The lecture hosted by UWI Open Campus forms part of a regional series which began in March and will end in December.
The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia will, next week, host the lecture “Women, Politics and Transformational Leadership.”
The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Gabrielle Hosein of UWI’s Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), St. Augustine Campus.
The lecture forms part of a Regional Lecture Series which began in March, to commemorate International Women’s Day and will continue through to December.
Dr. Hosein has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Toronto, a Masters of Philosophy in Gender and Development Studies from The University of the West Indies, and a Ph.D in Anthropology from University College London.
Her current research areas are politics and governance, Indo-Caribbean feminisms and sexualities.
She is a lecturer and Graduate Studies Coordinator at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, and has been involved in Caribbean feminist movement building for two decades.
She also writes a weekly column, Diary of a Mothering Worker, for the Trinidad Guardian.
The lecture will be held on June 16, and begins at 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
