Join the Canadian-American Center and the UMaine History Department in welcoming its graduate students to present their research. Event Details Lunch will be provided History Across the Border: History department graduate students present their research and archival experience in Canada features the following students and their research: Joseph Wrobleski: “Wabanaki Legalities and Property Law of […]
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In early November (November 7-9, 2025), Dr. Mark McLaughlin and Dr. Hollie Adams co-led a group of fifteen participants on a Canadian Studies field trip across the border to the city of Fredericton, the provincial capital of New Brunswick. Offered through UMaine’s Canadian-American Center, the trip is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about […]
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Join the Canadian-American Center in welcoming Marie-Andrée Gill to give a virtual presentation at the University of Maine. The author will join us via Zoom and the presentation will be in French. Event Details Marie-Andrée Gill is an artist from the Pekuakamiulnuatsh Nation. Her work explores intimacy, love, humor, and the relationship with living things […]
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Shawn Francis will discuss the landscape of Wolastoqey (Maliseet) language revitalization in his home community, the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation. Located in what is now Northern New Brunswick, his nation is now predominantlyFrench-speaking, unlike other Wolastoqey communities situated further down the Wolastoq (Saint John) river. He will illustrate the unique context and challenges of Indigenous […]
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Richard Tomczak is the Director of Faculty Engagement and a Research Assistant Professor in the History Department at Stony Brook University, where he received his PhD in History. Richard hasseveral peer-reviewed publications, including an article on corvée labor in the American Revolution,published in the Journal of Colonial History & Colonialism by Johns Hopkins University Press. […]
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Bringing together two recently published books–The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula (UBC, 2023) and Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest Run Residential School (University of Calgary, 2025)–Thomas Peace will discuss the history of settler conquest and schooling in the Maritime Peninsula. Specifically, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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