UWI Open Campus to host two-day Conference on Vincentian History, Ancestry and Heritage

THE UNIVERSITY of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus, St Vincent and the Grenadines, will present a two-day Country Conference entitled: ‘History, Ancestry and Heritage.

The Vincentian identity and heritage: From whence we came’.

The Conference will be held next week on Tuesday, July 19 and Wednesday July 20 at the refurbished Open Campus Site at Richmond Hill.

The aim of the Conference is to highlight current research on St Vincent and the Grenadines regarding the indigeneity, immigration, and settlement by peoples of diverse ethnicity.

The Conference will provide a forum for the descendants of our indigenous people to give voice to their experience.

The conference has received 23 papers from local historians and researchers from England, Scotland, and the United States. These papers and presentations will serve to educate and sensitize the local populace on the influences which have shaped us as a people.

Dr Garrey Dennie, Historian and Professor at St Mary’s College of Maryland, USA, is the Feature Speaker.