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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 […]

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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. […]

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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, […]

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An image of Dr. Margaret Wickens Pearce.

Cartographer Margaret Wickens Pearce named 2025 MacArthur Fellow

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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In Remembrance of Ron Tallman

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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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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Mal: A discussion with author Chase cormier

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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Stephen Hornsby Releases New Book: “Cod Coasts”

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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