The Search Committee will be seeking feedback from the UPEI community following the visits. We encourage colleagues to participate in this process.

From the Campus to Country, is a learning forum for UPEI staff and faculty and other interested educational providers. UPEI is building a technology platform toward a comprehensive distance learning strategy that will enhance access and availability to learning across Prince Edward Island and to UPEI students across Canada and the world. Two leading Canadian speakers will provide an overview of the future trends in technology solutions in learning. With extensive personal experience in the development and implementation of education through technology, we can be assured of an interesting and educational afternoon. George Siemens is Founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc, a research lab assisting organizations develop integrated learning structures for global strategy execution. He is the author of Knowing Knowledge, an exploration of how the context and characteristics of knowledge have changed, and what it means to organizations today. Formerly the Associate Director of Research and Development with the Learning and Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba, George is currently affiliated with the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University. Alec Couros is Assistant Professor and ICT Co-ordinator for the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina. He holds a Ph.D.in Education (Curriculum) from the University of Regina and a Masters of Education (Curriculum)- Educational Communications & Technology from the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan. For over a decade, Alec has been responsible for technology planning, service and professional development in the Faculty of Education at Regina. Alec has also worked for the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies and the Kilburn Hall Youth Centre both in Saskatoon , as well as a sessional lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan. His research has included work on the Open Source Movement, the First Nations’ SchoolNet Pilot Project and the Saskatchewan Virtual Campus. There will be opportunities for Questions & Answers with both speakers. A wine and cheese reception will be held in Schurman Market Square, McDougall Hall from 5 to 7 pm, immediately following the speeches. Please RSVP to Megan MacLean at megmaclean@upei.ca or 620-5105

UNIVERSITY REVIEW COMMITTEE (URC) INFORMATION SESSION - Friday, May 21st at 1:00. Rosemary Herbert, Acting Vice-President Academic Development and Chair of the University Review Committee is hosting an information session on Friday, May 21st at 1:00 in classroom 220 in the Main Building. This session will provide faculty members with information on the University Review Committee and an opportunity for discussion to help you plan for tenure and promotion. A panel of past and present URC members will be present to speak about their experience on this Committee and to offer suggestions and feedback. Also, Shannon Murray will present highlights from her Teaching Dossier Workshop. All faculty, Department Chairs and members of Department Review Committees are encouraged to attend. Please confirm your attendance with Virginia Wickstrom at vwickstrom@upei.ca or 894-2855.

Island Studies Public lecture as part of the 'Time and a Place, Environmental History of PEI conference' Speaker Dr. Finis Dunaway “Seeing Connections: Environmental History and Visual Culture” Why do images matter to environmental history? This lecture will draw on a wide array of visual texts—including landscape paintings, photographs, mass media, and contemporary art—to examine crucial methodological issues that arise at the intersection of environmental history and visual culture. I will explain how images can enrich our understanding of major problems in the field, from shifting cultural perceptions of the natural world to material changes in the environment and the emergence of various forms of environmental politics. Although most of my examples will be taken from U.S. history, I will discuss and attempt to model interpretive strategies applicable to diverse settings and contexts. Biography Finis Dunaway is Associate Professor of History at Trent University, where he teaches courses in modern United States history, visual culture, and environmental studies. He is the author of Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform (2005) and of articles in American Quarterly, Environmental History, Raritan, and other journals. He is writing a book tentatively titled From the Atomic Bomb to Global Warming: The Environmental Crisis in American Visual Culture.

Donald Worster will give a public presentation entitled “North Americans in an Age of Limits” as part of a week long series of public lectures sponsored by the Institute of Island Studies. Biography Donald Worster is professor of U.S. history, environmental studies, and director of the graduate program at the University of Kansas. His books include The Dust Bowl: An Agricultural and Social History, Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West; Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas; The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination; and A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell.

