Events – Canadian-American Center /canam 91爆料 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:42:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 24th annual 91爆料-University of New Brunswick History Graduate Student Conference /canam/2026/04/24th-annual-university-of-maine-university-of-new-brunswick-history-graduate-student-conference/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:42:02 +0000 /canam/?p=13261 On March 27-29, 2026, several 91爆料 History graduate students travelled to Fredericton, New Brunswick for the 24th annual 91爆料-University of New Brunswick History Graduate Student Conference. Dr. Mark McLaughlin, cross-appointed between the Canadian-American Center and the History Department (also the History Graduate Coordinator), drove up a van full of the graduate students. Dr. […]]]>

On March 27-29, 2026, several 91爆料 History graduate students travelled to Fredericton, New Brunswick for the 24th annual 91爆料-University of New Brunswick History Graduate Student Conference. Dr. Mark McLaughlin, cross-appointed between the Canadian-American Center and the History Department (also the History Graduate Coordinator), drove up a van full of the graduate students. Dr. McLaughlin also gave the conference keynote, titled听Blurring the Lines: Comic Books and Political Ecology in the Post-Second World War Northeast Borderlands.听All of the graduate students’ conference papers were well received, and it was a great opportunity for them to connect with their Canadian counterparts. It will be 91爆料’s turn to host the conference in the spring of 2027.

]]> Canadian-American Center Sends Students to 2026 Comparative Borders Conference in Toronto, Ontario /canam/2026/04/canadian-american-center-sends-students-to-2026-comparative-borders-conference-in-toronto-ontario/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:07:23 +0000 /canam/?p=13245 91爆料 graduate students, Anna Shantz and Leif Walker, attended the 2026 Comparative Borders Conference at Brock University in Toronto, Ontario, from March 27 to March 28. Their attendance was made possible with funding from the Canadian-American Center. At the conference, they presented their research, 鈥淭ariff Impacts in a Borderland Economy: Evidence from Maine鈥檚 […]]]>

91爆料 graduate students, Anna Shantz and Leif Walker, attended the 2026 Comparative Borders Conference at Brock University in Toronto, Ontario, from March 27 to March 28. Their attendance was made possible with funding from the Canadian-American Center.

At the conference, they presented their research, 鈥淭ariff Impacts in a Borderland Economy: Evidence from Maine鈥檚 Lumber Industry,鈥 and participated in a panel discussion with students from Brock University, Niagara University, and Western Washington University. By highlighting the economic realities of cross-border dependence, the panel generated questions regarding the direction of future research and the feasibility of domestic lumber production in the United States

By examining the economic realities of cross-border dependence, the conference emphasized broader borderland themes, including cross-border economic systems, migration, and regional identity. Through engagement with students and conference presenters, focus was placed on diverse border regions, which reinforced the importance of examining trade policy at the regional level. As representatives of the Maine Business School and IGNITE, Anna and Leif received strong feedback on their work and built meaningful connections with peers who have researched similar issues, increasing the value of interdisciplinary perspectives in studying borderland economies.

To learn more about the Comparative Borders Conference, and to see upcoming events visit Brock University’s webpage at the following link:

Anna Shantz and other panel members at the Comparative Borders Conference, 2026.
Leif Walker speaking with peers at the Comparative Borders Conference, 2026.

]]> “The Cold at Inuit Nunangat:” A new map set from Dr. Margaret Pearce /canam/2026/02/the-cold-at-inuit-nunangat-a-new-map-set-from-dr-margaret-pearce/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:22:04 +0000 /canam/?p=13185 The Canadian-American Center announces a new publication, The Cold at Inuit Nunangat. In this talk, author Margaret Pearce will speak about why the maps were made, the creative process, and the data and design decisions that shaped the final composition. Dr. Margaret Pearce is a cartographer and Citizen Potawatomi tribal member. She is a 2023 […]]]>

The Canadian-American Center announces a new publication, The Cold at Inuit Nunangat. In this talk, author Margaret Pearce will speak about why the maps were made, the creative process, and the data and design decisions that shaped the final composition.

Dr. Margaret Pearce is a cartographer and Citizen Potawatomi tribal member. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, and a 2026 Creative Capital awardee. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography.

