Pamela Richardson from San Jose State University's Department of Occupational Therapy will give a public lecture entitled 'Occupational justice: a framework for occupational therapy practice in the 21st century?' on July 16 between 9 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. at Lecture room 5, Block C, Level 1, Mater Dei Hospital.

Occupational justice has been defined as 'the ethical, moral, and civil principles in providing for occupational needs'.

Engineering, ICT

An information seminar about the University's Engineering undergraduate courses will be held on Friday from 4 to 5 p.m. at Sir Temi Zammit hall.

An exhibition of 138 final year Engineering and ICT students' projects will be held as follows:

• The ICT projects will be exhibited on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the ICT Faculty building.

• The Engineering projects will be exhibited on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Faculty of Engineering building (entrance from Car Park 2).

Small-state studies in higher education

A conference entitled 'Mainstreaming small-state studies in higher education' will be held at the University's Gozo campus on November 20 and 21 by the Islands and Small States Institute.

The conference seeks to provide a platform for the presentation of studies where particular disciplines are used to analyse small-state issues; to propose ways how small-state studies can be mainstreamed in university courses in small states, and explore possibilities to launch a journal on small-state issues.

Anyone interested in presenting a paper at the conference are invited to submit a 200-word abstract thereon by September 30.

For further information contact Isabelle Vella, Islands and Small States Institute on telephone 2340 2117 or view the website www.um.edu.mt/islands.