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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 |
12:00PM - 1:00PM |
DEPARTMENT COURTYARD EXHIBIT |
Department of Library and Information Studies
Title: Interactive presentations
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Faculty Courtyard |
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 |
12:00PM - 2:00PM |
SPEAKERS CORNER |
Department of Language Linguistics and Philosophy
Title: Speakers’ Corner
Overview: Public Speaking students to deliver excerpt from already presented speeches. Audience to be invited to make impromptu speeches on select topics
Presenter: Caroline Dyche
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Faculty Courtyard |
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 |
1:00 PM - 6:30 PM |
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 ”
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UWI Regional Headquarters |
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 |
1:00PM - 3:00PM |
LECTURE PRESENTATION |
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.
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Multi-functional Room, UWI Main Library |
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 |
1:00 PM - 6:30 PM |
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 ”
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UWI Regional Headquarters |
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 |
2:00PM - 3:00 PM |
LECTURE PRESENTATION |
URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT
Department of Chemistry
FST URD LECTURE SERIES
Title: The Business of Personal Care Products
Overview: The efforts to develop a profitable business venture in the personal care sector will be discussed.
Presenter: Ms Racquell Brown, CEO of Irie Rock Ltd
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The Undercroft Senate Building |
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 |
2:30PM - 3:30PM |
LECTURE PRESENTATION |
Department of Life Sciences
FST URD LECTURE SERIES
Title: The Ecology and Pathology of Free Living Amoebae
Overview: This talk will concentrate on one particularly abundant Free Living Amoeba (FLA) genus, ACANTHAMOEBA, which is important for human health and from which we have harnessed its unique bacteria recognition, to obtain new treatments against the pathogenic STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS.
Presenter: Dr Sutherland Maciver, Reader in Biomedical Sciences Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh
Introductions: Prof John Lindo, Head of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences
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Science Lecture Theatre |
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 |
5:00PM - 8:00PM |
LECTURE PRESENTATION |
URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT
American Friends of Jamaica / Cobb Family Foundation Lecture
Title: 2 degrees: 2 much, 2 little, 2 late?
Overview: Annual public forum for discussion of academic findings crucial to national development
Guest Speaker: Professor Michael Taylor
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The Assembly Hall |
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 |
5:00PM - 6:00PM |
INAUGURAL LECTURE PRESENTATION |
Department of Language Linguistics and Philosophy
Title: “Mahatma Gandhi: A Trans-Continental Crusader of Human Dignity”
Overview: Presentation on impact and influence of Mahatma Gandhi as an indomitable and indefatigable crusader who tirelessly fought a very long and daunting battle against segregation, discrimination and apartheid in South Africa, England and British India.
Presenter: Rakesh Kumar Mishra, Professor of Indology and Gandhian Studies
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Faculty Lecture Theatre N4 |
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 |
5:30PM - 7:30PM |
PUBLIC LECTURE + PANEL DISCUSSION |
URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT
Title: Misconduct in Public Office
Overview: Exploring different aspects of misconduct by public officers in Jamaica
Presenters: Mr. Dirk Harrison, Contractor General of Jamaica and Mr. Terrence Williams, Commissioner of INDECOM
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Law Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of Law Building |
