Date | Time | Type | Details | Venue |
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Thursday February 7 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM | BOOK LAUNCH |
Developing Sustainable Balance of Payment in Small Countries: Lessons from Macroeconomic Deadlock in JamaicaOverview: 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 | Time | Type | Details | Venue |
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Friday February 8 | 10:00AM - 3:00PM | COURTYARD EXHIBIT |
HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT COURTYARD EXHIBITOverview: 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 TIMEOverview: 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 JamaicaOverview: 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 At the heart of the attrition in attendance and waning interest is the notion of colonialism being outdated and a relic of a bygone era.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 bicycleOverview: 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 LanguagesOverview: 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 ToursOverview: 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 EXHIBITOverview: 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 experimentsOverview: 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 ForumOverview: 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 |