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Date: Thursday February 7
Date Time Type Details Venue
Thursday February 7 6:00PM - 7:30PM BOOK LAUNCH

Developing Sustainable Balance of Payment in Small Countries: Lessons from Macroeconomic Deadlock in Jamaica

Overview: The book analyses Jamaica’s ability to satisfy its short and long run foreign currency obligations in light of recurrent balance of payment support from international lending agencies. The book further delves into Jamaica’s continued indebtedness, continued successive arrangements with the International Monetary Fund, its depreciating currency continues to drive up debt servicing requirements, and provides policy recommendations to bolster the Jamaican economy into solvency and suggests strategies for supporting local economic objectives within global geopolitical constraints

Author: Kelli-ann Dixon Hamilton

Regional Headquarters UWI, Mona
Date: Friday February 8
Date Time Type Details Venue
Friday February 8 10:00AM - 3:00PM COURTYARD EXHIBIT

HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT COURTYARD EXHIBIT

Overview: The DHA will feature a display demonstrating the link between history, archaeology and heritage and how these reflect the FHE's theme "Powering the Lifestyle and Economic Genius of a Caribbean People". Among other things, they will have dress and food showcasing aspects of our heritage that not only contribute to the development of a sense of who we are as a people, but also to how we can earn a living using these.

Faculty of Humanities and Education Courtyard
Friday February 8 10:00AM - 3:00PM PARTICIPATORY EXPERIENCE

GENIUS TIME

Overview: Each Department will be represented by one (1) genius (15-20 minutes per hour) who will give a dramatization of a science concept – e.g. equation solving and proofs, Newtonian forces, etc. The audience will be engaged to participate.

AUDIENCE: High School students & their teachers

The Spine, Faculty of Science and Technology
Friday February 8 10:00AM - 11:00AM LECTURE

Water-supply/Metissage/Global-warming and Fanon: South/South dialogical engagement between Cuba and Jamaica

Overview: Twenty six years on, Pswarayi laments that from a full complement of one hundred and twenty states, only twelve made the attendance of the Venezuelan summit. At the heart of the attrition in attendance and waning interest is the notion of colonialism being outdated and a relic of a bygone era. This presentation argues, in the vogue of Fanonian thinkers like Sylvia Wynter that the current dereliction of the non-aligned movement is rooted – like the failure of the black power movement of the 1960’s – in the confusion and displacement of transcendental phenomenology with phenomenological psychology and the resulting – constricting - hegemonic dialectic of developed versus developing world. This water-as-metissage tropic analysis will be carried out in the context of the postcolonial experiences of Jamaica and Cuba

Presenter: Dr Horace Williams, Lecturer, Jamaica Theological Seminary

The Undercroft, Senate Building
Friday February 8 10:00AM - 2:00PM PARTICIPATORY EXPERIENCE

Alternative energy using the bicycle

Overview: Participants will ride a bicycle and attempt to light up a series of light bulbs based on speed

AUDIENCE: High school students, FST students

The Spine, Faculty of Science and Technology
Friday February 8 10:00AM-10:45AM WORKSHOP

Critical Thinking and Fun with Languages

Overview: Three members of staff, Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy will guide the scheduled workshops. There will be two daily scheduled daily.

Target Audience: Specially invited High School students and visiting school groups.

The Writing Centre, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Friday February 8 10:00AM - 2:00PM TOURS

Department of Anatomy Tours

Overview: The department will be offering interesting tours for students and campus visitors daily. Come explore our world

Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Teaching & Research Complex
Friday February 8 10:00AM - 3:00PM COURTYARD EXHIBIT

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES DEPARTMENT COURTYARD EXHIBIT

Overview: The DLIS Booth will house flyers, posters and brochures promoting the department as well as its posters, event and other contributions for the UWI RDs 2019. The department will also seek to carry out a miniaturized knowledge based interactive in the form of a dart game aimed at showcasing the department's social and economic contribution to development in areas such as Knowledge Management, Archives and Records Management, Librarianship, Media and Information Literacy.

Faculty of Humanities and Education Courtyard
Friday February 8 10:00AM - 3:00PM PARTICIPATORY EXPERIMENTS

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY Ice cream making and other scientific experiments

Overview: Demonstrating basic scientific principles and interactive demonstrations to excite High School Students.

AUDIENCE: UWI Students, High School Students, General Public

The Spine, Faculty of Science and Technology
Friday February 8 10:00AM - 12:00PM FORUM

Discussion Forum

Overview: Unlocking Potential for Optimizing Student Research Output

Panellists: Professor Marcia Roye, Associate Dean (Graduate Studies), Faculty of Science and Technology Dr. Saran Stewart, Senior Lecturer, School of Education Dr. Julian McKoy-Davis, PhD Social Policy Dr. Ricardo Anderson, PhD Computer Science

Moderator: Professor Minerva Thame, Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies), Faculty of Medical Sciences

The Assembly Hall

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