August 31-Sept 2, 2007 Mona Academic Conference with theme ‘Freedom: Retrospective and Prospective’. For more info contact: jennifer.clarke@uwimona.edu.jm
Sept 16-18, 2007 Symposium ‘Celebrating a Trade Union Legend’ in honour of the life and work of Sir Frank Walcott, at Solidarity House, Headquarters of the Barbados Workers Union, Bridgetown, Barbados. Contact: ian.austin@cavehill.uwi.edu
October 4-6, 2007 Faculty of Humanities & Education, St Augustine, Conference in honour of Professor Gordon Rohlehr. Theme: ‘From Apocalypse to Awakenings’ Contact: Prof Funso Aiyejina faiyejina@fhe.uwi.tt
October 23-24, 2007 SCS, BVI Follow-up Conference on BVI in Tortola, BVI. For information, contact: uwibvi@gmail.com or marciapotter@gmail.com
November 5-7, 2007 World Scientific & Engineering Academy (WSEAS) Conference, VS Naipaul Institute of Critical Thinking, St Augustine Campus. For information check link: http://wseas.org/conferences/2007/tt/dncoco
Nov. 14-16, 2007 16th Annual Faculty of Medical Sciences Conference at Mona Campus (Main FMS Lecture Theatre. Registration free for students; J$1,000 per day for others.
Nov. 19-21, 2007 Second International Conference, Dept of Management Studies, Cave Hill; Theme: ‘Collaboration Among Organisations in Small Island States’ For info check website: www.domsinternationalconference.com
December 5-8, 2007 A Bicentenary Conference ‘Discourses of Resistance: Culture, Identity, Freedom and Reconciliation’. Half Moon Golf & Spa Resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
February 21-23, 2008 College of the Bahamas Bicentenary Conference ‘Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Telling the Story’; Oakes Field Campus, Nassau. For more info contact: abolitionconference@cob.edu.bs
Feb.27-March 1, 2008 The Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute Conference at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Contact lopez@tulane.edu before November 15, 2007.
March 26-28, 2008 9th Annual SALISES Conference, in honour of Prof Norman Girvan with the theme ‘Reinventing the Political Economy Tradition of the Caribbean’, at the Mona Campus. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: October 29, 2007. For info contact: sonia.amosdavis@uwimona.edu.jm
July 3-7, 2008 7th Conference of the Association for Cultural Studies. Theme: ‘Of Sacred Crossroads’. Mona Campus. For info check website: www.crossroads2008.org
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