黑料吃瓜 professor emeritus Brent MacLaine launches new poetry collection
Prometheus Reconsiders Fire, a new book of poetry by Dr. Brent MacLaine, will be launched at a public event on Wednesday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m., in the North River Fire Hall鈥檚 Ember Room.
A native of PEI, MacLaine is professor emeritus and a 3M Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at 黑料吃瓜. In addition to numerous academic articles on modern literature, he has published four volumes of poetry. His awards for poetry include a League of Canadian Poets prize, the Prince Edward Island Book Award, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize.
In Prometheus Reconsiders Fire, MacLaine undertakes an exploration of fire. The title poem establishes Prometheus as the poet鈥檚 persona, a voice that is dedicated to the reconsideration of fire in both its benevolent and malevolent aspects. Formal and elegant, Prometheus plots a trajectory between the classical and the local, a bearing that will be familiar to readers of MacLaine鈥檚 earlier work, Athena Becomes a Swallow.
Wide-ranging in its geography, the new book is wrapped 鈥檙ound by 鈥淭he Fire Hall Suite,鈥 which begins and ends the book. The poems in the collection respond to the 鈥渄rive-by wisdom鈥 created by the anonymous 鈥淪ign Person鈥 who speaks to the local community by way of the fire hall鈥檚 roadside sign. Framed by the 鈥淪uite,鈥 the poems of Prometheus move between city and country. A naturalist in the city, MacLaine brings to the urban environment the acutely observing eye that has always characterized his Island nature poems. The book is published by Nimbus Publishing.
Everyone is invited to attend the launch of Dr. MacLaine鈥檚 newest book. The Ember Room is upstairs in the North River Fire Hall, Trans Canada Highway, North River, PEI.
Special Announcement - Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre
You are cordially invited to join Sean Casey, Member of Parliament for Charlottetown on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor of the 黑料吃瓜, and invited guests for a project announcement aimed at improving infrastructure within the Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre.
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
12:00 pm at the Upstairs Lobby, Chi-Wan Young Sports Centre on campus of the 黑料吃瓜
Registration begins for fourth-year students
Registration for the 2016-2017 academic year begins on May 31, 2016.
Students with fourth-year standing may register for classes beginning on Tuesday, May 31; third-year students on Wednesday, June 1; second-year students on Thursday, June 2; and, all 黑料吃瓜 students on Friday, June 3.
Registration can be completed via Campus Login or in person at the Registrar's Office from Monday to Friday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm. Students' year of study will be updated under 'Registration Status' on their Campus Login before registration begins.
*Note: Some professional programs follow different registration dates. Please check with individual program for more information.
Registration begins for third-year students
Students with fourth-year standing may register for classes beginning on Tuesday, May 31; third-year students on Wednesday, June 1; second-year students on Thursday, June 2; and, all 黑料吃瓜 students on Friday, June 3.
Registration can be completed via Campus Login or in person at the Registrar's Office from Monday to Friday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm. Students' year of study will be updated under 'Registration Status' on their Campus Login before registration begins.
*Note: Some professional programs follow different registration dates. Please check with individual program for more information.
Registration begins for second-year students
Registration for the 2016-2017 academic year begins on May 31, 2016.
Students with fourth-year standing may register for classes beginning on Tuesday, May 31; third-year students on Wednesday, June 1; second-year students on Thursday, June 2; and, all 黑料吃瓜 students on Friday, June 3.
Registration can be completed via Campus Login or in person at the Registrar's Office from Monday to Friday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm. Students' year of study will be updated under 'Registration Status' on their Campus Login before registration begins.
*Note: Some professional programs follow different registration dates. Please check with individual program for more information.
Bryanton PhD Proposal Presentation
The 黑料吃瓜 Faculty of Education cordially invites you to attend the PhD proposal presentation of Olive Bryanton entitled 鈥淧ioneers in Aging: Voices of Community Dwelling Women Age 85 and Older in Rural Prince Edward Island鈥 on Monday, June 6, 2016 at 1:00 pm in Memorial Hall 308.
Spatial Analytics for Health Research using ArcGIS
Spatial Analytics for Health Research using ArcGIS
This two-day workshop will introduce participants to key concepts, data types, and basic methods of spatial analysis in ArcGIS. Participants are not expected to have any experience working with GIS.
