The UWI Mona Campus' Annual Departmental Reports 2022_2023

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION

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• 2023 – Presenter, “The Orange Economy and YOU,” Ardenne High School, 6th Form, March 8. • 2023 – Interviewee, “George Thomas White,” Who Do You Think You Are, British Broadcasting Corporation, British Broadcasting Corporation, c/o Dr. Charlie Beirouti, Researcher, Wall to Wall Media, 200 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8XZ, UK, March 1. • 2023 – Guest Speaker, “Jamaica’s Rich Cultural Heritage and the Global Impact of Reggae Music,” Black History Month/ Reggae Month Presentation, Jamaican Association of Bermuda, February 28. • 2023 – Organizer, HEARTS Season 2, Episode 1: “Self-Care 101”, February 21. • 2023 – Facilitator, “Write the Vision: Make It Plain Vision Board Workshop”, The Mona Library and Staff Mentorship Initiative, The Multifunctional Room and Zoom, January 18. • 2022 – Panelist, “History, Heritage and Philosophy (and the Humanities in General) in Mediating the Relationship between Humans and the Environ- ment,” UWI/UNESCO Philosophy Day, Undercroft, UWI, Mona, November 17. • 2022 – Interviewee, Talking History, Nationwide News Network, “Jamaican Food Heritage and Culture”, October 29. • 2022 – Facilitator, (along with the Teaching Climate Justice Research Team and Jamaica Taino Hummingbird Tribe), Teaching Climate Justice and Resilience through Ancestral Plant Heritage in Jamaica Workshop with 4H Educators and Community Members, October 13–15, Rosehall, St. Catherine and Lauriston, St. Catherine, and Woodside, St. Mary, October 13–14. • 2022 – Media Contribution/Commentary Interviewee, CVM Nightly News, Commentary on “UK Announces Visa-free Travel for Peru, Columbia and Guyana but not Jamaica”, October 18. • 2022 – Interviewee, BwoyATingZ AfterDark with Kareem ‘BwoyATingZ’ Weath- ers, Nationwide News Network, “Teacher Migration in Jamaica”, August 24. Dr. Sonjah Stanley Niaah: • 2023 – Diasporic Rhythms: An Artist Talk between Denzil Forrester, an artist whose vibrant depictions of dancehall culture in the UK appear in the current exhibition Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today—and music scholar and cultural activist Sonjah Stanley 3 Niaah, whose many publi- cations foreground the past and present of dancehall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, April 21. • 2023 – Moderator, ‘The Global Impact of Reggae Music: Africa, Jamaica and Beyond’, organised by the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, live at CPTC & aired on PBCJ & CVM Television, February 21.

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