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International Small Island Cultures conference, June 2017
Islands are storied places. We want to hear your stories, your ballads, and learn about island narratives. And we want to tell you a few stories of our own.

The 13th International Small Island Cultures conference will be held in St. John’s from June 16 to 19, 2017 at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

The conference theme is “Stories, Ballads and Island Narratives.”

For more information and to submit a proposal, click here.
For more information, contact:

Amy Jones
Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator

Yaffle Reimagined

Have you visited the new Yaffle?

Yaffle has been redesigned with technical upgrades and expansions to increase functionality and improve user experience. The new profile option allows all members of the community to create a Yaffle profile. Create your profile.

Read the about the redeveloped Yaffle in the Memorial University Gazette here.

Listen to the latest episode of Rural Routes Podcasts

Ryan Gibson returns to Rural Routes to tell us how a group of Alaskan researchers is trying to solve housing issues in rural and remote regions of America’s most northern state.

Listen here.

Report on rural manufacturing 
Our Executive Director,  Dr. Robert Greenwood, submitted a paper on rural manufacturing to the House of Commons Standing Committee on
Industry, Science and Technology
Study of Canadian Manufacturing Sector.

Read it here.
Reports and Presentations
Summary Report: Bonavista Peninsula Regional Workshop 

The Harris Centre's Summary Report for the Bonavista Peninsula Regional Workshop, held in Port Rexton, Newfoundland and Labrador, on June 7-8 2016, is now available. 
Synergy Session: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Colin Mason, Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, presented on the evolutionary nature of entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Semester in Dialogue 

Background

The Harris Centre is undertaking a feasibility study and implementation strategy for an undergraduate interdisciplinary program, the Semester in Dialogue.

The Semester in Dialogue will be a full-time, collaborative, and dynamic learning program available to 20 students from a variety of faculties and schools. It will use methods of dialogue and experiential learning to address complex community-based and public policy issues. 

Find out more here.

Updates

The Semester in Dialogue Study Team is wrapping up consultations and has now moved into report writing. After a fruitful visit from Mark Winston, the founder of the Simon Fraser University Semester in Dialogue program, the team was able to further focus on key questions and necessary administrative mechanisms that will allow for the development of a similar program at Memorial University.

Stay tuned in February for our public report.
Meet the Team
Meet Mike Clair, the Associate Director of Public Policy at the Harris Centre. Mike identifies important issues in public policy and organizes sessions where these issues can be discussed.
Read more about Mike's role here.
Meet Amy Jones, the Harris Centre's Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator. Amy's job at the Centre includes planning our regional workshops and brokering research opportunities between community partners and Memorial University researchers. Read more about Amy's role here.


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