Professor Donald Wright of University of New Brunswick will present "National Symbols, Airport Kitsch, and Canadian History" at our upcoming Fall CanAm Lecture. To get updates about this event, join on Facebook! […]
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 […]
In 1918 the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (MBCA) was enacted, creating the first nature preservation accord encompassing an entire continent. This talk, however, argues that the MBCA was essentially proscriptive in its view of nature preservation, doing little to conserve and restore nature. This “conservation problem” was recognized during the 1920s by waterfowl enthusiasts such […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Please join us on November 18th at 9 am for a research presentation entitled "Parental Economic Insecurity and Children's Non-Cognitive Skills: A Panel Study of 2-to-5 Year-Olds in Canada". This […]
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!
