The 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 […]
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! […]
The deadline to apply for the 2018-2019 Graduate Awards is February 15, 2018. Please forward all application materials to Prof. Frederic Rondeau, Assistant Director, by this date. For more information regarding the awards, please click here.
On March 6, from 4:00 to 5:30PM the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, as part of the Life of Ideas series, curated by Frédéric Rondeau, will host scholar Éric Méchoulan. Méchoulan will give a talk titled “On Friendship: A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook.” Éric Méchoulan is a professor of French Literature at […]
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 […]
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Renowned environmental historian, Richard Judd, will be retiring from teaching at the University of Maine at the end of this semester. As many of you may already know, Professor Judd is one of the history department’s most prolific scholars and has helped build numerous connections between the sciences and the humanities […]
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 […]
The 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 […]
The deadline for Graduate Award nominations is February 15, 2019! All materials must be submitted to the Canadian-American Center by your department's Graduate Coordinator. For more information about the Graduate Awards and applying, please visit this web page. For more information about FLAS, click here.
Paul Grosswiler is the author of two books and editor of a third book about Canadian media scholar Marshall McLuhan and media ecology, the study of media as environments. He served as editor in chief of the journal Explorations in Media Ecology and has published more than 30 articles and book chapters, and given more […]
