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{gallery}http://www.flickr.com/photos/theuwi/sets/72157641511061123/{/gallery} On February 3, 2014, Professor Milla Cozart Riggio presented a Distinguished Open Lecture titled "Carnival Crossings: From There to Here - Arkansas to Harvard to Trinidad". Riggio is currently a James J. Goodwin Professor of English from Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, and has focused her research and much of her pedagogy since 1995 on Trinidad Carnival and the plays of Shakespeare and has coordinated world conferences on Carnival, and served as a frequent consultant for the Trinidad and Tobago National Carnival Commission.

Currently, Riggio coordinates the Trinity-in-Trinidad Global Learning site, an exchange program that bribgs students from institiution sin the U.S. to study in Trinidad each year. Among her books are included an edited volume entitled Teaching Shakespeare through Performance, as well as three books she edited and co-edited on Trinidad Carnival. She is also co-editor of "In Trinidad, a book of photographs by Trinity Professor Pablo Delano, published in 2008 by Ian Randle Publishers. Her lecture focused on her journey: as the daughter of a Southern Baptiste preacher in Arkansas, to a Harvard Ph.D., to an immersion in the plays of Shakespeare and finally into Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. It was presented not simply as the story of one peculiar North American woman, but as a key to what makes the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago unique.

Vice Chancellor Nigel Harris on NY1
Inside City Hall’s Errol Louis spoke with Professor E. Nigel Harris, vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies Open Campus, about his organization’s efforts to help more Caribbean young people attend college.
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