The UPEI Global Village committee in collaboration with the Society for International Students will be hosting the 2nd Global Village and Gala. The aim of this event is to celebrate cultural diversity on campus, and facilitate cultural exchange between members of the domestic and various international communities. Similar to the first Global Village, this event will include: talent show, cultural presentation, information booths, fashion show and musical presentations, dance performances, and a lot more! Admission to students and members of the public is FREE! See you there!

Please join us for "Theology on Tap" with speaker Dr. Chris Armstong, Wheaton College, on "Getting Medieval with C.S. Lewis."  The Pourhouse, 189 Great George Street.  Doors open at 630 pm with the talk at 7 pm.  Sponsored by the Saint Dunstan's University Institute for Christianity and Culture.  Free Admission, 19 +.

The 7th Annual Candlelight Vigil Against Homophobia and Bullying will start at 6pm, with students and community members speaking about their experiences with discrimination and bullying. We will hold a moment of silence for those who have lost their lives, or a part of themselves as a result of bullying or suicide. To conclude (at approximately 7pm) the UPEI Rainbow Alliance and UPEI Mawi'Omi Student Centre are partnering for the screening of Adam Garnet Jones's film Fire Song. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HyRNI9kKkA There will be light refreshments Free admission

In partnership with Telefilms Canada and the Atlantic Film Festival, UPEI will be offering a FREE screeing of The Grand Seduction.  There will be pizza, pop and chips, we will also be drawing for gift cards to Superstore!  "The small harbour village of Tickle Cove needs a doctor or they will lose a factory, which could save them all from financial ruin. Village resident Murray French (Gleeson) leads the search to convince a young doctor to take up residence by any means necessary. When Dr. Paul Lewis (Kitsch) arrives, the whole town tries to seduce him to stay permanently. Director: Don McKellar Producer: Barbara Doran, Roger Frappier Actors: Taylor Kitsch, Brendan Gleeson, Liane Balaban, Gordon Pinsent, Mark Critch Country: Canada Runtime: 113 minutes Rating: Parental Guidance ‐ Language may offend ‐ Tobacco use Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z61XwqxI8hM

The Celebration of Student Success- Dean's Honours List Ceremony for the School of Nursing will be held on Monday, October 24th at 7:00 p.m. in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre. Students who are on the Dean's List for the 2015-16 academic year will be presented with a certificate recognizing their outstanding academic performance.

Open Appetizers: What Open can do for Higher Ed   We’re talking “open” in higher ed as a preview for the UPEI library’s Open Access Week celebrations, and welcome you to join us.   We’ll have light refreshments, a series of 5 minute Lightning Talks on various aspects of “open” currently in practice at UPEI, and time for questions and discussion. It will be a great way to get a sense of what open can do on campus, and to build potential collaborations. LIGHTNING TALKS: Moderated by Dave Cormier   Open Tenure & Promotion Processes- Robert Gilmour Open Benefits- Megan MacKenzie & Frederic Fovet Open Source- Rosie LeFaive Producing Open Textbooks- Lisa Chilton Using Open Textbooks- Philip Smith Open Licensing- Donald Moses Open Research & Engagement- Bonnie Stewart Open Teaching- Brian Wagner Open Courses- Christian LaCroix Open Journals- Richard Raiswell Open Access Week & What's Next- Dawn Hooper  

All students are encouraged to attend and learn abou tthe many volunteer organizations and available opportunities. This is a great time to get hands-on experience, make connections, and help make a difference in your community. 

