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CanAm Lecture: Ann Little, Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands”

Bumps Room, Memorial Union, 91 Orono campus China Road, Orono

LUNCH PROVIDED Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands” in the Bumps Room of the Student Union, Thursday, Oct. 3 from noon to 1:30 pm (with free lunch!). Emphasizes the methodology in writing about a person with little traditional historical evidence to […]

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CanAm Lecture Series – A Borderless Continent: Rethinking the Canadian-American Borderlands from an Ecological Perspective, with Guest Lecturer Matthew Hatvany (Université Laval, Québec)

Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, 91 Orono

In 1918 the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (MBCA) was enacted, creating the first nature preservation accord encompassing an entire continent. This talk, however, argues that the MBCA was essentially proscriptive in its view of nature preservation, doing little to conserve and restore nature. This “conservation problem” was recognized during the 1920s by waterfowl enthusiasts such […]

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

Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, 91 Orono

From Dr. Pearce: In this talk, I introduce cartography as a form of language and demonstrate how I’ve 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 […]