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. 

Dr. Ed MacDonald, professor of history at UPEI, will present the first public talk on Thursday, October 3, starting at 7 pm at the Carriage House, Beaconsfield Historic House, Charlottetown. Dr. MacDonald’s talk, Designing Change: A Semicentennial Review of the Comprehensive Development Plan on Prince Edward Island, will explore the largest and first provincial-federal development initiative in post-war Canadian history. 

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.

Dr. Tina Loo, professor of environmental and Canadian history at UBC, will present Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and ‘a Good Life’ in Postwar Canada on Friday, October 4, at 4 pm in The McCain Foundation Learning Commons at the Atlantic Veterinary College.

All are welcome to these three public lectures.