Federal research funding announcement at Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation

The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, will announce an investment in new research projects to develop solutions for a sustainable, resilient and prosperous agriculture sector at the UPEI Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation in St. Peter's Bay. Members of the UPEI community are welcome to attend the announcement that will take place on the lower level in the drone port.

 

 

Lunch and Learn: Role Playing as Pedagogy: Reflections on the Malleus Maleficarum in the Classroom

Ravensburg 1494: 10 years after the city’s first witch-hunt, a process led by Henricus Institoris, co-author of the infamous Malleus maleficarum. This was the setting for a fourth-year role-playing course that Richard Raiswell ran last year, which focused on an imagined return of the Inquisition to this important early modern trading centre, and the intellectual, social, and political tensions it exposed.

 Join us to discuss the pedagogy underlying teaching-through-game-play, and sketch some of the advantages and difficulties inherent in such an approach.