Event Details

  • February 24, 2026
  • @ 12:00 PM Bangor Room, Memorial Union
  • Lunch will be provided

To learn more about the new map set and to purchase a copy, please click the button below:

Learn more about the new map set
]]> History Across the Border /canam/2025/11/history-across-the-border/ Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:27:09 +0000 /canam/?p=12984 Join the Canadian-American Center and the 91爆料 History Department in welcoming its graduate students to present their research. Event Details Lunch will be provided History Across the Border: History department graduate students present their research and archival experience in Canada features the following students and their research: Joseph Wrobleski: “Wabanaki Legalities and Property Law of […]]]>

Join the Canadian-American Center and the 91爆料 History Department in welcoming its graduate students to present their research.

Event Details

  • Date: December 4th, 2025
  • Time: 12:30 PM
  • Location: Stevens Hall Digital Humanities Lab

Lunch will be provided

History Across the Border: History department graduate students present their research and archival experience in Canada features the following students and their research:

Joseph Wrobleski: “Wabanaki Legalities and Property Law of the Maritime Peninsula, 1620-Present: Survivance and the Contest for Land”

Susan Dickson-Smith: 鈥淚ndependent African American and African Canadian Churches of the Northeast Borderlands鈥

Tommy Pinette: “Wabanaki Language Revitalization and Acadian Cultural Revival: Acadian Identity Reformation in Maine under the Shadow of the English-only Era, 1919-1989”

For more information, contact Fr茅d茅ric Rondeau (frederic.rondeau@maine.edu)

An image of the poster for this event that contains all the same information present on this webpage.
]]> 2025 Undergraduate Fieldtrip to Fredericton, NB /canam/2025/11/2025-undergraduate-fieldtrip-to-fredericton-nb/ Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:14:05 +0000 /canam/?p=12977 In early November (November 7-9, 2025), Dr. Mark McLaughlin and Dr. Hollie Adams co-led a group of fifteen participants on a Canadian Studies field trip across the border to the city of Fredericton, the provincial capital of New Brunswick. Offered through 91爆料鈥檚 Canadian-American Center, the trip is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about […]]]>

In early November (November 7-9, 2025), Dr. Mark McLaughlin and Dr. Hollie Adams co-led a group of fifteen participants on a Canadian Studies field trip across the border to the city of Fredericton, the provincial capital of New Brunswick. Offered through 91爆料鈥檚 Canadian-American Center, the trip is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about Canada first-hand.

This year鈥檚 trip focused on Canadian past-times. 91爆料 students tried their hand at the sport of curling at the Capital Winter Club, receiving a one-hour lesson from a champion curler on how to throw a rock and sweep the ice. The students also enjoyed several games of candlepin bowling鈥攁n East Coast variant of the sport鈥攁t The Drome, a bowling alley that opened in 1961 and still requires bowlers to keep their own scores with paper and pencil. Trip participants also visited perennial favorites like the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, at which they were treated to a private tour of the gallery鈥檚 world-class collection of both Canadian and international art. Another notable stop was the Fredericton Boyce Farmers Market, consistently ranked as one of the top ten farmers鈥 markets in Canada, with more than 200 vendors showcasing Fredericton鈥檚 cultural and ethnic diversity.

The Canadian-American Center鈥檚 Canadian Studies field trip is an annual event, occurring each fall semester, and closely associated with the course CAN 101: Introduction to Canadian Studies. The trip鈥檚 small size ensures that students benefit from ample one-on-one time with faculty, leading to a distinctive study-abroad experience. The Canadian-American Center (with additional support from the McGillicuddy Humanities Center) subsidizes transportation, accommodations, and entry fees to sites to make the trip as affordable as possible for 91爆料 students.

Those interested in more information about this and future Canadian Studies field trips, should contact Dr. Mark McLaughlin (mark.j.mclaughlin@maine.edu) or Dr. Hollie Adams (hollie.adams@maine.edu).听

]]> Marie-Andr茅e Gill: “Uashtenamu. Allumer quelque chose.” /canam/2025/11/marie-andree-gill-uashtenamu-allumer-quelque-chose/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:11:55 +0000 /canam/?p=12814 Join the Canadian-American Center in welcoming Marie-Andr茅e Gill to give a virtual presentation at the 91爆料. The author will join us via Zoom and the presentation will be in French. Event Details Marie-Andr茅e Gill is an artist from the Pekuakamiulnuatsh Nation. Her work explores intimacy, love, humor, and the relationship with living things […]]]>

Join the Canadian-American Center in welcoming Marie-Andr茅e Gill to give a virtual presentation at the 91爆料. The author will join us via Zoom and the presentation will be in French.

