Trinidad
Dean Porfirio has been invited to guest lecture and do a lunch seminar with The University of the West Indies’ Centre for Gender and Development Studies in November 2009. Vincent has been looking at and questioning “identity” and developing nations and will persent his research at this forum. While in St. Augustine, Trinidad, he will also be doing tours of townships and volunteering with service projects in impoverished areas.
Vincent also hopes to visit secondary classrooms throughout the country as well as to collect data on cell phone use and technology integration within educational settings.
Join the conversation! Here are some books to familiarize you with Trinidad and Tobago and the West Indies in general:
Dean Porfirio’s Book Pick:
“A House for Mr. Biswas” V. S. Naipaul (1961)
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul’s father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels. In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.
Have other recommendations you want to share? Post them in the comments section.
