Race, gen­der jus­tice and Caribbean mas­culin­i­ties will be among the top­ics of dis­cus­sion when the In­sti­tute for Gen­der and De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies (IGDS) of The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI) hosts its In­au­gur­al Re­gion­al Grad­u­ate Re­search Sym­po­sium, on Thurs­day 26 May 2022, 10:00 AM AST.

 An of­fi­cial state­ment from The UWI says that pre­sen­ta­tions by eight grad­u­ate stu­dents will be show­cased from across three IGDS Units and UWI Cam­pus­es—Ni­ta Bar­row Unit, Cave Hill Cam­pus, Bar­ba­dos; Re­gion­al Co­or­di­nat­ing Of­fice, Mona Cam­pus, Ja­maica; and St Au­gus­tine Unit, St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, Trinidad and To­ba­go.  The themes un­der dis­cus­sion are: In­ter­ro­gat­ing Caribbean Mas­culin­i­ties; Race. Gen­der. Body. Me­dia; and Love, Lead­er­ship and Gen­der Jus­tice.

The Sym­po­sium is di­vid­ed in­to three pan­els with IGDS grad­u­ate stu­dents as chairs and IGDS fac­ul­ty as dis­cus­sants.

“As a re­gion­al teach­ing in­sti­tute, the IGDS has em­barked on close to 30 years of cut­ting-edge ped­a­gog­i­cal in­no­va­tions in the broad area of gen­der and de­vel­op­ment stud­ies,” the In­sti­tute says in the state­ment.  “For the IGDS, knowl­edge pro­duc­tion for Caribbean de­vel­op­ment is not on­ly done through the re­search and pub­li­ca­tion of staff mem­bers, but through the keen work of grad­u­ate stu­dents.”

It adds: “It is im­por­tant for such grad­u­ate work to be show­cased to a re­gion­al au­di­ence in or­der to show the in­no­v­a­tive re­search be­ing done by IGDS grad­u­ate stu­dents from across the re­gion.”

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are in­vit­ed to join the dis­cus­sion on Thurs­day 26 May 2022, 10:00 AM AST via Zoom for the In­au­gur­al IGDS Re­gion­al Grad­u­ate Re­search Sym­po­sium. Those in­ter­est­ed in find­ing out more about grad­u­ate stud­ies at the In­sti­tute, whether lo­cal, re­gion­al or in­ter­na­tion­al are en­cour­aged to at­tend.

The In­sti­tute says ap­pli­ca­tions for a new co­hort at the IGDS St Au­gus­tine Unit is open cur­rent­ly for grad­u­ate stu­dents who are in­ter­est­ed in gain­ing pro­fes­sion­al and re­search ex­pe­ri­ence in the fields of gen­der and de­vel­op­ment and in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary gen­der stud­ies.

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For the full pro­gramme, ab­stracts and more in­for­ma­tion please vis­it the IGDS web­site https://sta.uwi.edu/igds/post­grad­u­ate-stud­ies, to the Face­book event https://fb.me/e/37UVL­r­pD3

A link will be sent out to reg­is­trants with the full pro­gramme book­let, and it will be avail­able on­line at https://is­suu.com/igdssau/docs/igds_gradsym­po­sium2022_pro­gramme1

For more in­for­ma­tion ques­tions about the sym­po­sium, or in re­la­tion to any IGDS pro­grammes at the St. Au­gus­tine IGDS Unit, email igds­grad­u­at­es­tud­ies@sta.uwi.edu

To reg­is­ter for the In­au­gur­al Re­gion­al Grad­u­ate Re­search Sym­po­sium on Zoom, vis­it: https://zoom.us/we­bi­nar/reg­is­ter/WN_5u4Z-3rXSvOe­HfJm4k8ctA