UPEI’s Robertson Library debuts new series celebrating books
The University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson Library is debuting its new series, Celebrating The Book, on February 15, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the library's recently renovated periodicals section on the second floor.
With this inaugural event, the library acknowledges the continuing importance and relevance of books in this increasingly high-tech world, and it also showcases the renovation of its periodicals area into a more comfortable study and work space for students.
Celebrating The Book, which is open to the general public, features three members of the UPEI faculty who have written or edited recent publications.
Philosophy professor Dr. Malcolm Murray recently published The Moral Wager: Evolution and Contract (Springer, 2007). The Moral Wager illuminates and sharpens moral theory, by analyzing the evolutionary dynamics of interpersonal relations in a variety of games.
Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context (Routledge, 2007), edited by UPEI history professor Dr. James Moran with Leslie Topp and Jonathan Andrews, is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness, and the construction and experience of space. The first rigorous scholarly analysis of its kind in book form, it will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and architecture communities.
In Agents of Empire: British Female Migration to Canada and Australia, 1860-1930 (University of Toronto, 2007), history professor Dr. Lisa Chilton explores the work of the women who promoted, managed and ultimately transformed single British women's experiences of migration to Canada and Australia between the 1860s and the 1920s.
The faculty members will read brief excerpts from their publications and/or lead a discussion about them.
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Communications and Outreach Librarian Suzanne Jones at (902) 566-0393.
