Name: (rescheduled) Élisa Sance, “‘I will not speak French in school,’ conséquences sociolinguistiques des politiques d’éducation dans la Vallée Saint Jean (1842-1920)”
Start: 2021-04-12T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2021-04-12T18:30:00-04:00

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March 2018
CanAm Lecture: Dr. Margaret Pearce, “Imagination, identity, and the cartography of history: 3 maps of Canada��

Featured March 19, 2018 @ 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, 91괵죕 Orono, United States

From Dr. Pearce: In this talk, I introduce cartography as a form of language and demonstrate how I�셶e 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 […]
March 2019
James Carey and Canadian Media Theory: Communication is Culture

March 12, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Bangor Room, Memorial Union China Road, Orono, Maine

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 […]
October 2019
CanAm Lecture: Ann Little, Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), �쏷he Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands��

October 3, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Bumps Room, Memorial Union, 91괵죕 Orono campus China Road, Orono, ME, United States

LUNCH PROVIDED Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), �쏷he Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands�� in the Bumps Room of the Student Union, […]

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CanAm Lecture: Geoff Cunfer, “Energy Markets and the Collapse of the Northern Plains Bison”

October 22, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

FFA Room, Memorial Union, 91괵죕 Orono campus China Road, Orono, ME, United States

LUNCH PROVIDED. Bison decline in the Southern Plains is a famous story in American environmental history. Herds were also decimated on the Canadian prairies, but the causes were quite different. […]

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April 2020
POSTPONED Daniel Soucier, “Navigating Wilderness and Borderland”

April 8, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Bumps Room, Memorial Union, 91괵죕 Orono campus China Road, Orono, ME, United States

This event has been postponed. We anticipate that it will be rescheduled during the Fall 2020 semester. Please join us for our final Spring 2020 graduate research presentation. History PhD […]

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May 2020
CANCELLED 2020 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference

May 14, 2020 @ 8:00 am - May 16, 2020 @ 5:00 pm

Hutchinson Center 80 Belmont Avenue (Route #3), Belfast, ME, United States

Dear Atlantic Canada Studies Conference participants, After discussion with the Acadiensis board, I regret to announce that this year's Atlantic Canada Studies Conference is cancelled. I'm sure that this is no surprise to anyone given the current situation. For those of you who have registered, Stephanie Crosby at the Canadian-American Center will be processing full […]
September 2020
Carol Blasi, “The Case for Seigneurialism in l�섲cadie”

September 23, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Please join us for a graduate research presentation entitled "The Case for Seigneurialism in l�섲cadie: 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 91괵죕 in August 2019. She currently teaches as an […]

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March 2021
CanAm Lecture: Alan MacEachern, “Firebreak: How the Maine-New Brunswick Border Defined the 1825 Miramichi Fire”

March 25, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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 […]

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CanAm Lecture: Dr. Jean-Christophe Cloutier, �쏷ranslated from the French��: Jack Kerouac, the Archive, and the Continenting of America

March 29, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

�쏷ranslated 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!

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April 2021
(rescheduled) 횋lisa Sance, “‘I will not speak French in school,’ cons챕quences sociolinguistiques des politiques d’챕ducation dans la Vall챕e Saint Jean (1842-1920)”

April 12, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

횋lisa Sance (Ph.D. History, 91괵죕) will present, "'I will not speak French in school,' cons챕quences sociolinguistiques des politiques d'챕ducation dans la Vall챕e Saint Jean (1842-1920)" at 5:30PM on April 5, 2021. Presentation in French; please pre-register to attend on Zoom.

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