Winter's Tales: Book reading

Dr. Jan Zwicky is not only one of Canada鈥檚 finest poets, she is also a distinguished philosopher, an influential writer on the intersection of ecology and poetry, and an accomplished violinist. Zwicky will read from her new poetic work on Tuesday, October 2 at 7:30 pm in the UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building. A reception and book signing will follow. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.

Thanks, God!

What a wonderful time of the year to gather for a multi-faith prayer service of gratitude. Come and make your own candle of thanksgiving with music, the Word and preaching by UPEI's Dr. Callum Beck.

The PEI History of Medicine Society

All are welcome to the second PEI History of Medicine Society meeting We will hear two talks: Dr. Peter Twohig will speak on "The Felonious Francis Tumblety: A Maritime Medical Mystery." In the summer of 1860, Francis Tumblety, the "Celebrated Indian Herb Doctor," began to practice in Saint John, New Brunswick, after stints in Montreal and Toronto. In each of these settings, Francis Tumblety ran afoul of both the established medical community and the law. Later, Tumblety would be arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and, most dramatically of all, has been implicated in London's infamous Jack the Ripper Murders. Dr. Twohig holds a Canada Research Chair at Saint Mary's, where he specializes in interdisciplinary studies of health and medicine. Dr. Shannon Murray will speak on "Janusz Korczak and the Idea of the 'Old Doctor.'" Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Dr. Henryk Goldszmit, a Polish physician, novelist, educational reformer, and father of the UN Charter of the Rights of the Child, though he is perhaps best known for his extraordinary, terrible march at the head of 200 children bound for the trains to Auschwitz. In his popular radio addresses, he was known as 'The Old Doctor," a title he also used for a character in the challenging children's novel King Matt. In both that novel and in the last days in his orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto Korczak seems acutely aware of the power of the physician and of the theatre. Shannon Murray teaches English Literature at UPEI . For more information about the Society, please contact Shannon Murray (smurray@upei.ca), James Moran (jmoran@upei.ca) or Lamont Sweet (lesweet@ihis.org) or visit our Facebook page at .
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