As we prepare to co-host Turning the Tide 2025 (the Third International Conference on Small Island States and Subnational Island Jurisdictions), under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability in June 2025, we’d like to share glimpses of “An Island Living” with you, courtesy of the UPEI University Archives and Special Collections (Reference code: C 1-411).
“An Island Living” was held in 1992. It is the first international conference that the Institute of Island Studies ever pulled together on Prince Edward Island. We have hosted and collaborated on many international gatherings since, under many different umbrellas. The video we are sharing is quaint and a testament to the technology of the times, yet it still shows you how important it is for people from island jurisdictions across the world to gather together, exchange ideas, realize that there are other Islanders on other Islands who care about the same things, and to work together to think about their distinct status in a mainland-oriented world.
If you were at “An Island Living,” we hope that you enjoy this blast from the past and give yourself some credit for everything that you have done for the discipline of island studies over the years. If you weren’t there, then we’d love for you to think about how inspired everyone is about sharing their knowledge in this video and then to consider how we can make next June’s Turning the Tide 2025 conference as meaningful for Prince Edward Island and Islands across the world as this first international gathering that we hosted was. Our Turning the Tide 2025 conference is subtitled “Island Imaginaries and Interdisciplinaries in Climate Change” and has a focus on the lived experience of islandness. We are accepting abstracts till end-October 2024. You can find more information about participating here.
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