Events Archives - Canadian-American Center

The Canadian-American Center presents: Jean Christophe Cloutier: Big American Writer: The Bilingual Self-Making of Jack Kerouac

April 3, 2025@ 4:00 PM inThe Bangor room at the Memorial Union Jean-Christophe Cloutier will discuss Jack Kerouac’s writerly coming of age from the perspective of his geopolitical and cultural-linguistic reality as a bilingual, first-generation immigrant Franco-American author. Cloutier will address the author’s private French manuscripts, preserved in his archive and published posthumously, to uncover […]

Mal: A discussion with author Chase cormier

Chase Cormier is a Louisiana author. He writes poetry and prose for Ancrages and Feux Follets. His novel, Mal, was published in 2024 by Éditions Perce-Neige; it offers an auto-fictive, fragmented take on butchering, masculinity, Cajun identity, Louisiana French(es), and the connections between past and present, memory and experience, speech and silence. He is currently […]

Teaching French through Nutshimit: A Discussion with author Melissa Mollen Dupuis

March 14, 2025@ 4:00 PMvia Zoom In Innu culture, nutshimit represents both the physical and social space for connecting with traditions, language, and nature. Step into this world with author Melissa Mollen Dupuis as she takes you on a guided journey through the forest, showing how to weave Indigenous voices into the K-12 French classroom […]

Stephen Hornsby Releases New Book: “Cod Coasts”

Please join the Canadian-American Center and Left Bank Books of Belfast, ME in celebrating Dr. Stephen J. Hornsby’s new book: Cod Coasts: Cultural Landscapes of the Cod Fishery from Cape Cod to Labrador with a talk and book signing to be held Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 6pm. Current professor of Geography and Canadian Studies […]

UMaine English Dept. New Writing Series presents: Babak Lakghomi

Please join Canadian-American Center and the English Department in welcoming author Babak Lakghomi to campus! Babak will present at the IMRC, room 104 this Thursday, November 7th, at 4:30 PM. This event is free and open to the public.

UMaine English Dept. New Writing Series presents: Rod Moody-Corbett

On Thursday, October 17th at 4:30pm, The New Writing Series will feature Canadian writer Rod Moody-Corbett. Moody-Corbett will read from his debut novel, Hides, published by Breakwater Books (St. John’s, Newfoundland). Light refreshments will be served in the IMRC (Stewart Commons 104) starting at 4pm. Hollie Adams will introduce the author. The New Writing Series is sponsored by the English Department […]

Guest Lecturer in Anthropology: Dr. Lisa Hodgetts of Western University

Join Dr. Daniel Sandweiss (Anthropology) and the Canadian-American Center in welcoming Dr. Lisa Hodgetts (Western University) to UMaine for a presentation of her recent work. Dr. Hodgetts will present at the Memorial Union’s Bumps Room on September 18th from noon to 2 PM. Lunch will be provided. Dr. Lisa Hodgetts is a Professor of Anthropology […]

Lecture by Dr. Herb Emery: “…The Persistence of Lagging Regions in Advanced Economies”

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Herb Emery for his lecture, “Insights Into the Persistence of Lagging Regions in Advanced Economies from a Study of Manufacturing in New Brunswick and Maine.” Dr. Emery is the Vaughan Chair in Regional Economics at the University of New Brunswick. His lecture will focus on descriptive quantitative comparisons of […]

Graphic for upcoming Margaret Pearce lecture

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center Presents: Cartographer Margaret Pearce

On Wednesday, February 7 at 3:00 pm in the IMRC, award-winning cartographer Margaret Pearce will conclude her mini-residency at the University of Maine with a talk about her own research on mapping. As part of her residency, Pearce led student workshops on mapping–for those new to cartography and for students with previous experience in GIS. Pearce’s talk, titled […]

Title card reading "What is the Imagined North? Ethical Principles. Dr. Daniel Chartier Lecture"

Lecture by Dr. Daniel Chartier: “What is the Imagined North?”

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Daniel Chartier for his lecture, “What is the Imagined North?” Daniel Chartier is a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and director of the International Laboratory for Research on Images of the North, Winter and the Arctic. His lecture will focus on the many images, ideas, […]