Lecture to focus on environmental history, landscape of Canada
The University of Maine History Department and Canadian-American Center will co-host a reception and public lecture about Canada’s environmental history, landscape and historic parks on March 21.
“Because It’s 2016: Rethinking the Frontier Myth and ‘Canada’s National Interest’” will be held in Wells Conference Center, Room 3.
A light reception will be held at 3 p.m. Claire Campbell, a history professor at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, will lead a lecture and discussion beginning at 3:15 p.m.
Campbell is the author of “Shaped by the West Wind: Nature and History in Georgian Bay” and has edited collections on Parks Canada and environmental history in Atlantic Canada. Her current book project, “What Once Were You? Historic Landscapes in Canada,” is a study of historic sites across Canada as places of environmental history.
For more information or to request a visitor parking permit for campus, contact Liam Riordan at riordan@umit.maine.edu.