About
Conference Theme
Learning Futures: Education for Multilateralism and Sustainability
Dates
October 20–22, 2026
Venue
School of Education, UWI St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad.
Format
Hybrid (In-person and Virtual)
Keynote Speakers
Rohan Jowallah, Ed.D., FHEA
Educator
Rohan Jowallah is an educator, scholar, and AI inclusion advocate with over 30 years of teaching and educational leadership across Jamaica, England, and the United States.
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He holds an Ed.D. in Language and Literacy in Education from the University of Sheffield, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and an AAC&U Faculty AI Institute Fellow. He serves as Honorary Advisor to the Farquharson Institute of Public Affairs.
His scholarship sits at the intersection of literacy, inclusion, decolonial AI governance, and Caribbean-centred pedagogy. He is the author of AI, Pedagogy and Inclusion (2025) and AI-Ready: A Complete Workforce Guide (2026), and the originator of the CARE, CRAFT, ACRE, CALF/SECAS, and SALF frameworks now adopted in faculty development.
He is editor of the forthcoming Sovereign AI Governance for Education and Policy in the Global South (IGI Global, 2027), a landmark edited volume that advances a Global South-grounded vision of AI sovereignty, governance, and pedagogical leadership. The collection brings together regional and international contributors to interrogate questions of data sovereignty, decolonial AI policy, Creole- and vernacular-affirming literacy in AI-mediated learning, institutional readiness, and ethical leadership across higher education and the public sector.
He has presented internationally across the Caribbean, the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia
Elizabeth Walcott- Hackshaw
Professor
Elizabeth Walcott- Hackshaw was born in Trinidad and is a Professor of French Literature and Creative Writing at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. Her research areas include 19th French Literature as well as literature from the French Caribbean and Haiti.
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She has authored and coedited 8 books including Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers, Caribbean Research: Literature, Discourse and Culture, Echoes of the Haitian Revolution 1804-2004 and Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and its Cultural Aftershocks (1804-2004).
Apart from her scholarly books, essays and articles she has also published creative works including two collections of short stories and a novel. Four Taxis Facing North, her first collection of short stories, published in 2007, was considered one of the best works of 2007 by the Caribbean Review of Books. Four Taxis Facing North has been translated into Italian and French.
Her first novel, Mrs. B, published by Peepal Tree Press, was short-listed for the “Best Book of Fiction” in The Guyana Prize for Literature Award for 2014. Walcott-Hackshaw’s most recent work on Aimé Césaire was an Award-Winning Finalist in the Biography category of the 2022 International Book Awards. Her short stories have been widely translated and anthologized in international journals.
Professor Walcott-Hackshaw assumed the post of Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus in 2022. She has also served as Head of the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics and Deputy Dean Graduate Studies and Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Education. She was appointed Public Orator at The UWI St. Augustine Campus from 2021-2023, and has served as Chair of the University Library Advisory Committee. She is a Director on the UWI Press Advisory Board.
In 2024 Professor Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, was named Officier (Officer) of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (order of Academic Palms) a national order bestowed by the French Republic on distinguished academics and teachers for valuable service to universities, education and science. The award recognized Professor Walcott-Hackshaw’s outstanding contribution to scholarship and instruction in French literature and culture.
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