Event Details

  • Date: December 3, 2025
  • Time: 2 PM to 3:15 PM
  • Location: On Zoom, and in Williams Hall, room 203

Marie-Andr茅e Gill is an artist from the Pekuakamiulnuatsh Nation. Her work explores intimacy, love, humor, and the relationship with living things as a form of healing, combining Quebecois and Ilnuatsh symbolism. She writes and lives in Bas-Saguenay.

De虁s le matin, la poe虁te prend le monde a虁 bras-le-corps et observe l鈥檕rdinaire et l鈥檈xtraordinaire de chaque jour. Ce qu鈥檈lle voit ? Ce qui est, la re虂alite虂 qui coule dans l鈥檌nstant et d鈥檕u虁 elle tente de cueillir la joie.
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Comme bon lui semble, elle parcourt le territoire avec la force de son corps et parfois celle du vieux pick-up de son oncle Bernard. Avec son franc-parler, Marie-Andre虂e Gill appelle a虁 accepter notre e虂poque comme elle se pre虂sente, en questionnant les frontie虁res qui se dressent entre soi et quelque chose d鈥檌nfiniment plus grand qui n鈥檃 pas besoin de nom. L鈥檈space d鈥檜n changement de vitesse, elle s鈥檃ttarde a虁 l鈥檃rt du geste et a虁 la re虂flexion dans une poe虂sie amoureuse mais surtout relationnelle,
qui invite a虁 remonter le regard vers l鈥檃utre, a虁 alentir, a虁 cohabiter, a虁 embrasser ce qui est la虁, sans jugement. Toutes lumie虁res allume虂es, elle e虂claire le chemin a虁 grande distance.

]]> SHAWN FRANCIS – Wolastokuk and La Belle Rivi猫re: Wolastoqey (Maliseet) Language Revitalization in a Trilingual Indigenous Community /canam/2025/10/shawn-francis-wolastokuk-and-la-belle-riviere-wolastoqey-maliseet-language-revitalization-in-a-trilingual-indigenous-community/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:06:36 +0000 /canam/?p=12715 Shawn Francis will discuss the landscape of Wolastoqey (Maliseet) language revitalization in his home community, the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation. Located in what is now Northern New Brunswick, his nation is now predominantlyFrench-speaking, unlike other Wolastoqey communities situated further down the Wolastoq (Saint John) river. He will illustrate the unique context and challenges of Indigenous […]]]>

Shawn Francis will discuss the landscape of Wolastoqey (Maliseet) language revitalization in his home community, the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation. Located in what is now Northern New Brunswick, his nation is now predominantly
French-speaking, unlike other Wolastoqey communities situated further down the Wolastoq (Saint John) river. He will illustrate the unique context and challenges of Indigenous language revitalization under a bilingual province.


Shawn serves as the cultural and linguistic coordinator for the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation. He was project manager for
the children鈥檚 book series Tama Matuwehsuwok (Where are the Porcupines?), and a four-part picture book on the seasons in Wolastokuk (Wolastoqey homeland). Shawn coordinated this rich community resource 鈥 the first piece of children鈥檚 literature written in Wolastoqey, French, and English 鈥 with Dr. Imelda Perley (Opolahsomuwehs), linguist and Wolastoqey
language keeper, and Chief Patricia Bernard, chief of the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation. Shawn continues to work with institutions like the National Language Conservancy of Canada and the University of Moncton to strengthen his community鈥檚 linguistic and cultural future as one of only two French-speaking Wolastoqey communities.

