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Date: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18
Date	Time	Type	Details	Venue
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	1:00 PM - 6:30 PM	SEMINAR	The SPSW Derek Gordon Research Seminar - "Re-thinking Caribbean Futures: Perspectives from the Social Sciences" URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work The SPSW Derek Gordon Research Seminar - "Re-thinking Caribbean Futures: Perspectives from the Social Sciences" Overview: This seminar will feature a keynote presentation, art exhibition, and 3 panels exploring issues in regional development, research challenges, and the work of social scientists with people and communities. Guest Speaker: Dr Honor Ford-Smith, Assistant Professor, Community Arts Practice, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. Guest Speaker's Presentation: Haunting Acts and Future Possibilities: Performing Caribbean Radical Imagination in the Present ”	UWI Regional Headquarters
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	1:00 PM - 6:30 PM	SEMINAR	The SPSW Derek Gordon Research Seminar URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work The SPSW Derek Gordon Research Seminar - "Re-thinking Caribbean Futures: Perspectives from the Social Sciences" Overview: This seminar will feature a keynote presentation, art exhibition, and 3 panels exploring issues in regional development, research challenges, and the work of social scientists with people and communities. Guest Speaker: Dr Honor Ford-Smith, Assistant Professor, Community Arts Practice, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. Guest Speaker's Presentation: Haunting Acts and Future Possibilities: Performing Caribbean Radical Imagination in the Present ”	UWI Regional Headquarters
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	1:00pm-2:30pm	WORKSHOP	Plagiarism & EndNote The UWI Library Workshop Series Topic: Plagiarism & EndNote Overview: Workshop on Plagiarism & EndNote for graduate students Presenter: Mrs. Karlene Nelson, Librarian, Loan & Reference	UWI Mona Science Branch Library PGLC Computer Lab
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	1:00PM - 3:00PM	LECTURE PRESENTATION	The lecture will focus on the barriers to gender URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT Title: “Gender Equity in ICT” Overview: The lecture will focus on the barriers to gender equality for women, youths, unattached males and persons with disabilities and the identification of strategies to increase opportunities and access to education, training, and employment in the ICT industry Presenter: Miss Ayanna Samuels, Independent ICT for Development Consultant/Entrepreneur and Technology Policy Consultant.	Multi-functional Room, UWI Main Library
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	1:00PM - 2:00PM	BOOK LAUNCH	Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay. Department of Government Department Book Launch Book Title: Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay. Author: Dr. Clinton Hutton Overview: This book examines the social, economic, spiritual and ideological bases of the Morant Bay Uprising.	Department of Government Department Book Launch Book Title: Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay. Author: Dr. Clinton Hutton Overview: This book examines the social, economic, spiritual and ideolog
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	1:30PM - 3:00PM	RAP SESSION	Rap Session with Deputy Deans for Graduate Studies OGSR Graduate Lounge Activity: Rap Session with Deputy Deans for Graduate Studies – Faculties of Medical Sciences and Science and Technology Overview: Graduate Students in the FMS and FST rap directly with their respective Deputy Deans. Speakers: Professor Minerva Thame and Dr. Marcia Roye	Lawn adjacent to the Office of Graduate Studies and Research
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	2:00PM - 3:00PM	INTERACTIVE SESSION	All will be moving with the Xbox Kinect filled with popular music. School of Physical Therapy Title: Dance Exercise! Overview: All will be moving with the Xbox Kinect filled with popular music. Meeting Point: Outside Lobby	FMS Teaching & Research Complex Exhibition Room
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	2:00PM	POETRY CLASH	Competition featuring performance of original poetry by visiting poets and the wider UWI Community with cash prizes. URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT Department of Literatures in English Title: Poetry Clash 2016 Overview: Competition featuring performance of original poetry by visiting poets and the wider UWI Community with cash prizes.	Faculty Courtyard
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	2:00PM - 3:00PM	FACULTY TOURS	Laboratory Tours Department of Chemistry Laboratory Tours Overview: Potential clients/ investors will be given an opportunity to visit the labs which are capable of contract research / commercial testing.	Pesticide Research Lab, NMR & Central Analytical Lab
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18	2:00PM	POETRY CLASH	Department of Literatures in English URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT *Department of Literatures in English* Title: Poetry Clash 2016 Overview: Competition featuring performance of original poetry by visiting poets and the wider UWI Community with cash prizes.	Faculty Courtyard

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