The UMaine-UNB History Graduate Student Conference is held annually during the Fall semester. Jointly hosted by graduate students at both universities since 1998, the conference site alternates every other year between the two campuses in Orono, Maine, and Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The conference offers a wonderful opportunity for History graduate students from the University […]
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Emerging Scholars Colloquium American Council for Quebec Studies (ACQS) In Baltimore 20-23 October, 2022 The ACQS invites proposals for papers for our Emerging Scholars Colloquium to be held in conjunction with our 2022 biennial convention. With the participation of the Association internationale des études québécoises (AIEQ) and the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine, […]
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Join the Canadian-American Center in welcoming Dr. Bernard Perley from the University of British Columbia as he presents “Whose Home and Whose Native Land?” during Dr. Karl Trautman’s POS 243 course, Canadian Government and Politics, to be held Thursday, February 24th, 2022 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 Pm EST. The presentation will be given virtually […]
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The Northeast and Atlantic Region Environmental History Forum (NEAR-EH) brings together a group of scholars exploring the environmental history of the northeastern United States and northeastern Canada. This group first met in 2012 at the Massachusetts Historical Society with the basic premise that the environmental history of this region has its own story to […]
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Drawn from a book in progress, titled Americans Write Canada, this public lecture pairs a close reading of a recent novel by American writer P.S. Duffy, The Cartographer of No Man’s Land, with the discovery of archival materials that add to and complicate public knowledge about a First World War internment camp, once located in […]
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‘’La littérature jeunesse en classe de français” Date : November 9, 2021 Time : 9:30 AM Where: https://maine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtce-ppzovHdzLjXnLRsshFx8SbybDf4Ps BIO : Sarah Bertrand-Savard détient une formation universitaire en études littéraires et culturelles et enseigne depuis plus de 10 ans le français langue maternelle et le français langue seconde ou étrangère. Elle est chargée de cours à l’Université […]
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October 28 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm IMRC Stewart Commons 104 Orono, Maine 04469 Forty years ago this fall—on October 26, 1981—the phenomenal Quebec poet Marie Uguay’s life and writing were cut short by bone cancer. She was twenty-six years old. Associated with Les intimistes (The Intimists), a group of Quebecois poets who emerged in the 1980s and 90s, Uguay […]
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Join the Canadian-American Center in welcoming Dr. Janet Mancini Billson as she presents “Canada and the Global Refugee Crisis” at UMaine. This presentation explores refugee resettlement and integration challenges in Canada. Examples are based on Dr. Billson’s research in Canada with Doukhobor, Rohingya, Syrian, Kurdish, Bhutanese, Vietnamese, Liberian, and Congolese refugees. The event will take […]
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Join us for a presentation by writer Maxime Raymond Bock on October 21, 2021 from 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM. Maxime will present on “Atavismes et ses histoires 10 ans plus tard: relecture d’une écriture du Québec.” The event will be presented in French and held on Zoom. To register for the online event, […]
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This semester, the Canadian – American Center at UMaine Orono will host the following guest lectures, all of which are being held virtually. More information will follow for each event as their dates approach. October 7th: Hélène Poulin-Mignault (McGill University), “On French Language in Quebec” October 21st: Maxime Raymond-Bock (novelist), “On Atavismes” ( November 9th: […]
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