UPEI’s Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture (ACLC) program will host three public lectures featuring new research on the ways that maps and other geospatial data shape regional development. The lectures are part of a three-day workshop exploring new digital humanities tools and training for research and public policy. 

Environmental and digital historian Dr. Jim Clifford will present Combining the Local and Global Scales: London’s Nineteenth Century ‘Ghost Acres’ on Friday, October 4, at 8:30 am in the Atlantic Veterinary College’s Lecture Theatre B, UPEI. Dr. Clifford is an associate professor of environmental history at the University of Saskatchewan.