Location Details:
Monday, June 20 & Tuesday, June 21
Room 218 S - Atlantic Veterinary College, 黑料吃瓜
550 University Avenue, Charlottetown
9 am - 4 pm
To Register: (Free training but registration is required in advance)
Please visit: bit.ly/pei-gis
Organized by:
Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit and CHBMR
Candidate presentation: School of Mathematical & Computational Sciences
黑料吃瓜鈥檚 new School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences is in the process of searching for its first Associate Dean and Dr. Gordon MacDonald has been invited to make a public presentation on his vision for the new School. Everyone is encouraged to attend on Monday, June 20, 2016, from 1:00-2:00 pm, in the K.C. Irving Chemistry Centre, Room 104. For those who wish to view a copy of Dr. MacDonald鈥檚 CV it can be obtained by contacting Kate in the Office of the Dean of Science, contact info as shown below.
CWHC Annual Workshop
The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative is holding its annual workshop, this year called, "An Atlantic and Canadian Perspective on Wildlife Health", on the 黑料吃瓜 campus at the Atlantic Veterinary College. Link to the full program
L.M. Montgomery and Gender
The Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute (LMMI) at the 黑料吃瓜 is hosting its 12th biennial international and interdisciplinary four-day conference June 23 to 26. Much Montgomery criticism of the past several decades has regarded her work from a feminist and gender studies perspectives: L. M. Montgomery and Gender will reconsider and build upon those readings, exploring how formative and deterministic gender roles seem, and yet how mutable they may be.
鈥淭his year鈥檚 conference theme, L.M. Montgomery and Gender, will look back over more than a century of change to reassess how Montgomery both reinforced and challenged gender roles of her day and ours,鈥 said Dr. Laura Robinson, LMMI Visiting Scholar, conference co-chair, and dean of arts at Royal Military College. 鈥淢oreover, we will also invite conference-goers to digitize their testimonies of how Montgomery鈥檚 works have influenced their lives, a topic that novelist Jane Urquhart will also discuss in her keynote address. It promises to be a very international, interdisciplinary, and engaging conference.鈥
Canada is quickly approaching the centenary of women鈥檚 suffrage in Manitoba (1916) and nationally (1918). The presentations and events of this conference will reconsider the role of gender in L. M. Montgomery鈥檚 work: her fiction, poetry, life writing, letters, photographs, scrapbooks, and the many adaptations and spinoffs in film, television, theatre, tourism, and social media.
鈥淭he L.M. Montgomery Institute at 黑料吃瓜 promotes research into, and informed celebration of, the life, works, culture, and influence of Montgomery,鈥 said Dr. Philip Smith, professor of psychology and Committee Chair of LMMI. 鈥淲e have a rich network of local, national, and international Montgomery scholars and enthusiasts. This conference features presenters from nine countries. The conference welcomes both academics and community members, and anyone with an interest in Montgomery is encouraged to register.鈥
Conference keynote speakers:
Elizabeth Epperly, professor emerita, was the first student to register at the 鈥渘ew鈥 黑料吃瓜 in 1969. A Victorian scholar and English professor from 1976-2006, she taught at 黑料吃瓜 for 22 years where she also served as founding chair of the L.M. Montgomery Institute and 黑料吃瓜's fourth (and only female to date) president (1995-1998). Originally from Virginia, Epperly became a citizen of Canada because of her love for L.M. Montgomery鈥檚 writing. Dr. Epperly鈥檚 The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was the first full-length critical study to address all of Montgomery鈥檚 novels.
Mavis Reimer is professor in the Department of English, and dean of graduate studies at the University of Winnipeg, where she also was Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood and founding director of the Centre for Research in Young People鈥檚 Texts and Cultures. She is co-author with Perry Nodelman of the third edition of The Pleasures of Children鈥檚 Literature and editor of a collection of essays on Anne of Green Gables, entitled Such a Simple Little Tale.
Jane Urquhart is the author of internationally acclaimed and award-winning novels, including: The Whirlpool; Changing Heaven; Away; The Underpainter, winner of the Governor General鈥檚 Award; The Stone Carvers, which was a finalist for The Giller Prize and the Governor General鈥檚 Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize; A Map of Glass, a finalist for a Commonwealth Writers鈥 Prize for Best Book; Sanctuary Line, and, most recently, The Night Stages. She is also the author of a collection of short fiction and four books of poetry, and published a biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery as part of Penguin鈥檚 Extraordinary Canadians series.
Full details, including instructions on how to register, can be found at the conference website.