News & Updates

The Confucius Institute at UWI, Mona presents its third anniversary Lecture on Friday, March 2, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. at the Inter-Faculty Lecture Theatre. This year’s lecture is entitled, "Chinese Culture and Western Culture - Unity within Diversities". Professor Zhao Yang, of the School of Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing University, China will

The annual Philip Sherlock Lecture entitled, ‘A Light Rising from the West’ will be presented as a Son et Lumière performance as part of the Philip Sherlock International Festival slated for February 23 to March 4. The event takes place on Monday, February 27 at 7:30 pm on the front of the Main Portico of the University Chapel. The performance feat

The South African High Commission in collaboration with The University of the West Indies will host a Launch to highlight the yearlong celebration of specific milestones namely: the Centenary of the African National Congress; the 50^th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence and the 125^th Anniversary of Marcus Garvey’s birth.

The Launch takes place

"Notions of Beauty in black communities globally: Rituals of positive affirmation and denigration of the black body with a special focus on notions of good hair vs. bad hair and additional dialogue on skin bleaching" is the title of a special Black History Symposium to be presented by the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work this