There are lots of exciting events coming up in the Faculty of Arts.  Mark your calendars!

• The Economic seminar series will host Dr. Diana Alessandrini from St Xavier University on November 10 from 1:00 to 2:00 PM in room 211, Main Building. Her seminar talk is entitled “Minimum wage effects on human capital accumulation: Evidence from Canadian data.” Please find attached the latest draft of Diana’s paper.

• The Bookmark’s 50th Anniversary Reading Series is thrilled to present Ann-Marie MacDonald in conversation with Dr. Greg Doran on Monday, November 14th at 7 pm in the Florence Simmons Hall, 140 Weymouth Street, Charlottetown. Ann-Marie MacDonald is an award-winning novelist, playwright, actor, and broadcast host. She is the author of the bestselling novels Fall On Your Knees, The Way the Crow Flies, and Adult Onset.

• Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, executive director and general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), will present the 2022 Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell Lectureship in Law on Thursday, November 17, at 12 noon, at the Delta Prince Edward Hotel in Charlottetown. Mendelsohn Aviv’s lecture is titled “The Icing on the Cake: on tensions between freedom of religion and equality.”“Clashes between religious freedom and equality have arisen in numerous cases: from refusals to accept 2SLGBTQI+ marriages or people, to bans on religious symbols, for example in courts or in the classroom,” she says. “To resolve these issues, one must consider the meaning and theory underpinning the rights to equality and religious freedom, how they interact, where stereotypes have impacted decision-making, whether there could be a hierarchy of rights, and which of the seeming conflicts are in fact reconcilable.”

• The Faculty of Arts would like to invite students and faculty to join us on Thursday, November 17^that 3:00pm in Main Building^, Faculty Lounge where Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, Executive Director and General Counsel, will discuss the work of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.