica – A Case Study of Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s European Union Poverty Reduction Program (PRP) 2”.
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Chinese Architecture and Culture
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Vodou and the Haitian Struggle: Creole Religion in Politics of the Oppressed
Department of Government Graduate Research Seminar
The Department of Government will hold its first Departmental/Graduate Research Seminar for 2014/2015 on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014 at 2:30 P.M. in SR4, Faculty of Social Sciences.
Dr. Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers, lecturer in the Department of Government will be presenting on “The Effects of Mixed Member Proportional Electoral system on the political representation of women and ethnic minorities: A case Study of women and Maori in New Zealand.”
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ALL ARE INVITED!
