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.

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

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 At the heart of the attrition in attendance and waning interest is the notion of colonialism being outdated and a relic of a bygone era.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

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.