The course guide for Fall 2018 Canadian Studies courses is now available! The course list may be updated again in the future, but you can always find the most recent version here. Please share with any undergraduates, graduate students, or colleagues who may be interested in our latest offerings!
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We are pleased to announce that our most recent map publication, “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada,” has been selected for inclusion in the 2018 Atlas of Design! Please join us in congratulating mapmaker Margaret W. Pearce on this honor. You can find out more about the Atlas here, and more about the […]
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Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and History Micah Pawling for the selection of his article, “Wəlastəkwey (Maliseet) Homeland: Waterscapes and Continuity within the Lower St. John River Valley, 1784-1900,” for the 2018 Canadian Aboriginal History Article prize. You can access the article in Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the […]
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Cartographer Margaret Pearce has recently won the Thematic Map Award for the Smithsonian Institution’s 45th annual CaGIS Map Design Competition for her most recent publication, “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada.” To learn more about the award, visit the CaGIS website.
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Click here to download UMaine Fogler Library‘s most recent Canadian acquisitions. Please direct all questions and requests to the Canadian Studies librarian, Betsy Beattie.
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The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize This award encourages and rewards American geographers who write books about the United States which convey the insights of professional geography in language that is both interesting and attractive to lay readers. Stephen J. Hornsby, Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps (University of Chicago Press). A visual feast, Picturing America combines […]
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On March 6, from 4:00 to 5:30PM the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, as part of the Life of Ideas series, curated by Frédéric Rondeau, will host scholar Éric Méchoulan. Méchoulan will give a talk titled “On Friendship: A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook.” Éric Méchoulan is an early modernist and cultural historian […]
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To mark the 150th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, the Canadian-American Center is pleased to release a new map, Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada. The map honors Indigenous place names in Canada and the assertion of Indigenous authority through place names. Commissioned by Dr. Stephen J. Hornsby, Director, Coming Home to […]
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Congratulations to Frédéric Rondeau on the publication of his new book: Gilles Dupuis, Karim Larose, Frédéric Rondeau and Robert Schwartzwald, Avec ou sans Parti pris. Le legs d’une revue, Montreal, Éditions Nota bene, collection “ Grise”, 2018, 460 p. Avec ou sans Parti pris. Le legs d’une revue, focuses on the political journal “Parti pris” published […]
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The Canadian-American Center is now accepting nominations for the following graduate awards: Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) Summer FLAS for intense French language study New England-Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Fellowships (NEAPQ) Canadian-American Center Fellowships For more details about awards and application instructions, click here. Universal graduate award instructions (for full-year awards only) may be found here. The […]
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