Marc Lebovitz Geraldene Geri Hodelin, faculty dean for Education and Liberal Studies at the Universit of Technology in Kingston, Jamaica, will speak at Illinois State University s Global Review lecture series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in the Atkin-Colby halls basement. Admission is free. Hodelin will discuss Globalization and the effects on the Jamaican Family. Her appearance is part of Caribbean Week on campus. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, a panel discussion on Misconceptions of the Caribbean will take place in the Atkin-Colby basement.
Admission is free.
The week will close with a Reggae Bash Saturday, Nov. 18, from 8 p.m. to midnight in the Activity Room of the Bowling and Billiards Center. A donation will be requested. Hodelin feels that globalization marginalizes poorer families in developing countries like Jamaica and, since trade and technology are measures of growth in a globalized environment, they also serve as measures of disempowerment and disillusionment in other environments. Hodelin will discuss her belief that Jamaican families respond in peculiar ways to pressures caused by the nation s quest to become part of the globalized world. Utech, as it is called, has an enrollment of 7,000.