OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH WORKSHOP

Activity: Guide to obtaining funding for attending conferences; purchasing equipment/supplies etc. for student research

Facilitator: Mrs. Sandra Powell-Mangaroo, Assistant Registrar, Graduate Studies & Research

Venue Description: OGSR Graduate Lounge, Mona Research Village

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 At the heart of the attrition in attendance and waning interest is the notion of colonialism being outdated and a relic of a bygone era.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

LITERATURES IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COURTYARD EXHIBIT

Overview: The space will be used to introduce persons to the breadth of study that the Department offers. They will have current students speak as representatives for each of our various learning channels: prose fiction, poetry, drama, film, and liberal studies. The students will talk about and display their learned-skills. Student volunteers will demonstrate how to analyze a love scene presented in prose fiction, poetry, drama, film, and liberal studies (i.e., love of culture).

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT COURTYARD EXHIBIT

Overview: The SOE will mount two main displays The first will profile the School of Education undergraduate and graduate programmes and feature a display publications (books and journals) produced and written by SOE and SOE Faculty with a reading/activity corner with coffee. Special emphasis on targeted early childhood institutions for one hour on Thursday/Friday for storytelling/painting/music interaction. The second display will highlight the Mixed Methods International Research Association Caribbean Chapter (MMIRA-CC) which is affiliated with the SOE. The display will share information on the Association in order to strengthen its visibility, encourage membership and offer invitations for mixed methods research paper publications.

A Night with the Stars

Overview: A night time stargazing activity with the Astronomy club. Meet after dark to stargaze. Two short talks about rockets and satellites and the cosmos by Louis-Ray Harris and L. Nathan Henderson Participants will be able to view different constellations and planets through the telescope.

Target Audience and Reservations: Campus community, campus visitors, special guests & science club from a local school. Limited Space. Contact Ms Little, Department of Physics: margaret.little@uwimona.edu.jm