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Name: (rescheduled) Élisa Sance, “‘I will not speak French in school,’ conséquences sociolinguistiques des politiques d’éducation dans la Vallée Saint Jean (1842-1920)”
Start: 2021-04-12T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2021-04-12T18:30:00-04:00

March 2018
CanAm Lecture: Dr. Margaret Pearce, “Imagination, identity, and the cartography of history: 3 maps of Canada”

Featured March 19, 2018 @ 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, UMaine Orono, United States

From Dr. Pearce: In this talk, I introduce cartography as a form of language and demonstrate how I’ve worked with that language to explore and express Canadian history. I present three maps: the route of a North West Company clerk in 1797, the travels of Samuel de Champlain between 1603 and 1616, and a map […]
October 2019
CanAm Lecture: Ann Little, Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands”

October 3, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Bumps Room, Memorial Union, UMaine Orono campus China Road, Orono, ME, United States

LUNCH PROVIDED Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands” in the Bumps Room of the Student Union, Thursday, Oct. 3 from noon to 1:30 pm (with free lunch!). Emphasizes the methodology in writing about a person with little traditional historical evidence to […]

Free
CanAm Lecture: Geoff Cunfer, “Energy Markets and the Collapse of the Northern Plains Bison”

October 22, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

FFA Room, Memorial Union, UMaine Orono campus China Road, Orono, ME, United States

LUNCH PROVIDED. Bison decline in the Southern Plains is a famous story in American environmental history. Herds were also decimated on the Canadian prairies, but the causes were quite different. This presentation will contrast the free-for-all petty capitalist markets for bison products in the United States with the monopoly corporate market run by Canada’s Hudson’s […]

Free
March 2020
Patrick Callaway, “Nova Scotia and the ‘New Empire’ 1783-1815”

March 4, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Bangor Room, Memorial Union China Road, Orono, ME, United States

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!
April 2020
POSTPONED Daniel Soucier, “Navigating Wilderness and Borderland”

April 8, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Bumps Room, Memorial Union, UMaine Orono campus China Road, Orono, ME, United States

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 […]

Free
September 2020
Carol Blasi, “The Case for Seigneurialism in l’Acadie”

September 23, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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 […]

Free
November 2020
History Symposium Series: Tina Loo (Prof., History, Univ. of British Columbia, co-editor, Canadian Hist. Review) “Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada”

November 16, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Zoom link: https://maine.zoom.us/j/95684820994 Password: 391122
March 2021
Application cycle: Canadian studies course development grants

March 22, 2021 - June 1, 2021
CanAm Lecture: Alan MacEachern, “Firebreak: How the Maine-New Brunswick Border Defined the 1825 Miramichi Fire”

March 25, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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 […]

Free
April 2021
(rescheduled) Élisa Sance, “‘I will not speak French in school,’ conséquences sociolinguistiques des politiques d’éducation dans la Vallée Saint Jean (1842-1920)”

April 12, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

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.

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