2016 Ottawa Field Trip
City of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
$175
Canadian-American Center
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Undergraduate Students
“New Interpretations of Montreal Jewish History” – Pierre Anctil
Coe Room, Memorial Union University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
Free
Sean Mills, “Transnationalism, Race, and Quebec” (CanAm Lecture Series)
Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, UMaine Orono, United States“In this paper I will explore new ways of thinking about Quebec and its connections to other societies and cultures, with a particular emphasis on debates about race and the transnational circulation of people and ideas. I will begin by looking at the relationship between language and race in Quebec the 1930s and 1940s, with […]
Free
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2017 Ottawa Field Trip
City of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaThe Canadian-American Center offers a yearly field-trip to Canada’s capital city, Ottawa. This trip is an exciting opportunity for UMaine students to travel to a foreign country and experience Canadian geography, history, culture, politics, and social identity first-hand! This year is also Canada 150 – the 150th anniversary of the founding of modern Canada. Come […]
$175.00
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CanAm Lecture: Dr. Margaret Pearce, “Imagination, identity, and the cartography of history: 3 maps of Canada”
Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, UMaine Orono, United StatesFrom 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 […]
DEADLINE: Killam Fellowship 2020-2021
Are you interested in getting $5000 to study in Canada? Then don't miss out on this great opportunity! The deadline for the internal exchange application is January 8th, 2020. Please reach out to Betsy Arntzen with further questions or if interested to schedule a time for application review. Click here to download the flyer.
CanAm Lecture: Alan MacEachern, “Firebreak: How the Maine-New Brunswick Border Defined the 1825 Miramichi Fire”
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
CanAm Lecture: Dr. Jean-Christophe Cloutier, “Translated from the French”: Jack Kerouac, the Archive, and the Continenting of America
“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!
Free
(rescheduled) Élisa Sance, “‘I will not speak French in school,’ conséquences sociolinguistiques des politiques d’éducation dans la Vallée Saint Jean (1842-1920)”
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.