The American Council for Quebec Studies (ACQS) is looking for proposals for papers for the Emerging Scholars Colloquium, held in conjunction with the 2024 ACQS conference. They’re looking for proposals from graduate students and junior faculty whose research involves Quebec, Francophone Canada, and Franco-America.

Accepted proposals will be featured in a series of panels as part of the 2024 ACQS conference. Scholars are also expected to attend the full ACQS conference. The best papers from the colloquium will also be submitted for publication in Québec Studies. Each accepted scholar will receive a 2-year membership to the American Council for Québec Studies, complementary registration for the conference and a 1000$ US stipend to support the cost of travel and lodging.

Submission are around 250 words. The deadline to submit is May 1st, 2024. To submit, head to the ACQS website:

For more information, head to the , or check out the attached flyer.

The Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine extends congratulations to independent cartographer, Margaret Wickens Pearce, who was recently named as one of 2023’s recipients of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship under the Geography and Environmental Studies category. Pearce has worked extensively with the Canadian-American Center on cartographic projects producing maps such as They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada, 1603-1616 and Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada.��

The Guggenheim Foundation grants fellowships to “mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors.” The foundation receives roughly 3,000 applications each year, and only awards up to 175 fellowships.

“The fellowship will support my project about Mississippi River flooding in the context of an Indigenized river,” says Pearce. The project will follow her current work on a new map project in collaboration with the Canadian-American Center, which investigates climate change and its impact on northern Indigenous communities. To see some of Pearce’s recent projects, click here.��

The Canadian-American Center continues to celebrate Pearce’s successes and is proud to count her among its colleagues. To learn more about the fellowship, and to see a full list of the other awardees, please visit the Guggenheim Foundation website .

Our “Coming Home” maps have been recently featured in an article by Why Edmonton, “Cree entrepreneur creates new trade routes for Indigenous businesses”.

Cree entrepreneur Mallory Yawnghwe stands in front of a map of Canada. It’s filled with Indigenous place names—and their meanings—from coast to coast to coast.

– Why Edmonton

Click to read the article, and here to learn more about our “Coming Home” maps.

Canadian-American Center Affiliate, Dr. Jonathan Rubin, Professor of Economics, and director of the MCS Policy Center at the University of Maine, recently spoke with Eric Campbell, host of Ottawa’s Smart Prosperity the Podcast to discuss gas prices and electric vehicles in the Canadian economy.

To hear the full podcast, visit Smart Prosperity Institute’s podcast webpage .

The Journal of Eastern Townships Studies/La Revue d’études des Cantons-de-l’Est published issue Number 49 with articles from the 7th Annual Colloquium on Québec Studies co-organized by the Institute on Québec Studies, SUNY Plattsburgh and Eastern Townships Resource Centre, Bishop’s University. Editors-in-Chief Christopher Kirkey of SUNY Plattsburgh and Cheryl Gosslin of Bishop’s University selected articles written for this publication by scholars and graduate students from both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.

Our very own cartographer Margaret Pearce was interviewed about the process and lessons of collecting Indigenous place name data for the “Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada.”

to read the feature article on Medium!

����review of Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada has been published in the most recent issue of BC Studies.

Click below to download a PDF of the review.