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 […]
Please join us for a research presentation entitled "Whose Streets? Policing Orange Riots in 19th c. British North America". In this lecture, Annie will examine the mid-19th century Party Processions Acts through the lenses of social and spatial history and consider the ways in which this 19th-century struggle over public space might contribute to understanding […]
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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 paper explores the relationship between economic insecurity and children’s hyperactivity and anxiety in Canada, a topic which we argue is extremely relevant during the COVID-19 […]
Dr. Barry Ancelet of University of Louisiana at Lafayette will be lecturing (in French) on Louisiana Francophone literature today at 5:30PM. Click here to register!
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.
Rencontre avec France Daigle April 26 5 :30 to 6 :30 Presentation in French Click here to register : https://maine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsfuGhqj8vHNNQdmdWrFypDQIr1_rwpnoU Organized by the Canadian-American Center and Frédéric Rondeau (MLC ; Can-Am)
