Conference of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
The UWI has always made contributions to the development of the Region through research and innovation. CFPAS is an opportunity for researchers from a broad range of disciplines across the Pure and Applied Sciences to showcase their work and the associated relevance to future development.
The conference will feature oral and poster presentations of original work, plenary speakers from industrial and academic backgrounds and an internationally recognised keynote speaker.
Making a Difference Through Education: Purpose, Policy, and Practice
The School of Education, Mona, will be hosting the Biennial Conference on Education on June 15-17, 2011 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort and Spa in Ocho Rios, St. Ann. The theme is 'Making a Difference through Education: Purpose, Policy, and Practice.'
Caribbean Child Research Conference
The Caribbean Child Research Conference is a regional event, covering a range of child related themes. The conference aims to share research on children, strengthen the network of researchers on children issues, and encourage research in areas that are often “under-researched.” The conference presents an opportunity for children and adults to examine the status of children and child rights in the Caribbean. The Caribbean conference is however not simply about children - it also facilitates the meaningful participation of children. Children participate by attendance at the conference and presentation on the children’s panels.
International Meeting on the Biology and Pathogenicity of Free Living Amoebae
The Meeting is intended to cover all aspects of Amphizoic Free-living Amoebae with pathogenic potential to humans and animals. Scientists, students and people who are concerned with all aspects of the biology and pathogenicity, as well as related research fields of free-living amoebae, are cordially invited to attend the meeting. With all our hearts, we welcome you to Jamaica and hope that you enjoy the research communications as well as our Jamaican culture and kindness.
It will also be our great pleasure if the meeting gives opportunities to see members whose faces are familiar from earlier meetings as well as to make acquaintance of the newcomers. We are looking forward to seeing you soon, in Jamaica.
Freedom and Power in the Caribbean: The Work of Gordon K. Lewis
The Centre for Caribbean Thought (CCT) UWI, Mona, in association with Africana Studies at Brown University and the Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras is proud to host the VIIth Caribbean Reasonings Conference entitled Freedom and Power in the Caribbean: the Work of Gordon K. Lewis. The conference, which was postponed from its original dates, due to the state of emergency in Kingston, will be held from September 30 - October 2 at the University of the West Indies, Mona.
Professor Gordon K. Lewis, (1919 – 1991) taught for many years at the University of Puerto Rico and wrote path-breaking books on the Caribbean’s history, politics and intellectual development. Texts such as Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean (1963), The Growth of the Modern West Indies (1968), and Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: the historical evolution of Caribbean society in its ideological aspects (1983), exemplify the breadth of his interests as well as the range and quality of his output.
Lewis’ work transcended the region’s linguistic fragmentation and was consistent with the view that “No one could really claim to be a full practitioner in Caribbean Studies until he came to write ultimately, on the Caribbean as a whole.” (Main Currents in Caribbean Thought, (1983) Maingot, introduction vi). This conference in 2010 will reopen inter-territorial networks to enable studies across language barriers, a goal the Centre for Caribbean Thought has articulated and continues to realize since 2001 through several conferences and the “Caribbean Reasonings” book series with Ian Randle Publishers. It will also seek to introduce the seminal work of Gordon K. Lewis to a new generation of young scholars, interested in moving beyond constricting national barriers, in order to study the region in its entirety.
Caribbean Energy, Environment and the Economy
The conference theme, REGIONAL CHALLENGES - the energy perspective, adversities versus opportunities, will provide the framework to address the main energy, economic and environment concerns across the region. The CEEE 2011 conference will be the forum for academia and industry to sought practical solutions to the concerns for a sustainable future, according to the technical, environmental, financial, and regulatory and policy framework. These have become the core areas to be addressed periodically based on the dynamics of the global challenges.
Developing Communities to Build Nursing Research Capacity in the Caribbean
The UWI School of Nursing, Mona is hosting a Symposium entitled "Developing Communities to Build Nursing Research Capacity in the Caribbean" on Thursday, June 7, 2012 in Kingston Jamaica. The symposium seeks to explore the utilization of a community framework to develop nursing capacity which includes nurses in academia, clinical practice and management.
Macro- and Supramolecular Architectures and Materials (MAM)
5th IUPAC-Sponsored International Symposium on Macro- and Supramolecular Architectures and Materials: New Science and Technologies for the Improvement of Human Living Standards.
MSB Roundtable 2010
The Mona School of Business Roundtable Forum is designed to present vital issues to major private sector leaders which are having an impact on business, and which have to be considered in the context of the ongoing and future globalization of business.
International Network on Energy and Environmental Sustainability (INEES)
A workshop exploring barriers, drivers and unused potential of sustainable energy systems.
Foss in Business Workshops
Foss in Business Workshop
The Rastafari Studies Conference
2010 will mark 50 years since the “Report on The Rastafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica” was first published by the then University College of the West Indies. This Report authored by M.G. Smith, Roy Augier and Rex Nettleford validated the University’s sense of its social responsibility and remains one its most successful monographs, having gone through eight reproductions without change in form or content, on its way to becoming a most highly referenced document on the Movement.
In recognition of these two anniversaries and on the birthday of the Pan-African champion and nation’s first National Hero, the Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the Institute of Caribbean Studies announces the inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference to be held at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies August 17 - 20, 2010, under the Joint Chairmanship of Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Rex Nettleford and Emeritus Professor Sir Roy Augier.
7th Annual Caribbean Internet Forum
The Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies and the Caribbean Internet Forum’s Board of Directors are pleased to invite you to register and participate in the 7th Annual Caribbean Internet Forum to be held in Kingston, Jamaica, November 25-26, 2009. This solutions-oriented two-day conference will be convened under the theme ‘Building a Caribbean Broadband Platform for Regional Development’ and will bring together regional service providers, business leaders, government policy-makers, regulators as well as policy and practice leaders in information and communication technologies, telecommunications, Internet service provision and media.
TropHort 2010
The Organising Committee of TropHort2010 is pleased to announce that the 1st International Symposium on Tropical Horticulture will be held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, November 22-26, 2010. This symposium is an opportunity to bring together researchers, technologists, workers, and commercial users interested in tropical crops. The dual aims are to promote information exchange and linkages between specialists, and to foster interchange between those with different scientific emphases in studying tropical crops.
Qualitative Inquiry in the Caribbean 2009
ConF-IRM
The International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM) provides a peer-reviewed forum for researchers from across the globe to share contemporary research on developments in the fields of information systems and information management. It seeks to promote effective and vibrant networking among researchers and practitioners from around the world who are concerned about the effective management of information resources in organizations.
This network of researchers views fostering the development of emerging scholars in the information systems and information management fields as its primary task. Consequently the conference is designed to provide a venue for researchers to get substantive and beneficial feedback on their work.
Conf-IRM builds on the traditions of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) Conferences. Under new leadership, the IRMA Conference has been re-positioned and will now be known as Conf-IRM.
Conf-IRM conferences are generally held in the third week of May of each year.
Caribbean Regional ITS Conference 2009
Innovation, Demand, & Competitiveness: Implications for the Caribbean Region and Beyond