Margaret Wickens Pearce is a cartographer foregrounding Indigenous understandings of land and place in maps that visualize Native Peoples’ knowledge, history, and stories. She has worked extensively with UMaine’s Canadian-American Center. The MacArthur Fellowship is a $800,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Pearce’s […]
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Stephen J. Hornsby, Professor of Geography and Canadian Studies and former director of the Canadian-American Center, received the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies from the International Council for Canadian Studies at a ceremony at York University, Toronto, on 26 June 2025. The award is given biennially to an international scholar who has made […]
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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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