]]> Richard T omczak (SUNY-Stony Brook) – Workers of War & Empire from New France toBritish America, 1688-1783 /canam/2025/10/richard-t-omczak-suny-stony-brook-workers-of-war-empire-from-new-france-tobritish-america-1688-1783/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:21:00 +0000 /canam/?p=12708 Richard Tomczak is the Director of Faculty Engagement and a Research Assistant Professor in the History Department at Stony Brook University, where he received his PhD in History. Richard hasseveral peer-reviewed publications, including an article on corv茅e labor in the American Revolution,published in the Journal of Colonial History & Colonialism by Johns Hopkins University Press. […]]]>

Richard Tomczak is the Director of Faculty Engagement and a Research Assistant Professor in the History Department at Stony Brook University, where he received his PhD in History. Richard has
several peer-reviewed publications, including an article on corv茅e labor in the American Revolution,
published in the Journal of Colonial History & Colonialism by Johns Hopkins University Press. His
article on French Canadian corv茅e mutiny was nominated for the 2021 Article Prize by the Canadian Committee on Labour History.


His recent monograph, Workers of War & Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783
(2025), published by McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, chronicles the transformation of corv茅e over
nine decades in French and British North America. While a major focus of this project is unraveling the labor arrangements that propped up the Canadian colonial state, it also sheds light on the evolution of French Canadians鈥 work routines, the rhythms of their agricultural lives, and their responses to corv茅e policy.

]]> Thomas Peace (Huron University) – Conceptualizing Region and Schooling during the Slow Rush of Colonization /canam/2025/10/thomas-peace-huron-university-conceptualizing-region-and-schooling-during-the-slow-rush-of-colonization/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:00:48 +0000 /canam/?p=12700 Bringing together two recently published books--The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula (UBC, 2023) and Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest Run Residential School (University of Calgary, 2025)–Thomas Peace will discuss the history of settler conquest and schooling in the Maritime Peninsula. Specifically, […]]]>

Bringing together two recently published books--The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula (UBC, 2023) and Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest Run Residential School (University of Calgary, 2025)–Thomas Peace will discuss the history of settler conquest and schooling in the Maritime Peninsula. Specifically, the talk will explore the history of treaty making, settler colonization, Dartmouth College, and the Sussex Vale Indian Academy.

Thomas Peace听is an associate professor of history and co-director of the Community History Centre at Huron University College. He is the coeditor of听The Open History Seminar听(with Sean Kheraj) and听From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migrations, and Resilience, 1650鈥1900听and the editor of听A Few Words that Changed the World. Since 2009 he has edited ActiveHistory.ca, one of Canada鈥檚 leading history blogs.

]]> The Canadian-American Center presents: Jean Christophe Cloutier: Big American Writer: The Bilingual Self-Making of Jack Kerouac /canam/2025/03/the-canadian-american-center-presents-jean-christophe-cloutier-big-american-writer-the-bilingual-self-making-of-jack-kerouac/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:47:14 +0000 /canam/?p=12276 April 3, 2025@ 4:00 PM inThe Bangor room at the Memorial Union Jean-Christophe Cloutier will discuss Jack Kerouac鈥檚 writerly coming of age from the perspective of his geopolitical and cultural-linguistic reality as a bilingual, first-generation immigrant Franco-American author. Cloutier will address the author鈥檚 private French manuscripts, preserved in his archive and published posthumously, to uncover […]]]>

April 3, 2025
@ 4:00 PM in
The Bangor room at the Memorial Union

Jean-Christophe Cloutier will discuss Jack Kerouac鈥檚 writerly coming of age from the perspective of his geopolitical and cultural-linguistic reality as a bilingual, first-generation immigrant Franco-American author. Cloutier will address the author鈥檚 private French manuscripts, preserved in his archive and published posthumously, to uncover an author who relied on self-translation to negotiate his lifelong dualism between French and English, and who willfully adopted what he called 鈥渢he tone of a big American writer鈥 to find literary success in the United States.

Jean-Christophe Cloutier is originally from Qu茅bec and is currently associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature, and editor of La vie est d鈥檋ommage, which gathers the original French writings of Jack Kerouac. He also translated into English two of Kerouac鈥檚 French manuscripts for the Library of America鈥檚 The Unknown Kerouac. In 2023, Gallimard released his stand-alone edition of Sur le chemin, Kerouac鈥檚 longest French manuscript. He is currently completing an extensive study of Kerouac鈥檚 oeuvre that explores the writer鈥檚 practices as a bilingual novelist, translator, and archivist.

For more information, contact: frederic.rondeau@maine.edu

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