UMaine Franco American Studies Lecture Series Set

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571

ORONO — The University of Maine Franco American Studies program will present a lecture series on campus, beginning on Friday, Jan. 9.  The lectures, which are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will feature discussion of various issues related to Franco culture and history.  The lectures will be held at 1 p.m. at the Franco American Centre in Crossland Hall at UMaine.  A discussion will follow each lecture. For more information, contact the Franco American Studies Department at 581-3791.

“‘La Survivance’ in New England: A Clerico-conservative French-Canadian Construct of ‘race’ or a Franco-American Concept of Working-Class Solidarity?”
Jacques Ferland
Friday January 9, 2004

“The Importance of Cultural Identity in Jack Kerouac’s Satori in Paris”
Susan Pinette
Saturday January 10, 2004

 “Where Have the Francophones Gone? Subtractive Bilingualism Revisited”
Barney Berube
Saturday January 17, 2004

“Haut en bas: French from the Top Down”
Jane Smith
Saturday January 17, 2004

“Franco American Family Storytelling in Maine”
Kristin Langellier  & Eric Peterson
Saturday January 31, 2004

“Voicing the Unvoiced: Publishing the Writing of Franco-American Women”
Rhea Cote Robbins
Saturday February 14, 2004

“How We Got Here and How We Stay”
Yvon Labbe
Saturday February 14, 2004