Today, we note the recent passing of former Canadian-American Center director Ronald Tallman. Tallman served as the director of the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine from 1975 to 1982, during which he significantly expanded the programs and resources that make up the university’s remarkably comprehensive Canadian Studies program. Under his leadership, the center […]
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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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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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University of Maine undergraduate student, Meaghan Caron, of Bangor, Maine, is the recipient of a Killam Fellowship to study French in Canada this fall for the 2024 academic year. The Killam Fellowships Program provides undergraduate students in Canada and the U.S. with opportunities to spend a semester or full academic year in the other country […]
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Grants up to $4000 for UMaine Faculty The Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine invites faculty to submit proposals for Canadian studies course development grants. Proposals for graduate and undergraduate courses are welcome from full-time faculty in all relevant disciplines. What proposals are eligible for funding? Proposals may use funds for one of […]
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