Think Media is delighted to announce that the third Think Fest 2017 event takes place on Sunday August 27 with Losing Ground – the effects of cultural transplantation and colonization on plant knowledge in Bermuda – a presentation by graduate student Saskia Wolsak. Bermudian Saskia Wolsak is completing her MSc in ethnobotany at the University […]
Archives for August 2017
Media, Race and the 1959 theatre boycotts focus of Sunday’s ThinkFest
ThinkFest’s next installment is to focus on the role of the media in the 1959 theatre boycotts. Dana “Zhyon” Selassie, PhD will discuss research findings in a presentation entitled “Navigating Media and Race in a Segregated Colony”. “This presentation on Bermuda’s colonial media in the 1950s, and more directly, on the Bermuda Recorder, offers a […]
ThinkFest 2017 launches this Sunday
A two month long seminar series featuring Bermudian academics and thought leaders
Think Media is delighted to announce that the inaugural Think Fest is to launch on Sunday with Growing in the Home by writer Yesha Townsend. This is the last chance to see Yesha – whose presentation will contain new and emerging works – before she heads off to Barbados for CARIFESTA. The newest event on […]
AG questions handling of Lahey and Port Royal lawsuits
Ewart Brown issues challenge to Trevor Moniz over Lahey lawsuit
Attorney General Kathy Simmons has questioned the handling of two high profile lawsuits by her predecessor Trevor Moniz, saying that no local government lawyers were involved and that the files are not in government’s custody. But former AG Moniz insisted in a statement that all was above board and the files were held by the…...