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Special Events
Upcoming Events
March 8 - 11, 2012 - Africa World Documentary Film Festival
The Cinematique, Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination. Free Admission. Click for further details.
Past Events
2011
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November 16-18, 2011 - Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium "Conversations VII: Social
and Political Philosophy". The Univeristy of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. More details >>
- June 9, 2011 - "Philosophical and Identity Constructions of an Elite: Haiti in the 19th and Early 20th Century" A Public Lecture by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith. Lecture Theatre I, UWI. Open to the public.
Hosted by the Cultural Studies Programme and the Department of History and Philosophy.
- June 7, 2011 - "Chasing Death's Left Hand: Personal Encounters with Death and its Rituals in the Caribbean" A Public Lecture by Richard Price. Lecture Theatre I, UWI. Open to the public.
Hosted by the Cultural Studies Programme.
- June 6-8, 2011 - Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death and Mortuary Rituals in the Caribbean. The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.
More details>>
2010
- November 17-19, 2010 - Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHiPS) Conversations VI - "Ethics and Applied Ethics"
- October 14-15, 2010//Octobre 14-15, 2010 - ANTILLANITÉ, CREOLITE,
WORLD LITERATURE//ANTILLANITÉ, CRÉOLITÉ, LITTÉRATURE MONDE
- August 9-13, 2010. Society for Caribbean Linguistics,
18th Biennial Conference
"Caribbean Languages and Popular Culture " Amaryllis Beach Resort, Barbados
- July 17, 2010. REFLECTIONS ON THE
2010 FIFA WORLD CUP.
A Panel Discussion. 8.00 pm
Lecture Theatre I, UWI.
All are invited.
- July 14-18, 2010. The Third Sport, Race and Ethnicity Conference "Beyond Boundaries: Race and Ethnicity in Modern Sport". Co-hosted by CLR James Research Centre, UWI, Cave Hill; and George Mason University, USA
- May 9-13, 2010. Association for Caribbean
Historians 42nd Annual Conference,
Amaryllis Beach Resort, Barbados.
- March 26-28 2010. CAFÉ X. Art Exhibition and Symposium. CAFÉ is a cultural event about the Cuban Diaspora that features performance art, poetry reading, lectures, curator’s talk, panel discussions, films, documentaries, and a multimedia itinerant exhibition that highlights a wide range of artists working with installation, performance art, photography and sculpture. http://cubatransnational.blogspot.com/
2009
Barbados Museum and Historical Society-UWI 2009 Lecture Series:
'Slavery in Barbados 'Every Tuesday at 8.00 p.m. from at Solidarity House.
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March 23-24, 2009. Intercampus Theatre Festival
The Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, UWI. (Click for Details)
- March 18, 2009. A Public Lecture:
"Race in Cuba Fifty Years after the Revolution" presented by Dr Carlos Moore
The Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, UWI.
- March 12-15, 2009. Africa World Documentary Film Festival
The Cinematique, Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination. Free Admission. Click for further details.
2008
Contemporary – and controversial – Trinidadian writer Shani Mootoo will be visiting the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature during the week of November 17 th . Planned activities include a master class in creative writing, a special class on Caribbean women's literature and the launch of her new book at a public reading in the Arts Lecture Theatre on Wednesday, November 19 th , to which all are welcome. The Department is also hosting a one day symposium, with papers on Mootoo's work by scholars from three campuses of the University of the West Indies as well as Reading and Sussex Universities . The writer will be in attendance, participating in dialogue with presenters and students.
Anyone interested in attending all or some of the sessions should call Ms Joyce Harris at 417-4405 or email Prof Evelyn O'Callaghan at evelyn.ocallaghan@cavehill.uwi.edu for programme details .
- November 25-27, 2008. Visit of Professor David Scott (Anthropology, Columbia University):
Public lecture “Norms of Self-Determination”,
Tuesday, November 25, from 8 pm (Room ALT)
The 3rd Workshop on Caribbean Theory devoted to his work,
Wednesday, November 26, 2-5 pm (Dean’s Meeting Room)
Meeting with Students
Thursday, November 27, 10.30 to 12.00 noon (Room A27)
- November 27. Visit of Nobel Laureate
DEREK WALCOTT.
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2007
2006
- October 26-27, 2006: Senghor Colloquium: Negritude: Legacy and Present Relevance. University of the West Indies, Barbados.
- May 22, 2006. The Cultural Studies Programme presents a Lecture entitled 'Cover Down Yuh Bucket: the Story of Sticklicking in Barbados to be delivered by Elombe Elton Mottley. 7.30 p.m., Lecture Theatre 4, UWI Cave Hill.
- March 14-15, 2006 Cave Hill Theory Project presented by the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature :
- Inaugural Theory Lecture and Workshop
The Lecture entitled "Derek Walcott's One Endeavour", will be presented by Prof. Bernard Boxill, Professor Pardue, Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill on Tuesday March 14 in the ALT at 8.00 p.m.
The Workshop will be held from 2 pm on Wednesday, March 15 in the Bruce St. John Conference Room. Professor Boxill will present a paper on calypso and rap.
- March 2-3, 2006 Intercampus Theatre Festival
Schedule of Performances:
Thursday, March 2, 2006
10.00 – 11.00 am. – Cave Hill French – L’Art
11.30 – 12.30 pm – St. Augustine Spanish – El Retablillo de Don Cristobal
1.30 – 2.30 pm – Cave Hill Spanish – Carmela, la dama del Amor, Una mujer muy liberal
Friday, March 3, 2006
10.00 – 11.00 am. – Mona Spanish – La Alcoba Nupcial
11.30 – 12.30 pm – St. Augustine French – La Pluie & Par la Fenêtre
1.30 – 2.30 pm – Mona French – Se Tout (Haitian Créole)
2005
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