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24th annual University of Maine-University of New Brunswick History Graduate Student Conference

On March 27-29, 2026, several UMaine History graduate students travelled to Fredericton, New Brunswick for the 24th annual University of Maine-University of New Brunswick History Graduate Student Conference. Dr. Mark McLaughlin, cross-appointed between the Canadian-American Center and the History Department (also the History Graduate Coordinator), drove up a van full of the graduate students. Dr. […]

Canadian-American Center Sends Students to 2026 Comparative Borders Conference in Toronto, Ontario

University of Maine graduate students, Anna Shantz and Leif Walker, attended the 2026 Comparative Borders Conference at Brock University in Toronto, Ontario, from March 27 to March 28. Their attendance was made possible with funding from the Canadian-American Center. At the conference, they presented their research, “Tariff Impacts in a Borderland Economy: Evidence from Maine’s […]

“The Cold at Inuit Nunangat:” A new map set from Dr. Margaret Pearce

The Canadian-American Center announces a new publication, The Cold at Inuit Nunangat. In this talk, author Margaret Pearce will speak about why the maps were made, the creative process, and the data and design decisions that shaped the final composition. Dr. Margaret Pearce is a cartographer and Citizen Potawatomi tribal member. She is a 2023 […]

History Across the Border

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 […]

2025 Undergraduate Fieldtrip to Fredericton, NB

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 […]

Marie-Andrée Gill: “Uashtenamu. Allumer quelque chose.”

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 […]

SHAWN FRANCIS – Wolastokuk and La Belle Rivière: Wolastoqey (Maliseet) Language Revitalization in a Trilingual Indigenous Community

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 […]

Richard T omczak (SUNY-Stony Brook) – Workers of War & Empire from New France toBritish America, 1688-1783

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. […]

Thomas Peace (Huron University) – Conceptualizing Region and Schooling during the Slow Rush of Colonization

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, […]

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 […]

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