The Mona Academic Conference 2007 is scheduled to take place from Friday, August 31 to Sunday, September 2 under the theme “Freedom: Retrospective and Prospective.” The Conference officially begins with an Opening Ceremony on Friday, August 31 at 6:00 pm at the Undercroft, UWI Mona. The keynote address will be delivered by Professor Ruth Simmons, President of Brown’s University

The event continues over two days with panel discussions and presentations in the Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWI, Mona beginning at 9 am daily. Presentations and discussions will be made on topics including: Oral Histories of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Memorializing Slavery and the Slave Trade Through Personal Accounts, Freedom Road - The Empowerment of the Enslaved Population by the Eighteenth Century, 200 Years since the Abolition of the Slave Trade, All that is Buried is not dead: Public histories and Legacies of Slavery in post-apartheid Cape Town, and Reparations: Taking Forward the Caribbean’s Case.

Registration fee is J$500 per day, and students with identification cards J$250 per day. For further information on the Conference interested individuals are invited to visit the website at: http://www.mona.uwi.edu/conferences/2007/monaconf/ or contact Jennifer Clarke by telephone at: 702-4241or e-mail: jennifer.clarke@uwimona.edu.jm.