Please consult Trent's web site (www.trentu.ca/news/events/) for a complete and current list of events.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31
Red Cross Water Safety Instructor Recertification, offered by the Trent Athletic Department, 9 a.m. -- 4 p.m. Please call 748-1257 for more information and registration.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1
National Lifeguard Recertification Offered by the Trent Athletic Department, 9 a.m. -- 6 p.m. Please call 748-1257 for more information and registration.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Margaret Laurence Lecture Actor, writer, director, political satirist and honorary Trent graduate Mary Walsh gives this annual lecture, 8 p.m., Wenjack Theatre.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Contemporary Poetry You are cordially invited to attend a reading of contemporary poetry by a distinguished poet from Argentina, Luis Marìa Sobrûn, who will read his poetry in the LEC Pit at 3 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Writers Reading Series Jack Hodgins, hosted by Peter Robinson College, will read in the Peter Robinson Dining Hall, 8 p.m.

New Alumni Office Open House
Official opening of the new Trent University Alumni Association Office Langton House, Traill College (southeast corner of Reid & London Streets). Open House between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. President Bonnie Patterson, Association President Cheryl Davies and College Principal Heather Avery will perform the official "Ribbon Cutting" at 12:30 p.m. Libation and Provender will be served. RSVP requested Alumni@trentu.ca or 748-1399

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5
George Elliott Clarke A professor of Canadian Studies at Duke University, Clarke is a poet, editor, and exponent of Black Culture. At 7 pm at Traill College, Clarke will give a lecture entitled "Unsettling Canadian Studies"; at 8:30 pm, he will read from his poetry. Both the lecture and poetry reading will be at Traill College Lecture Hall. All are welcome to attend these events and the reception after poetry reading sponsored by the Office of the Vice-President, Academic. This event is sponsored by Traill College and the Canadian Studies Program.

Author, author!
(The 1998-99 Rooke Lectures)
The "Death of the Author" Revisited: Stephen Bonnycastle. 7:30 p.m. at the Peterborough Public Library

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Publishers' Display The Queen's-Trent Concurrent Teacher Education Program sponsors this event from 2 - 8 p.m. in the Wenjack Theatre foyer at Trent. The display will include teacher books, children's books and games.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Ashley Lecture (second of three) Social Democracy and Globalization: What's Left? Delivered by Professor Mel Watkins, 8 p.m., Lady Eaton College Lecture Hall.

Writers Reading Series
Charlie Foran and Myrna Kostash give a joint reading. Foran will be reading from his memoir The Story of My Life (So Far) and Kostash from The Doomed Bridegroom, 7:30 p.m. Traill College SCR.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12
C.S. Lewis: defender of Christianity Professor Ian C. Storey will be repeating lectures on C.S. Lewis (given last January at St. John's Church) at the Peterborough Public Library at 7:30 p.m. For more information contact the Peterborough Public Library Ð attention: Cara Peterman.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Baroque to Butterworth: Songs by Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, and Some Early 20th-Century Composers George Hamilton (cello), Gordon Johnston (piano/harpsichord), and James Neufeld (tenor) present a musical evening at the Gordon Best Theatre, starting at 8 pm. Co-sponsored by Traill and Otonabee Colleges.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Reading/Talk by writer and journalist Elaine Kalman Naves Naves will be discussing her book Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family, winner of the 1998 Elie Wiesel Prize for Holocaust Literature. 4:30 pm, Traill College JCR, Scott House. Sponsored by Traill College.