Stories of Weathering Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu: Leaf-houses, Flying Foxes and Body Bags Island Studies Lecture by Dr. Jean Mitchell The November Island Studies Lecture will be Tuesday, November 15, at 7 p.m. in the SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge on the UPEI campus, featuring Dr. Jean Mitchell sharing Stories of Weathering Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu: Leaf-houses, Flying Foxes, and Body Bags. With winds up to 300 kph, Cyclone Pam was the largest cyclone to make landfall in the South Pacific islands since recordkeeping started. It struck the island of Vanuatu on March 13, 2015, leaving in its wake enormous losses of infrastructure, housing, animals, and food gardens. The ferocity and destructiveness of Cyclone Pam spurs questions about climate change and the effects of global warming and sea-level rise in the South Pacific Islands. Another key question also emerges: why did so few islanders die during the cyclone and its aftermath? Drawing on recent interviews with Islanders from the southern islands of Erromango and Tanna, which were literally in the eye of the storm, this presentation recounts stories from those Islanders about the cyclone and its aftermath. How social relationships, the gift/kastom economies, local knowledge, and the ways in which nature and culture are entangled in Vanuatu offer powerful insights into how to survive a cyclone. Jean Mitchell, an associate professor of Anthropology at UPEI, has been working in Vanuatu for 20 years and has also conducted research in Kiribati and Solomon Islands. Prior to working in the Pacific she worked with the UN in India for five years. In Vanuatu she started the Young People's Project at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre. Her research interests include post-colonialism, youth, gender, health and urbanization. She has co-edited several volumes of essays on L.M. Montgomery and has been researching the Presbyterian Missionary history that connects Vanuatu and Prince Edward Island. She has, together with Vanuatu Cultural Centre, recently started a project on local knowledge, youth and the ecologies of gardens in Tanna and Erromango. Admission to the Lecture is free and everyone is welcome to attend. Watch for details for another lecture about islands – near and far – December 6! For more information, please contact Laurie at brinklow@upei.ca or (902) 894-2881.

The Island’s “food system” will be the topic of a Public Symposium to be held at UPEI’s Duffy Science Centre Amphitheatre, Room 135, on Monday, November 14, beginning at 7:00 p.m. In particular, the discussion will focus on a move toward a more sustainable agriculture, with a stronger emphasis on local food and food security. This event is one of a regular series of Public Symposia sponsored by UPEI’s Institute of Island Studies, in conjunction with UPEI Research Services. The main speaker will be distinguished author and public policy specialist Dr. Mark Lapping, long associated with the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. Dr. Lapping has held many academic leadership posts, including that as founding Dean of the prestigious School of Rural Planning and Development at the University of Guelph. Throughout his career, he has maintained a strong interest in land issues in Prince Edward Island, and has published several papers and studies on the topic. In recent years, Dr. Lapping has focused his work on food systems and has written extensively on the subject. He was the leader of an ambitious undertaking at the Muskie School which developed a food plan and strategy for the state of Maine. “To most people,” says Dr. Lapping, “food is about growing and consuming food.  But a food system,” he continues, “is a large set of processes and it is critical to take a wider, systems perspective. Only then might we have a more robust understanding of the ways by which a sustainable agriculture can become part of a larger process of change toward a more nutritious and just life for individuals, families and communities.” Dr. Lapping will be joined by other panelists, to be announced. Stratford Town Councillor and IIS Advisory Committee member Diane Griffin has agreed to serve as Chair. Responding to Dr. Lapping’s talk will be a Panel comprised of two Island farmers and a researcher in public health nutrition. Barry Cudmore of Brackley Beach farms seed potatoes, soy beans and grains. A Nuffield scholar and member of the Atlantic Agriculture Hall of Fame, he is a proponent of seeking farm sustainability in moving from commodities to branded products, and reconnecting consumers with producers.  Mark Bernard and his wife Sally operate Barnyard Organics in Freetown. As the fourth-generation Bernard on this family farm, Mark has moved away from potato production. The objective of Barnyard Organics is “to bring the farm back to its original state as a self-sustaining mixed farm, using traditional methods combined with some of the efficient technologies of our time.” The third Panelist is Dr. Colleen Walton, Associate Professor in Applied Human Sciences at UPEI. She has over 20 years of working experience within the Island’s food system. Her research interests lie in the area of building capacity among groups and individuals toward strengthened livelihoods and greater household food security.  Members of the public are cordially invited to attend. Admission is free. Following the presentations, there will be ample time for discussion and questions from the floor.      

Robin DeRosa (Plymouth State University): Open Education: Reducing Costs, Transforming Pedagogy Open Educational Resources have the ability to eliminate the costs to students for textbooks and other learning materials, but they also empower students and faculty to work in new ways.  This presentation will explore how we can save money for students, while also transforming our teaching and radically centering learners in their own educations.  We will take a look at how free, openly-licensed digital materials can be incorporated into any course in any discipline, and explore new ways of using technology to connect our students and their work to the world outside of the the university. http://library.upei.ca/robin-derosa-open-education-reducing-costs-transf...