The issue of cultural preservation will be at the forefront when the University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus Dominica and the Cultural Division host the Fourth Annual E.O. Leblanc Memorial Lecture on Thursday, October 8, 2015 commencing at 7:30 p.m. at the Fort Young Hotel Conference Room.
This event is free and open to the public.
Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald, former Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of the UWI Open Campus and Professor Emerita of UWI will present the topic: “Cultivating Caribbean Identities: Language, Culture and the Politics of Deprivation.”
Simmons-McDonald will examine the importance of safeguarding cultural practices in Dominica and the rest of the Caribbean region. She will discuss ways that identities achieved through language and traditions can be protected from the threat of erosion through inundation of external influences.
This public lecture series, one of four presented by the UWI Open Campus Dominica annually, forms part of the National Independence Calendar, and
focuses on cultural themes in celebration of the life and work of Edward Oliver Le Blanc, Dominica’s first Premier. He was devoted to culture and was an avid reader and poet.
The previous presenters of this lecture series were Dr. Alwin Bully, Dr. Lennox Honychurch and Dr. Irving André.
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