The deadline for submission of proposals is 2 December 2019. Proposal abstracts should be fewer than 250 words, and the author should include a brief biography and one-page CV. Proposals for panels are welcome; they should include a brief abstract for the panel as a whole, as well as abstracts for each individual presenter. Proposals […]
All nominations for academic-year Canadian-American Center graduate awards (FLAS, NEAPQ, Canadian-American Center, Alice Stewart) must be received by Graduate Awards Coordinator Professor Frederic Rondeau by Sunday, February 15. Please note that the Center does have a mail slot at the College Ave entrance for off-hours deliveries. Interested parties can find out more by visiting our […]
Please join us at the Memorial Union (Bangor Room) for "Nova Scotia and the 'New Empire' 1783-1815", a presentation of graduate research by UMaine PhD candidate Patrick Callaway. This event is free and open to the public. A boxed lunch is provided. We hope to see you there! Click here for our Facebook event!
All applications for the 2020 Summer FLAS award must be received by Graduate Awards Coordinator Professor Frederic Rondeau by Sunday, March 15. Please note that the Center does have a mail slot at the College Ave entrance for off-hours deliveries. Interested parties can find out more by visiting the FLAS information page or contacting the Graduate Awards Coordinator.
This event has been postponed. We anticipate that it will be rescheduled during the Fall 2020 semester. Please join us for our final Spring 2020 graduate research presentation. History PhD candidate Daniel Soucier will present, "Navigating Wilderness and Borderland" on Wednesday, April 8 in the Bumps Room of the Memorial Union. This event is free […]
Dear Atlantic Canada Studies Conference participants, After discussion with the Acadiensis board, I regret to announce that this year's Atlantic Canada Studies Conference is cancelled. I'm sure that this is no surprise to anyone given the current situation. For those of you who have registered, Stephanie Crosby at the Canadian-American Center will be processing full […]
Please join us for a graduate research presentation entitled "The Case for Seigneurialism in l’Acadie: A Legal Historical Approach to Land Tenure in Acadian Agricultural Settlements in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries" by Carol Blasi. Carol received her PhD in History from the University of Maine in August 2019. She currently teaches as an […]
About the lecture On 7 October 1825, the Miramichi region of New Brunswick experienced one of the largest forest fires in recorded history while, next door, Maine suffered the most extensive fire in its history. The fires burned in the same environmental and climatic conditions, of course – and may well have been connected. Alan […]
“Translated from the French”: Jack Kerouac, the Archive, and the Continenting of America Dr. Jean-Christophe Cloutier, University of Pennsylvania Presentation in English Please register before here!
Élisa Sance (Ph.D. History, UMaine) will present, "'I will not speak French in school,' conséquences sociolinguistiques des politiques d'éducation dans la Vallée Saint Jean (1842-1920)" at 5:30PM on April 5, 2021. Presentation in French; please pre-register to attend on Zoom.
