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Press Releases


  • May 4, 2023: PEI-Tasmania collaboration world premiere: Atlantic String Machine, with guest Hannah O’Donnell, performs song cycle by Tasmania’s Don Kay and PEI’s Laurie Brinklow
  • April 25, 2022: Dr. Laurie Brinklow takes over as Island Studies Chair/MAIS Coordinator
  • January 20, 2022: Jean Mitchell named UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability
  • November 30, 2021: COVID-19 Island Insights Final Report
  • November 2, 2021: IIS goes to COP26
  • September 22, 2021: PEI Well-being Survey
  • August 9, 2021: Academic tenure track position (Associate or Assistant Professor)
  • July 6, 2021: Island Studies leader Dr. Jim Randall retires
  • May 4, 2021: Future Prosperity Scholarships awarded to UPEI Island Studies students
  • April 26, 2021: New island-specific policy recommendations for ‘building back better’
  • April 6, 2021: COVID-19 Island Insights for Prince Edward Island now available
  • March 15, 2021: What Newfoundland and Labrador can learn from Iceland’s financial crisis
  • January 18, 2021: Getting the word out: How knowledge gets shared on islands
  • January 6, 2021: Island Lecture Series January Lecture: “Music-making and the experience of community life on an Irish island” with Rory McCabe

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