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respectively; and adjunct lecturer in CARIMAC Kevin Jackson was the recipient of a Musgrave Silver Award for his contribution to the animation and film indus- tries in Jamaica. Also notable is the work of retirees of the School of Education who continue to pursue research and produce publications in the service of their profession. FHE had the pleasure of playing host to book launches for the work of Professor Emerita Zellynne Jennings ( Re-visioning Change: Case Studies of Curric- ulum in School Systems in the Commonwealth Caribbean , 2022, UWI Press), and retirees Professors Disraeli Hutton and Austin Ezenne ( Examining Dimensions of Performance in Jamaican Schools, Improving School Leadership and Management , ITER, Mico University College). SHOWCASING WORK OF THE FHE Every DISCUS in the Faculty took the opportunity of the flexibility offered by a choice of in-person, on-line, and hybrid modalities, to organize a range of events showcasing the work of the Faculty and departments’ strategic research collabora- tions. Thus, the Faculty calendar was filled with postgraduate seminars in CARI- MAC and ICS; writing workshops and movie events in DLIE; the DLIS’s InfoTalk series; conferences and distinguished / public lectures such as the DLIS’s Inaugural Virtual Conference “That was then, this is now: Libraries adapting for the future”; the Jamaican Language Unit’s (JLU) 8th Cassidy-Le Page Distinguished Lecture with Professor Ana Deumert who spoke on “Language, Music and Liberation”; the ICS’s 24th Annual Walter Rodney Lecture with Ras Miguel ‘Steppa’ Williams who spoke on “Reclamation Groundation”; the DLIE’s 16th Edward Baugh Distinguished Lecture with Geoffrey Philp on “Garveyism in the 21st Century: Climate Change”; the DLLP’s public lecture by Professor Edwin Etieyibo on “African Philosophy and the Cultural History of Ideas”; CARIMAC’s Open Week 2023, which included the Annual Aggrey Brown Distinguished Lecture, delivered by Dr Carolyn Walcott on “The challenges of reporting on the oil sector in Guyana”; the Jamaican Language Unit’s 20th Anniversary Event, a Symposium on the Jamaican Language in honour of the work of Jamaican linguist Beryl Bailey; the ICS’s collaboration on a Photo- graphic Exhibition & Ganja Spotlight Roundtable Discussion held in the Faculty’s courtyard; the ICS’s Stuart Hall Distinguished Lecture by Prof Robert Beckford on “Windrush, Stuart Hall and Transatlantic diasporic cultures”; the DMLL’s Public Lecture in collaboration with the Quality Assurance Unit delivered by Prof Andrew Jones on “The worlds of Chinese popular music”; the DMLL’s Distinguished Gabriel Coulthard/William Mailer Lecture with Dr. Conrad James on “Nautical desires: Tourists, stowaways and other travellers in Caribbean Fiction”; and the 38 th Elsa Goveia Memorial Lecture by Prof Daive Dunkley on “The outsider within: Rastafari women and the struggle against colonialism in Jamaica”; the SOE’s hosting of the 6th International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education in Training
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