2025:

• February 20, 2025: "CS@21- “Culture through our eyes” -  “Identity, Gender the Priesthood, Where are we now?”  

• February 27,2025:  "CS@21- “Culture through our eyes” - "Courage to Be!"

• March 20, 2025:  "CS@21- “Culture through our eyes” - Straight Outta Africa-Music of Resistance: Tobago Tambrin Drums & Barbados “Slave Song” Do they still disturb?

• April 3-25, 2025:  “The Things We Choose To Remember: An Art Exhibition" - curated by students in “Exhibiting Cultures” (CLTR 3102). 

• April 10, 2025: "CS@21- “Culture through our eyes” - Burning Identities-Caribbean Effigies: Val Val (Martinique) Mock Hangings (St. Vincent) & Mr. Harding (Barbados)

• April 22, 2025:  Panel Discussion - "Barbadian Heritage Policies and Practices” - centered on national heritage in the art gallery

2024:

• March 20 - April 12: “Pebbles Bloomed into Islands: An Art Exhibition” – co-curated art exhibiting featuring students of Exhibiting Cultures and Theorizing Cultures and 20 Barbadian artists

• October 14 - November 1: Art Exhibition and Artist Talk "Spirit of Yoruba Yard" - A Tribute to the Most Honourable Elton Deighton 'Baba Elombe' Mottley.

• October 21:  "Cultural Chronicles: A Tribute to the Most Honourable Elton Deighton ‘Baba Elombe” Mottley. Featuring stalwarts in the Barbadian creative and cultural landscape

2023:

• February 22: “Fostering Wellness: Food Security and Models of Wholistic Sustainable Development in the Caribbean” Panel discussion moderated by Dr. Yanique Hume featuring founders of ReglaSoul an urban agricultural program from Havana, Cuba along with owner of Coco Hill Agrotourism project, Mahmood Patel and Mr. John Hunte, founder of the Organic Farmers Association of Barbados   

• June 5 - 10: "Spirits at a Crossroads: Navigating Ancestral Wisdom Systems in the Contemporary Age of Evangelisms, The Case of Brazilian Candomblé” presentation made for the Barbados Community College Language Centre.

• June 9: Symposium "Centering Afrocentric Spirituality in Anglo-Religious Narratives." One-day colloquium at Codrington College featuring Dr. Yanique Hume, Dr. John Hunte, Mrs. Ireka Jelani, Mrs. Andrea Wells and Major Alfred Taylor.

• September 15: September 15: “Of Art and Spirit: The Sacred Dimensions of Leandro Soto’s Art” – Panel discussion moderated by Dr. Yanique Hume featuring, Dr. Grisel Pujalá Soto, Mario Porchetta and Keisha Hyde Porchetta.

• September 22: “Artmaking as Ethnographic Praxis: A Dialogic Conversation,” presented by Professor Andrea Herrer and Dr Yanique Hume.

• October 14: Transcontinental Film Screening - “Fanon: Yesterday, Today” by Algerian film maker, Hassane Mezine. Featuring participants from UWI Cave Hill, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) University of Cape Coast (Ghana), Indiana University (USA), and Morehouse College (USA).

• December 8: "Brazil, 200 Years of independence, History, Language and Culture

• February 9: Roundtable Discussion: Contemporary Caribbean Art and the Nation State featuring Dr. Therese Hadchity, Dr. Petrina Dacres (Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica) and Mr. Russell Watson.

• March 23; April 6 and 20: Artists talking to Artists – A three-part series moderated by Dr. Hadchity featuring a cross-generational dialogue with artists – Katherine Kennedy, Ronald Williams, Shari Phoenix, Nick Whittle, Ras Akyem Ramsay, Annalee Davis, Alanis Forde, Versia Harris and Dennis De Cares    

• March 31: “Cultural Policy, Heritage and the Law: Situating Barbados in an International Perspective” workshop delivered to postgraduate students (UWI Cave Hill and UWI St. Augustine) as well as members of the public working the heritage sectors

• April 7: “Navigating the Creative Landscape During a Global Pandemic: A Regional Conversation with Industry Professionals”. Panel discussion with Naida Roxburgh, Peter Lewis, Veeran Sookoo and John DaCosta

• May 5: “Towards a Participatory Cultural Policy in Barbados: Cultural Rights and Heritage Management,” Public Lecture by Marco Chávez Aguayo, visiting professor fellow with the UWI Cave Hill and the Office of the Prime Minister – Division of Culture

• October 14: "Research Ethics and the IRB Process: An Interactive Virtual Session led by Dr. Michael Campbell

• October 25: “Hip Hop and Diplomacy: An Unlikely Partnership” led by Dr. Mark Katz the John P. Barker Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

• October 25: PhD Check-In – Postgraduate workshop organized and facilitated by Dr. Tonya Haynes and Dr. Yanique Hume