Public Lecture sponsored by Institute of Island Studies as part of 'Time and a Place Conference, Environmental history of PEI Conference' Dr. Graeme Wynn “Time, Place and Trees: Forest scenes and incidents in eastern North America” Although George Perkins Marsh, sometimes called the “fountainhead” of the American conservation movement, made “The Woods” a major focus of his influential book Man and Nature, published in 1864, and Rachel Carson devoted a chapter of her landmark work Silent Spring (1962) to the environmental consequences of certain forestry practices in New Brunswick, there have been very few environmental histories of the forests that blanket much of Atlantic Canada. This presentation plunges into the forests of the Canadian Maritime provinces to sketch something of their changing form, extent, appraisal and importance through time. To provide a long view, while remaining sensitive to the diversity of this region, it focuses on trees in particular times and places (or, borrowing from the title of a nineteenth century book by Sir George Head) specific forest scenes and incidents, to argue for the signal importance of forests in the development of this area, as well as for the value of historical and geographical perspectives in the quest to understand human-environment interactions. Biography Through the four decades of his professional career, Graeme Wynn has sought to understand human transformations of the earth. When he embarked on this quest, research in this vein was seen as part of a venerable, albeit fading, geographical tradition; in recent years it has been given new impetus as "environmental history." The core of Wynn’s work has always been interdisciplinary, rooted in geography and history and engaged with the environmental sciences. Over time his early interests in eastern Canada broadened to encompass New Zealand and the rest of Canada. In each of these realms a fair part of his work has turned, in one way or another, on the histories and geographies of forest exploitation, conservation, preservation and management. Wynn’s academic writing has been directed, over the years, to both specialist scholars and the educated lay public (through such contributions as the extended chapter he was invited to write for The Illustrated History of Canada) in the conviction that it is important to communicate the fruits of academic research to an audience beyond the academy. His most recent book is Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History (2007). His research contributes to debate and discussion on, and understanding of, the development of European settlements overseas, the history of migration, the connections between environment and empire, and the developing field of environmental history.

Public Lecture sponsored by Institute of Island Studies as part of 'Time and a Place Conference, Environmental history of PEI Conference' Wednesday 16 June Souris Theatre , 7:00 – 8:00 PM Dr. Daniel Pauly University of British Columbia “Crisis and Opportunity : The History and Future of Global FIsheries” The period following end of the Second World War saw massive catch increases, but crashes due to overfishing began to be reflected in global catch trends in the 1970s, and intensified in the 1980s and 1990s. In response, the industrialized countries of the Northern Hemisphere moved their effort toward deeper waters, and toward the coasts off developing countries, and beyond into the Southern Hemisphere. Now, this global expansion is completed, and global catch, which peaked in the late 1980s, continue to decline. Several factors act to prevent the public in developed countries from realizing the depth of the crisis fisheries are in: over-reporting by China; the fact that FAO combines declining fisheries catches with strongly increasing aquaculture production, increased consumption, in developed countries, of seafood from developing countries, and widespread denial, by governments of the gravity of the global fisheries crisis. This crisis is likely to be aggravated by global warming, whose likely effects on global fisheries will be presented. This talk will end with a discussion of some positive measures to address some of these issues, notably a refocusing on artisanal fisheries, which, as opposed to industrial fishing, tend to have features compatible with a modicum of sustainability. Biography Daniel Pauly, a French citizen, became in 1994 a Professor at the Fisheries Centre of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, following two decades of fisheries and marine research in the tropics, and university studies in Germany. Dr. Pauly has authored over 500 scientific articles, book chapters, reports and shorter contributions, as well as numerous books. These documents, mainly dedicated to the management of fisheries, to ecosystem modeling and increasingly to food security issues, are in use throughout the world, and have led to numerous scientific awards.

Thursday 17 June 7:30 – 8:30PM Lecture theatre , McDougall Hall, UPEI Dr. Harriet Ritvo Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Silent Partners: Animals in Human Environmental History” The history of our species has unfolded in constant relation to that of other animals, even before we began to live with them. Domestication produced enormous changes in human economies and societies, as well as in environmental conditions, affecting land use, biodiversity, and susceptibility to disease, among other things. These impacts have continued to the present time, in forms that have shifted to reflect the various cultures in which humans and animals cohabit. Beginning in the early modern period, British livestock husbandry emphasized efficiency and profitability, concerns that also characterized British culture more generally. They resulted in the improvement or intensification of strategies of both breeding and animal management, and were transmitted, albeit with significant modifications, to the British colonies in eastern North America. Biography Harriet Ritvo is the Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at MIT, where she teaches British history, environmental history, and the history of natural history. She is the author of The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Victorian Environmentalism; The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination; The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age; and the forthcoming Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History.

Friday 18 June 7:30 – 8:30PM Toby Elaine Vigod Executive Vice-Chair, Environmental Review Tribunal Environment and Land Tribunals Ontario Chief Justice Thane Campbell Lecture: Environmental Law: Are we making progress? (abstract to come) Biography Toby Vigod is a lawyer with over 30 years experience in the field of environmental law and policy. She was Chair of the British Columbia Environmental Appeal Board and Forest Appeals Commission (1996-2000). Ms. Vigod is also a former Assistant Deputy Minister, British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks (1994-1996). From 2000-2004, she was on an Executive Interchange with the Climate Change Secretariat, Government of Canada. Ms. Vigod served as a Commissioner with the Commission on Planning and Development Reform in Ontario and is a former Counsel and Executive Director of the Canadian Environmental Law Association. She has taught environmental law at Queen's University, University of Toronto, and Osgoode Hall Law School. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Queen's University.

(Walk and 5 Km Run) Who are you walking for? Where: UPEI Alumni Place When: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Contact: society@alzpei.ca or 628-2257 for your pledge sheet today!